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Sony Still Not Happy With 'Home'
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."
Anyone notice how few people actually comment in gaming stories here on Slashdot anymore? It's fanboy crap like these endless Zonk "I hate teh Sony PS3' stories that has driven away everyone but the tiny lunatic "I too hate teh Sony PS3' fanboys.
Honestly Zonk, get a fucking life. Go start your own "I hate teh Sony PS3" blog that you and your tiny group of fans who still post here. Let someone who actually cares about game handle what you clear lack the maturity to do so.
Home is a gigantic project. It simply isn't done yet and has been delayed for some three to six months.
Golly, that wasn't too hard now was it Zonk?
Home is comprised of:
* A MMORPG engine at its core
* A streaming video/content service
* A set of tools and APIs for developers to create and manage their content inside of Home
* A way for PS3 users to stream content right off their own systems seamlessly with content from both Sony and third party services
* A very detailed set of technologies for avatar management and creation
* A set of APIs and libraries for creating games and events inside of Home - all the way from little arcade games all the way up to mini-custom MMORPGs inside of Home itself
The amount of technology and effort Sony has put into the entire Home system is staggering. They have been actively working on it since the early PS2 days. It is an insult to gamers that some little punk fanboy like Zonk is using a place that should be for discussing technology and software as his personal fanboy blog.
Go away Zonk. You're an embarrassment to gaming.
"Sony should probably be unhappy with a wide variety of PS3-related issues."
What the fuck are you babbling about?
issues?
The hardware is rock solid with people playing games and folding at home for months at a time.
The graphics the PS3 is putting out are insane - Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted, Killzone, GT 5 Prologue vs. 640p last gen looking Halo 3(LOL!)
BluRay has won the next gen format war
Manufacturing prices have plummeted
Sony dominated every major gaming show/conference this year first GDC with LittleBigPlanet and Home, then E3 with half of their giant first party lineup, and finally TGS with the second half of their first party line.
The PS3 is going head to head with the half as expensive Wii in both Europe and Japan as the 360 continues to die in those markets.
The 120 million selling PS2 is still cranking along at an amazing sales rate worldwide seven years into its life - gee, wonder what system all those people buying PS2s today for FinalFantasy, MetalGear, GT, etc... will be buying over the next five years...
Oh wait! That's right, Microsoft sold a bunch of copies of Halo 3 and replacement 360s to a bunch of Xbots in the US. LOL! Sony is doomed!