You forgot that Sony also makes cameras and even a car.
I'm sorry, what? I wasn't making a random list, but one of depreciated/abandonned game-related things. I didn't understand a comment about microwaves earlier on, so I'm guessing you're being tounge-in-cheek. Sometimes I don't catch-on with my autism... anyway...
Gaikai and Online were integrated into PS Now, which is now inside PS+. They didn't kill it. PS1/2 Classics are in the PS4/PS5 PSN store and PS+, and the ones they also had in PS3/PSP/Vita if you bought there and now are also available in PS4/PS5 you can be download them for free and play them. They didn't kill them, but it's true that in each new generation/platform didn't start with the full previous catalog and that when instead of just emulation they made enhaced versions with extra trophies didn't made the new ones free.
They need to fix this shit fast. PS3 server blades included, and sort that BC out. I find it disgraceful that they nerfed PSNow's reach, and haven't moved prior PS3 digital purchases of PS1/2 games over to the new PStore or PS+ Streaming. Point of information, I dont think anyone ever asked for spruced-up game graphics with trophies and save states, they just want the PS3 digital purchases they've already made to have access to them again. Or for more games to be put up on PStore/PS+ in general. Why only RE1 PS1 Director's Cut version, with clown farts in the basement. Why not original version too? Why not RE2/3 or the DC series, which used to be available on PS3 digital?
Share Play, Remote Play, Cross play/Save/buy are still there, didn't kill them. PS Now still streams to multiple devices, they only discontinued some old unused ones. Are also known to be working on bringing them to modern phones.
Any numbers to say it was unused? Or did it just get cut-away and swept under the rug when the PStore got changed, I believe for PS5 era? Either way, that functionality should be ressurected. GP only needs an app, not an XB to run. It'll be coming in Samsung TV's built-in, and it'd be easy enough to dl GP app from android store if a TV uses GoogleTV (which even Sony's do the last time I checked). Sony should be throwing PS+ streaming into all their TVs, and get a PC app and an android app realised. ESPECIALLY if the dumbass Portal has no PS+ streaming capabilities. PS focusing on 'xcloud' feature of streaming from the PStore rather than dl or buy a game; but they've not even got the service pentration to GP/prior PSNow levels of ubiquity.
What failed 3P relationship? Which Supermassive Games title isn't available on PlayStation? Their most recent title is a PSVR2 exclusive. Also, pretty likely if they decided to work with Ballistic Moon is because that studio has key talent who left Supermassive.
Ballistic/SMG might be a bad/overly-generalized example. I'm saying the company had grand visions under people before Korderas/Ryan, and things got cutback/discontinued, and now they're digging around in the dirt for scraps. Cloud aspirations for penetration, 3P relationships souring and losing former exclusive devs, suceeding the portable market to Switch when they could have salvaged Vita, and now looking at Deck and company and thinking that PS Portal is in any way an adequete device as a response. It's not.
In the last 10 years Sony has been more successful than ever, excluding the Vita flop. This is the reason of why they don't make a portable, because they saw there isn't a market for a high end portable that requires dedicated expensive games, and that they can't support it for games. In fact according to you they aren't able to properly support PS5.
Half-baked VitaTV, Xperia Streaming Fan, Portal products.
Dead PSTV service.
Depreciated PSNow device reach.
More Focus on non-gaming areas of Sony - Im sorry, who's bringing in the money, Sony?
People talk about treating PS fans as ATM Machines, but Sony are too bitch baby scared to do a Vita 3.5 (or PS4 Portable). I dont expect it to be a cheap and nasty product. Im paying to turn my PS library portable. I think it would be especially prudent for Sony (losing sales and mtx percentage to Valve when someone chooses PC/Deck) to get this device done and out there before Switch 2 comes along, Deck gets another spec upgrade, 50M other portable pc's of varying abilities come out. Sony should be like 'Forget all those pretenders, we got the real shit'. But no, instead their device looks cheap and nasty with it's controller bolted to a screen, and it is extremely feature lacking. Don't tell me what they're doing again with Portal, I'm saying it's the wrong thing to do. Im saying it's the Destruction AllStars of companion devices. It'll get laughed out the building for being so shite, and maybe just maybe we'll see a PS4P like we are going-to a new Twisted Metal game, but I'm more sure a naff Portal reception will only serve to scare them off a Portable even more. It is just another in the long line of half-baked products shat out and abandonned.
It would be great, and also being all of them free. And to have Margot Robbie as girlfriend. But isn't realistic.
Xperia Play was a failure and they almost have no active mobile games right now. It doesn't make to try it again. They are working on building a stronger Sony Mobile infrastructure, whenever in the futre they may have a good enough lineup in mobile, and apparently their own mobile store too plus PS+ cloud gaming on mobile then it will make sense to release their own PlayStation phone. Not now.
You say that like it's my fault or something. They had a PS mobile division. They had PS minis for wrapping phone games in a PS emulation layer. They currently have various mobile devs dotted around the movie/music/anime arms of Sony.
They're not gonna wrap up all console games into an android wrapper, and code-in new touch controls. The internet infastructure isn't reliable enough by and large, for streaming/remote play only. They need to attack the issue from a PS native side, and refactor PS4 into a portable machine, with local storage for when wifi/data is out. Fuck man, if I had to I'd take an Xperia phone with buttons all around the edges for PS, even if I had to throw it into seperate ''phone mode'' and ''PS4'' modes. You're Sony ffs, DO SOMETHING GOOD!
I loved PSVita but it was a failure, almost nobody would make new games for it. To release it again with all buttons and PS5 remote play wouldn't help because there wouldn't be games to use these buttons, they should have been included in the original one. Companies try to make profitable business, so won't insist on failures but instead prefer to focus on where they think is going to be a good business.
... What? The Vita would need those buttons from a PS pad so that when you click the little ''remote play PS4'' or ''remote play PS5'' apps, the games on those systems have the buttons available to them that they expect to have. Did I misunderstand what you were trying to say here?
If you want PS5 remote play, all buttons and a beter ergonomy there's PS Portal for you. They have been very successful making PS5 accesories and made this one for that.
As of now PS4 portable with compatible hardware that wouldn't need ports isn't realistic tech wise, or at least not with decent size, battery size and costs.
PS Portal is not a looker. Lets pretend that even if it works from across the globe somehow and could be taken far from home, there's no sense of style or anything to the device. It looks like the kind of thing I'd try to knock up myself if I was trying to DIY a PS4P. Would people play that on the bus (if they even could?). But hell, we dont even seem to have the option to, in terms of PS+ streaming. It's literally another half-product.
They already have two, they are called PS4 and PS5.
Their games aren;t exclusive to PS ecosystem: see Steam/Deck.
It's a Sony thread, which means will end full of flatearther fake concern and lies/dumb takes claiming that everything Sony does is a failure, that their bosses are incompentent, that PS haz no gamez, that they have bad marketing etc.
Sure Jan. We just flat earthers and concern trolls. Better than being bootlickers and dickriders though.
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