Finally the embargo has been lifted from the PlayStation 4 hardware, its UI and the games. We have seen a lot of UI videos and walkthroughs of the UI along with a lot of pictures. It appears PlayStation 4 will integrate ads into the activity feed of the user. Jeff Gertsmann, co-founder of Giant Bomb, shows us an off-screen image of the activity feed showing an ad.
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.
How is that not distracting?? It gets the biggest chunk of the screen
People made a big deal about a tiny little square on the Xbox 360 UI, lets see them apply the same standards here.
Erm, Is that an ad for Playstation? Wouldn't it make sense? Just asking.
@disagrees
If I am wrong, please state it? I am asking a question how can you disagree with that.
One thing I hated about the 360s dashboard later on was the insane amount of ads that infiltrated the dashboard. I hope the ps4 doesn't do the same but it doesn't look that way.
That's not really an ad...
EDIT: Even on the PS3's store, this is the first thing you see. They want people to know that they can get money back for spending.