Sony Investigates Laughter as a Controller

[DoctorWhat]

Ummm... OK Sony, you invest millions into that, we'll see how it turns out...

 

[cyber_andyy]

They seem to be over looking the vast variable that is the sense of human humour.

 

[GyroCaptain]

This rather demands the laughing quaker "HA HA" image macro meme to be used, in this case "HA HA: I'm playing the latest from Sony!"

I'm not the man to do it, though.

 

[Therumancer]

Simply put, when I play video games I want to sit back and relax. All of these motion sensing gimmicks and such don't really impress me much as I generally do not want to wave controllers around, yell (or laugh) into mics or whatever. I want to be entertained by the game, not some ridiculous gimmick.

Especially when it comes to RPG-type gamers like me who enjoy grinding to an extent (if done well). I do not want to sit there and have a battle system that involves yelling or waving my arms around like a retard. I dumped the PS3 version of Marvel Ultimate Alliance BECAUSE of Siraxis, it's not that I didn't learn to do it, it was that it was frakking annoying, and Siraxis is actually one of the tamer "gimmick" systems.

The whole "Laughter" idea seems like the bright idea Nintendo came up with to add voice sensitivity to the Nintendo DS. In general I carry portables to "game on the go". In general if I'm stuck waiting in a doctor's office or something for an hour and whip out "The World Ends With You" I do *NOT* want to be bloody screaming into the system to activate some of my attacks. Granted in that game you can get around this, but to be honest it's frankly annoying.

One can argue gimmicks like that work better in the privacy of your own home, but in such a case why am I playing a portable when I have a full fledged gaming system?

Granted this IS a little differant given that it is part of a full fledged gaming system, but in general I do not want any kind of voice conrols on my game. Even if I lived alone I'd find it annoying. Heck, am I not supposed to play some of my games if I have a sore throat? (perhaps from laughing at the game?).

What's more am I supposed to maybe develop some kind of psychosis to laugh on queue to progess with games. Very few things can actually make me laugh out loud.

 

[Treblaine]

hmm, they could use it when your watching movies and then give you a statistic over which movies according to genre are your favorites, no more saying that some artsyfartsy movie whit ironic jokes is the best comedy ever, we have proof you like weekend at bernies 87% more .

but i doubt any one but me would be interested in seeing statistics over every single human feeling and what causes it, god i love statistics.

But who in their right mind would let Sony or any company spy on them with a camera just to get user data with no other pay off? I would just cover up the camera or turn it off, most people would likely never plug it in in the fist place.

This is the worst idea in the world.

The only possible purpose I see for this is patent poaching.

 

[Swaki]

hmm, they could use it when your watching movies and then give you a statistic over which movies according to genre are your favorites, no more saying that some artsyfartsy movie whit ironic jokes is the best comedy ever, we have proof you like weekend at bernies 87% more .

but i doubt any one but me would be interested in seeing statistics over every single human feeling and what causes it, god i love statistics.

But who in their right mind would let Sony or any company spy on them with a camera just to get user data with no other pay off? I would just cover up the camera or turn it off, most people would likely never plug it in in the fist place.

This is the worst idea in the world.

The only possible purpose I see for this is patent poaching.

i would, this could make game forums like this absolute, we use these to voice our opinions which will never be heard, if they make this work well enough it would be able to tell what parts of a game/movie the consumer responds to and which they don't, developers would be able to fine tune the game to suit their targeted minority of gamers down the very last detail, games would be better if developers knew what every majority or minority would respond to every second of the game, games would improve rapidly.

don't fear technology, embrace it.

also whit every human feeling and what would cause that feeling written down in statistics we could teach robots to love, we could make robots whit a complete understanding of what it means to be human, and make them human, give them a soul.

 

[nova18]

Sounds like research study device. Example:
Scientist
At three minutes and forty two seconds the subject is excited by the Metal Gear Solid Guns of the Patriots opening cinematic. At approximately fifteen minutes nineteen seconds the subject is showing the first signs if lethargy. At twenty nine minutes fifty eight seconds the subject has died of boredom.
Hideo Kojima
Than it's all going as planned.
Translated from Japanese.

lmao.
You beat me to the MGS4 cut scene jokes.
I tip my hat to you

So this means that Sony has been jealously watching Nintendo's gimmicky creations and thinking:
"Man, if only we could have something that is practically useless for gaming as well".

 

[Treblaine]

hmm, they could use it when your watching movies and then give you a statistic over which movies according to genre are your favorites, no more saying that some artsyfartsy movie whit ironic jokes is the best comedy ever, we have proof you like weekend at bernies 87% more .

but i doubt any one but me would be interested in seeing statistics over every single human feeling and what causes it, god i love statistics.

But who in their right mind would let Sony or any company spy on them with a camera just to get user data with no other pay off? I would just cover up the camera or turn it off, most people would likely never plug it in in the fist place.

This is the worst idea in the world.

The only possible purpose I see for this is patent poaching.

i would, this could make game forums like this absolute, we use these to voice our opinions which will never be heard, if they make this work well enough it would be able to tell what parts of a game/movie the consumer responds to and which they don't, developers would be able to fine tune the game to suit their targeted minority of gamers down the very last detail, games would be better if developers knew what every majority or minority would respond to every second of the game, games would improve rapidly.

don't fear technology, embrace it.

also whit every human feeling and what would cause that feeling written down in statistics we could teach robots to love, we could make robots whit a complete understanding of what it means to be human, and make them human, give them a soul.

A certain George Orwell says that certain technology you should fear, especially the type which is for spying, monitoring and control.

And excuse me but I like forums, as for one you put things input voluntarily and with creativity yet most importantly you get feedback, interaction and discussions... like this very interaction. Your proposed method benefits no one except Sony.

And this is not going to improve quality, one thing focus groups, surveys, analysis of even the largest sample groups like Nielsen ratings is if you pander to them quality does not improve instead there is nothing but DUMBING DOWN! Lowest common denominator i.e. utter crap.

You must consider that the greatest shows like Star Trek, Arrested Development and so many others, all are REALLY good but got low ratings, not enough people laughing so they got cancelled.

You can't quantify or create a formula for humour. What you need (and what Sony seems to be unable to comprehend) is you need TALENT (developers?) to create good products, people with the skill insight and experience to make good stuff. Not some more manufactured tat from Simon Cowell or the video or game equivalent.

I. Hate. This. Patent.

 

[LeonLethality]

the image on the screen is really disturbing

 

[SomeUnregPunk]

this could be just their legal team trying to trump the new generation of patent pirates by grabbing up anything that could be used for their new system of controllers.