Didn't you mean miimicry? C'mon, really drag this joke out:

It’d be remiiss to say that wii don’t enjoy playing on the other systems and wii have a lot of respect for the work that Miiyamoto-san and Nintendo do," stated Xbox Live boss John Schappert. "But I think it’s a logical extension of our Gamiircard, Gamiirtag and Achiivemiints."

michiyoyoshiku:

Hey, I totally agree that a good idea is a good idea worth doing, but it's the fact that MS has the gall to call it "innovation" on their part that makes me laugh.

I hate the look, they look like a first attempt at 3d human modelling, too fussy and emotionless for me. They should look a bit more Jap/Pop culture or like the characters in Little Big Planet which are considered. Even a basic shape can look good with a bit of consideration - look at Qees and other novelty toys to see what a bit of thought can do.

"But I think it’s a logical extension of our Gamercard, Gamertag and Achievements"

How does the above statement set the record straight?

Anyways, I dont care if its a good idea or a bad idea, more options and features is well... more options and features.

What everyone is failing to realize here is that the inclusion of Avatars doesn't effect the game play. So what is the big deal? Don't we get game systems to play games on, not because they have "Miis, Trophies, or Gamercards"? I know that is why I own game systems, maybe I am in the minority here.

Outrage! The 360 copied the Wii! Even worse, the 'mii' is just a cheap soulless copy of the Gaia avatar. By slapping on a different name and changing features and using it in a different way, they have severly ripped off everything I love! Also, I cant believe how Destructoid lets us shamlessly copy M$ gamerpics with the pictures we can put next to our names!

/sarcasm.

Seriously though...avatars were around a while ago, and to assume that the wii was the first successful use of them or something?

Just another side of the argument. : P

NO MOAR DOWNLOADS!!!

I got nothing and going through online withdraw.

The guy was clearly talking about gamertags/cards/whatever being an innovation. Maybe I'm mistaken but Nintendo & Sony weren't doing that first?

Of course if you wanted to be a dick you could say that Nintendo totally stole the idea of mii from that horrible WeeMee thing on MSN Messenger and whoever came up with XMB probably did it while using the menu on his Media Center PC.

I guess it's just cooler to call out Microsoft though eh?

Its kind of weird that the rendering representation is squarely in the middle of Mii and PS3's home.

Waiter, take this shit away, I didn't order this kiddy ripoff.

Kielejocain:

Who ever said that?

personalize? Why don't you just have a link to facebook under your avatar while your at it.

I'm imagining the possibility of MS actually trying to get us to buy more stuff for these new avatars on Xbox live! New clothes, useless props, new hair styles...I'm sorry but your mullet is not included with the default avatar set, either buy this new hair style on Xbox live for about 800 points, or shave your head in real life to match your bald avatar!

I cant remeber when Microsoft had it's own original thought let alone the abilty to create it's own software with out mimicing someone elses success. windows=mac, explorer=netscape, xbox=ps2, messenger=aol need i give more examples.

What does word equal?

Prediction: MS Home is announced, developed, tested, released before Playstation Home.

eh?

eh?

funny that MS claims innovation when the only reason their doing this is because Wii & PS3 are doing their original thing, and MS is just making a rehash of both of them.

So sad, they had the potential to actually create something totally bad ass, like exaggerated characters that look like monsters, dwarf, stuff like FPS/WoW. Nope, instead they steal Nintendo's boring Miis... nope MS cant be original, to risky, we leave that to Nintendo and Sony.

I'm really sick of people getting mad when one company "copies" another company's idea that works. The only problem here is that no one wants more retarded-looking avatars.

fuck you microsoft
I have a personalized gamertag, I have a nice picture of kage from vf5 on it.
I DON'T WANT YOUR NINTENDO SHIT ON MY XBOX
if I wanted a mii, I'd buy a wii.

Though it is true MS does take a lot of ideas that are out there they also polish those ideas. MS Office for example was not an entirely original idea. There was a whole area of office applications such as Word Perfect(Word), Dbase and Fox Pro(Access), Lotus 123(excel) that they made there version of for there platform windows. But they had the vision with these products and saw the importance of interoperability between these apps why can't you put a spreadsheet in a doc why cant you link data in a spreadsheet to database.

Really I think with live they tried to do the same thing. They said voice chat and messaging will be standardized across all games. Matchmaking also standardized and I don't know that some people truly understand what that meant. I can pull out a copy of Worms 3d for my xbox and still play it online, of course no one is playing it now but I can if I want to ask my friends to play some ancient game with me. Now MS did finally bend to EA and some other Devs with 360 to allow them to run their own servers which is both a good and bad thing, it grants more features and control but does limit the longevity of the game to how long the servers are maintained(I really wish more games had the ability to host servers yourself). But from Patches to online interactions MS has built a solid ship with Live(even if they did do as hot with hardware reliability).

So yes MS is taking a queue from the competition here but they polishing it too in their ways. I really think things like the 1 vs 100 and uno rush game competitions have potential. They have been running contest like these for a while but to have a place to find current events and contest going on is a great community feature. These are casual titles but I think even core gamers like some casual play but hey this could easily spill into the core games. I am sure there will be tons of there own touches and ideas buried beneath MS's Mii's but really does it matter they are all just taking ideas that existed and making them their own with their little tweaks.

Nintendo did not invent the avatar nor did Sony. The area I see MS really copying is the using of a standardized avatar in multiple games as part of a SDK but I think both avatars and Home have more potential to take these further since they are not onlineaphobic. Even Sony took a cue from Mii's in there Home and probably some cue's from social games like second life but that does not diluter their little touches that make Home a Sony Product. I'm sure Avatars will innovate in their own way just like Home will and hopefully Nintendo will continue to.

...and Nintendo copied Sega with an analog stick on the N64. Get over it people....go complain about the economy or something else worthy of lost breath. Where was the hoopla when Sony decided to start using Achievements? They directly copied the Xbox and I dont remember hearing much fuss about it. So who gives a fuck, really?

avatars and mii's are stupid period

I hear they're coming out with digital numbers.

With this, I will be able to confuse people by having the gamertag Nintendoll whilst having a male avatar.

My dream of being an improperly proportioned man on the internets can now be fulfilled! Hooray!