Sony Admits Home was Too Ambitious
By Chris on Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 4:46 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Sony, Sony
We’ve suffered delay after delay when it comes to Home. Thanks to testers in the closed beta who either don’t have to don’t acknowledge their NDA, we know that the entire setting was even overhauled. And here we are, 14 months after it was first announced, and there’s still no real date for when the public might even get a glimpse of the beta.
You oftentimes hear Microsoft say their focus is on the games and gamers, rather than trying to go onto other things. (Also known as the “We don’t have Blu-ray” defense.) SCEE president David Reeves admitted that’s exactly the problem Sony has faced with Home — they became too ambitious with the non-gaming aspects of Home and forgot what the focus should be on: the gamers.
“It is definitely coming out in autumn,” Reeves told CVG. “Whether that’s October or November, I don’t precisely know, but it is an open beta.”
“We’ve realized that maybe we were too ambitious with the non-gaming applications within Home, getting sponsors and stuff like that,” he said.
“In that sense we were deserting gamers. So, we’re concentrating on the gaming by launching games in Home, and attracting people who are into gaming in first — instead of the Nike people, or Adidas people who are into fashion and not necessarily into gaming.”
Sure, he didn’t go into any specifics on how exactly they’d refocus their efforts, but at least they’ve acknowledged their faults and are willing to do what’s necessary to fix Home. Perhaps with these changes, those who were casting this off as nothing more than a Second Life barrier between players and games will rethink that erroneous assumption.
Sony is gna be so successfull in the future 360 is a failure they lost out on the HD DVD drives and there GTA IV exlcusive it wasnt even there exclusive they wasted 5 million on 2 episodes wen sony are getting it too :\ erm yea okay. Ps3 is clever 360 is dumb and the title of my name.
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I’m not sure where you got that $5 million figure (way low) or the idea that PS3’s getting that same content (way wrong).
Can 360 Sucks get banned or something? His website links to a pornographic page.
There is no point paying attention to idiots like “360 sucks”. The fact that they are incapable of stringing a simple sentence together without errors (grammatical, spelling & content), should give you an idea about their competency. Just ignore.
As for the article, well lets wait until we actually have some more firm details: “Perhaps with these changes, those who were casting this off as nothing more than a Second Life barrier between players and games will rethink that erroneous assumption.” Before assumptions are made either for or against Sony. Until then it will have to be listed as another of the many “benefits” the PS3 is supposed to have in the future, but which never seem to enter the present. Until then I’ll stick with the 360 and Wii, which are delivering NOW, not some mythical SOON.
Can someone explain exactly _why_ people are getting hyped over this?
…I mean, you can walk around. And socialise. Joy.
But wait. How is that different from LIFE again?
I dont see whats good about it, its just you have to look at a virtual person and i dont like meeting new people so this wont work. didnt like sims, never played Second life. i have something better, its call a real life.
but this will be good for those that like those kinda games, i sure wont, if its free well ill DL it for my PS3 but id never pay for it.