With the PlayStation 4 around the corner, Gamasutra sat down with Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida to get a bead on what his strategy for Sony's software development organization is as the next gen begins to unfold.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?
Unless they are trying to kill their recently created PC business, I would advise against opening a dedicated PC store. It's an extremely hard endeavor, and people, in general, are very comfortable with Steam. Even Epic, with their billions of dollars invested, is still struggling to find a foothold, and they have Fortnite.
Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming.
It's just a known fact. The PC gaming community prefer Steam and Steam alone. They don't like different launchers. I personally don't mind them. But majority just stick with steam. Hence why EA and Ubisoft went back to on releasing on steam and why Microsoft release games on steam as people hated buying from the windows store.
The only other launchers that I imagine are doing ok is GOG due to being drm free and epic games due to the free games every week. Sony shouldn't release any sort of pc launcher n
This is just another ridiculous double standard article.
It's like how Microsoft can spend 20 years of making nothing but gaas and live service style games to sell microtransactions, dlc and subscriptions and get praise for doing it, but if Sony wants to make a single game like that every website under the sun is writing articles saying how Sony is anti-consumer or whatever.
"People get upset when they talk about we have allocated lots of memory, for example, for system software,"
"This is to make all the playing and using PS4 around games -- whether it's background recording, or background download, or remote play -- to make all these things great. It's not necessarily the best choice to give everything to game developers. We learned from PS3 experience."
"We hope that we continue to add more feature and social media options at the system level, so that developers find it easier to support,"
How big are those media features going to take PS4 memory? Gamers really want to know this too.
Its always the games that sell the PlayStation platform, for me personally. The quality, quantity and variety across genres is unrivalled.
I don't get why journalists and some other people insist that mobile devices will bring the end to consoles. It's not the case and they are different markets. They believe that since everyone has a phone, people will choose to play on it, instead of buying a PS4 or Xbox One, or whatever. That is false. People who buy a console is because they want the best in technology. They are looking for great experiences, whether is single player games, multiplayer, or F2P games. Games on mobile devices are just fun bites that are great for short periods of time, but they will never have the substance nor the technology that a computer game or a console game will always have. Even though technology is advancing rapidly in mobile devices, and now we will start to see PS3 quality games on them, they will always be behind in technology and interface for the real gaming public.
Games that sell incredibly well in mobile like Angry Birds, are exceptions, and there is no way that we will see a constant trend of having great selling software in mobile like there is in consoles anytime soon.
I think any notion of mobile gaming killing the console has been killed off by the sheer numbers of next gen preorders we've been seeing. Even the xbox one, which we all know lags behind ps4 in pre sales, is well ahead of its predecessor the 360 in orders.
Furthermore, it seems mobile gaming might actually be an asset to the console experience going forward, with most developer's embracing the idea of companion apps for high profile games.
Console gaming is in a good place right now.