Punching Beta: "Is Sony’s console success the reason for their handheld devices’ failure? Sony have always enjoyed a successful run in the console gaming market with the PS1, PS2, and despite the lacklustre start of the PS3, Sony’s current generation console has still managed to outsell the Xbox 360 regardless of its high price and late entry (one year behind the Xbox 360 to be exact).
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
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.
The problem with the Vita is giving people a reason to get one in the first place. I hear the Vita has an amazing console to game attachment rate it just getting consumers to initially buy the thing which is the problem.
To be honest Sony can't compete with well known games like Pokemon who sell for the name (i.e people know what it is and would probably buy it regards of quality). What they need to do is release the system at a much lower cost because at the moment the 3DS has the price and big names like Pokemon in its favour.
Also release some stereotypical female and younger crowd games on the Vita to get them interested as I hear they make up the most of the user base when it comes to handheld gaming.
The PS4 PSV combination is a good idea from Sony but they need to have a bundle that is maximum $100 (preferably $50) more than the One's price of $499. It wouldn't seem so bad (price wise/value for money) when people are debating should they buy a One or a PS4 with Vita or just a PS4
just like what in the article says
*despite the lacklustre start of the ps3*
im pretty sure sony can turn the tables for the vita too, not in a term that it will beat the 3ds in sales, but to managed to make it user base grow and will continue to support it for a long time, specially it is integrated with ps4 ^_^
despite the psp's shameless piracy no one can say its a failed platform 70million userbase is no joke
Price factor compared to the 3DS and big titles ON the 3DS happens to be a big hurdle for the Vita. Then when you add in Smartphone and Tablet mobile gaming that competes with the Vita's demographics of buyers, the Vita has a major uphill battle.
Nintendo does well on brand name alone for mobile gaming. Sony has to lower the cost of the Vita in line with the 3DS to compete and secure bigger name titles.
The Vita is such an amazing handheld.
PSVita has no games.
If vita got a new daxter game then I will scream like a girl ! What vita needs are great AAA games like what we saw on the psp ! Vita has a good amount of games I want but it needs system sellers like an exclusive gran turismo , infamous , gta and games like daxter, clank ! Man I would love a proper resistance vita game !