Japanese electronics giant Sony's brand name is taking a big hit in US consumer perception, after hackers committed one of the largest internet security breaches in history against the company.
Sony pulled the plug on the PlayStation network back on April 19 after finding nearly 77 million user accounts had been compromised; including names, addresses and possibly credit card details from user accounts of its video game online network. A second security breach compromised users of its Online Entertainment Portal, used by PC gamers to play online.
Sony was one of the top three perceived electronics brands by US adults up for much of the last year – until the news about the security breach surfaced. They have now fallen several spots, according to YouGov BrandIndex’s daily tracking – and as of the last week now rank behind Apple, LG, HP, Kodak, Dell and Samsung.
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.
Yawn. More doom and gloom huh? Have any of these people ever heard of fatigue. We just want PSN back.
is this really important for sony to be top 3?
All these people who are mad at sony now when they find out who is responsible you better direct that anger and hatred toward those people twice as bad otherwise just stick it up your ass!
strange I'm pretty sure I've seen similar articles yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that...You've created a time paradox!
Personally my love for Sony began before online was ever implemented into a console. I`m in love with their 1st party devs, not PSN. Most games I`m completely content w/ playing SP. I own a 360 and don`t have online for that (by choice) and I still enjoy it.