Phil Harrison, porn, PlayStation Home, and Second Life |
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Phil Harrison was interviewed by Three Speech the day after his keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2007. The interview covered several things, but the interview immediately focused on PlayStation Home and porn.- Parental control. Like the PlayStation Network, parents can control whether kids have access to Home or not.
- Private spaces of PlayStation Home. Private spaces are unmoderated. Harrison compares this to emails and video chat.
- Actions in public spaces of PlayStation Home. There are animations to shake hands or to do some other appropriate social action. But there won't be any inappropriate acts.
Three Speech: What about uploading porn from your PS3's hard-disk to your private space? And maybe inviting people you don't necessarily know back and them being slightly offended by what they see, then going to a moderator?
Phil Harrison: Well I'm disappointed that you would use those as the first questions. I think Home should be used for a much wider and more beneficial scope than that, but I think that people can express their creativity inside Home in a wide variety of ways and it's not necessarily for us to dictate what that should be. However, if somebody feels uncomfortable about an encounter on Home, itÂ’s very easy for them to ban that person from their friends list...
The rest of the interview talked about shortcuts in your avatar's virtual PSP (so your lazy avatar doesn't have to physically walk across the expanses of PlayStation Home), and 3D bookmarks (a 3D screenshot of the place at Home where you were standing), virtual cinema (short trailers are OK at Home, but full movies are better viewed via the XMB).
PlayStation Home is fundamentally different from Second Life. There's one point we'd like to focus on, and that's where we'll end this coverage of Harrison's interview (for more, you can click the "Read" link below).
Home is very different from Second Life.
You have to remember that Second Life is all about user-generated content. Sony, on the other hand, is a world leader in entertainment technology and content (movies, TV, music, etc.). PlayStation Home is, to use Harrison's words, "a lot of the framework for entertainment to take place in," and PlayStation Home will have some degree of user-generated content, but in the end, PlayStation Home is one big show for us to explore, enjoy, look at, and listen to. And that makes Home resonate with Sony's commercial role as a multimedia entertainment giant.
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yall will miss out on all the fun that home is gonna give us........i dont know which 1 but 1 of yall writers are a 360 fan and have 1,i can tell that u they have 1,cuase on some of the ps3 news,they have sonthing negative 2 say about the ps3 ,but they sugar code it
so home makes up for all the games 360 has?
blue dragon, lost odyssey, alan wake, dead rising, etc?
sorry home not worth 600 bucks
I think that Home would benefit a lot from more user created content... Eventually I hope that you will be able to customize and create objects similar to Second Life. As far as I know there isn't a public statement that Home will not incorporate these things in the future - so it is a possibility. And, even if there were a statement, Sony could always change their collective minds.
The 3d bookmarks sound like they will be much nicer to navigate through compared to SL's Landmarks. But, again, as far as we know with Home - the area will be much smaller than what Second Life has - but I am sure that if Home is a hit - the virtual landscape may get larger and larger.
It will be nice to hear more information - and I have been dying to hear what people think of Home - especially those watching the Second Life scene.
Home sucks DlCK! PS3 sucks major ass! XBOX 360 for the win for sure!
Home will be unique experience. Thank you Sony.
if the ps3 sucks, why do you read every news about it? and yes you read it thoroughly.
@vecha ok so those games are great, so good that they may be ported to the ps3 by its publishers so that they can reap more money. 3 millions possible buyers and increasing is a good additional opportunity. @Sudfan register first so your words can be valid, people who dont register are afraid. what will the xbox 360 win? if the xbox360 outsales the ps3 in japan then we'll talk. but for now i bid you SORRY xbox 360 cannot dominate. as for the topic, its good to see that sony is aware of the dangers Home may provide and is ready to prevent porn and other nuisances. more power to Free Universe for PS3 Users called Playstation HOME.
Home is gonna be cool. The flameboys' envy is proof enough.
It's going to be a lot easier to control griefing just due to the fact that they can completely ban a PS3 if it doesn't stop instead of temporarily banning an IP address if they really wanted to.