"The PlayStation Vita had been welcomed around the globe with a pat on the back after the results of its first two days on the market were released. This took an ugly turn early in its infancy, however, when sales for the following week were released on the internet for analysis by fans and critics alike. This was especially highlighted after the realization that the Vita's predecessor, the PlayStation Portable (PSP) managed to outperform Sony's new system that week, despite its six year old tech. Is this massive criticism justified? Did the Vita really do that bad?"
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.
Some interesting sales stats there and kind of shows up those in the media who went overboard with the PSVita sales.
Some more details are needed with those numbers however as you have to take things like stock levels into account, but whos to say the PS Vita's sales haven't been impacted by lower stock levels (such as the more popular Wifi only model being hard to find)
Its a bit too early to be able to tell if the Vita was a success or not. But i believe that given the circumstances the Vita did quite well in Japan. After all they sold around 80-90% of their stock at launch which is quite good given that they had 500,000 units to sell. However even though the launch line up is very good it doesn't have any killer must have titles for the Japanese. Hopefully in February the Vita will do much better in the West despite it getting released past the holidays (like the 3DS lol)
good article and very interesting, there's definitely a trend there with 2nd week sales dropping off from 1st week sales pretty damn heavily including every Playstation console and even the Wii and 3DS.
I'd lso be interested to see how the likes of the DS etc. performed in it's first to weeks to see if the trend in this article continues.
Either way, the Vita has sold almost half a million units in 2 weeks, that really isn't anything to be sniffed at whatsoever, for any console.
If they want this thing to seel they are going to have to advertise on TV.Being in the U.S. I don't think i've seen any type of promotion for the Vita,anywhere outside of the internet
Logic wins all the time. Great article and great read. If you go by history the vita's second week drop is in line with all of Sony's PlayStation products in terms of percentage, they all dropped about 76% on average.
I never knew the PS2 had such a drop from its opening week, and it went on to be the best selling home console ever.
Did i mention how great this article was?