PlayStation's State of Play 2 is going live soon:
(Watch if you want?)
Recap:
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne expansion DLC, coming September 6, this year.
- Riverbond, dungeon-crawling beat-em-up a la 3D Dot Game Heroes, coming this summer.
- Predator: Hunting Grounds, coming 2020!
- MediEvil (PS4): coming October 25, this year!
- Away: The Survival Series
- Days of Play PS4 system. AKA Limited edition PS4 Slim?
- Final Fantasy VII Remake footage! More info this June!
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on May 9th 2019 at 6:14:22 AM
The Fastest Man Alive
This June meaning at whatever Sony’s doing instead of E3?
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Or maybe when Square Enix does show up at E3 this June?
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Sony and Microsoft to explore a strategic partnership in cloud based gaming.
Bloomberg: Sony's Playstation division was blindsided by the team up with Microsoft.
Redmess
Microsoft really seems to be changing a lot lately, doesn't it? Edge is suddenly becoming more like Chrome, parts of Windows are now open source, and now this partnership.
The Micro Monopoly days are well and truly over, it seems.
Optimism is a duty.
Redmess
This comic is a pretty succinct summary of the situation.
And here is Buckley's news post to go with it:
Sony and Microsoft are teaming up.
That sounds odd at first, but less so once you remember that while they are direct competitors in a couple areas of business, they’re both very big companies and hey, business is business.
A “memorandum of understanding” is far from a legally binding document, and “partner on new innovations to enchance customer experiences” is vague as all hell, but the fact that they’re even talking about working together is pretty interesting.
At a glance, it seems like both companies have something to gain here. Right now I think Sony is winning at the whole “video games” thing, but Microsoft definitely has a handle on the cloud computing angle, which I’m not sure Sony really has the infrastructure to tackle on the scale they might need.
What they might need leads me to my next baseless assumption, that this might be in some way a response to Google’s Stadia announcement. I’m far from readily onboard with Google’s idea of a streaming-only console, basically because they haven’t told us fuck-all about how it works or what it costs.
The idea, however, is interesting, and I think we can all see that the cloud plays a big part in the future of gaming. Whether we’re ready to completely give up physical consoles for the cloud remains to be seen, but the cloud is in there nonetheless. So perhaps for the PS 5 and the Xbox 37 (because fuck sequential numbering, right?), Microsoft and Sony see more sense in creating a compatible backend for them both to use and being prepared when Google starts throwing around its considerable bankroll.
Microsoft and Sony will always be competitors at the end of the day, I’m sure, but anything the companies do that may lead to benefits for the consumer (cross-platform play as the rule, rather than the exception, for instance) is okay in my book.
Or, perhaps this will all turn out to be nothing.
Sony has launched PlayStation Productions to produce films and TV shows themselves.
Apparently between a video game movie based on one of their IP not turning out as well as they were hoping it would and a video game movie based on something from the competition making the rounds as being "pretty good", they figured they should strike when the iron's hot.
Their first movie will be a soft reboot of R&C that ignores the earlier movie.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on May 20th 2019 at 3:37:37 PM
Redmess
I wouldn't joke too hard about that one, it has happened before.
Optimism is a duty.
Soft reboots happening after the initial try didn't turn out so hot? Eh, in this context, I'm encouraging it.
I have the sneaking suspicion R&C would've turned out better if they kept the script by TJ Fixman (who wrote for the games themselves).
Not sure what was going on in Kevin Munroe's mind to make it way more slapsticky when A) the series had plenty of gags as is and B) everyone was wanting the crazy sci-fi weapon slinging awesomeness they got from the games.
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More info from Sony's Cooperate Strategy Meeting:
https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1130645660213108736
Warning PDF: https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/news/20190521_E.pdf
- The two keywords for the future direction of Play Station® are “immersive” and “seamless.”
- Next-generation console: “Immersive” experience created by dramatically increased graphics rendering speeds, achieved through the employment of further improved computational power and a customized ultra-fast, broadband SSD.
- Play Station streaming: Through the evolution of “Remote Play” and “Play Station™Now,” provide a seamless game experience anytime, anywhere.
- Remote Play: Turns Play Station®4(PS 4™), which is expected to reach 100 million units in cumulative sales this calendar year, into a streaming game server, providing streaming content at the closest point to users.
- Play Station Now: Provides immersive game experiences to users regardless of whether they own a PS 4 console at all.
- Sony will pursue its mission to make Play Station “The Best Place to Play” by leveraging the latest computing, streaming, cloud, and 5G technologies, together with excellent content.
- As part of these efforts, Sony agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft) to collaborate on the development of cloud solutions, including game streaming services.
I hate that word, 'immersive'. When Sony changed the Playstation Store to have a normal on-screen keyboard instead of the alphabetical list it used to be, they called that "immersive" too. It's just the fucking store search function, give the buzzwords a rest.
Edited by artfulscruff on May 22nd 2019 at 8:02:18 PM
Redmess
I agree, immersive and seamless are meaningless corporate buzzwords at this point. They trot them out each generation.
Optimism is a duty.
Professional Forum Ninja
Financials:
100 million hardware LTD as of June 30th.
At least 1 billion software sold since launch.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
This is going to be so much fun.
Days Gone or Red Dead Redemption 2? I have RE 2.
Death is a companion. We should cherish Death as we cherish Life.
The Fastest Man Alive
Red Dead.
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This is going to be so much fun.
Nice call there, that long prologue aside RDR 2 looks like a better purchase.
Death is a companion. We should cherish Death as we cherish Life.
Another State of Play is coming September 24.
And yes, The Last of Us Part II will be there...
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Sep 20th 2019 at 12:25:09 PM
From what I've recorded, the quality is pretty decent. It drops if you upload to youtube, however. I believe there are also options to change the length of the recording (it's 15 minutes by default), but I think changing it to a longer time impacts the quality (I've not tested this myself).
As for how it actually works, I think it's basically always recording, and when you press Share > Save Video Clip, it just saves whatever is recorded.
An example, if you'd like one:
Edited by artfulscruff on Sep 23rd 2019 at 4:09:38 PM
PlayStation Vue is shutting down January 30th next year.
Evidently, it just couldn't compete with the rest of the streaming crowd.
Not super-surprised. I had Vue for a little while; its UI was unintuitive and confusing, and it lagged pretty much constantly on PS3. One time I selected a channel and it just never stopped loading, and that was on my PS4.
Oh, and when I went to cancel it, the site didn't work for days and I got charged for another month through no fault of my own. They refunded it, though... as store credit...
Edited by Primis on Oct 29th 2019 at 11:58:50 AM
Hard to say. We only know so much about the PS5, and even then, it's nothing super-official.
Like, the PS5 will apparently have some form of backwards compatibility with previous PlayStations, but I don't know if Sony outright said anything about it. (Feel free to correct me on this.)
Double post: as of March 31st, 2019, the PS 4 is 96.8 million units sold LTD.
If they haven't passed the 100 million units sold by the end of this month, then sometime in May it will.
Source: Sony's end of FY 2018 financials.
Edited by tclittle on Apr 26th 2019 at 3:20:11 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."