“OpenGL is a layered API on the PS3,” our source told us. “It’s much easier to use than LibGCM, which is the main PS3 system.”
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.
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.
Anyone care to say what that means?
I take all games will look better on ps4 :-)
Nintendo has used open GL natively since the days of the GC I believe and it basically means that PS4 will be a much easier system to not only program for and get game engines up and running on with ease. But it will take little to no efforts as well for developers to harness the systems full power without braking the bank(this is why developers like Vigil said they had Dark Siders 2 up and running on the Wiiu in a matter of weeks)... Ps3 uses a custom linux version for its OS and i believe the PS2did as well. This is good news for Sony and the right kind of steps that they need to be taking with their next gen system
Well, at least that opens them up to more developers, but still not nearly as many as Direct X. If it was late '90s or early 2000s this would've been big news for GL proponents. By now I think the only big-name, pure/native GL developer left is id.
Still, a step in the right direction.
That said, this is a console, and as such, generic APIs add unnecessary overhead, as the hardware is essentially the same across each SKU. It will likely be a custom feature set built specifically for PS4 hardware but based on basic GL libraries.
And come on, what else were they going to use? It's not like MS were going to let them use DX anyway :p
From a previous report it will be Open GL4....