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March 07, 2007
A PlayStation Home Where The Idiots Roam
When I first heard about the newly announced PlayStation Home concept I immediately
imagined a combination of Microsoft's Xbox Live community with
Nintendo's Animal Crossing virtual world (with just a dash of Wii
Miis). After all, we're talking about a 3D virtual world in which Sony PlayStation 3 owners can play in common and private spaces while talking, sharing photos or videos or music, and just generally having fun. Sounds promising, right? While there is much more going on here than one would find in
those two elements, I'm curious just how much the PS3 community will
support it.
On the surface the service looks promising and enticing: achievement trophies! Streaming audio and video! Customizable avatars! Casual gaming! Chat! Then I remember that I'm very cynical and that so many people become complete (for lack of a better word) assholes when connected to a virtual world and I see no end to advertisements presented as legitimate entertainment, offensive hardcore porn plastered all over virtual apartments, players who log off when about to lose a game (casual game or actual big budget title), some players insulting others with crude and racist language, other players attempting to seduce the younger avatars, and the eventual "hack" that allows players to create anatomically correct naked avatars for the sake of harassing others. Yeah, sure, sign me up for that! So while I see great potential for good things in PlayStation Home and I'd love to be wrong about my beliefs on the issue, we can always count on general immaturity to put a damper on the fun.
Posted by MattG on March 7, 2007 at 07:28 PM in Sony | Permalink
Comments
I watch the video over at gamevideo's and my first thoughts were inline with yours. The general public are going to destroy Sony's Utopia. If they want to keep the place as "clean" as in that video they are going to need Police/Moderators everywhere.
Posted by: Karen | Mar 7, 2007 11:50:12 PM
Your thinking of Second Life.. Cause I doubt there will be custom animation/designing of the actual avatars.. so that kills the idea of naked avatars.
Posted by: LeeR | Mar 8, 2007 12:05:47 AM
Coming 2010!
Posted by: Rico Ricardo | Mar 8, 2007 5:08:01 AM
Hah! Well of course they are going to have naked avatars streaking the virtual world of sony's home. If you might remember right, we have linux hackers just poking at the ps3 right now.
;)
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Posted by: MarioLegend | Mar 8, 2007 4:13:01 PM
BTW, I think home has potential because of the level of customization that it has. I really don't like to feel limited to the stuff I can do. I mean I'm a graphics designer and I love to fix things in my own visions though if its easy to do so then its fine with me, but I just wish I had that option with the miis just like I have the freedom to draw an apple on paper.
I want the miis to have a deeper level of options that I can do with them. I just wish nintendo updates the Mii channel so it can satisfy my thirst to dive deeper into the idea. I want to upload or just make a picture in the picture channel like a logo and add it on cap in the mii channel. Then we have the idea of adding more hair styles in the mii channel too, because its too limited for the guys. So you see I have a long list of demands for the improvement of the mii channel because I would love to just make stuff up in there, but as long as I have enough colors pastels in my palette that I can have more freedom and be happy about it.
but I'm content about the mii channel, but not so much happy with the limitations. I mean, I have F-Zero GX and having to make your logo is the best feeling when I compete against my friends knowing that my artistic touch is on the machines. I just want the same with the miis.
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Posted by: MarioLegend | Mar 8, 2007 4:29:35 PM
It feels more like a lame attempt to push advertising on people while also ripping off the idea that social spaces like this are supposedly popular.
The problem is that they specifically mention the ads and act like it's a good thing, plus when you buy games you (oh boy!) get game-related t-shirts and stuff to wear.
Frankly the very idea of this seems loathsome. I'm much rather just pay less than a metric assload for the system.
Posted by: Belgand | Mar 8, 2007 11:08:02 PM
i think its a great idea and a new promising way to play online now its not just a card u kan use to rep who u are u can actualy use a person i think its better dan live plus its free cmon what more kan u ask for
Posted by: EDDIE | Mar 14, 2007 11:25:24 PM
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