Rich Drummond of Gaming Tech United writes:
"Never has there been a handheld that has divided the gaming populous like the Vita has. The owners seem to absolutely adore it, but those who oppose the system adamantly criticize it. Why is Sony's handheld so controversial? Let's breakdown the ins and outs of the PlayStation Vita."
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.
Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.
How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.
It's just backwards.
What your talking about is called block list
In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback
Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.
But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.
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 genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong
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.
The new temp boss is the sony cfo bean counter so i can see this being a thing get every penny.
@car
The new boss did a interview in japan he wants to tap into the mobile market like nintendio so he give 0 fucks about gamers/fans
https://www.pushsquare.com/...
@Cacabunga
You only speak for you and those who think like you, but most fans will support what they want. Playstation and PC fans are literally supporting Helldivers 2 and that is a gaas. Maybe you wouldn't, but many more would if they like it.
@Redemption-64
Look, Im not making any judgement calls about this guy, but I will say that Helldivers 2 GaaS model is unique to Helldivers, and legit the only other game I can think of thats similiar was the Avengers game except HD2 pass is still better.
The fact that you can earn in game currency in a way that doesnt make you feel like you have to grind forever, as well you being able work on that pass that you bought...on your own time without a time limit...that right there is fucking huge to me, and I can't name any game other than avengers that avoided trapping players with FOMO logic...I think GaaS on HD2 shouldn't be compared to the rest of the industry...it should be copied.
Cacabunga
Helldivers 2...
Redemption-64
In Europe it's a 60 40 split favoring PC.
In the US its a 60 40 split favoring PS5.
So PlayStation owners supported the game just fine, it's not getting carried by PC or anything like that.
@just_looken,
I'm perfectly fine with the way Nintendo entered the mobile market, I never touched their mobile games, meanwhile, the console/handheld stayed the way it is. As for being a bean counter, he's probably going to reel in these massive budgets that Sony's studios have had lately, I haven't played Spiderman 2, but I cannot see how they almost tripled the budget for that game.
@Redemption-64,
That's an exception to the rule, I'm expecting a lot of these GAAS games from Sony to fail, to be fair, they only need a few to succeed, but I would have preferred that they put more of their resources into other types of games.
True their monetization is driving players away and at the same time, their decision to chop out content and convoluted systems is keeping new players away from the game.
I don't think that will happen based on how things worked out at Naughty Dog now that we know what we do, seems they had the option to fully commit to live service games or stay making single player experences so they gave up on their live service game. We are not sure how things came about with Bend making a live service game but I hope that was not a forced situation. Sony doesnt seem like they are forcing studios to switch up but we will see, Sony's bread and butter is single player games it is how they dominated the console market.
Yeah, I though Sony learned something from all their failures in the LS segment under Bungie´s disastrous leadership and supervision which led to games been cancelled, studios closed and all the people laid off.
Looks like Bungie still plays a major role in Sony´s LS initiative and Sony is not backtracking on their GaaS plans.
Are we forgetting that Destiny is also a highly successful franchise? I feel like that definitely deserves mention here.
Besides, there is no reason why a person cant learn from past experiences.
I agree, people act as if Destiny flopped when it came out lol it took 9 to 10 years for the numbers to fall yet people are still playing it add the success of Helldivers 2 no wonder Sony is going forward down this path.
Personally, I see no problem with Sony also having service games as long as they make good ones, and more importantly they deliver the AAA story driven games that they are known for. So yeah, I agree 100% with you.
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.
Honestly, what’s to learn from? How to make people happily continuously dump money into a single game over its life-time? Buy season passes continuously for several years with a smile on our faces?
GaaS is a design decision that is everything wrong with this industry. The fact that Helldivers 2 did so well and people defend the monetization because it was $40 and is a fun game, scares the sh*t out of me to see that the door is open and all shift will probably be to replicate that in future games. We already know the ROI for traditional game dev cost isn’t doing it for them.
I thought with Jimbo leaving we’d see a change for the better… I’m not so sure now.
Service games are being offered by everyone. Sony cannot afford to only create single player AAA games. No one can. They already said they will be doing both.
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.
They play long-time existing live service games like CoD, Fortnite, Apex Legends, Destiny 2, and the like. Mass majority of new live service games are considered failures and aren't moving gamers away from older games.
Yep the huge issue with live service is they need paid players along with a reason to play them.
You forgot mobile market that also taps into that player base as well as the eve online style games there is only a certain amount of krakens/whales blind supporters compared to the amount of live service games we have its not sustainable math wise.
700 restaurants making food for every seat for 1000-3000 eaters just does not work out
Christopher
I am not a big live service fan and literally own zero of the games you listed, but that is not true, unless you call games that aren't the top games to be failures.
There are tons of live service games that are profitable.
Games don't have to be the biggest game ever they just need to make more than they cost.
I challenge you to show professionally prepared data that shows that more live service games fail than make enough to keep going.
Because all the data that I have seen shows that live service is less of a gamble than making a big AAA budget game which needs to survive off retail sales.
I sometimes wonder if we're at saturation point, where it's hard for a new game to join those ranks unless it's particularly exceptional, people only have so much time and money to devote to these types of games.
Lol it's not even a quarter of the ps5s sold. Helldivers may have been a hit but let's not say most are enjoying it because truth is most(the real most ) don't care about it.
I play what is fun. If a live service game is good I’ll play it as long as its not a money scheme which Helldivers is not.
And Im a single player gamer.
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.
The 3 issues for me that kept me away were the insanely overpriced memory cards, lack of official L2/R2 support and the lack of games for the Western audience after the 1st year. If Sony and 3rd party devs worked together to help fix those issues then I would have drove through the storefront just to get one.
There is a reason why I bought 2 PSPs and thats because I have over 2 dozen games that are mostly exclusive to the system. Motorstorm, Pursuit Force, GTA Stories & Chinatown, Peace Walker, 2 God of War games, Wipeout, Burnout, and much more. Will never forget when I was 11 and had to save up for a year just so I could get my PSP. Had to wait until summer 2005 but it was well worth it. Still have my original 1000, analog stick leans to the left like crazy and is pretty much useless but I have no intentions on throwing it out. Too many great memories. Would be like throwing away you're 1st home run ball.
Shame Vita couldnt match that magic of the PSP. Uncharted, Killzone, Assassins Creed, Wipeout and Modnation Racers arent enough to get me to drop $200 especially since I play multiplats on my PC and dont have nearly as much time anymore to play games on the go.
Vita is a niche device for those that like JRPGs and indiesa and have time to play when they are away from home. Im still not gonna lose hope they could eventually work things out. Would love to get one after I get my PS4.
I personally love the VITA and own 3, 1 white OLED from the AC Liberation bundle, 1 black OLED, and 1 black slim from the Borderlands 2 bundle which is really my fiance's now. VITA has a crazy good library of games and hate to break it to this guy but Sony has many AAA's on VITA via ports and exclusives and they released Killzone Mercenary, Tearaway, God of War, Sly Cooper, Ratchet & Clank, Freedom Wars, Soul Sacrifice Delta, Toukidan Kiwami, Helldivers, Borderlands 2, Oreshika, & Wolf Among Us all later in the console's life and all beyond the 1st year it released. These were all AAA ish big console like games.
The VITA has a big time list of big impressive games and not just indies, some of them are being ported to console bc they didn't sell on VITA but it doesn't change the fact they were VITA exclusives, if VITA sold well these games would've never left the system.
List of big VITA games - some were exclusives, ports, ultimate editions.
Uncharted Golden Abyss
Assassin's Creed III Liberation
Tearaway
Littlebigplanet VITA
Dragons Crown, Muramasa Rebirth
MLB The Show, Madden, fifa, Virtua Tennis 4
Gravity Rush
Killzone mercenary
Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper Collection & Thieves in Time, God of War Collection
Freedom Wars
Soul Sacrifice, SS Delta, Toukidan, Toukidan Kiwami
Wipeout, Modnation, NFS Most Wanted
Borderlands 2, Minecraft, MGS Collection, Epic Mickey, The Amazing Spider-Man
Oreshika, Gods Eater 2, Virtues Last Reward
Tell Tale games
Helldivers, Guacamelee, V & V2x, Arkham Origins BG
Mortal Kombat, injustice Ult ed, PS All-Stars, Cap vs Marvel 3, Street Fighter ect.
Unit 13, Resistance Burning Skies, cod
Persona 4 Golden, FF X/X2 ect, many other jrpg's
Other great games like Super Stardust, Sine Mora, Ollie Ollie 1 & 2, SoundShapes, Thomas Was Alone, Flow, Flower, Hohokum, CounterSpy, Rogue Legacy, Luftrausers, Terraria, pixel junk shooters ult, DeadNation, Octodad ect may be smaller, but they're excellent and arguably better on the VITA. Plus psOne & psp games galore areobviously available
I love my vita , it is great for RPGs ,Platformers and indies. I have had mine since day 1 and I am about to buy another one since I have used and abused mine so much. The one complaint I have is the memory cards small size and high price, but you can find them occasionally for cheaper online. Sure I wouldnt mind more AAA games, but even without many I play it almost daily
Great article and it deserves more views and clicks than the other writers who are circle jerking each other with the Vita is doomed narrative.
VITA makes it more fun to own a PS4, that alone should make ppl not hate it. Why hate it unless ur a ms cheerleader? For what reason bc everyone else does? It's funny to make fun of it? Ppl are so naive even the guy in the video said he was against the VITA until he actually got one. Why this initial stance of being opposed to it? I guess it's easier to not think and use other's opinions as your own.