If this is true, it may put a broader context on Sony's plan to sell proprietary memory cards for the PlayStation Vita at jacked-up prices.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
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.
"The tradeoff, of course, is you can't trade in digital media. Which again points to why Sony may be laying out incentives to go digital."
If the rumours about the 40% discount on digital titles is true then I may start to buy more digital games when the Vita comes out. I mean most of the time trading games in is worthless anyway, as the value decreases so quickly.
I do not care what costs what, just give me my PS Vita device, on the double!
A 3DS game costs 40 euros here. So the idea of being able to buy a handheld game for 26 seems like a great idea to be. This should make the Vita a lot more competitive and hopefully Nintendo will do the same with its digital downloads. I can only see good things cine from this.
ps. Im comparing it to the 3DS because it's the latest handheld.
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I highly doubt the rumored discount of 40% is true, its just way to high for me to believe. I'm not even going to "hope" that its true. If it gets announced that its not true you know how many people will be angry because they believed the rumor?
Sony could have played this card with the PSP Go but instead they shafted everyone who purchased the Go (me included). PSN prices for games you can buy retail are just plain rediculous.
Hell, I can import games from the other side of the world on physical media and still pay $40 less than buying it off PSN, plus I also get to later on sell the game.