In an unshocking statement Microsoft has, in a passive-aggressive manner, indicated that Sony's PlayStation Network offering is limited.
This comes from Chris Satchell, newly appointed chief technology officer of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment business group. When it was suggested to him that the PlayStation Store has a reputation for "unbridled creativity" and he was asked what Microsoft's Xbox LIVE Community Games platform could do to shake the corporation's "monolithic" image, Satchell responded, "It's sort of funny. I mean, it's great that Sony has some sort of independent developers, but there's just this handful of titles.
"You can go sit on the beta and see like 60 different games in a few weeks or 200 games last year for Dream, Build, Play with all sorts of innovative concepts. I think we're kind of already there in terms of breaking it down and giving people the opportunity. And now you've got a pipeline where you don't have to go through any sort of permission stage other than your peers in the community.
"I think there's a big difference between getting a few innovative games and taking 300,000 developers that are out using our software and allowing them to get onto the system and sell their great creations. And very rapidly we will see a huge amount of creativity pouring onto Xbox 360 and Xbox Live."
You've got to love a compliment delivered with such a whopping back hand...
Speaking to SPOnG recently, Satchell labelled Nintendo's WiiWare service "confusing".
With Xbox LIVE Community Games set for release by the end of the year Microsoft will hopefully be delivering on that promise of "a huge amount of creativity pouring onto Xbox 360 and Xbox Live". The company has gone so far as to say, "community-created games on Xbox LIVE are expected to double the size of the Xbox 360 video game library”. If that is the case, there must surely be at least a reasonable number of innovative games in the mix.
Microsoft just revealed the pricing structure for games on its community platform. You can see SPOnG's report here.
Source: 1up
This comes from Chris Satchell, newly appointed chief technology officer of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment business group. When it was suggested to him that the PlayStation Store has a reputation for "unbridled creativity" and he was asked what Microsoft's Xbox LIVE Community Games platform could do to shake the corporation's "monolithic" image, Satchell responded, "It's sort of funny. I mean, it's great that Sony has some sort of independent developers, but there's just this handful of titles.
"You can go sit on the beta and see like 60 different games in a few weeks or 200 games last year for Dream, Build, Play with all sorts of innovative concepts. I think we're kind of already there in terms of breaking it down and giving people the opportunity. And now you've got a pipeline where you don't have to go through any sort of permission stage other than your peers in the community.
"I think there's a big difference between getting a few innovative games and taking 300,000 developers that are out using our software and allowing them to get onto the system and sell their great creations. And very rapidly we will see a huge amount of creativity pouring onto Xbox 360 and Xbox Live."
You've got to love a compliment delivered with such a whopping back hand...
Speaking to SPOnG recently, Satchell labelled Nintendo's WiiWare service "confusing".
With Xbox LIVE Community Games set for release by the end of the year Microsoft will hopefully be delivering on that promise of "a huge amount of creativity pouring onto Xbox 360 and Xbox Live". The company has gone so far as to say, "community-created games on Xbox LIVE are expected to double the size of the Xbox 360 video game library”. If that is the case, there must surely be at least a reasonable number of innovative games in the mix.
Microsoft just revealed the pricing structure for games on its community platform. You can see SPOnG's report here.
Source: 1up
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X BOX360 24 Jul 2008 16:55
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Microsoft loves to talk Crap...Sony Can Easily talk about how 70 % of 360's Break Down
Live is a better service, BUT UR PAYING FOR IT!
Live is a better service, BUT UR PAYING FOR IT!
Gamer tag - Dragon Star 786 24 Jul 2008 17:01
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Sorry but i have to agree with "SuperSaiyan4" on this i had a PS3 and all i can say is i was bored out of my mind and after seeing what Microsoft had to offer i traded my PS3 in and got a 360 there's more games huge community and a great line-up i'm sorry but i liked the PS3 and it let me down some Sony fan boys can't stand to admit the defeat.
to close PSN and Live are not the same open your eyes SheeSH!!
to close PSN and Live are not the same open your eyes SheeSH!!
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DaEmph 24 Jul 2008 17:09
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At least the PSN is not a lagfest like LIVE is.....LIVE is not all that great...sure it has alot more content, but the PSN network runs very good for me, I've run into less problems on there than I ever had with LIVE.
rgb 24 Jul 2008 17:51
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Look at it this way, Xbox live arcade has hundreds of rubbish titles that will never be download. out of they hundreds of games probably 10 are worth purchasing.
PSN doesn't have hundreds of titles because it doesn't need hundreds of titles. furthermore Xbox live was around before PSN. PAIN, Monsters and Super Stardust HD are amazing titles and them three alone can entertain me for hours each day. so M$ can say its has the biggest library but not the best as most of the content is garbage.
PSN doesn't have hundreds of titles because it doesn't need hundreds of titles. furthermore Xbox live was around before PSN. PAIN, Monsters and Super Stardust HD are amazing titles and them three alone can entertain me for hours each day. so M$ can say its has the biggest library but not the best as most of the content is garbage.
Easy E 24 Jul 2008 19:24
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I am confused on how so many people get PO'ed about paying $50 a YEAR for a service that is constantly up & offers FREE demos, FREE XBLA demos, videos, movies, TV shows from almost all networks, chat, video & 1 gamertag that follows you to all your games & all your online action. I've spent more money on a bad sushi & a bad movie in one night than the pleasure of knowing I have a service that continues to grow & there are people sitting at Microsoft making sure it stays up & running. Have you seen the new layout w/ Avatars included for Live? Home better hurry up or they will get beat to the market again!
Granted, there are some horrible Arcade games w/ graphics from the late 80's. But, they are classics. So, the feel of the original game is still there, is that wrong? Then, there is just awful games like Band of Bugs or Cyberball 2072 & the worst Yie Ar Kung-Fu. They push out some crap, but you can actually download that crap & play it first & decide it's crap & delete it & you never spend a dime!!! Amazing! With all the people on Live, everybody has an opinion of games, so what might be boring or bad graphics might very well be what somebody can't wait to get off work to come home and play all night.
If you want to talk games, like real deal games, all I have to say is Bioshock, Fable 2, Gears of War 1 & 2, Ninja Gaiden 2. I will give it up for MGS 4, great game, but everything else that is exclusive is sub-par for the amazing PS wonder machine. No game producers have come out w/ any cross platform game that is better on the PS3. And all the PS3 fans will be owning the 360 shortly or going to your buddies houes w/ a 360 to see what the new GTA 4 exclusive content will be, and you know it!
Get your facts straight about the 480p, 720ip, 1080ip. The PS3 downscales everything if you dont have a true 1080p TV w/ HDMI hookup. At least the 360 will upscale everything to 1080i on component connections & the HDMI connection is true 1080p for HDDVD, HD movies & 1080p games.
Granted, there are some horrible Arcade games w/ graphics from the late 80's. But, they are classics. So, the feel of the original game is still there, is that wrong? Then, there is just awful games like Band of Bugs or Cyberball 2072 & the worst Yie Ar Kung-Fu. They push out some crap, but you can actually download that crap & play it first & decide it's crap & delete it & you never spend a dime!!! Amazing! With all the people on Live, everybody has an opinion of games, so what might be boring or bad graphics might very well be what somebody can't wait to get off work to come home and play all night.
If you want to talk games, like real deal games, all I have to say is Bioshock, Fable 2, Gears of War 1 & 2, Ninja Gaiden 2. I will give it up for MGS 4, great game, but everything else that is exclusive is sub-par for the amazing PS wonder machine. No game producers have come out w/ any cross platform game that is better on the PS3. And all the PS3 fans will be owning the 360 shortly or going to your buddies houes w/ a 360 to see what the new GTA 4 exclusive content will be, and you know it!
Get your facts straight about the 480p, 720ip, 1080ip. The PS3 downscales everything if you dont have a true 1080p TV w/ HDMI hookup. At least the 360 will upscale everything to 1080i on component connections & the HDMI connection is true 1080p for HDDVD, HD movies & 1080p games.
cd 24 Jul 2008 20:24
23/37
If you're looking for a crap load of games that are the same, then yeah. Xbox Live Arcade is for you.
freshpimp 25 Jul 2008 05:04
24/37
Ummm! Well xbox has rrod. Can't get your awsosome content WHEN that happens.
Go ps3.
Go ps3.
IkariX 25 Jul 2008 05:36
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Xbox 360 is a piece of sh1t. F**k you Micro$oft
PS360ii 25 Jul 2008 06:07
26/37
I don't think having a ton of content is better than having a handful of quality games. I've looked at the 360 Live library and there are only 4 or 5 games I would even consider buying. Anyone can put together a bunch of junk and call it a game but it takes skills to put together a piece of art and call it a masterpiece.
schnide 25 Jul 2008 09:50
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Not pointing this at anyone in particular..
SPOnG, can you program a new filter for the forums? All you have to do is ask it to detect any postings that don't have at least one full stop or capital letter per paragraph, and you'll have removed 90% of the fanboys from every corner. Cheers!
SPOnG, can you program a new filter for the forums? All you have to do is ask it to detect any postings that don't have at least one full stop or capital letter per paragraph, and you'll have removed 90% of the fanboys from every corner. Cheers!
spodly 25 Jul 2008 11:08
28/37
Supersaiyan4 tried to grab my junk!
BillmutherfuckinGates 25 Jul 2008 11:18
29/37
PSN is free. You can't expect a a free service to be better then a paid one.
PSN is still good
'Buys siren and pixeljunk'
PSN is still good
'Buys siren and pixeljunk'
Lol 25 Jul 2008 11:18
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SuperSaiyan4
BS.. PSN has lots of content too.. If anything i dont lag as much on PSN as i did on XBL
BS.. PSN has lots of content too.. If anything i dont lag as much on PSN as i did on XBL
BillmutherfuckinGates 25 Jul 2008 11:20
31/37
Plus Microdot are smug Aholes.
Gohan Pwns 25 Jul 2008 22:09
32/37
Trust goku to be the first to comment.
PreciousRoi 26 Jul 2008 04:03
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...and all posts using "of" as an auxilliary verb.
Was p 27 Jul 2008 00:50
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Where have these fan boys come from? It's not the first time either that this mass of morons has descended on the quiet, pedantic world of the Spong forums, to attack all things non Sony.
I don't know how they do it, but they make SS4 seem like a calm, well informed and rational person... by comparison.
It might be that Bentley, is suffering some kind of multiple personality disorder, and he is expressing him selves through the forums.
I don't know how they do it, but they make SS4 seem like a calm, well informed and rational person... by comparison.
It might be that Bentley, is suffering some kind of multiple personality disorder, and he is expressing him selves through the forums.
PreciousRoi 27 Jul 2008 01:59
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Well, I can't speak to Bentley's current mental state or multiples thereof, but I tend to favor my own hypothesis as to the genesis of the masses of 360 fanboys that sprang into being seemingly out of nowhere. I think they're all former PS2 fanboys who fell off one bandwagon and jumped on another, and continued being the same asshats they always were on the new console. These are also the people who think that Final Fantasy coming to Xbox is the biggest thing evar!!!!111!! They get to remain consistent to their fanboyism of the moment and indulge. Now of course thats not to say that everyone who bought a 360 over a PS3 after owing a PS2 is a fanboy, or an asshat, and I'm also not saying that 360 didn't grow some of their own, so to speak. Just a vast majority of 360 fanboys are likely ex-PS2 fanboys...and if PS3 ever looks like its dominant, many of them will jump back.
You know its funny, Bentley and SS4 went at each other a while back (quite a while now) and then they seemed to reach a kind of detente...SS4 toned it down and seemed like he'd matured into a...well, he was being less of a...sterotype, yeah, thats a nice euphemism for what hes become..."something of a bad joke" came in second place with an Honourable Mention. Then I guess SS4 came back from vacation and did away with whoever was impersonating the more tolerable version of himself and here we are.
edit:I reviewed the last few pages of posts and most of them look like Sony partisans, if not out and out fanboys, 3 or 5 of them certainly qualify there. My theory still stands, of course, and I'm even more firmly convinced that Sony is the breeding ground for most non-Nintendo fanboys and household pests.
You know its funny, Bentley and SS4 went at each other a while back (quite a while now) and then they seemed to reach a kind of detente...SS4 toned it down and seemed like he'd matured into a...well, he was being less of a...sterotype, yeah, thats a nice euphemism for what hes become..."something of a bad joke" came in second place with an Honourable Mention. Then I guess SS4 came back from vacation and did away with whoever was impersonating the more tolerable version of himself and here we are.
edit:I reviewed the last few pages of posts and most of them look like Sony partisans, if not out and out fanboys, 3 or 5 of them certainly qualify there. My theory still stands, of course, and I'm even more firmly convinced that Sony is the breeding ground for most non-Nintendo fanboys and household pests.
uzman 9 Aug 2008 14:45
36/37
u fukers u know the xbox 360 (trash) suks. the graphics in the ps3 is much better. accept it. ps3 is much cooler.
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Was p 9 Aug 2008 18:39
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uzman wrote:
u fukers u know the xbox 360 (trash) suks. the graphics in the ps3 is much better. accept it. ps3 is much cooler.
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I can almost remember when I found out how to copy and paste. I think your next step is to learn about spell checkers.
And if you’re going to criticize something, say why, and give examples. So you don’t look a complete moron, or maybe that was the idea.
Hope this helps and, doesn’t go over your low browed head, Was p.