Examiner writes: In the wake of heavy pink-slips, Sony scrambles to find a sense of urgency and relevance during a console cycle that has seen more downs than ups for the gaming titan.
It doesn’t take brain surgery to know that Sony has had a rough go around this console generation.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
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.
And as a CEO of Sony you know for a fact that laying off employees will do more harm then good right? And of course people are still taking the word of a probably disgruntled ex employee. Oh yeah he is definitely a unbiased, impartial source. 'Sony is crap and no it has nothing to do with me losing my job'
"While Sony's electrical equipment divisions, including its TV and digital camera businesses, account for more than half of sales, the main sectors contributing to operating profits are the finance and entertainment divisions. Four straight years of net losses show that the electrical equipment sector has been eating up all the profits generated by its profitable businesses."
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Oh look right there
"Four straight years of net losses show that the electrical equipment sector has been eating up all the profits generated by its profitable businesses"
which parts are at profit:
"the main sectors contributing to operating profits are the finance and entertainment divisions."
so over 8 years of loss from the TV section and over 4 years from the electrical equipment part..and yet the people keep harping Sony's playstation will close down..lol
where do people think the major cut's are going?
Not playstation that's for sure
though:
cutting some internal PR department to outsource their PR going forward will save them Money. That's why their doing it.
Nice cut and Paste joeorc
This sort of news really isn't helping Sony any what with word of mouth as well contributing to that general feeling that they aren't what they used to be. Not that people will listen to a word of it of course being that it's all rosy in Sonyland
Hopefully the Playstation brand wont go down the toilet but things are seemingly not looking good for them
Yes and water is wet.
layoffs do not "do" anything. They are an effect, not a cause.