High street chain GAME are set to offer digital titles and content in-store starting with first party material such as God of War Collection, MAG and Killzone Steel Rain Map Pack.
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 don't get it. Will the prices of these games fluctuate with demand like usual retail copies or will they remain as monsterously high as their online store counterparts?
Is this the publishers way of sneaking in digital distribution in a trojan horse like fashion before yanking the rug out from under the retailers feet.
I read the only reason digital titles are so high is because retailers would refuse to stock the physical discs. Once digital retail reaches a point whats to stop the publishers cutting their prices, still making the same amount of money and destroying retailers profits and the second hand market in one fell swoop.
I think this is a good idea; they are keeping the retailers involved which should mean prices move unlike the current ones :@ and I presume if I buy one online I would get the code emailed to me to download my game= nea r instant deliveries :p I think this could be brilliant for digital distribution although if I'm wrong about the prices and the physical copies are still so much cheaper then personally I'd rather just wait the days delivery time :/
1) Gamestation and GAME are owned by the same company
2) Create false competition
3) Price fix
4)???
5)Profit!!!
At the same price as retail no doubt.
Steam is the only digital store I know of that cuts prices often and on quality titles. EA does it SOMETIMES but go look at their digital store, they still have games for full price that are like ten bucks at retail. In some way I'm thinking Steam is only doing it to draw in more customers, once they get it full on they have no need to do it anymore.
This is why I hate it. We hear all the excuses in the world, but at the end of the day its all about the developers making more money. They cut the middle man out and suddenly they get ALL the profits with no fee's to sell a game. Look at Origin and EA. They already cut out Steam and are trying to drive traffic to themselves, if it was possible they'd do the same to consoles.
Go to PSN and XBL. Look at how many retail games are still listed for 40 dollars and up. MAG, Dragon Age, and so on...now go to retail and notice how many of the SAME games are under 20 bucks.
"Oh we lose money on used games" so make a deal to NOT do that. Once they get this the next excuse will be "we can't handle server space" and you will be basically buying a contract to RENT games at which will disappear or transfer to new license numbers forcing you to buy them again.