SegmentNext - The war between Sony and Microsoft in the console market is over a decade old. Microsoft’s original Xbox was hammered by the PlayStation 2, but the brand came back strong with the release of Xbox 360
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
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’s holiday line-up has never looked weaker!"
Wait till E3 at least. Also, have people forgotten No Mans Sky?
"Sony is short on exclusives, Uncharted 4 is delayed and one of their flagship titles – The Order 1886 – failed to live-up to expectations."
Bloodborne still represents a heavy weight AAA title that MS doesn't have. Why not mention that?
In short, no, there is plenty Sony can do. It may need to counter MS in the AAA arena but it already has Bloodborne secured in its armory.
At this moment Microsoft does seem to have a stronger line-up of games for the second half of 2015, but let's wait until E3 to see what Sony has in store. In all honesty I think Sony has a few surprises.
... but, if Sony's main focus is to promote 3rd party games (Star Wars, MGS, etc) with their console for Holiday 2015, without a couple of decent exclusives, I'm going to be severely disappointed.
meh i dont care if they cut the price because the price is going to stay the same at least here where i live retails dont care about official prices they dictate their own prices heck xbone is still 400 euros here
Out of the two why do does this article writer think Sony needs to do more? They have exclusives releasing throughout the year, VR, better versions of multi platform titles, an expected price drop at E3 and is outselling its closest competition by 2:1, what more do you want from a gaming system?
I think it's MS that need to do something.
They need to address why the Xbox only sells good numbers in one region.
No exclusives until the end of the year and those exclusives apart from Halo aren’t very inspiring. Third Forza game this gen and a remaster ( Fable and Tomb Raider aren’t exclusives).
They need to let us know after DX12 and Windows 10 are out why do we need an Xbox? DX12 is bringing down the cost of PC gaming by bringing in console efficiencies, meaning you will be able to buy a PC off the shelf and expect console graphics at console prices, Xbox Live is free on PC and many Xbox exclusives end up on PC. With a PC I will be able to play Xbox games with my friends without paying a subscription to Live.
They need to keep Xbox exclusives on the Xbox, because I can get so many Xbox games on my PC I have no need to buy Xbox.