TheHDRoom: "E3 2013 is nearly three weeks old and now a memory. Not a distant one, yet, but fading with each passing minute. With the big Microsoft and Sony media briefings came the first PS4 pre-orders and Xbox One pre-orders, and both are still available to lock into today with just a few simple key strokes on a computer.
It wasn't always this easy."
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
Unless Sony showed more launch games at Gamescom & TGS.
I still remember camping out for my PS3. Its the only reason I want one at GameStop instead of Amazon. I want to go stand in line and talk with people again.
We had to wait in line not only to buy it, but to pre-order it. GameStop said when pre-orders would start, and people were standing in line the day before to get one. Then on launch all those people were there a day or two ahead, and then 30+ more people even though GameStop said they only had 15 or 20. lol
I remember getting the PS3 bundle with Motorstorm about a year after the initial launch...at least I believe that's how it went if memory serves me correct, it was an 80gb phatty w/ backwards compatibility...it was cool because I was in high school and just started working at Wal-mart, so I knew when they'd come in
Too funny. Memories of the PS2 launch came flooding back after reading that article. I waited in a huge line in a mall in Rochester NY to get a chance at coming home with a brand new PS2 for hours. It was funny though because the mall security wouldn't let us wait in the parking lot before midnight. There were tons of us there. So, everyone had to get back in their cars and hundreds of us headed across the street to the local supermarket parking lot and filled that up quickly. We all waited there until about 30 min to midnight and as soon as one car made off to the mall, we all gunned it to try to get a front spot in the line. It was chaos but I was able to snag one in the end.
As it turned out though, I brought it home with a buddy of mine, hooked it up and played till 5 in the morning on SSX. went to work the next day 2 hours later and after a full day, I went home to play more, EXCEPT, MY PS2 WOULDN'T TURN ON AGAIN!!!! I went back to the mall two minutes later and by a stroke of luck, they purposefully didn't sell two units in case there was a broken one. I snagged a second and loved it for many years.
Picked up my 360 on a snowy night, good thing it was at a Gamestop in a mall. Despite being #7 on the Gamestop ps3 preorder list, I did not receive it until a week later in the 2nd wave. This go round got both preordered at Amazon and both as backup at best buy....socially I will miss the lines, but physically I won't.