Friday 30 October 2009

There's hardcore, and HARDCORE!


Speaking at the London Games Conference yesterday, Sony's director of PlayStation Home in Europe said the virtual world accrues users who spend money and stick around for long stretches, but Home is nonetheless "not a priority right now."

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ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso ready to be burned.

for a bonus point: did you spot the mistake with that tattoo?

12 comments:

  1. Everyone knows a shoryuken is forward, down, d/forward + punch.

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  2. Also, re: Home (going for an Apnomis-length post here!)

    Seems that Sony are still trying to woo devs/companies into developing spaces & content, but they are putting less focus on actually developing the 'engine' underneath. I'd presume they are more or less happy with it performance wise so we'll probably only see tweaks rather than massively redesigning existing features. Content should still come through though I would imagine.

    Still not quite sure how I feel about Home. I do check it every couple of weeks or so, if only to grab all the free clothes/spaces to satisfy my Pokemon/Gotta Catch 'em All tendancies.

    I never spend any considerable time or money there though. Maybe it's because my gaming time is more precious these days and the people that I do like to 'socialise' with on the PS3 tend to be mates in real life or the fine people of threespeech.

    One of the things that would get me visiting Home is the ability to watch the various games conferences on a live video feed, but we can't even do that yet. Game launching is a good idea mind, but even with that, I'd rather just ping a message across the PSN saying; fancy a game of x!

    Whilst I'm not a fan of the kiddy-esque design of the Miis/Xbox avatars, I like the fact that they can be imported into various games and applications. The only time I have witnessed any level of 'joining' up with Home and PS3 games is getting a Shadowloo t-shirt after earning a particular trophy on Street Fighter 4.

    Hopefully the decision to scale down Home resources will free up a bit more time for Firmware development or even increase the level of support that Sony can offer third parties to ensure they get the best out of the system.

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  3. Home bores the hell out of me, I want to like it, but it sucks. Facebook is better for social networking, XMB is better for game launching.

    Instead of developing Home I'd like to have 1% of the effort go into XMB headset chat.

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  4. @MrJ

    Good work in summarising my post in two sentences. A career as a sub-editor surely awaits!

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  5. Blimey 'Tone - is that your other arm!?
    Yes, it is hardcore. Maybe so hardcore that the mistake is deliberate. He's changed the wiring on his own tournament fighting stick to make the shoryuken more difficult to execute!

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  6. Have any of you guys downloaded and tried any of the content on the store this week? I had a look last night and started downloading some of it. There's two ratchet and clank trailers weighing in at 2.5 gigs each! That should keep my poor broadband connection busy. I also have the other demos in my download queue (Trine, Dragonball something or other, fat princess - hang on I already have that one - must have downloaded it from the USA store before). I'm going away for the weekend. Maybe everything will be downloaded by the time I get back! :)

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  7. @reakt

    Have downloaded Trine demo so looking forward to trying that over the weekend. Still need to finish UC2 though - am at the start of chapter 21 so not too far to go.

    Downloaded Lumines the other day too - blooming hard but I have never played any of the PSP versions so I'm a bit of a noob.

    Did pull down the Dragonball and R&C demos, but promply deleted them as I not a big fan of either franchise and I think I've bought about 5 games in the last month that all need completing. Maybe I should give R&C another go though - support for console exclusives and all that!

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  8. I was a fan of the ratchet series on PS2. I think I bought and played through all of them. When Ratchet came to the PS3 the graphics were awesome (and still are). It's a marvel to look at. However, I didn't complete that one as I was already bored of the franchise. So I probably won't be investing in the full game of this particular Ratchet iteration (and I really wish the devs would take a risk with a completely new game franchise to replace Ratchet - In fact I wish Insomniac would try their hand at a few small PSN titles).

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  9. *sobs*

    I'm missiiing ooooout! WAAAAH *sniffle*

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  10. no, it's not my other arm, i would have gone for down, down/right, right, punch :)

    HADOUKEN!

    not downloaded anything this week, it's all about the Borderlands lately, had a great mad max 3 inspired battle last night against 'mad mel' in his truck in a vehicle ready thunderdome looking construction. only 2000xp off level 22 (need around 35,000XP per level these days and lesser kills etc only cough up 3 to 10xp each!!) and being able to use that awesome looking gun i have been carrying around for the last 3 levels.

    gunporn!

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  11. @ Sketchy - don't you still have the 'other' console.?

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  12. @pabloamigo - haha i suppose i did!

    I had a tattoo but it washed off - it didn't hurt at all, just a little water and slide off the backing paper, simples!

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