While Sony's share price was in decline ahead of yesterday's PlayStation Meeting announcement, the reveal of its new hardware prompted a 2.4 per cent rise during after-hours trading.
Dr. Serkan Toto says: While things do not look great for many studios in the West, things are very different in Japan – and I was shocked how little people in the industry still know and understand about the third biggest gaming market in the world (which is a probably a positive for a Japan game industry consultant like myself).
Honestly, it looks about the same if we are measuring a company's success on their all time high stock price. It has nothing to do with the sentiments some in the industry have.
Objectively the two biggest problems are cost cutting and consolidation.
Sony has published a new patent pertaining to unique lip-sync evaluation and fixing system to automatically fix NPC mouth movements to align them with the original dialogue’s timing, resolving sync issues.
This lip sync thing sounds pretty awesome. But one cannot shake the feeling, this is going to be combined with AI, and….. sigh
A new patent published by Sony discusses PlayStation controllers that are solar-powered, with the ability to charge the battery under light.
Mine would never run out of juice thanks to my glowing personality......
My Samsung TV remote charges on solar-power or artificial lights. Or a USB if needed. The tech is hopefully getting better so it can charge a gaming controller.
Ps4 hype even Chad Daddy Warden came back for it!
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On topic
Other article debunked.
It seems to me that people and companies alike have an over-obsession with stock prices. I think it's a fundamental flaw in the structure of our economy if companies are this obsessed and reliant upon share prices--i.e., "pleasing" the shareholders. Stock value should not be the primary concern of a company--profitability and long-term stability should be. But that's just my opinion.
Facebook was on top of the world, viewed as one of the hugest homerun successes in the past decade, prior to going public. All of a sudden, when it became a publicly traded company, and the share prices were shown to be lackluster, there became this perception that Facebook was over-the-hill, or in some ways a failure. Anyone else see the failure in this logic by the financial community and general public?
2 articals in 1 day about the exact same thing who doing damage control i think its time for me to bring a few to hell.
The PS4 only does everything ... and more.
This is great news! What do you think Cocozero?
Actually 2.4% is nothing particularly amazing, but it's all in the right direction at least. It has to be good news to see any shares in the industry rising after the recent general decline.
Here's hoping this (and Microsoft's impending announcement) help the industry gather more pace again ;)