As part of their year end series Skewed and Reviewed have posted what they believe Sony did wrong with the PS4 in 2014.
The article looks at mistakes they company made in the past year.
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.
I really dig critiques like these. It keeps PlayStation and PlayStation Nation up on its toes.
I am all for PS4 exclusives like you or the next gamer but having played with PlayStation since the original one many gamers have really underestimated PlayStation’s time tested and secret success weapon- third party games. The reason PlayStation won against Nintendo, Sega and Microsoft since day one is 3rd party games first and 1st party games second.
PlayStation’s 3rd party relations since day one is second to none. PS3 is the comeback king of consoles because of 3rd party support from Valve, EA, Epic etc etc. back in 2010 due to PS3’s tight anti piracy policies ensuring return of investment.
Even when the Xbox 360 was selling well as a multiplatform game beast in USA EA went out to comment that time that "the PS3 is on fire." http://www.techradar.com/ne...
The reason Xbox One price cuts was not enough to deter PS4 dominance is because gamers know 3rd party games look and play better on PS4. Sony made sure they learn from their mistakes with PS3 and its now paying off.
Don’t get me wrong 1st party games show of hardware power also move hardware units like Uncharted, The Last of Us, God of War or GT5 but the likes of GTA, CoD, Skyrim or Battlefield move way more PlayStation consoles if we look at statistics.
PS4 has all these bases covered compared to the competing platforms
Thank you. Ms one and Nintendo due in the next two weeks.
From the article;
"The Playstation Camera is a nice piece of hardware but aside from Twitch, it does not seem to be getting much support. Hopefully with the launch of the share service this hardware will get more and more use as streaming is a very popular and with the share feature of the system, it would be nice to see more games take advantage of this feature in the future."
I mean other than facial recognition software and streaming, what type of support is anyone else looking for? *chuckle* There have been hundreds of millions of Ps4 streams on UStream and Twitch so I have no idea what the author is trying to say in this statement.
Another silly statement;
"The Playstation Experience mainly focused on games we knew about."
There were trailers for Kill Strain, The Forest, The Killing Floor 2.
Bloodborne showed off co-op gameplay and procedurally generated dungeons, something no one knew about.
Then there was Drawn To Death. An interesting NEW IP that was introduced.
Playstation Experience was three hours. Does anyone actually think that Bllodborne, UC4, and Street Fighter 5 took 3 hours to introduce?
Then there was this statement which is the most ridiculous of them all;
"The Playstation Network has had security issues and the company recently had a severe hack where several of its films reportedly were leaked online ahead of their planned release dates."
The hack effected Sony Pictures. Sony films and movies are not developed/produced/distributed by Playstation network.
This article is weak with facts but has plenty of made up opinions.
wrong??
LOL
11 months with top sales and you call it "wrong"? LOL
Biggest mistake was Driveclub's launch.