After announcing strong quarterly results and a more bullish full-year outlook, Sony Corp. Chief Executive Howard Stringer said he expects the momentum to continue for the Japanese conglomerate as gains from a restructuring and new products spur improvement at its core electronics division.
During the global economic slump, Mr. Stringer has guided Sony through a restructuring marked by losses, factory closures and job cuts. Now, as a more streamlined Sony delivers improved results, Mr. Stringer said he is focused on creating growth through new products, including a coming Internet television set that is being developed using Google Inc. software.
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.
but this man is getting things done.
I will stay by Sony for life
ken kutaragi took over Sony instead of howard?
do you think he would have done a better job or no?
This restructuring combined with their make.believe universal marketing campaign is doing great things for Sony in my opinion. They finally have focus across the organization and a consolidated message that carries over to everything they're doing.
Incidentally, the make.believe dynamic theme is what I'm currently rocking on my PS3. I think it has a positive message.
This makes me ask a question. Is it a NEW Sony, or the return of the old Sony, pre 2005?