PlayStation Home And Porn - No Problems

Via Eurogamer, a post on the 'semi-official' ThreeSpeech blog essentially saying that Sony doesn't see porn as an issue for the upcoming Home PS3 service. Sony's Phil Harrison was on the other end of the blog's questions, and after reminding us that avatars won't be able to interact, it will be easy to blacklist people, and they will have lots of filters in place: "Well I'm disappointed that you would use those as the first questions ... I think Home should be used for a much wider and more beneficial scope than [porn], but I think that people can express their creativity inside Home in a wide variety of ways and it's not necessarily for us to dictate what that should be."

Comments

Re:Sony shouldn't care

[cowscows]

I didn't mean it wouldn't work technically, I mean I'm not convinced that it's going to work in terms of customers really getting into it.

And don't call me a troll and crap on my posting history if you can't even be bother to log in and expose your own. That's just silly. I don't make any effort to hide the fact that I'm a Nintendo fan, but I'm a bigger fan of video games in general. I owned and enjoyed all three consoles last generation, I have a PC that I purchased for the sole purpose of playing games. Sadly I'm not in college anymore, I have to spend the better part of my days working for a living, and I have fiscal responsibilities now.

Taking those realities of my life into account, Nintendo's strategy works really well with how I can fit gaming into my life. And the fact that they can do it all for cheap is excellent too. Sony, on the other hand, in both their words and their deeds so far in regards to the PS3 seem to have sprinted even harder than before down the hardcore gamer path, and their higher ups have been kind of dicks about it too. I'm less inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt anymore. I never gave MS the benefit of the doubt because windows has caused me so much anguish in the past. I've been giving the 360 some serious consideration lately though.

I would love for Sony to make something awesome. I would love for Nintendo to feel more pressure to develop the online capabilities of the Wii. I even like Second Life, so if Sony could take that sort of idea forwards, I'd be fascinated. But until Sony convinces me that this home stuff is going to live up to some of the hype, I'm not going to get too excited.

Re:Wow. I'm impressed.

[The One and Only]

Clever. What does "AND" stand for? An acronym of "Not And" would be "NA". A portmanteau of "NOT' and "AND" could be "NAND", however.