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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."
It's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent.
Home is where the heart is.
And if you're not content with your home, wheres your heart gonna be?
(Hopefully not playing the Wii)
Citizens of Home are finding their town shrouded in a mysterious vapor, causing residents to question whether or not they will ever actually exist.
Details at 11.
Given that he's the CEO of Sony's gaming division, I guess if he's not happy he is empowered to manage and organize so that he can become happy with it. Whining to the press about it certainly won't make it better.
More Twoson than Cupertino
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.
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.
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.
they'd widgetize the whole thing and let their users decide how the place looks.
wtf? "Executive thinks unreleased product needs more work before it can be released". Duh?
With your incredible insight I'm sure you can expect an invitation to the Sony board very shortly......
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I don't understand the mentality either, but it is big in political campaigns as well. Personally I've never been a fan of voting for someone who's platform is based on "I'm better than so and so, because they do ___". It tells me they have nothing to offer but criticism. This however must work on some level otherwise people wouldn't still do it, right?
"Why? Really why is it important to anyone but themselves that they succeed?"
It's important because a very large base of owners will allow companies to keep making games with high development costs. Right now they're doing it primarily on faith.
Microsoft sold millions of consoles, but Halo 3 pretty much marks the beginning of the end for the 360. Sorry folks, it's as good as it gets and looks to be all downhill from here.
Nintendo has this wacky controller that people aren't really sure what to do with. Yeah, it's great for some sword fighting games or maybe some Wii sports... but what happens when u just wanna sit back, relax, and play something casually? Well, you can't because you have to wave your arms around like a mad man! What if I was sick in bed and just wanted to play my Wii... that's pretty much not gonna happen. So, Mario Galaxy is gonna come out here in a few days. To me, the game seems too easy, and it's not really going to be a system seller since their systems pretty much sell themselves and are pretty hard to find. I'm very unhappy with my Wii; physically, graphically, and the release list from now until Q2 of next year looks like complete crap. I'm selling it.
The PS3 has a much brighter future than both consoles. The release list from now until Q2 2008 looks freakin' sweet and this Home thing looks really interesting to me. Superior graphics, BLU-RAY, backwards compatability (certain models), and much much more make this system so much better. Yeah, the system costs $399-$499, but you can't get a good blu-ray player for under $400 so that really makes the gaming components FREE (or under $100 depending on model but u get what I'm saying).
Honestly, the PS3 is a bargain.
360 is dead and the Wii is not far behind.
"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.
Remember in the early 90s when everyone thought online shops would be virtual 3D things where you walk through virtual 3D stores, put virtual 3D goods into your virtual 3D basket, then virtually carry your 3D basket to a virtual 3D cash register and virtually paid virtual 3D money?
That's Home, except for online communities and videogame matchmaking instead of online shopping.
Instead of a linear list of buddies you can chat with, invite to games or otherwise interact, you get a virtual 3D home with virtual furniture (that you actually buy with real money). You can then walk around with your buddies, go to movie theatres or play games. It's all very weird, 90s-ish, and a bit dumb.
...I will urinate myself while convulsing with laughter if a new blade appears on xbox live offering a very, very similar virtual environment. Well at least they have the servers to run such a venture.