PlayStation Home Comments by Dan Whitehead
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"There's even a generous selection of dance moves, and for those who witnessed the awesome sight of the IGN UK, Official PlayStation Magazine and Eurogamer three-way formation robot dance routine, I can only apologise for any feelings of social or sexual inadequacy caused."
lol. Although Dan seems to have quite enjoyed the experience. I can see this being excellent for the HDD based PSN games, a bunch of people gathering together with a "lets play Warhawk!" or "lets play Fat Princess!" and just kicking into it. I'm a sucker for collecting houses in GTA games :s so will probably spend more on a virtual house than my actual one. |
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"During bowling, for instance, your avatars simply sit rigid on the bench and the only way you know the other player is taking their shot is because a bowling ball mysteriously flies down the lane by itself."
It's polished features like this which make the delays all worthwhile, truly, this is what the PS3 audience have been crying out for. Sorry, but the amount of poo that gets flung around against the 360 and Wii, and this is the thing PS3 owners have been touting as the second coming? Geez. |
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"I'm just so glad Sony is spending its game development budget on this instead of on building up a library of killer exclusives. I'm really bored of turning on my PS3 and playing games, I want to spend my time walking around a virtual world watching poor quality game trailers instead."
I kind of imagine Sony can do both. |
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farticusmaximus
18/07/08 @ 10:50
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Enormous waste of time, money and development talent.
Second life will not sell consoles Sony, games will. |
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well, I think it's a bit harsh to say it's complete poo, some ppl will definetly like.
But... ""I'm just so glad Sony is spending its game development budget on this instead of on building up a library of killer exclusives. I'm really bored of turning on my PS3 and playing games, I want to spend my time walking around a virtual world watching poor quality game trailers instead." I kind of imagine Sony can do both. " Can they (a game anounced at PS3 launch!) ?: "There is a specific technical problem with WipEout that we have to solve. I can't go into details but it is a really, really tricky technical problem that no region has been able to solve at the moment," Sony Europe boss David Reeves told us when we hassled him about the game's progress this week at LA." |
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It's interesting enough, but I can't really see myself using it that much - I'm the same with my Facebook page: spent a few hours setting it all up and now I check it less than once a fortnight.
If they start charging lots of micropayments for stuff, that will completely kill it imho. There's no way I'd actually pay money for a new bit of wallpaper for a virtual flat. Premium content for the sad and lonely people who like that sort of thing, yeah, fine, but if they make the default, free setup too rudimentary, it'll get boring far quicker than the sceptic that I am already fears. I hesitate to suggest advertisement-based funding, but really I can't see any other way of making this work. |
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My new policy is to not be too negative.
I have a feeling this will be like myspace/facebook/second life, if social networking is your thing this will be great. And the fact that you have an avatar will be the awesome. For everyone else, I think they wil play with it a bit and then get bored and not use unless for a special occasion. I just dont see anything that will hold onto me and keep me coming back regularly. Trailers are nice but nothing new. What about full movies? What if your friend has a new movie and you all go his 'home' and watch it? The fact that it is free is nice and I cant criticise until I used it. So wait and see |
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kangarootoo
18/07/08 @ 11:05
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Tbh, that sounded quite poisitive. This seems like excatly the kind of product that will fill some people with utter disinterest, but have others firing it up every day. Horses for courses as always.
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Britesparc
18/07/08 @ 11:08
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I can SORT OF see the appeal, but personally I'd much rather have a stylised, cartoony avatar than a realistic one. Also, I feel this would appeal more to casual gamers; I couldn't really be arsed launching games via Home, the "virtual chatroom" thing MS showed with Avatars looked like a better way of doing it.
So, whilst I imagine it'll be fun, I agree with Killerbee that if I had it, I'd probably hardly use it. Although I don't actually have a PS3 anyway, so I guess I won't ever use it regardless! Although I must admit, this preview was rather more positive than I imagined. Fair play to Sony for trying something new, but like I say, it seems a bit... random.
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JediMasterMalik
18/07/08 @ 11:08
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I can see myself using it for events and a bit of customisation. Sounds like a bit of harmless fun. It's certainly a more interesting way of doing things. Hope they sort out the issues before release, if they do it could be great.
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facebook has kinda exploded even more so than myspace, just about everyone I know is on it and daily too... there is a lot of meat to be made from it.
will it sell systems? no idea, I suppose it depends on whether or not Sony advertise it well... probably in an apple style with "we have invested mp3 players"/"we have invented the internet on the phone" with a "why have you not bought this already you technology retarded spack" feel of scorn to the adverts. I love apple advertising. So yeah, anyway, I like it, have from day 1 announcement. Just a shame I have no games to play on my ps3 outside my physical stack of 10 games, and the ones on my hard drive. Hopefully some will come out some day. |
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@Farticus
I agree with you on this one now. It was never going to be my thing but thought there was some merit in it for others. It has taken too much time/resource and doesn't even look that great / fun. All of the possible good bits MS has in the new dashboard update in a simpler and better looking way (Party system & Avatars). The Home avatar stuff looks stuffy and awkward in comparison. |
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I can see the 360 fanboy brigade getting a bit nervous now. looking at the Wii Mii rip-off I reckon this Home will outshine it 100:1. at least it's fairly original... well, after second life and so on ;).
but still... I reckon I'll give it a pass. All I want is to be able to listen to MY OWN music while playing my 2 games!!! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK SONY!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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JediMasterMalik
18/07/08 @ 11:21
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DcP - That's a problem on your part, I rarely get disconnects, and even then it's normally my network.
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andywilkie35
18/07/08 @ 11:24
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meh, sounds a bit overhyped. i'll still get it but only coz there's nothing else for my lonely ps3 to do
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In all honesty I'm sure some will find it fun, the type of people who update their status on facebook with the likes of "I'm eating dinner" or "I'm happy" and live their lives on facebook.
At least it's optional and they haven't plastered casual crap and avatars over the dashboard, unlike a certain someone......... |
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farticusmaximus
18/07/08 @ 11:36
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@DrDamn
I agree with you that it does look all nice and swish and stylish in a way that only Sony designers seem to be able to nail, and I don't doubt it will go down a storm with some people. I just think it's the wrong audience for this product. Still, it's free so no loss if it's not used, just seems like a missed opportunity is all. |
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Agent_Llama
18/07/08 @ 11:41
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Every screenshot looks so bland. 'Achingly lifestyle' is the phrase that made me even more hesitant about this, and I'm not forking out money so my avatar can wear a new virtual tshirt.
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bodypopper
18/07/08 @ 11:50
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Not entirely sold.
On a commercial basis, it would interesting to include renders based on real tourism destinations in Home in order to get people to visit them. For example you could visit a version of a room in the Science museum or part of an art gallery. The implication is that if you like it you might want to visit the real thing.
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Eighthours
18/07/08 @ 11:50
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Dan says it's "impressive" and then goes on to effectively lay out a series of reasons why it isn't at the moment, before summing up with positivity. Strange stuff.
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