PlayStation 4 is expected to make a loss at launch, Sony has confirmed, but the company hopes to regain some of the outgoings via the new paid PS Plus requirement for online gaming. Launch titles are also hoped to stem the loss.
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.
I wish them good luck! There have been far too many studios and publishes going out of business lately and any success story the gaming world is fantastic.
Ps4 is worth $460
Xbone without Kinect eye is worth ?? $350
That's bullshit. They are selling with profit + the ps+ money. That's how companies work these days. They don't care about bringing the best tech . They make decisions based on profit not evolve . That's why ps4 is cheap because that's what people want for now but they don't think about the future. That's why if i were them i would create 600$ console to really use the tech instead of waiting another 7 years to use the new tech which will be old when these years pass .
This is not hate for the ps4. This is a fact. X1 is worst.
That's a much better scenario from where they were at the PS3 launch....
In a year or so i think they'll get to the break even point on the hardware alone, 2/3 years start making profit. Given the price of GDDR5 and the fact Sony will no doubt be the biggest single customer of modules, they should be getting a good discount which will continue for the next 7/8 years, so i think the price of these should drop rather quickly. And they're right about the PS+ adoption rate, i think the vast majority will also be purchasing at launch.
So far Sony are making all the right calls.