• SingStar: Coming out in May/June in PAL, later this year in U.S. Sony wants to work closely with record industry to expand the song list.
• PlayStation Edge: Sony is sharing core tool and technology with all PS3 devs with respect to the game they are making. It will cover two key areas: GCM Replay (profiling tool that works with chip inside PS3) and SPU Geometry processing, animation, compression. Info will be shared via dev network.
• LittleBigPlanet: The guys that made Rag Doll Kung Fu are making this game. They have formed a development company called Media Molecule.
• LittleBigPlanet: The main "character" is a little stuffed animal, cutesy guy with a zipper up the front. The makers say this "game" is about empowering players to make whatever they want to do.
• LittleBigPlanet: Players will start with Sack Boy, as he is called. You can control his hands with analog sticks and do other functions with the controller -- even SIXAXIS functions. There is a cross media bar-type user interface when making things. You will be able to customize your character and environment fully with everything being made of real world materials. It's not just about placing objects, you can change the look of anything you make.
• LittleBigPlanet: Players can invite other players into their creation and that player can change your world as well. Everything happens in real time with the physics engine. The game plays on your own and communal creativity -- they say this is a big part of Game 3.0. The simple and creative tools will allow users to make tactile and highly-interactive environments -- the big point being, you can make a whole game.
• LittleBigPlanet: As I said, you can bring other players in to play your game. You can grab each other or grab objects in the world and interact with them -- even smack around our buddy a little. The game looks very very polished and is simply amazing. There is no scripting involved and the whole thing is made with simple tools and that are just having fun with physics.
• LittleBigPlanet: Everything in the game you create and lay out. You can have jet packs, and other cool stuff that was displayed across the playable level they showed. The game supports dynamic lighting throughout the world -- it's just simply amazing.
• LittleBigPlanet: You can vandalize and change other people's or your own level as you are inside and "playing" a friends game/environment. After you have created your masterpiece, you can share it with everyone around the world. The world menu will show how many have played your game, you'll get comments, messages, and can see highest rated lists. You will also be able to download other people's games. It's all very unreal and quite impressive.
• LittleBigWorld: It comes later this year to download on the PS Network and Blu-ray disc in 2008.
In closing, this was huge for Sony. This could be the first, real turning point for the PS3. You may not believe me, but when you see just what can be done with home and LittleBigWorld, you will be sold on what is possible with the PS3.
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2:47 PM on 03.07.2007
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can't wait
my only comment about he individual user spaces: i just bought a sony 55 rear projections tv, i hope i don't have to pay any extra to have it in my personal space. paying for it once was enough. [:
Not that what Xbox Live and Mii's can do isn't great and all, but this is obviously better.
They still need to make it happen though. Remember, these are the people that said "4-D".
right now, this is all peaches and cream, and a really cool concept, but a mini MMO doesn't make a gaming console. games do.
this could all be pooped right out if MS introduced something similar to live.com for the xbox. no one talks about live.com. its a shame, b/c its fucking incredible.
do you run vista? do you not love gadgets? you could decorate your live.com page with gaming gadgets, they already exist. they are also super easy to develop for.
i am not a fan of MS software in general, but they did somethng right. so right in fact, that everyone is out to best them, which is not easy to do when your lagging 5+ years behind.
there's a lot of potential here, and for some people, i'm sure this is very appealing. personally, i spend all day in front of a pc, and when i plunk down at the end of the day infront of my console, its all about gaming. find some friends, load something up, and get lost in it. not so much wandering around and socializing.
The big problem still remains one of hubris for Sony. Because this is so great, they may think that this will sell the system at 600, delaying a price drop (and their installed base to fall further behind).
And OMG monosylabik...banana stickers...
Nathan Explosion: We won't be needing your banana stickers. ::kicks open a trunk of banana stickers:: We have found out that you can just, you know, buy psychological validation, so...
It will be interesting to see how MS responds to this. Xbox Live doesn't look quite obsolete because of this, but definitely seems like it's missing something now...
The most important thing to me is still the games. Interfaces should not be the main selling point of a console.
If you want to watch or d/l a movie, you gotta walk to it? I really don't see this as any better than xbox live.
Like Galagabug said, it's all about the games. I like to chat while playing something with a friend, not just sitting around in a virtual room.
It'll be interesting to see how this pans out.
(this is the rumer that Kutakutotok talked about wasn't it?)
Sounds like a decent step in a new different direction for Sony with combating online interaction. I just hope it's not crazy in depth as I wouldn't want to live a 2nd life syle like the sims on my PS3....=ghey
I cant wait to see how they pull this off but if they do this right, you can be pretty certain this kills xbox live, Miis and Second life.
However before you start bitching about this being "all they have done" let me share some announcements which will soon enough appear here in dtoid, so I wont go too much in details.
-WarHawk coming this year. pure multiplayer, 3 modes of battle, foot soldier, vehicle, plane -integrated- ala battlefield 2.
-Heavenly sword this year too.
-Calling all cars (with the warhawk engine) yep, this year.
-Killzone 2 coming this year and although Ive only seen stills it does look quite a bit like that damn fake trailer we all have seen. side comment as an xbox360 user: Ouch!
And remember this kids, playstation network is FREE, as in free beer.
Oh crap, I hope Ms has something up their sleaves, or is "adios xbox live"
It might not be for me, but I really think young teenagers are going to love this. People go crazy for a customized virtual house type thing and the ability to make avatars and dress them up. This does all of that, why would you honestly ever play the sims if you had this.
As for killing Second Life, i doubt it, unless there's e-prostitution in Home, as that's all SL is really for.
This will be really big, they need to can all the lame adverts and just plaster this all over TV. Tons of 60 second ads with different features, like the apartment thing, the communal areas (like cinemas etc.), the trophies/achievements stuff, the simple 'Arcade' games and so on.
Sony needs to make this the reason to buy a PS3 as it will do as much to attract non hardcore gamers as Miis and Wii Sports did.
I bet people will start marrying eachother and falling in love with some virtual 40yr fat ass who pretends to be a 16yr old chick.....YES!
I think its the fact that it is different that makes it neat. It is like the Wii Mii and XBL had sex, and this was born.
It is like XBL but more innovative and offers more depth and freedom. I will give it a try and see what happens; however, I know for a FACT my girl will love this as she loves the sims and sims type games.
If they don't have a lot of great titles that are online, and matchmaking as quick and easy as xbox live, Home won't matter as much for a lot of gamers.
Also, I don't so much mind having ads all over the XBL blades because it's the blades, but the "This is Living" space they've given the user will be cluttered with ads and branded shit. No thanks.
Also, I don't need an avatar to play pool, poker, chess, etc. I just need the game itself. Just like I have built into my MSG'ing client.
This feels like it's strictly for the MySpace/Animal Crossing/Second Life/Sims addicts, and potentially a few more users above and beyond.
I'd still like to see some games Sony. Ancillary features to the base console doesn't make me spend my money. If that was the case, you woulda had me with the BluRay or X360 would've with their HD DVD drive. I want games. So far MS and Nintendo have been listening a lot more than you.
You do realize you could take that $400 you're willing to spend on the system, open up a bank account and have it mature around that time, if not a couple months later - take it out and pay for it without any "extra" out of your pocket.... Right?... Or am I the only one who figured this out?
"Also, I don't so much mind having ads all over the XBL blades because it's the blades, but the "This is Living" space they've given the user will be cluttered with ads and branded shit. No thanks."
There have beens ads in many games, FEAR, Dues Ex, Terminator 3...lol monster and right now your entire LIFE is and perception is based on and cluttered with ads. Your name in volves DVD = free advertising for them. Your shirt, pants, hat...etc advertising. We as humans tend to shut out advertisements that do not interest us as they just become static background images. Driving anywhere also involes a mega ass load of advertising that is in your face, why would this effect gaming? Y
Basically you cannot look anywhere without seeing some sort of advertisment or thinking about an ad/product in some form like when you shower and look down and start humming the Viagra song...advertising (just joking man, but you get what I am saying)
I dont think in game ads on wall will ruin much; however, if they spam your ass with pop ups in game, or before...like waiting for an ad to load before you play...THEN that is retarded and would defintly pose for crappy game play
Best case scenario for me is that this entices the people who like this sort of crap into buying PS3's thus a larger install base, all ending with developers getting some exclusive (or decent) games on this thing.
At 7% interest per annum (assuming it were tax free) it would take 6 years for $400 to mature to $600. Even if you could get 25% interest you'd need nearly 2 years.
So I think this really is a 3d MMO menu. You could probably bring up some menu on that PSP to do things oldschool, with menus, OR you could do it the new way, walking and talking to people. I like this.