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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."
Sony should probably be unhappy with a wide variety of PS3-related issues.
It's great fun seeing an arrogant bully get kicked square in the nuts and fold like a cheap lawn chair, but the desire to see them fail is all out of my system now. It's important that they succeed.
but I bought my PS3 to play HD games. I really could not care less about Home and I hope to hell that Home doesn't replace the awesome XMB interface.
Obviously, I am not the target audience here, but does a target audience even exist? I honestly do not see what Sony is attempting to achieve with Home other than unnecessarily complicate the on-line experience. I'd rather Sony put the effort into creating some good games, which are in remarkably short supply at the moment.
Don't get me wrong, I love my PS3 (and my 360), but Home has zero appeal to me on machine I bought to play Drake's Fortune and Assassin's Creed.
I don't like replying to AC trolls, but tell me... how exactly is this article a bunch of "Zonk hates teh Sony fanboy crap?"
The article summary simply described the contents of a third-party source. There was no blatant negative spin put into the summary or the choice of quote. I was wondering why I hadn't heard much about Home lately. I read the article, and now I know what at least part of the holdup is. Since I don't spend all day trolling gaming blogs and fanboy sites, this was news to me. And for putting a link to this news on Slashdot, I say Thank you, Zonk.
"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."
Never said a word about the hardware. I own a PS3 (no games, but lots of movies). Their issues are in every single other area, including sales, marketing, and third party support services. They're blowing it. If you don't think they have issues, think again.
"BluRay has won the next gen format war."
They have not. There's at least 18 months left in this silly war, and Sony never wins format wars. I'm buying the new Samsung dual-format player in January because the war is going to continue.
Sony has to outsell the 360 by over 200,000 units every month for until 2012 just to catch up.
The whole "just wait...You'll see!" attitude of Sony's and their fans is tiring.
First off, "coming soon!" doesn't sell hardware.
Second, there's no guarantee that those big titles will even come out on time, or will even be any good to begin with. Look at 2007. MGS4 - slipped. Home - Slipped. Lair - Probably the most disappointing game of the year.
Even if the upcoming titles come out on time and will be good, it may be literally too little too late. Right now Sony is facing their second holiday season of being dead last. Their current library can't compare to that of the 360's or the Wii's. Sony has tried to address the price issue by creating their 4th(!) console model in under 12 months, but them lobotomized it by removing all PS2 backwards compatibility from it!
Sony is on a slippery precipice. Unless they can get more PS3s and games into peoples' hands, and soon, developers are going to grow tired of waiting and will stop making PS3 exclusive games (or stop developing for the PS3 altogether) at which point, it's game over for the PS3. 2008 is really going to be the PS3's last chance. Blow it, and the PS3 won't survive to see Christmas 2009.
As for blu-ray and hd-dvd movies, the whole market is messed up. Seriously, any idiotic company who thinks customers are going to willing to buy a device that can only play 50% of the movies on the market should just be put out of our miseries. Seriously, who's bright idea was it to make the consumer choose? Despite all the dick-waving that fanboys like you are doing, there's really no difference between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Both hold HD video and surround sound. Beyond that, you have to be a fanboy, or an engineer who's more interested in technical minutiae than just watching movies.
Most of the market that can even take advantage of these HD formats are just sitting on the sidelines letting the other idiots waste their money and get burned in yet another stupid format war. Seriously, have folks forgotten the mess that still is DVD-R vs. DVD+R? Two formats, doing identical things, but in an incompatible manner, fight for market domination until one company says "why choose?" and comes out with a hybrid drive that handles both. The same will happen for HD video, and when those drives come out, every player that can't play both formats will be instantly obsolete. Which again, just proves how stupid both sides in this "war" are being...