Microsoft is banking on Xbox Live and Kinect as their game changer; Nintendo is counting on the Wii U GamePad and Nintendo TVii's social aspect as their 1-2 punch. But it seems as though Sony already has all the pieces of the puzzle and it's now just a matter of putting them together.
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.
Sea of Thieves is the first Rare-developed game to launch for a PlayStation console, and Sony was heavily involved in helping the studio bring the swashbuckling pirate romp to its flagship console.
Out of curiosity could any of these ms games going to ps5 have been leaked by Sony themselves? Not Sony but someone at Sony
sony isn't about to let some console wars get in the way of trying to make microsoft become a third party dev by showing them that they make more money with them than without them. of course with that in mind they'd help them. it's also doubly so because microsoft are bringing what is considered a popular game over that can also make sony money
Nice.
Still don't want it though.
Tell me Killer Instinct is coming to PS5 and then we'll talk.
"All signs point to the hardware becoming less and less important to Microsoft."
Less innovation and competition. People act like if MS went away life would be better but it would just mean you have one less choice as to where to spend your money. If Sony became the defacto home console provider and Nintendo the handheld, then these companies could limit what you get and you would ultimately have very little choice but to support them if you want to play games.
I was a video that suggested that Steam could potentially get into the console market if Xbox ceases to exist. They already had the Steam Machine(?), and they have the Steam Deck for the portable market. I’m not in the pc space at all so I wouldn’t know if that would be a realistic statement.
No Xbox future I am going to guess Microsoft will go down the path Sega choose and be a publisher/game developer with their in house studios. Or sell off their in house studios and just go back to making os for PC's. I highly doubt the second part. Microsoft like any company wants to make money. So if Microsoft did say pull the plug on Xbox I see them going down the path Sega went. And utilize Xbox as a brand and not just as a console. I can see the name of XBox being mainly a brand after that. And maybe with the game you see published by or developed by Xbox studios.
Nice read, but some possibilities were overlooked. You mention HOME on the Vita, which I believe will come in the not too distant future, and as you say, through Gaikai. But what about Vita/PS3 integration? What about walking around HOME on your PS3 using your Vita as a controller. It could be used for chatting, typing, snapping pictures of your friends -- to hang on your apartment wall -- and menu access.
HOME is somewhat clunky, as you rightly point out. But, does it have to be? With Gaikai you would no longer need the HOME App on your hard drive. It could sit there merrily on the servers, utilise a PS3 cluster that enabled it to run smoothly, without load times, and be streamed straight onto your PS3 or Vita. This would allow for seamless integration between the Vita and the PS3 too. Expanding HOME would just be a matter of upgrading it server side and it could be done without a single load time.
Moving HOME wouldn't be so stressful either... (see what I did there?) Gaikai is appearing on many platforms from TVs to Laptops to mobile phones, so why not take HOME there too? In this way, HOME could be just as valuable to Sony as PSMobile.
A bit of loading he says...
Though its easy to see where active streaming would make something like Home into a seamless experience. Including all types of game interaction.
Will users have to be pay for it is the question.
Cloud gaming is definitely a wave of the future, but the infrastructure still seems a ways off from it being accepted as a mainstream way to game right now. Being so reliant upon broadband ISP providers is what will either hinder or help this growth, especially here in the states. Where throttling and data caps seems to be plaguing multi-media efforts in direct digital entertainment. Netflix is one thing, but we kind of eat the quality of the video streaming services, in favor of ease of use and on demand features. What would cloud gaming be like right now if this is anything to go by? I'm not so sure that many people are even comfortable with the idea of having to be connected to the web just to game. Online play is one thing, but what if my internet having problems and I just wanna pass some time away and can't. Now I'm not saying that this is the direction that Sony is going in, but I can see one of the major players releasing a digital only box in the not so distant future here...
Home still exist?