First off, I’m a huge Sony fan despite anything contrary implied by the title of this post. In fact, I’m more excited for Sony’s PlayStation Vita (PSV) than for any other handheld game device ever. I fully plan on picking one up the day of release and playing until either my thumbs bleed on the awesome dual analog sticks or my wife starts threatening violence. Yet, despite my personal enthusiasm, I can’t ignore the fact that the PSV is entering a market vastly different—and dangerously more competitive—than the PlayStation Portable (PSP) entered in 2005.
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.
Psp mainly sold well due to being hackable i reckon vita's games will sell better then psp games
I tend to agree with this author, it's also what analysts have been saying since the system announced. The system simply won't sell as well as the PSP. That doesn't mean it will be a failure though, there will always be a niche for dedicated gaming handhelds.
The system is not out yet, so no one can tell for sure.
The second things is, the Vita does a hell of a lot more than the PSP. I expect it to sell more and I also expect people to play it more than the PSP. It will sell well and at some point overtake the PSP. The games are what help a console sell and sometimes what the console can do for the player. The Vita has a lot of punch and a lot of software coming out.
When COD and If battlefield comes on the vita, they will push consoles. A lot more if you can play a game with your friends that are at home on their PS3. Cross Platform play.
The psp 2 will do better, my work the pre orders are more than the first psp
Here we go with the arrogant won't and can again. How does anyone know that the VITA won't be a run away success? Did anyone think the PS1 would out match and outsell Nintendo or Sega's systems? Everyone always has well thought out reasons and calculations why something won't do something.
Everyone gave all the reasons in the world why Bluray would be a failure and why the PS3 wouldn't survive. But as you can see it was all for nothing. No would have predicted the PSP would still be here today and have 72 million users after all the negativity it was hit with comparing it to Nintendo's handhelds. So just stop with the won't and can't predictions please.Many fanboys say a lot of things and end up eating crow because of it. All these predictions are crap unless you have a crystal ball or something. You would think we would have learned that by now. @ jimineyscrickets, oh okay so its okay to make the same idiotic predictions everyone has been making for years because its an opinion piece? Okay sorry.