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Sony Guarantees Playstation "Home" Launch Before 2009
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Soulskill
on Mon Aug 25, 2008 09:50 PM
from the range-on-the-home dept.
from the range-on-the-home dept.
Sony's Martijn Van der Meulen gave an update on the progress of Sony's Playstation "Home" environment, telling IGN there is "a 100 percent guarantee that Home will be released by the end of this calendar year." Originally intended for use on the PS2, the release was pushed back several times as Sony sought to improve the concept. One thing Sony has been trying to accomplish is making the game "safe" and accessible to kids while maintaining an adults-only area. They maintain that it is not a social network, but rather a "visual representation of the PlayStation community."
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1up is reporting on comments made by Sony's Kaz Hirai to the Japanese magazine Famitsu. Hirai states that he personally is still not completely satisfied with the way Sony's ambitious Home project is shaping up. He also talks about the loss of the Monster Hunter franchise to the Wii, the lack of backwards compatibility in the newest version of the PS3, and other weighty holiday issues. "If anything, we believe the delay would have a positive effect. I personally am not satisfied with the current version of Home. This is a very big project for the PS3 and we want to make sure that we deliver to our hearts content. We hope everyone will look forward to its spring release next year."
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Guaranteed! (Score:4, Insightful)
Yup, they'll release it this year, whether it sucks or not. It'll be almost like PC software, just slap it out there and patch afterwards.
It's not like they need to be first-to-market or something...
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Beats the most recent firmware, which prevents some PS3s to read Blu-ray or DVD discs. Including game discs.
Or the firmware it fixed which simply bricked PS3s. I suppose being limited to downloaded titles is, technically, an improvement over not being able to use the system at all.
I can't wait to see what the Live! update - I'm sorry, "Home" update - breaks.
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Beats the most recent firmware, which prevents some PS3s to read Blu-ray or DVD discs. Including game discs.
Or the firmware it fixed which simply bricked PS3s. I suppose being limited to downloaded titles is, technically, an improvement over not being able to use the system at all.
I can't wait to see what the Live! update - I'm sorry, "Home" update - breaks.
You're aware that both of those issues occurred in very seldom cases, right?
The gaming media is quick to exaggerate any flaw in any of the three systems, if only to keep the console war (and fanboy war) running strong.
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True, second life has them beat by years.
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"Guarantee" or not, I've given up on Home (Score:2)
"Home" was actually one of the reasons I bought my PS3. Since I bought it, a dearth of good exclusives and the AWOL status of Home has led me to basically just use it as a blu-ray player. "Home" was to be one of the few things that PSN had that Xbox Live didn't do better already (and since all my friends are on Xbox Live, the only reason to ever use PSN). But I've basically given up on the idea that Home (if ever deployed at all) will ever look anything like what they originally promised. There have been to
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When it comes to quality exclusives and actually delivering on promises, the PS3 is a joke compared to the 360.
I think you're a bit behind the times. You owe it to yourself to check out the many excellent current titles.
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Nah, let him just keep repeating that tired old meme.
We'll keep enjoying the Ratchet & Clank Future and Resistance series, Drake's Fortune, Warhawk (psyched about the new expansion due out this week), Little Big Planet, God of War 3, or downloadable games like Super Startdust HD, Pixel J
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Actually, I've played all of those games except Ratchet and Clank and the two on your list which you claim to be enjoying but which aren't even out yet. I enjoyed Warhawk, but only until Halo 3 multiplayer came out. Drake's Fortune is a nice-looking platformer, but is pretty mediocre once you get past the pretty water effects. Resistance is just a run-of-the-mill FPS like any other FPS. Warhawk and Metal Gear Solid 4 are the the only PS3 exclusives worth anything more than a rental.
And you are aware that o
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I didn't say it wasn't going to happen, I just said they'll rush it.
And I don't own an Xbox 3shitty, so complete miss there. If I wanted yet another half-assed Microsoft product, I'd get a copy of Vista.
Re:Guaranteed! (Score:4, Funny)
And I don't own an Xbox 3shitty, so complete miss there. If I wanted yet another half-assed Microsoft product, I'd get a copy of Vista.
You'd be a LOT happier with an XBOX 360 than a copy of Vista.
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Technically doesn't that depend on whether he's happier with a red ring or a blue screen?
I can't believe I'm going to defend Vista (Score:1)
Now I have had the whole thing lockup when trying to do an analog capture which required a hard reboot, but it didn't blue screen.
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It was just a joke, I wasn't even sure if Vista still had blue screens to start with. Even if it was completely stable I wouldn't touch it because of how slow it is. My uncle's laptop has a slightly faster processor than mine, same amount of RAM, but in practice it runs noticeably slower. Especially on basic stuff like startup and shutdown where you'd think MS would have done something smart like have the system startup state actually as a kind of hibernation recovery that loads a fully started up state int
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"Technically doesn't that depend on whether he's happier with a red ring or a blue screen?"
If either were even remotely as common as Slashdot's made them out to be, then yes.
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The RROD was extremely common.. perhaps not any more, but you're right, I wouldn't know. I didn't even know if Vista still had the BSOD until I looked it up. I don't use Vista on my own machine though, and hopefully never will have to. Stability doesn't really come into my dislike for Vista. I used to dislike the idea of 'having' to upgrade to XP to use certain apps, but then I tried it and it actually started up just as quick, or quicker, than my 98 machine. With Vista this is definitely not the case. I do
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X-BOT? Seriously? Are you 10?
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visual representation of the PlayStation community (Score:5, Funny)
A "visual representation of the PlayStation community"? Now there's a scary thought.
Re:visual representation of the PlayStation commun (Score:4, Funny)
On the flip side of things, at least you'll finally be able to answer the question "who the hell is buying the PS3 anyway?"
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By the way... nice website:
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Hope (Score:5, Funny)
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Whew... (Score:4, Funny)
Thank God. And here I was worried that I might not have anything to do after finishing Duke Nukem Forever.
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You can get that already:
start a download, and pull the network cable.
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Nah, Duke Nukem 3D is coming as an XBL download, DNF is still coming "When its done"
Not a social network? (Score:2)
Let me see, you have a bunch of people with a common interest in gaming, and Home allows them to communicate with each other. Sounds like a social network to me.
Then again, it's SCEE we're talking about. You can't expect too much from them.
Adult Area - In HD! (Score:5, Funny)
Considering what goes on in second life in the adult areas, I cannot wait to see what happens in the adult-only areas with PS3 graphics.
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Doesn't second life involve semi-programming to make those sex scenes? (Asking honestly, I've never been tempted to try second life). Does that sound like something a sony game will do? (Okay, that WAS a rhetorical question. No. I'll be suprised if you can do more than sit, stand, walk, and laugh.)
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Yep, scripted beds/poseballs with custom animations, sometimes with scripted genitalia/attachments as well.
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Without a wiimote? Won't be as much fun as it could be.
All guys have wii's, no?
Guarantee? (Score:5, Funny)
Calculon: And you say you can guarantee me the Oscar?
Bender: I can "guarantee" anything you want.
Even better: (Score:3, Funny)
Tommy: Let's think about this for a sec, Ted, why would somebody put a guarantee on a box? Hmmm, very interesting.
Ted Nelson, Customer: Go on, I'm listening.
Tommy: Here's the way I see it, Ted. Guy puts a fancy guarantee on a box 'cause he wants you to fell all warm and toasty inside.
Ted Nelson, Customer: Yeah, makes a man feel good.
Tommy: 'Course it does. Why shouldn't it? Ya figure you put that little box under your pillow at night, the Guarantee Fairy might come by and leave a quarter, am I right, Ted?
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Home is a vortex of mystery (Score:2)
If Sony get home right, it could be absoloutely brilliant, in an addictive, chatroom kind of way, it could be the next second life, without a doubt.
That being said, it's a huge concept and a lot of work, especially on a closed platform, I know this post will be a bit of a 'duh!' but I'm betting home is either extremely successful or a huge failure, not much room inbetween.
I love my PS3 but I am betting on failure mind you, getting the formula right first try would be incredibly difficult and considering how
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Wouldn't success also require a userbase that cares about the concept of Home?
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I wouldn't say I 'care' as a PS3 enthusiast nor am I seriously interested but I will say I'm curious and that's all they need (I THINK it's free isn't it? you only pay for addons or something?)
So if it's free, curious people will check, if it's a killer app, bingo - huge adoption, fast, in theory anyhow.
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All the info I've seen says that the core functionality is free, but that there will still be "premium content" users will have to pay for.
For instance, you'll be given a basic starter apartment for free, but be able to buy a bigger space (to hold more stuff, some free, some not), for a small fee.
Not a bad middle ground for the system, since it lets users have a fully useable system for free, but lets people who believe that the "flame stickers make it go faster"
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But that is ok. You got a FREE XBox LIVE Arcade to compensate for the service being so unstable.
And a promise about how microsoft is going to enhance their dreamcast3 with
Whose calendar? (Score:2)
Maybe they mean the end of the mayan calendar long cycle? That gives them until 2012. Though that doesn't leave much time to recover the costs before the end of the world.
The "Home Virus" logo... (Score:2)
To me the "Home" logo looks like a virus in the act of infecting a cell.
They really need to come up with something less evil-looking.
Not what I expected (Score:2)
I read the title on the story, and immediately wondered if the existing console was the Enterprise Edition...
What backs the guaranty? (Score:2, Funny)
Sheesh.... (Score:2)
Kind of a fluff piece.