VRFocus - Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has revealed that he is ‘not worried’ about securing ‘big brands’ for the upcoming Project Morpheus virtual reality (VR) headset for PlayStation 4. The SCE figurehead reasoned that franchises like Call of Duty could attract attention to the headset, but would need time and work to properly fit the technology.
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.
In other words cod would have to be exclusively made for the headset?
It's as important for Sony to have big brands behind Morpheus, as much as the unique, original experiences.
They may say different, but they need to sell it to devs like Bethesda for the next FALLOUT game or DICE for Mirror's Edge. If these companies don't provide Oculus support, the PC community will do it for them, and it would be a big missed opportunity for Sony.
So the strategy should always be to entice large third-party publishers, but concentrate on that by leading by example with first party studios as well as letting indie developers go crazy with the tech.
VR support tossed in for the big franchise games will make the headset feel like a gimmick. Games need to made from the ground up specifically for VR. It's nice to see Sony taking that approach with Morpheus.
They need to attract big devs and indies alike, its just stupid to play the completely indie card ad nausium, i love my ps4 and sonys dedication to indies but there needs to be a balance and inclusion of some big names too. Im frankly a little worried for the first time about the future of ps4.