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Sony coy on Home game integration News
PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
Sony has declined to comment on suggestions it is encouraging first-party developers to add PlayStation Home integration to their games.
Fresh speculation was kicked up by Kotaku, which "learned" that Uncharted, Warhawk and Resistance would be given some rather fancy content.
According to the US blog, Uncharted will be gifted a side-scrolling arcade game described as a cross between Contra and Out of this World.
You will also be able to have a look around game levels as your avatar, which is something you can apparently do in Resistance: Fall of Man, too.
Specifically, Resistance will offer some sort of room hub that you can explore where can wander around the game world or flesh out the story by listening to intercepted radio transmissions between European and US forces.
Apparently Warhawk will also feature a lobby area known as a war room, where you can meet with friends, set up and launch battles. Furthermore, developer Incognito is putting a to-scale strategical map table in the middle of the room, where you can plan out your strategies like a real life army person with a loud face.
We already knew Warhawk was going to be include Home functionality, thanks to patch 1.3 notes from director Dylan Jobe earlier this month. But the map is new to us. And exciting.
PlayStation Home is currently in beta and has just undergone a batch of meaty changes. You can see these on YouTube.
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CrumpledPaper
28/02/08 @ 12:38
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Hmmmmm...that warhawk strategy map thingamajig sounds really really good actually..
"But aren't those games going to be in the budget bin by the time Home is actually released to the public?" If you can pick up Warhawk at a budget price, you should be ashamed as a gamer if you don't. It's a really fun game. |
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cthulhu_steev
28/02/08 @ 12:42
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For fucks sake, there's some potentially interesting developments regarding Home and still the whinging cunts come straight in here to drag down the comments thread into a bash Sony contest.
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This all sounds rather silly.
What game was that again were you had a tactical map (RB6?) to plan strategies? 99.9% of people just press A to get it over with. Still I guess.. if you want a better (less empty) version of Sadville it sounds promising..
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cthulhu_steev
28/02/08 @ 13:03
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Putty Man "Does Playstation Home = Xbox Live Dashboard but in 3D?"
As far as I can tell yes, but I'm pretty sure Home will also function with a Home XMB so you don't have to go dancing with Gap-wearing twats just to get into clan games, and that. |
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cthulhu_steev
28/02/08 @ 13:05
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99.9% of Dizzy's posts consist of him telling everybody else how shit Sony and the PS3 is.
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JediMasterMalik
28/02/08 @ 13:06
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This is the kind of stuff which makes Home more than just a 3D chat service, more of this, thanks.
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@northy
"My point is that it could be in the game rather than as part of home. Home is basically taking stuff that should have been in the (advertising free) game and putting it into the advert loaded home. But you guys obviously know best so I'll stop pointing these things out since they obviously offend you." The idea of a party outside a game title is a good one and couldn't be done just in game though. I.e. Form a party of friends play a couple of rounds of Warhawk and then go for a race in GT. All integrated and without spliting and reforming the party. Yes certainly some of this stuff could be done in game. Home allows for other stuff like the above and provides the hook to put this stuff in as well. I'm excited not just by what has been announced but the other possibilities this extends to. |
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cthulhu_steev
28/02/08 @ 13:13
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You could even go and watch a GT race with your friends and walk out onto the track to test out your avatar's rag-dolliness.
That would be ACES. |
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cthulhu_steev
28/02/08 @ 13:17
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Don't question my maths, Dizzy!
Nah, I'm notthat excited about Home, but these new ideas and game integrations sound pretty neat. I just hope it's all functional without the 3D Walk-in-the-park bit.
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Too late. If this was the central hub on which the whole interface of the machine was built it could've worked brilliantly, with a Live-style every single game supporting it, leaving logs, each game putting things in your trophy cabinet and whatnot. But coming out two years after the machine, with game support for it being optional, it will end up becoming the occasional novelty. It could've been so much more.
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Royal Fool
28/02/08 @ 13:21
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I was under the impression that one of the goals of Home was always to expand and extend what people were getting from their games by giving out trophies, decorations, accessories and whatnot.
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It's getting already much better than I originally thought. I'm impressed! You have to watch those linked movies ... it looks beautiful and a lot of functionality is in there already. Also an interesting list with games for which you could set up multiplayer matches from Home, including CoD4, Tekken, and at least 8 others.
If the above rumors are true, then I think Home is going to be a tremendous success. |
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Interesting.
beano: I don't know. I doubt that it will go that fast. Even if it would happen, don't you think that ms would give some kind of refund? Not sure but I seem to recall that if I quit now, they refund everything from the end of this month to the end of my period. Not that I care since I only paid 14 € for 2 years. ;p |
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apparently some people seem to think this is sonys way to rip people off, these are usually the same people who are on their 3rd 360, bargain! seriously some peoples negatively on eurogamer astounds me, apparently home COULD have been so much more!? its not even out yet! nobody is entirely sure how it'll work yet ASFAIK its looking very interesting and ill pass judgement when ive experienced it myself
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"They don't "want to" - but may be forced if/when PSN and SteamWorks puts pressure on Live."
+1 People are used to the internet being free (except for access through the ISP itself). Outside of porn there are few sites that generate substantial cash flows from subscriptions. And with the online services of Sony and Nintendo being free pressure will rise on MS to follow. TBH, I think it's the only option if MS is really serious about reaching a mass audience. |
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I have both PS3 and 360 and think that MS implementation of Live into the 360 dashboard is brilliant... so I respect that people are willing to pay for it (although personally I'm not renewing my gold subscription the next time). But I'm baffled that "gold" members are still shown adds on their 360 dashboard for a premium service while no ads are shown in Sony's XMB and PSN is free. And yes - I'm aware that adds will be in Home - but that's also a free service.
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This Home thing is not something Sony have just knocked up. Huge amounts of development must have gone into it already. If MS don't have something similar in the works already then we won't see something from them with the 360. I can see them adopting some common ideas though - like non-game specific lobbies for example.
@Les RE: Live being free ... "TBH, I think it's the only option if MS is really serious about reaching a mass audience." Thats a good point. Live itself is one of MS's strongest cards in the battle. The subscription is always going to restrict it somewhat though. |
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monkie_king
28/02/08 @ 14:57
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Not understanding how this integration is meant to work. The Warhawk map room, that's running inside the Home engine? So then once you've planned your strategy you have to drop out of home and load up Warhawk? And then instead of the post-game lobby you get kicked back to Home (which has to load up again) for the map-room?
And how does this "explore levels" thing work? Is it going to load the Uncharted/Resistance maps into the Home engine? That seems kind of unlikely without major engineering work to port from their proprietry engine. It all sounds very nice in principle, but I'm struggling to see how it would work in practice. |
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@Monkie_king
You bring up your Home PSP and select create a game. Big list of games appears and you pick one. Stuff like CoD4, Warhawk and Tekken were in the vids linked. You set up the basic parameters like spaces and private slots in the Home interface and then the game launches for you and those in your party. When you drop out you can drop everyone back out into home and continue from there. Not sure on the explore levels thing. I suspect that would be more in-game and akin to a Wii Mii being imported. I.e. your avatar is used instead of the game character. |
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ps3rules890
28/02/08 @ 15:32
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PS3 + HOME = XBOX LIVE DEAD.
That how I see things from this angle and I didn't read the comments yet. Anyway what could go wrong with this kind of plan sony made. |
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monkie_king
28/02/08 @ 15:38
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oh, it needs a PSP as well?
And with the explore levels thing, if you are just importing your avatar, how do you explore the levels? Presumably you'd need Drake's moves in order to get around, operate switches, solve puzzles to open doors etc. Is it just like a noclip hack where you can fly through the scenery. It just sounds deeply improbable whichever way you stack it. edit: actually, the map thing is only Resistance, which sounds more plausible. Uncharted just get the 2D minigame, which doesn't really seem to have much to do with Home at all. I suppose it's a bit like Animal Crossing where you could play emulated NES games in your virtual house.
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@monkie_king
You don't need a PSP they just use a virtual one in Home for menus in an attempt to maintain the 3D environment. I.e. you press a button to bring up menus and your avatar pulls out a PSP and you view centres on it's screen. There is then a virtual XMB to access options etc. The Avatar explore levels is implied to be in both Resistance and Uncharted. They've obviously found some way to do it. |
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farticusmaximus
28/02/08 @ 16:22
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1) ps3rules890: You are an idiot. Go back to wherever you crawled from.
2) There will be no 'wandering through game levels in home'. Anyone with half an ounce of grey matter will know that level data from a game using engine X will not be compatable with a game using engine Y. Home will not have an engine that can read ANY games level data and allow you to explore it. |
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SeesThroughAll
29/02/08 @ 12:51
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Wandering in game levels sounds like the developers ported them from their game engines into Home as lounges.
According to Harrison, using your avatar in a game is not possible yet. Sounds like Sony didn't really consider it from start (wonder why), and only started working on it after requests in last year's GDC.
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