Sony Invests In Discord, To Integrate It With PlayStation In 2022

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Discord will connect the communication service to PlayStation Network early next year, now that Sony has taken an ownership stake in Discord's latest round of capital-raising. Polygon reports: SIE president and CEO Jim Ryan didn't list specifics for how PlayStation and Discord will work together. "Our goal is to bring the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together on console and mobile starting early next year," Ryan said, "allowing friends, groups, and communities to hang out, have fun, and communicate more easily while playing games together." Sony's investment in Discord was made "to bring these experiences to life for our players," he said. Ryan said both companies are already at work on Discord/PSN integration. "Empowering players to create communities and enjoy shared gaming experiences is at the heart of what we do," Ryan said.

Heh no, that's not why it's investing in Discord.

[Pierre Pants]

The title is remarkably shortsighted, for some reason.

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[Pierre Pants]

Now that I think about it, I guess maybe the "To" means "and intends to" and not "in order to". I don't instinctively understand this idiotic writing style, but maybe native English speakers do.

If you're not paying for a service...

[_xeno_]

Like I mentioned in the last article about Microsoft not investing in Discord: Discord's product is not the service you or I use. It's providing access to all the people using that service.

And that's what Microsoft actually wanted and what Discord is now selling to Sony.

The users are the product, not the chat service.

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[LenKagetsu]

Just about everything done by Discord was done better by MSN before Microsoft ditched it for Skype. Discord doesn't even let you properly block people. If I block someone I don't want their messages rendered. Period. No hidden, no blocked message feature, I want IRC-style kill lists where that user is obliterated from my sight.

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[AngelaMisss]

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[dowhileor]

That and maybe cutting the pervert servers off... I'm convinced Microsoft could not coexist with them. But hey! They get to stay now! God Bless America.

my 2 yen

[PinkyGigglebrain]

This would actually be really useful to people who play titles that are already cross platform on PS4/5, PCs, and Macs.

My 2yen on this is it would be a great thing IF it lets PS4/5 players voice chat with PC/Mac players.

I run a small Guild in Final Fantasy Online. Some of the members are on PS4 and can currently voice chat with each other of the PS network. But there isn't currently any non PS4/5 software that will let a PC user connect to the PSN voice chat feature. This partnership could make dungeons/trials and just general game play so much easier.

Discord being integrated with PSN might be just the ticket. It will depend on if Sony lets PS4/5 players vchat cross platform. I'd probably actually start using my Discord account again if Sony did.

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[JonnyCalcutta]

I completely agree with you. This will hopefully be a good thing and I'm fairly confident it will be. There is precedent after all, since they scrapped their own music service and instead integrated Spotify. And integrated YouTube and Twitch for video streaming. And not forgetting eventually getting around to allowing crossplay.

I'm hopeful that the days of Sony trying to create their own locked down services are over

Discord blows

[drinkypoo]

When I first tried to use it, it just flat didn't work

Now it just has a horribly bloated client, it's so fat it actually uses a significant amount of resources I need for gaming.

Sure my potato is elderly, but a lot of people are holding on to their old computer these days for a variety of reasons.

I have 8 cores and 16GB, it's a spicy potato