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- enforcerpsu, on 11/12/2007, -36/+89You know what? Home is a complete waste of time. A 100% utterly useless interface. Sony is dumping 1000s of man hours and cash into a "sims" type interface where they expect people to socialize and share "rooms" and "furniture" and interact as if they were actually there.
Guess what! No one is going to do that! You don't need a useless 3d interface for a gaming community. No matter what you think, you don't need it. The industry has got to stop adding needless ***** everywhere its not needed. Just like those repetitive games that require you walk back and forth over the same place time and time again; home is on the same level of POINTLESS.
Ask yourself this question. Once home is releases, will I actually spend ANY appreciable time in the environment talking to complete strangers and showing off my "gaming room" or will I be busy playing the damn games?
You know what the answer is. Sony should scrap home. It brings no benefits whatsoever. They are just doing it to be different. Just like all their other failed projects and formats. I will own a PS3 next year. I will not spend 5 minutes in "home".
...***** garbage. - DirkBelig, on 11/11/2007, -5/+20"Second Life: Playstation Network Edition" is meant to be a means for Sony to sell their customers to advertisers. Period.
- mythicflux, on 11/09/2007, -6/+20Shh... you'll only make the troll angry..er.
- RiverBelow, on 11/09/2007, -6/+20forgot betamax
- sherbetboy, on 11/09/2007, -3/+13UMD?
- daizaru, on 11/09/2007, -5/+15I typically prefer delays over unfinished product. I trust Sony's decision and while it was disappointing at first I know it's not a bad decision.
Too many companies rush products out when they aren't ready. (I know somebody who thinks he's being witty will say "sony did that with the ps3"... however it doesn't matter when it came out... it would always have been slow starting as people got accustomed to the cell processor) - Canadianinjapan, on 11/12/2007, -8/+17Next gen doesn't start until we say it does lol
- inactive, on 11/09/2007, -3/+12Didn't Second Life already run it's course and full for pervs now? I heard the numbers of users in SL was overblown and not as popular as the media prorated it.
- daizaru, on 11/12/2007, -11/+20A very significant reason people like their 360's is due to Xbox live and it's much better online community element for finding games online and such. Personally home sounds interesting to me.
- EllasIsKing, on 11/12/2007, -1/+9... or the NES's issue where you had to blow on the cartride to stop the game from blinking on and off when you turned on the system?
- metaly, on 11/12/2007, -4/+11A lot of people are getting too caught up in the whole virtual world thing when they talk about Home. The original Home announcement mentioned a lot of other features relating to online play and gave me the impression that it would bring the PSN experience on par with Xbox Live with achivements, better friends list integration, etc. (And for free!) I'm hoping that Sony's using the extra development time to work on this aspect of Home and isn't just modeling a million different couches for everyone's virtual apartment.
- EtherGnat, on 11/09/2007, -2/+9Is there any precedent for a console being out for two years or more and then suddenly gaining popularity? (honest question)
Regardless of performance I can't recall a console ever doing that. The closest I can think of was the PS2, which had somewhat sluggish sales in the first year, but did not have major competition. I find it hard to believe the market will shift so dramatically. - triplehelix, on 11/12/2007, -4/+11hmmm. i wonder why microsoft is working on a version themselves then.
- EtherGnat, on 11/09/2007, -6/+13"The PS3 will without a doubt outlast the Wii and the 360 only because of it's raw potential."
Like the original X-box outlasted the PS2? Raw power is a minor factor in system longevity. - KrustyTClown, on 11/12/2007, -1/+7What I don't get is why 360 fanboys are here complaining about something that will be free for PS3 owners. Yes I'm talking about you TRUESPECTRE and your fellow trolls.
- gamerzworld, on 11/12/2007, -9/+15Nah, more like the Xbox 360 and red rings of death. =)
- djSyndrome, on 11/12/2007, -7/+12Home is for the Japanese, who eat that kind of thing up. It's just being forced on the rest of us who, like you said, couldn't care less.
- RooDoG, on 11/12/2007, -11/+15Home was a great factor when I was deciding whether to buying a PS3 or not... I did buy a PS3 after thinking everything through and am very happy with it.
- bdorry, on 11/10/2007, -1/+6By that logic, Duke Nukem Forever will be the best game of all time
- silverwolfe, on 11/09/2007, -5/+10I completely disagree. While Home is hardly necessary, I don't see it as a waste of time and I honestly do believe I'll spend time in it (when I get a PS3 that is).
It's a dynamic and changing environment and the ability to meet other users via it is a great opportunity to expand your online friend lists. It's always nice to have a very visual interface when it comes to meeting people. Lists and icons are what we're used to now, but the step up (visually) from that would be more akin to Home. We already saw it being marginally used by Nintendo with their Miis, but those don't serve any real use other than in-game avatars, sometimes. You don't use your Mii to meet other Miis. In fact, that system is quite closed as there is no way to really make friends online other than exchanging friend codes over the internet.
Sony is essentially mating the two concepts of a deep online community and a 3D avatar program together. So long as the controls are simple and intuitive, it'll be much less daunting than jumping onto a web forum to meet new people to game or just chat with. - Dracusis, on 11/12/2007, -13/+18I couldn't disagree more.
Firstly, home is optional. Don't like it? Great, don't use it. But, as has been demonstrated many times over, virtual spaces like these are very, very effective community building tools. Add to this the free games (pools, arcade games etc), virtual private spaces and the ability for game developers to tie content into Home it will likely set standards that every console release in the coming decades will copy.
Don't like nor care about the sims? Good for you. But there is a reason it's the best selling PC franchise of all time. Then again, what other kind of comments would you expect from someone who's digg history shows nothing but anti-PS3 sentiments. It seems you don't even own a PS3, so why the ***** would you care, unless you're just ***** that this won't be avaliable on your 360.
Go back to whining about the number of PS3 SKUs, you still had some semblance of credibility back then. - tastypastry, on 11/09/2007, -3/+7Do you realize that Digg is also a complete waste of time? We could all be doing something more productive but instead we sit in front of our PC's and digg / bury articles.
BTW, looking forward to Home. - tonaros, on 11/14/2007, -1/+5You probably mean purported or reported.
- gwolf, on 11/10/2007, -2/+6Interesting yes, compelling, useful or likely to catch on, no.
- Thorlord, on 11/12/2007, -6/+10Nah, more like the PS2 and the infamous DRE's. =)
- sadilak, on 11/09/2007, -0/+4UMD is total garbage. Why the ***** cant sony develop games and package them into a memory stick or make PSPs Compact Flash Compatible? So many wasted opportunities to gain ground and they had to ***** it all up.
- Elranzer, on 11/12/2007, -5/+9"Ask yourself this question. Once home is releases, will I actually spend ANY appreciable time in the environment talking to complete strangers and showing off my "gaming room" or will I be busy playing the damn games?"
If PS3 had any games to play, you would be playing them. That's why they came up with Home. - inactive, on 11/10/2007, -0/+4Betamax
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(BTW, I thought CD was mostly Phillip's/Magnavox's work) - Thorlord, on 11/09/2007, -4/+8im sorry, they optimize it, infact it requires much more development time to get a multiplatform release title to run as smooth on the PS3 as it is on the 360.
there is potential, there is always untapped potential, we have yet to see the true power of either console. im not entirely sure what you think you are saying when you say "Optimization" since every game has optimizations done to it through testing to get the game to a playable framerate. - Shanobi, on 11/12/2007, -7/+11The power of the PS3 is a joke when compared to the power of current pc technology. Crysis and the onlaught of games that will come out over the next few years will show that like the PS2, the PS3 is all hype about the power. I guess the hype means something to people who consider 1080i important. If you own a pc, 1080 is a joke, and most of us own a Wii because it's damned fun and we don't care that every game is hi def.
But hey, continue living in lala land all you like. Just like you guys said by this time the PS3 would be trouncing the Wii and 360 with it's "awesome" games.
The games that have been leaving the system in record droves. (Like gamers!) - inactive, on 11/09/2007, -0/+4I think he meant "portrayed".
- apoc06, on 11/13/2007, -1/+5"XBOX live has no lag issues." - you discredit yourself here.
xbox live is great, but you cant dismiss the fact that many games have lag issues. - apoc06, on 11/10/2007, -0/+3years? over the years, its been proven many times that consoles can be decided on the weight of a single game.
- tastypastry, on 11/09/2007, -1/+4Would you be able to run Divx+Xvid and Skype if you had Linux on the PS3?
- blankoboy, on 11/09/2007, -2/+5I think a real positive would be to have Divx+Xvid and Skype support on the PS3. Get off your collective ass SONY.
- KrustyTClown, on 11/12/2007, -1/+4Or you could go buy a game for it.
- purag66, on 05/13/2009, -6/+9umm, looks like the PS3's 256 dedicated Video RAM is burning out....
- sadilak, on 11/12/2007, -3/+6Heck no, Microsoft's gamble paid off greatly. The product might be faulty, but the timing of the 360 was perfect. The red rings of death never really affected 360 sales as seen by the sales of Halo3, Gears Of War, Dead Rising, Madden 08, Bioshock....
- inactive, on 11/09/2007, -2/+5Its not being forced on you. It's both an optional download, and optional to use it.
- PatoLucas, on 11/09/2007, -1/+3Well said!!!
- gwolf, on 11/10/2007, -2/+4As far as I can tell 360 problems have been dealt with. PS3 got it's price down but they are still a few years from catching up on the game dev side.
- mazerrackham, on 11/09/2007, -1/+3You realize people put more than music on iPods now, right?
- sadilak, on 11/09/2007, -3/+5Keep dreaming.
- bigbadgoat, on 11/12/2007, -2/+4actually it did affect sales, its one of the main reasons why I chose a PS3 over a 360.
- enforcerpsu, on 11/12/2007, -2/+4Ok pay attention now: I don't have to wade through a useless 3d interface and open doors to fake rooms to post a comment on digg.
- gamerzworld, on 11/12/2007, -0/+2Fixed? That's why even the 360's with the newer chips still RRoD? Sure there is a less of a failure rate but the problem is still present. Personally, My 360 hasn't RRoDed yet, but my friend's has and he is on his 5th Xbox 360.
- inactive, on 11/12/2007, -1/+3Boy will you eat those words! It may have a slow start, but it will be the future and your rant will be looked back upon as another close-minded asshat who was wrong..
- apoc06, on 11/13/2007, -1/+3thats what the third parties are for. have you looked into the splitfish controller?
personally i prefer my ps3 controller over the xbox360 one, only because the battery pack is a bit awkward. sony could do something with their triggers tho - ociris, on 11/10/2007, -1/+2I agree with you bigbadgoat.... The 360 hardware issues did affect many peoples decision. However, it appears that many more are unconcerned about it due to the 3 year warranty and the great gamming library of the 360. I have both; Heavenly Sword is the only game i play with the PS3... But with the 360, its hard to choose which one to play since there are soooo many good ones.
PS. Im on my 3rd 360 system. But i could care less since its soo much fun. - m00nstone, on 11/12/2007, -3/+4Stating the obvious, but well said. Unless this thing turns into a game that is actually good. It will be DOA.
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