Sony has launched a new SIE-themed blog page to accompany its existing PlayStation Blog. The corporate website aims to provide readers with a “view into the company behind PlayStation”. The first post explains: “We’ll share the latest company news, stories about the people behind the products and experiences you love, offer insights into the company culture, and more.”
Some of the features you can expect to read on the site include “interviews with the teams behind some of our most popular games” and “how executives, studio heads, and creative directors see SIE”. There’ll also be insight into “what SIE provides to society”, with one post already focusing on the platform holder’s “playing for the planet” campaign.
That particular update explains that “one of the important energy efficient features of the PS5 will be its ability to suspend and resume game play at just 0.5W [which] when enabled this will be around 72 per cent less than for the PS4”. You can check out the new SIE Blog through the link, and also more about PlayStation's environmental drive through here.
[source sie.com]
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You can only access it if you register an account over on the ps blog. Then, if you buy a PS5, you will be offered free upgrade access to the SIE Blog. And if you own spiderman on ps4, then you can't access anything. S.O.L. haha
In before the #JimRyanOut brigade gets here.
I just watched the VR360 Playing for the Planet video made in Dreams, very cool
@Turismo4GT Yeah, that looks awesome.
Looking forward to reading some very interesting and insightful articles to be sure.
Hopefully they add other languages in the near future. Would love to read it in Italian.
Really want to see more documentaries from PlayStation about their dev teams and certain games like the one they did for God of War. That documentary was excellent.
@ShogunRok I'm one of the generals in the Jim Ryan sucks brigade and on behalf of everyone I would like to say that Jim Ryan sucks 😌
Ok ok, we wanted them to be more transparent, and personally I wanted a robust PR campaign. This is a start.
All the PS5 info we need will literally be in our living rooms in weeks. Sony need to do more like this to win back the gaming public. They don't even have to talk about competitors. They just have to show people that they're being transparent.
Jim Ryan saying a Game Pass model is not sustainable for Sony is about as transparent as you can get, to be fair, but this is a good next step after that.
One Thing They Can Do Is Interact With The Fanbase More I Think Shuhei Is The Only Sony Bigwig That Talks To People.
@Areus I thing you have an issue with caps on your device. I stopped reading your comment halfway through
@Rhaoulos Lol theirs no issue i just like adding caps to the start of each word.
Interesting, I'm always for transparency and dialogue with gaming companies. Microsoft has done this with some of their first party studios. One I was very active in was honestly one of the best gaming communities that has ever existed.
This reminded me of the series Iwata Asks Nintendo did.
I think there could be some interesting insight published here, but I imagine it's going to be full of corporate puff pieces.
It's pretty good, maybe they want the ps blog only to post aboit games while the sie blog post about others thing like interviews, etc.
Well, this is a thing. I guess it's something. It seems like they realize they have a problem, but they have no idea what to do about that problem and thought "let's blog" might work. Ok...
At least it didn't have kit and krysta?
Oh, also #JimRyanOut
@get2sammyb I agree. They’ll need to tone done the corporate dial and make these articles “real.”
In theory a little more insights into their operations sounds alright. But I'd rather see Sid Shumer & co. actually fufil their promises about the unified blog. The US blog has less functionality than the EU one with no emoji's, upvotes or even an edit button.
Though its nice to see some indies get to put posts up again, the weekly release posts lacked any detail or effort & vanished altogether in response to feedback.
If we do get a blog post on a sale its generally minimal like a surly sales clerk with "there's stuff-go find it!".
Probably the biggest annoyance of this is rather than interact/respond to posts or questions their social/store teams appear more silent than ever. Sid Shumer promised an improved experience & they're listening but there's been little evidence of it in their actions there. The idea of a social team is to be social & help promote their digital/console services like psn which help drive sales!
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