NY Times Confirms PlayStation Home!

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#1 gmastersexay
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/arts/design/07game.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

"The centerpiece, a new service called PlayStation Home, is to become available to consumers in the fall, said senior game industry executives, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans. PlayStation Home is meant to build on and surpass somewhat similar offerings from Sony’s competitors Microsoft and Nintendo by allowing users to create persisting online identities that record players’ achievements in different games. As players progress through a game, they will unlock various virtual prizes that they can then show off to friends and rivals, the executives said."

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Shocking :shock:
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IN THE FALL!!! Yikes thats FOREVERRRRR lol, But great news!! GO SONY!!! Will dominate this holiday season!!
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#5 hellsing321
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Sure hope Sony doesn't blackball them over this. :P
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#6 Fr3357YL3
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...and I still don't care.
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#7 -DarthVader-
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Lol only good news cows have heard this week, now they'll be like Sony will own X-mas :lol:

Like some causal would care about sony's half baked Mii + myspace + XBL rip off


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bu but but..the copy
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#9 Acemaster27
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Hmmm, that reminds me of some other online system thats out there...
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This won't save sony.
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is it free?
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#12 Thug_Pikachu
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I thought achievements didnt matter :?
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...and I still don't care.Fr3357YL3
But you cared enough to post a response?
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IN THE FALL!!! Yikes thats FOREVERRRRR lol, But great news!! GO SONY!!! Will dominate this holiday season!!RagingBull25

ummm correction HALO 3 will dominate this holiday season and everyone knows that!!!! :roll:

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You know, i do remember an interview just a week or two ago with Phil Harrison where Mr. Harrison specifically said that he wasn't going to implement any type of achievements system to tell other u have beaten a game or what not. I guess i learned my lesson for trusting a sony exec.
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I didn't get in on the whole "Sony ripped off Nintendo with the Sixaxis" craze, because that was a bit of a stretch, but this:| There's really do denying that this isn't a spark of spontaneous genius on Sony's part. This is a direct derivation from XBL and the Mii concept. A smart business move, yes. An original concept, no. Sony did rip this off.
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#17 Nike_Air
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How about a gamercard first Sony ?


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Just hope it doesn't get delayed.  Granted probably a good chance of that happening.
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#19 tacubano
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i think is kinda stupid....are u buying a ps3 to play those "amazing" looking games that ONLY the ps3 can do or are u there to play dolls in ur cyberspace home.......
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I didn't get in on the whole "Sony ripped off Nintendo with the Sixaxis" craze, because that was a bit of a stretch, but this:| There's really do denying that this isn't a spark of spontaneous genius on Sony's part. This is a direct derivation from XBL and the Mii concept. A smart business move, yes. An original concept, no. Sony did rip this off.bman784
Actually, it's not really ripped off. Achievements and online avatars have existed long before the 360 and Wii in games such as MMORPGs and online game hubs. To say that Playstation Home ripped off ideas would also mean that Miis and XBL Achievements ripped off ideas.
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This won't save sony.Hir0_N
who's to say Sony needed saving in the first place?
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[QUOTE="bman784"]I didn't get in on the whole "Sony ripped off Nintendo with the Sixaxis" craze, because that was a bit of a stretch, but this:| There's really do denying that this isn't a spark of spontaneous genius on Sony's part. This is a direct derivation from XBL and the Mii concept. A smart business move, yes. An original concept, no. Sony did rip this off.Einhanderkiller
Actually, it's not really ripped off. Achievements and online avatars have existed long before the 360 and Wii in games such as MMORPGs and online game hubs. To say that Playstation Home ripped off ideas would also mean that Miis and XBL Achievements ripped off ideas.

while those ideas existed before, playstation home is exactly the same thing as XBL+Mii. It's not just similar.
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[QUOTE="bman784"]I didn't get in on the whole "Sony ripped off Nintendo with the Sixaxis" craze, because that was a bit of a stretch, but this:| There's really do denying that this isn't a spark of spontaneous genius on Sony's part. This is a direct derivation from XBL and the Mii concept. A smart business move, yes. An original concept, no. Sony did rip this off.Einhanderkiller
Actually, it's not really ripped off. Achievements and online avatars have existed long before the 360 and Wii in games such as MMORPGs and online game hubs. To say that Playstation Home ripped off ideas would also mean that Miis and XBL Achievements ripped off ideas.

Yes, but if I'm not mistaken, Sony announced very deliberately that they wouldn't be incorporating an achievement system. Why the change of heart? Either way, the concept of an "online avatar" system seems a very direct derivation from the Mii system, and given Nintendo's success with it, do you think it's just coincidence that Sony is starting something like this? The concept of achievements had never had as much of a central and unified basis as the 360's concept, which has proved to be quite unique in its appeal. A console's infrastructure featuring a unified system for recognizing achievements is a new concept to the Xbox 360. Sony is creating their own iteration of it. Once again, with how long the 360 has been around, this hardly seems like coincidence.
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What happened to March 7th? Now I have to wait for the fall..?
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Coming November 2007 :lol:
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You'd think if it was free they would just go ahead and release a crap version of it and update it as time goes on. Releasing it in November makes it seem like there might be a fee involved. Oh well! Maybe it will come with an HD version of Pong with SIXXAXXIS control.