As happy as Sony is right now, and as down and out as Microsoft appears to be, the bloodletting likely isn't over yet. Here are four things that Sony could do to drive the nail even deeper into the Xbox One's metaphorical coffin, writes Blake of Leviathyn.
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.
Trash article. With the exception of improving trophies, you are pretty much saying Sony should shadow M$.
The author says there's no "ding" sound when you get a trophy? Huh?
"ding" is the exact sound the PS3 makes when you earn a trophy. If anything, achievements are more of a "bloop", while trophies "ding".
Idiot.
I meant to imply that the trophy sound was different than the achievement sound, but clearly failed to convey that with my wording. I have edited it to closer reflect my point on the sounds, which was really nothing more than a hypothetical one anyway. Thank you for pointing my mistake out.
Kind of a fail list.
The trophy point is full of inaccuracies. There IS a sound for trophies, and it's more satisfying than the achievement one. And the trophies DO tally for a score, though rather than some arbitrary number total, it gives you an easy-to-compare level, broken down by the number of trophies of each grade that you've acquired. Makes it a lot harder to fluff your list with Dora the Explorer games and have nobody notice.
The Shooter point is also a fail, given how even the numbers actually are on Call of Duty. There's also the fact that Sony's approach isn't the same as Microsoft's, so trying to say Halo and Gears are "better" online arenas than Killzone, Resistance, Uncharted, and MAG isn't very truthful. Oh, and there's that: MULTIPLE competitive multiplayer games, rather than just two. And while talking about how Call of Duty is massively important to Microsoft this gen, he negates the idea that Destiny could be the same because it's multiplatform... JUST LIKE CALL OF DUTY. Oh, and I think it should be pretty apparent by now that Sony doesn't need a Halo.
Apps are NOT a nail in the coffin. Not one that Sony drives in, anyway. So far, they've done it right by not having so much emphasis on them. What the author suggests is essentially what they do, anyway, so they don't need to change that.
Trolling Microsoft: This I agree with, if only to get some payback from years of Microsoft and their fans bashing the PS systems.
Overall, though, not very well thought-out, in my opinion.