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Unfortunately we weren't able to live blog the Phil Harrison keynote address, so I've been relegated to just reporting the aftermath and what occurred to you here.

Before you hit the jump and see what happened, let me say this bit of editorial coming from a very objective standpoint: This is huge. This is what will make the PlayStation 3 worth owning. In one year, Sony could take down Second Life, Miis, and Microsoft's XNA program. This is what Sony should have launched with, but is it too late? I don't think so.

I'm going to make this as easy to read as possible by using a series of bullet points to convey everything that was said. But, the big thing for Sony now is the term "Game 3.0." They use the term as a way of describing today's gaming culture and what is possible, a world where we're all connected and sharing content, etc. Here we go:

• Defining Game 3.0: It is about the connected device, with dynamic content and active connected communities, open standards Social, content creation, collaboration, and customization. Sony is not trying to claim Game 3.0 as a trademark, it's just how they like to think about it. To them, it's all about community, about cooperation, and being powered by the audience who is at the center of the entertainment experience.

• home: home is basically like the Second Life and Mii killer all in one big package. You will be able to customize yourself and environment fully in a well-detailed 3D environment. There is voice chat support as well as preset expressions and sayings.

• home: It will launch later this year and be located as a new icon on the PS3 cross media bar. You will "launch home," Press X to connect, sign in and then thrown into the online world. When you land, you go in "central lounge." You can bring up a virtual PSP and use it for various functions within home.

• home customization: PS3 games will unlock content specific to your character. home is a 3D community that is a social networking service where you can express yourself the way you want.

• home: Dynamic advertising will be pushed into the space. Banner ads are actual banners. HD-quality video can be streamed inside space -- ads, game trailers, etc.

• home public spaces: There is a games lounge -- basically a low intesity environment where you can play easy and simple multiplayer games. Also have trailers streamed in throughout with sound you can walk up to that changes in volume as you get closer or further away. Can walk up and play pool, there's a virtual bowling alley and they have embeded arcade game cabinets -- you can download arcade games in them and they show up as virtual arcade machines.  

• home: You can quick travel with virtual PSP which will include a world map feature. Everyone at home has their own private apartment that you will be able trick out. There are different wallpapers that will be available -- can have game-branded wallpaper as well. You can have your own clan club room and download additional furniture -- free or premium items or linked to a game.

• home: The furniture in home is physics based -- can pile all on top of each other if you want. Can display any content on your PS3 hard drive and put up in the apartment and anyone can go in your room and see that. You will be able to walk up to a picture frame and grab a picture or video from your memory stick and display it to anyone in the room.

• home: You will really be able to pimp out your house/apt. You can put premium items in the space, like a pool table. You'll be able to have a deck and have a full-scale party. Music can be streamed to other users, as well as video.

• home Cinema: There will be content available from different TV and movie studios and users themselves. There will be user selected spaces where you can see different trailers, etc., and everything will update with the latest content available. Sony is working with grouper.com to bring in user content. Users will be able to access TV shows just by walking in the door of your choice. You can even walk in with friends and chat about it.

• home sports Lounge: For developers, Sony is saying it's very simple to build. Devs can reuse content for their own games. Users can go into sub rooms with mini games -- they showed a driving range, 3-point shootout. Speaking to devs, Harrison says it will be really easy and simple and powerful to bring community to the dev's game brands.

• home Hall of Fame: This is a brand new experience for PS Network -- think Xbox 360 achievement system but on a grander scale. You can customize your physical environment and view trophies you got based on achievements in a game. You can invite a friend into the trophy room -- keep in mind trophies are in full 3D and unique to the game/achievement. Trophies can even animate. (Loco Roco was shown, hasn't been announced). But, it's not just about the games you own, but the entire network and seeing what other people have done -- room looks like the Star Wars council hall.

• Final details of home: Unique, real-time 3d community for the PS Network; free to download and use; avatar based community; public and private space; infinitely customizable; in future, have pets more sophisticated clothing; large scale beta begins April 2007, service launches Fall 2007.

• SingStar: Harrison says this embodies the game 3.0 experience -- SingStore, SingStar Live. There will be weekly contests and you'll have a "my SingStar Online" profile.

• SingStar: You can see what friends are singing and how people have commented on your performances. You will be able to go to the Sing store and download songs you want to sing -- even stream video previews through server. Tracks you buy will download in the background. With "My media gallery," you can record your performances with Eye Toy and share them with people on the PS Network with SingStar.

• 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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Namelessted's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 17:09
Namelessted
I think the Playstation Home sounds like too much. i dont' want to have little fucking trophies that my friends can look at, who fucking cares? if i want to play second life then i will "play" second life. watchign movies in a digital realm? what the fuck? I would rather just make it full screen on my computer or stream it to my TV and watch it in real life rather than having an avatar watching it and me watching it in turn.

I admit this thing has great potetial but knowing Sony, i feel quite certain they will manage to completely fuck it up, its what they do best. 360 Acheivments are just right, you can see a number and know what that number means and scroll through easily readable text to know what achievements you have. Having to look at different fucking trophies is retarded, maybe its just me, but i never liked trophies. Trophies are the things that dick fucks in high school have, the kind of guy i hate with all of my being keeps trophies.

i will continue my rant later maybe.
glg20decoy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 17:28
glg20decoy
@namelessted

Right!
tehArtist's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 17:49
tehArtist
Well, this still isn't that impressive, by the time everything is up and running for the PS3, I don't think it can still catch up. Maybe after the first price drop, which will only be god knows when.

Face it, Sony oversold themselves running that big mouth and it's biting them in the ass. I own a Wii, and I"m getting a 360, and will eventually buy a PS3. I'm not what you would consider a fanboy. I just hate the PS3.

To be honest, Only a moron with more money than common sense would buy the damn thing at this point. Either that, or mommy and daddy pay for everything. The PS3 offers nothing that can't be countered by MS/XBL or Wii/Wi-Fi.

Sony sold out the consumer by getting greedy. When will the fanboy's own up to it?
antivert's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 17:50
antivert
So LittleBigPlanet.. is there a way to "win"? If not and it's a toy and not a game, what makes it compelling? You get to jump over and push rocks? Sounds like it'll be somewhat neat for about a day or so then get stale very quickly. If you disagree, tell us why you think "it's just simply amazing".
deiga-the-semivaliant's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 17:57
deiga-the-semivaliant
Looks like someone was picked on a lot at High School! ;-)
neveranything's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 18:05
neveranything
@Dennen
I'm not sure what kind of bank account you're looking at, but if you want to make $200 worth of interest from $400, in say a year, you'd better have a REALLY good savings account there.
DoctorEuphony's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 18:24
DoctorEuphony
Either most of this thread is Sony fanboys or you lot get REALLY excited easily. I fail to see how a free virtual world and ONE amazing game is supposed to justify 600 bucks flying out of my pocket that could go towards one or 2 other established next gen consoles. Don't sell me on your potential. I POTENTIALLY could invest in stock and make millions. I SAFELY can buy a 360 and play many next gen games with online support and downloadable content.
SubOrbital's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 18:47
SubOrbital
Am I the only one who read this and thought it was all rather bleh?
rosalindaveue's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 19:09
rosalindaveue
It's hard to believe the enthusiasm over this, enthusiasm that starts with the poster. "This is huge"? This is dull. People can laugh about Nintendo being all about the kiddies, but wait until you see who's online in "Home"-- 9-14 year old boys and WOW freaks who cant afford a real computer. Second Life blows because the type of people who have the time to walk around in second life are the types who think a flying penis is high-larious. I dont know if any of you folks have kids, but google "webkins" and you'll see exactly what this is. Kids buy a stuffed animal and get some online space; then they play games to earn virtual cash and build virtual houses with flat screen TVs and bathrooms for virtual versions of their stuffed critters. Works geat for my 6 year old-- because its a a virtual dollhouse. Yet for some reason it seems to have pushed 20-something game journalists into orgasmic raptures. I don't get it.
Milofo's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 20:25
Milofo
It looks good and all but what about the reason we play games systems; the games?

Also I have the same question of why the DS is in games 2.0 and not 3.0? Also why is the dreamcast in games 1.0 when it was the first to bring internet to game consoles?
Im OK's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 21:18
Im OK
Wow, okay I just read this and watched the Home video and...

...it...

...doesn't interest me in the slightest bit.

It just sounds like more superfluous bullshit to try to distract from the fact that the PS3 doesn't yet have any actual games. It certainly, in no way whatsoever, makes me want to run out and buy a PS3 now.

Then again, I also don't really care that much about Miis or Xbox whatever and certainly not Second Life either, so maybe I'm just not in the target demographic for this kind of thing. Yeah, once I finally get around to getting a PS3 at some point, I'd probably muck around with it for a little while, simply because it's there to muck around with, but that'd be about it. I hope it turns out well for them and all, but it's nothing that I personally give the slightest two shits about. *shrug*
Im OK's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 21:33
Im OK
And not to go all "When Nintendo Fanboys Attack!!!" here or anything, but wasn't one of the BIGGEST GRIPES that anti-fanboys had about the Wii was that it was targeting casual gamers? Hasn't it been pointed out ad nauseam that the PS3 was for the "real" gamers, while the Wii was for teh kiddies and soccer moms and grandparents and whatever?

Yet, now Sony comes out with something that is basically their own proprietary version of The Sims Online or Second Life, and suddenly it's all THIS IS HUGE! Yet we've all seen in the past how much Destructoid hates Second Life, so what gives? How will this be any different?

Sorry for hogging all the hatorade here, but I really don't get why this is something to be having orgasms about.
Im OK's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 22:01
Im OK
I'll admit that the LittleBigPlanet thing looks interesting, though.
salmonmoose's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/07/2007 23:03
salmonmoose
I beta tested for Rag-Doll, I have a lot of faith in what Mark will put out will be cool. But I'm in Australia, and for the Price of a PS3, I could buy myself a second 360 and Wii.

I'm interested in seeing where it goes - I note it does say "open standards" which means both Nintendo and Microsoft will be free to implement it anyhow doesn't it? Or, are they not THAT open?

It sounds like it makes things more complicated, the thing I hate MOST about my Wii, is that if I pull a disc out, and put another one in, it craps itself - asks for the disc back etc etc, is the PS3 going to force me to walk to my virtual drive to eject the disc? The 360 may have it's problems, but I can just swap a disc and play a game without faffing about in the dash.
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 04:32
wardrox
"Game 3.0" come on! They have a long way to go still to dig themselfs out of the hole there in.
Lezbro's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 15:04
Lezbro
Hype don't mean shit.

I remember sporting a fully engorged geek hard-on when the PSP was announced. But all of those ridiculous promises came to nothing. We shall see.
xrayne446's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 21:17
xrayne446
PLEASE CONSIDER THIS!! and why my fully engorged geek hard on is still large and in charge.

think about this, the playstation three is ahead of its time. imgin if it released fall of this year. it would be loaded with heavenly sword, resistance, final fantasy XIII, motorstorm(completed), killzone, possible metal gear four and a slew of perfected sports titles, ports, and playstation online games.
it would come with a completed "home" app, FREE online (best qoute on this post="And remember this kids, playstation network is FREE, as in free beer")
a bluray dvd play, and probably 100 dollars less.
there would have been enough systems at launch and they would hve been able to polish the cell technology to perfection.
also the eyetoy would be fully functional and the sixaxis would have vibration (dispute would be over)

ha, i got way to into this to even get at a point......but it might be, DAMN SONY FUCKED UP!!! but its getting there, we just need more time, which sony is lacking as of now. i am convinced that i need one for the future of gaming, but the future can wait till home is fully operational.....or mgs comes out, either or.*waits patiently*
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