Home has been a bit of a whipping boy in recent months thanks to its continued delays. Sony UK's managing director Ray Maguire, however, would argue that to mock Sony is unfair, especially as it's just trying to make Home the best it can be.
We have to make sure that things are born at the right time, that the infrastructures are right and are tested, and that they actually work," explains Maguire when addressing the lengthy development process. "It's one of the things that PlayStation has been known for - a plug-and-play mentality, rather than a patch-patch mentality."
It's easy to kick Home about, but if Sony is not just giving us a blast from the bullsh*t hose, I can respect the decision to hold back a product until it's finished. Of course, one could argue that Home is not exactly the sort of thing Sony should be focusing so heavily on, given its main market, but at least if it's a waste of our time, it'll be a high quality waste of our time.
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12:38 PM on 11.10.2008
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And just when they think they've "got it" somebody gets a bright idea and they try to implement more into the home experience.
Either that or it's been one giant clusterfuck from the get go
Imagine a world without game announcements until they are on the stores. A world without hype! where we'd buy the games based on reality and not on some weird, unmeetable (is that a word?) expectations. Where we'd be playing and not lingering on how awesome the play will be.
fuck, I ranted. Sorry.
What do you think will be the male to female ratio here? This aint the soccer mom loving Wii you know. Have fun in the virtual sausage party!
The PS3 has always been fully functioning. The firmware updates are adding more features. You only "patch" things that are broken. I think there's a pretty big distinction.
That being said, I have no idea if I give a damn about Home or not. Maybe it'll be fun? I'm not even really sure what exactly it is, let alone if it'll provide more worth to my current games.
Either way, I don't think it'll sell many more systems and thus, it's probably a waste of money for Sony.