The Sony (NYSE: SNE ) PlayStation 4 is off to an explosive start. Official statements from the company indicate that it had sold more than 6 million units to consumers as of March 2, substantially eclipsing the 5-million-unit sales target that it expected to hit in its current fiscal year. What's more, the competition hasn't done a great job of keeping up. Current estimates put the Xbox One from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 million units sold, with a substantial drop-off in momentum since the console's launch. Meanwhile, the performance of the Nintendo (NASDAQOTH: NTDOY ) console has become something of a recurring punchline.
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.
I'm not following. So after moving Santa Monica Studios to new offices, Sony's gaming business is in trouble because they canned an unannounced title and laid off those working on it, and because "The Last Guardian" has been in development for awhile?
From the same guy who wrote such riveting articles as "Watchdogs will flop", "Will Nintendo Abandon the Wii-U", "Can Spiderman save Sony Pictures" and "Is this the end of the Microsoft Xbox?" They should call this guy Dr. Doom.
Seriously, Sony has more first party developers than MS and Nintendo combined. One unannounced project we knew nothing about canned and suddenly "Sony's gaming business is in trouble!" Give me a break. I usually take the fool.com seriously (I know how that sounds to those who aren't familiar with the site) as a well respected investment site, but this guy clearly doesn't have a clue.
I don't think the author has released the reasoning behind laying off people from an unannounced game. We do not know what it was cancelled. We can take an educated guess the game was cancelled because it was making the quality grade/no progress. We don't really know what the game genre was. All we knew was it was different from SSM other games. When a game gets cancelled why keep people on if they are specialised in a specific genre (they will be). That is a far more logical reason for laying off. It is like SSM is downsizing or stop hiring in general. They got rid of a team who were making a game that, we can only assume, didn't make the grade and such Sony decide not to pursue this genre/game (4 years is a long time).
Tretton leaving is pretty straight forward. He is leaving on a successful launch (on a high). He is young enough to get bigger positions elsewhere and he will not get any higher in Sony that he already is. He has been in the company long enough.
this are the same people that MS is doomed after the xbox one had only been out for 3 months.... yeah ok buddy
This website has no structured reasoning to suggest sonys gaming division is in trouble.
Of all the departments Sony has the gaming one has the least problems.
People get layed off constantly and games get cancelled in the industry. MS cancelled the Black Tusk game to make another Gears of War does that mean their gaming division is goung down?