I own all 3 of the current consoles. Why wouldn't I. I have/had the cash and as a discerning gamer utterley bemused by all the fanboy bullshit I hooked myself up. Although owning them all brings its own problems....
Basically, I have had a 360 since launch (Yep, it still works) and as most of my friends own the same if a game is available across all the consoles, I buy the 360 edition. That and the fact that I am sadly attracted by gamerpoints. I have very few, but I like to think that one day I will work my way through the 40+ games I own and max them all out. Hey, a guy can dream.
But having followed both Infamous and Uncharted 2 I'm prediciting that this year may well belong to Sony, certainly in the exclusives anyhow. Don't get me started on Quakezone 2. I'm with the somewhat infamous Edge review when it come to KZ2. It is a safe 7. Looks a lot like Quake 2 albeit with a next gen update. Anyhow, I digress.
So top of my shopping list is Infamous. BUT....I have no interest in Home. It seems to me that Sony have yet to sort out the whole trophy thing. Basically when I boot up my PS3 I do not want a menu. I do not want what basically amounts to my laptops desktop. I want ON TOP my profile, my trophies, my friends and their trophies. I do not want to have to boot up HOME. I have no interest in a 3D avatar. I do not want to walk around a 3D world. I just want a nice sleek menu based system that totals up my achievements vs my friends achievements and lets me access the PSN Store & my game(s).
Is Sony that pissed off with Microsoft that they feel the need to cut there own nose off to spite their face? Surely I am not the only person who sees HOME as a massive waste of hard disc, bandwith and most of all time. It would take Sony a couple of weeks I'm sure to come up with something that basically amounts to the NXE.
Or....is it just me.
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I'm not that interested in Gamerpoints or Trophies. Microsfot has a better chance of getting my interested in them solely because of the fact that there is a shorter lag to checking them. Why the hell does my 'superpowered' console, the Ps3 have to sit there updating my trophy list everytime i look at them.
Home will do nothing to absolve the fact that i have no online personality on the Ps3.
You have this already. Using the (literally) award-winning XMB, you can view your trophies, your profile, your friends profile and trophies and compare both games and individual trophies with them. Unlike the NXE, it doesn't kick you out of games to do it either; I still don't know why the online/achievement flaunting 360 wouldn't let me see them while I was playing. You have to go through a menu either way, the PS3 is just has one that's ad free and a hell of a lot better designed.
Home doesn't have all the game launching options I want so I don't use it. The solution is no more complex than that, and certainly not worth the effort of actually complaining about it.
So ALL my Multi-Platforms are bought for the Playstation.
I have YET to even enter the homosexual space that is "HOME".
& Have never gone Online w/ the Wii... Mainly because FriendCodes are GAY & slightly complex. Especially when the only time I ever boot my Wii up. Is when I have been drinking.