Following months of disastrous sales and a virtual no show at their E3 conference, Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida told Eurogamer that they have no plans to cut the price of the Playstation Vita. Jordan Lund is confused by Sony's behavior.
Excerpt: "You have 25 Vita games on the show floor, would it have killed you to have told us the names of a few of them before plugging the PS3 games we already know about? It’s almost like Sony intends the Vita to fail in the same way they made the PSP Go! a failure."
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
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.
they're thinking: 'there's no point. with the PS2/PSP/PS3/PSN/HOME/GAMES making us money, we can wait until the Vita naturally gathers momentum when more games get released'
Sony can't afford to drop the price right now
Whinge, whinge...dribble, sh!t and moan.
Could somebody wake me when someone has something new or relevant to say please?
It doesn't need a price drop. Er...get a second job hehe.
Because it's not doing as badly as people think it is? Because as much as Sony keeps repeating that 2,000,000 sales is by no means a bad start, people keep ignoring that and believe forum dwellers instead?
The well-educated boffins at Sony have every piece of information pertaining to the financial state of the Vita - how much it costs to make, how much each console shipped/sold brings in and every other little piece of statistical information that we couldn't guess if we tried - and they seem content not to give the Vita a price cut.
I'm not saying Sony as a business can't make a mistake and I'm not saying their "the Vita is doing fine" spiel definitely isn't just PR spin, but the proof that the Vita doesn't need a price cut is that it isn't getting one. If Sony felt their price point was off they would adjust it and they're not doing so.
EDIT: And just to continue the rant, comparing the Vita to the PSP Go is ridiculous. The Vita is a brand new handheld, capable of some things home consoles are yet to do. The PSP Go was an experiment, a mutation of a system already available, but more expensive and with less features than its older counterpart.
Vita is hot. PSP go was half stepping.