In a NowGamer interview, vice president of Sony Worldwide Studios Europe has revealed that standard Android Apps will not be available for NGP, only those submitted to PlayStation Suite. More details here.
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.
I am a die hard PlayStation fan and I know the NGP ain't no smartphone but...
1 No Video Output?
2 No Android Apps?
So what was the custom Android OS there for?
How is this future proofing?
Even low end Android phones have video output & apps.
Disagree all you want but these are deal breakers.
I feel sorry for NGP.
In my humble & honest opinion..... NGP Not Gonna Purchase day 1 & will wait till Sony put these features on the NGP 2000 or 3000.
Looks like I will be enjoying my PSP 3000 much much longer & put my dollars on the Samsung Galaxy S II instead.
Quite pity, but I think it won't take long while someone will make an emulator to run Android (and other touch-based platforms) apps/games.