Depending on who you believe, getting a next-gen console at launch will either by a nightmare, or incredibly easy.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot recently claimed that next-gen consoles would be hard to get hold of at launch, but, in contrast, Sony's Jack Tretton has said that Sony is holding back PS4s to ensure consumers can get their hands on one come release day.
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.
Hope I get mine on launch day but with free shipping on Amazon it could go either way...
I hope I get mine to on launch day i pre ordered in my local walmart
I'll have mines before the years end so I'll be good
My guess is that Sony will have at least 2 million ready at launch, which is far more than any of their launches before. It still will sell out, and still be hard to find. The PS4 IMO will be even more successful than the PS2 over its lifetime.
This will be as I eluded to in my first sentence, the BIGGEST console launch of any company ever before. You can book it, lead pipe lock it and cue up the gravity enhanced lady.
I am being conservative with the 2 million amount, I expect it to be closer to 3 million at launch. Probably a million for NA alone, and another million for the EU main countries and the UK combined, with the 3rd million for other EU countries, Australia and many others that they are launching in.
Possibly the biggest console launch ever.