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Habbo Hotel designer says no to online communities on consoles |
Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: MySpace, Playstation Home, Sony
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Now that it's a cool thing to have the most decorated MySpace account in the neighborhood, and playing a high-level World of Warcraft character makes you popular with the ladies, it is obvious that people love virtual communities. Even video game consoles nowadays want to conquer the online scene, but Habbo Hotel lead designer Sulka Haro doesn't think the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 will make it big as far as online socializing goes.Haro told Games Industry in an interview, "PlayStation 3, Xbox 360...those are for people who are seriously into gaming." Given that, he believes something like Habbo Hotel won't receive success on consoles. One big problem, according to Haro, is the ability to type messages which becomes difficult on game controllers. He mentioned how USB keyboards can be plugged into consoles but people don't take advantage of it.
What of PlayStation Home then, which Sony is strongly pushing for? As Haro sees it, the much anticipated service is "a world with a US$ 600 entry ticket." Apparently, he didn't like Home's feel during the beta. He was quoted, saying:
...in the demo I saw, it was this pretty clean Sony world. You're able to buy a virtual Bravia television that does not break. That's kind of funny, in some sense, but a bit too clean. It was too polished, somehow... It didn't feel like I'd really call that place my home.
Via Games Industry
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"He mentioned how USB keyboards can be plugged into consoles but people don't take advantage of it."
Yeah.. thats why the 360 people make the querty keybord attached to the controller to never leave the controller to type a message... that thing is just amazing.. I really like what microsoft do with that keyboard.. I always wanted that PS3 had that ir at least think about something like that but oh well.. everyone will tell them copycats...
Anyway they will never said that sony is making a better product than their childish virtual world...
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Seriously people, is this home thing really going to be all that great? I'm more interested in Little Big Planet myself, at least you can create stuff from scratch, sort of...
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