Nintendo Bashes PlayStation Home
Rumour suggests it may have been in development longer than you think
Nintendo of America's director of PR, Beth Llewelyn, has spoken out† about about the recently announced PlayStation Home.
Speaking at GDC, Llewelyn said:
A double-edged comment, if ever SPOnG heard one. Expanding, Llewelyn tried to distance Nintendo from Home, saying:
There's much comparison of Home to Nintendo's Miis, as well as to The Sims and Second Life. A post from the official PlayStation boards has surfaced, however, indicating that Home may well have been in the works for longer than the gaming community thinks. The post dates back to May 2005. It reads:
You can read the post in full here.
The details (such as the areas for specific games) don't all match up to the facts revealed in Harrison's keynote. The broad strokes, however, look strikingly close to what we've seen of Home so far.
Is Home a Nintendo/Sims/Second Life copycat? Let us know in the Forum.
†Source: Kotaku
Speaking at GDC, Llewelyn said:
"I think Home is very interesting, it looks like Sony is trying to figure out where their niche is. I saw things in there that reminded me of products that we've done and things we've done. It didn't seem something wholly revolutionary."
A double-edged comment, if ever SPOnG heard one. Expanding, Llewelyn tried to distance Nintendo from Home, saying:
“[Home] is very different from what we are doing. On a personal level, looking at it, it would be something I would never do. You're not got to reach someone like me. It would invest too much of my time."
There's much comparison of Home to Nintendo's Miis, as well as to The Sims and Second Life. A post from the official PlayStation boards has surfaced, however, indicating that Home may well have been in the works for longer than the gaming community thinks. The post dates back to May 2005. It reads:
'SCEA and SOE are developing MMORPG... style online service for PS3 right now... You can go online and chat with people like mmorpg style... And if you want to look for someone to play online for certain game, you have to go to this certain area(or town) for that specific game or the game will automatically takes you to that town... They want to create a "virtual world" for PS3 online service where people can actually interact each other like mmorpg style. There are more great details, but this is all I can get for now. I'm not expecting you to believe me'
You can read the post in full here.
The details (such as the areas for specific games) don't all match up to the facts revealed in Harrison's keynote. The broad strokes, however, look strikingly close to what we've seen of Home so far.
Is Home a Nintendo/Sims/Second Life copycat? Let us know in the Forum.
†Source: Kotaku
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LUPOS 11 Mar 2007 06:40
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much as im tempted to say yes... no. There is no way they just slapped all that together in a few months as a response. Its obvious it must have been in the works for a looong time. Its taken MS 5 years of constant updating to get live where it is, imagine doing all that in 3d plus streaming content to and between users, seemless interactive games, world bulding. No way in hell this is another sixaxis. I was sitting in that keynote and was fully expecting more sony BS but came out stunned.
While its not a huge draw for me Litttle big planet is and for the first tiem since the price anounment im actually seriously considering buying one... bastards!!
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While its not a huge draw for me Litttle big planet is and for the first tiem since the price anounment im actually seriously considering buying one... bastards!!
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