New York, 6pm Wednesday, the next generation starts. Sony is filling the huge Hammerstein Ballroom with more than 1,000 journalists from all over the world. And although the company remains tight-lipped about what's on show... we all know what's on show. PlayStation 4 – or "Orbis" if you want the alleged working title.
Almost eight years after the E3 press conference that ushered in the PS3 era, we're making another hyperspace jump into unknown territory. Specs have been leaked, photos posted online, rumours disseminated and deconstructed. But everyone who really knows what's going on is walled up behind airtight NDAs – for at least another 14 hours.
So in the meantime, here's what we'd (the Guardian) like to see from tonight's meeting – some of it is mandatory, some fanciful.
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.