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John Smedley's take on Ozymandias

Posted Nov 5, 2006 at 1:32AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Andre Vrignaud, Microsoft, playstation 3 updates, PlayStation Network, Sony, Xfire

What does it all mean?

Earlier we did an article focusing on Microsoft employee Andre Vrignaud (Ozymandias) and his opinions on Sony's online PlayStation Network Service. This post will focus on John Smedley's counterpoint. Just in case you don't know who John Smedley is, the search tab is there for your convenient use. Moving on. John Smedley's response is such:

One of the cool things about integrating both the PlayStation Network and Xfire into our PS3 title Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom is that my friends on Xfire running on the PC can send me messages while IÂ’m playing the game on the PlayStation 3. I can also respond to them if I want.

I can do the same thing (also from within the game) with my friends that are playing other PlayStation 3 games using my PlayStation Network friends list. WeÂ’ve integrated both into the game because we realize how important it is to be able to tie into different groups of online friends. I personally think thatÂ’s one of the best things about the PS3Â’s open approach. I am a member of multiple online communities. The fact that the PlayStation 3 will allow publishers the option of hooking my favorite games into these communities is a big plus to me.

I do want to point out that you arenÂ’t just able to see if your friends are online at the cross media bar interface level.. it can happen within games too.

So what is the good Mr. Smedley trying to say? Basically in his point of view it's good that the PS3 is open and is allowing the publishers to dictate who they will be implementing their online community. He also thinks that it's good that, depending on what service a particular publisher is using, people on the PC can send messages to people playing on their PS3's.

Given that it is possible to be able to access the cross media bar at any point, he does have a point that it's convenient to see which one of your Â“globalÂ” PS3 friends are online, and that you can use the game to check which one of your game-specific friends are online.

We'll have to see where this pseudo online debate will go, before we say anymore regarding this topic. Now we say pseudo debate because if you click on our VIA link below and you look at Smedley's previous posts, you'll see that he's been actively responding to Ozymandias' blog posts. We could try to give you guys several metaphors describing what each service looks like so far, but we won't. That would be flame-bait.

Regardless of the direction this argument will go, it's comforting to see that Sony is actively trying to take their PlayStation Network in a direction different than Microsoft's XBL.

Via John Smedley's Blog

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I just think this goes to show no matter how much higher you get in a company and no matter how much older you get people will always want to flame at the end.

I think it'd be nice to talk to people on the PC while I'm playing on my PS3. I do think Sony has some good concepts for their online and people are bashing it just cause they aren't looking to clone XBL (and in that case the list of things PS3 has stolen would come back up and be flamed nonstop).

While I know some people think Sony can't do online worth a damn atleast it looks like here they have a good idea they are going with.

Hereing hoping for a nice online system on 1117

# hmm — skidz 2006-11-05 05:09

This doesnt belong in this section, does it? PS3 news to me.

# Xbox live > PS3 online — Guest 2006-11-05 06:37

lol xbox live still owns ps3 online. Sony isnt making money off there online service so obviously they wont care as much if all there customers are satisfied with there online service. As with xbox live were paying mircosoft so we know were going to get the best service mircosoft can have. The whole deal of talking to poeple on the pc while playing ps3 is stupid lol. Why would you want to do that? I like the xbox live chat channels so you can chat with all your friends while owning noobs in uno =)

# as mentioned — Spector 2006-11-05 09:36

This is a perfect example from what I mean. These clear non-logic using 12 year old flames and so do the much older people working for the game companies.

# Loaosad — Guest 2006-11-06 00:38

Yeah Xbox Live is a good service, and Sony's service sound cool as well.

"""The whole deal of talking to poeple on the pc while playing ps3 is stupid lol. """

No it's not. Cause when you and a friend or someone you became friends with across the net want to play a game with you and you're on the pc doing you're thing and they are doing what ever on there PS3, and they want to play what ever game with them you can join them. I think it is a cool idea in a way.

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