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Nintendo gives its thoughts on Sony's Home |
Listed in: Wii, PS3 Tags: Beth Llewelyn, Mii, Nintendo of America, Playstation Home, Sony
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After the recently-concluded GDC, the freshly-announced PlayStation Home has caught the attention of many, turning heads and raising eyebrows of even the gaming community's bigwigs.Sony has drawn attention because of the similarity of its Home to Nintendo's Mii concept, where players can build avatars and interact with people online for social or competitive reasons. Nintendo of America PR director Beth Llewelyn commented "I think Home is very interesting, it looks like Sony is trying to figure out where their niche is.
"I saw things in there that reminded me of products that we've done and things we've done. It didn't seem something wholly revolutionary," she added.
The PR chief went on to say that on a deeper analysis, Home is pretty different from what Nintendo has been working on. "It would be something I would never do" she says.
So is Home a Mii rip-off or not? A closer look at forum posts from last year suggest that Sony might have been working on the concept a lot earlier than we all thought. You can find the link to the post in the Read link below.
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No, son, I'm sorry, Nintendo are just unethically playing the victim here. The hypocrites.
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Home is like a lounge, well it is. Chill, hang about etc.
Miis are a fun accessory kits that are used in wii games. I don't think the HOME playstation characters will even be used in other games. So they are similar in the way you customize but that is it.
Sony need something new, so they really did well.
Nintendo are really doing well too, they have some really good titles coming from now to December.
And people that complain about kiddie games...
No More Heroes, Zelda, Metroid, Red Steel, Fire Emblem, Camelot RPG, Resident Evil, Sports Games etc and a bunch more titles arn't for children.
People class mario as childish, well it probably is. But most people never get bored of mario kart, no matter how old they are. I don't like those mario platform games as much, but mario kart is suited for all.
You people seem to forget what a game is...
You buy a game because you enjoy it, that is it. Why do you guys care who plays it etc?
It matters about YOU!
Flame me all you want, but it is true.
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Those who think that they copied the Mii are really ignorant. The service as it is now is way too polished to be from a couple months time.
I can understand it being over 1 year old but its been in development for over 2 years now. If anything, Nintendo copied Sony on a virtual avatar service.
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The Mii channel is a rip off of THe sims online. So ask your self, Did NIntendo rip of the Sims? YES they did.
And to make this sound better, the 1st actual motion sensoring was tested and released for the PS1!!!!!!
So when that Nintendo guy sais that Sony copied them, think again bud!
And last, the Gamecube, it didnt play N64, so why argue for PS1-PS2 games on PS3?
Anyway Nintendo has been triying to do good ever since Sony got BIIIGGGGG!!
Only on3 word ; PSWII!!! or Play B3yond ; or ..like..no..other
Im out, Sony is the best!!!!!!!
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Comparing home to nintendo's Mii service is like comparing a tricked out Porche against a Civic. Sure the civic will make their niche audience drool when they slap a pop-can muffler and a weak stereo system in it but it still can't compare to the awesomeness of the Porche.
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Nintendo had the POWER GLOVE way be4 ps1 dumb fanboy
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It is 3rd party team, PAX. It went bankruptcy because of Nintendo don't make any game designed for only this glove.
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The wii is so revolutionary that the only new franchise is wiisport. The others are like the 15th zelda game and the 55th mario game.
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Think before you talk
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Too bad I kind of like the Wii.
And UT3 will add wireless blue-tooth mouse and keyboard support for those interested ..on a PS3.
Future-proofed. LOL.
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you moron. the only reason ps1/ps2 sold so many units is because they were cheap peices of *****!..everyone i know, including me, had to buy atleast 2 ps1's and 2 ps2's...no one in their right mind will buy 2 ps3's..ps3 wont sell nearly as many units and wont stack up to the inflated ps2 sales numbers.
sony needs to get over the fact they have all these ps2's out there when acually 50 are still running.. ROFL
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i want to converse with ppl virtually? No.
I acually have a social life and hang out with "REAL PEOPLE" i dont think playstation home is for me..
besides that,home is not gonna be completely free..
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it took that long to make this BS?
LOL
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Get off your XBox and learn how to read, you retard.
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Thats why Wii is selling
Oh and PS1/PS2 sold so much cause they had better games you douche
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If it wasn't announced by your hero Billy, it HAS to suck, right?
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As for the Wii, I have one and I do have to admit, it's just sitting there. The motion sensing is great on it though. If you think that this service is like Miis, then you're wrong my friend. With the Miis, you just make people. That's it! They can be used into game such as Wii Sports. I'm done ranting. PC wins
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theres 3 exclusives out now... 2 of which are racers
2 months until the next exclusive game
and THREE hyped third party exclusives ALL OF 2007... does that sound like the sony we know?
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"Crecente: I've gone through eight Xbox 360s. Nintendo less so, they've had their strap issues, but we've also had a few reports of other problems. But zero with the PS3."
Eight. Eight Eight. Think about that. Eight. Stunningly BAD quality.
How many more gave up trying to get them fixed or didn't want to pay $130 bucks every time because they don't have connections.. units now sitting in landfills and people out of luck. Check around and you will see just how bad it is. And yes it's still happening. From just last month..
http://geekspeaker.spaces.live.com/
Seems like Sony learned something from the few problems they had (benefits of in-house development) and MS went off the cliff in the opposite direction (benefits ? of out-house development). Eight. Of course MS will count that as shipped. Right?
Too bad they rushed it out onto the market instead of waiting (for ever?) to get it right for their customers..like they give a crap about them.. now they can just sucker them into buying it all over again 18 months later and make more money and re-inflate the numbers again.
By the way we had to buy another xbox after the first one failed ..stopped reading discs.. so I KNOW the Xbox were inflated numbers but since they sold so few who was really counting anyways...look more and more like the 360 will sell just as few..what a great investment. Not.
Of course Home and on-line is free..keep paying MS thru the nose for a lot less and for things that fail. You know .. like Vista and the 360.
At least UT3 will work with wireless blue-tooth keyboard and mouse on the PS3..looking more and more like Vista will take another year before games run reliably.
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^ Then why are 8+ million subscribers in World of Warcraft. What made it so popular...Hmmm
"i want to converse with ppl virtually? No."
^ Ill believe you once you turn off your Instant messengers and stop commenting on blogs.
"I acually have a social life and hang out with "REAL PEOPLE" i dont think playstation home is for me.."
^ Hey, no one is forcing you. Why bother downloading the free service when you can go outside home and play!
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What does this have to do with Mii's? The only similarity that I see here is that you can decide what your person looks like, and that's what just about every game has. It's just plain irrational to compare the two at all. If these were silly cartoon characters even, I could see the comparison, but as far as I'm concerned, the only similarity if that you make an avatar. >.> *which has been around for over 10 years*
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I think more than 50% of them will buy a PS3. I'm one of them I have both. But now after the Home announce, it's time to sell my X360. Someone stupid will buy it just for the halo hype.
Xbox360 = one hit wonder maybe 2 now (gears of war?)
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http://slgames.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/alternatives-to-second-life/
man MS and Nintendo caught with their pants down..again. Once you can understand but twice just makes you shortsighted and foolish and well incompetent management.
Developers won't be interested in the cross-gaming possibilities of sharing their Maya assets...nah...like using a Hummer you unlocked from GTHD barreling thru Mercenaries 3..nah .. they wouldn't be interested in letting specialists like polyphont build what they are good at while they concentrate on unique gameplay and have more realistic vehicle actions..nah.. and then taking it and letting users drive it around in their Home 3d world.nah..NOBODY is interested in THAT kind of interaction. Nobody.
So funny how big the denial is...which only proves how important it is.
I mean 2d games offer so much more over 3d games..right?
RFLMAO
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look..why is EVERYBODY talkin crap about sony now???i just dont get it...did you people forget who started this new form of gaming?? EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU PUT A DISC IN YOUR (INSERT SYSTEM HERE) YOU ARE USEING THE MEDIA THAT SONY DEVELOPED AND MADE FAMOUS...
if it werent for sony...we would still be playing on cartridges...or some other media...we wouldnt be as far along in game development as we are now.
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N64 had a lot of great games so did playstation. I have them both and still play 'em at times
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You do know what he's talking about was Nintendo and Sony's system that later became the playstation after Nintendo broke the contract called "SNES-CD" SNES-CD was in development before Sega-CD, I had a S-CD.
But instead of saying sony copied, shouldn't you be bashing nintendo too.
If you really wantt to get in the putting games on Cd here's some other systems that used CD: Panasonic 3D0 (doesn't it resemble "360"?) Bandai Pippin, Sega Saturn. But don't forget, who created the storage media your using now........give up? Sony. Yep.
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Wrong, it really was a reaction to Sega-CD. Nintendo needed to come up with the upgrade fast, that's why they went to Sony (and afterwards to Phillips).
So, yes, Nintendo was copying Sega.
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Even reviewers are saying everything Wii's got is worse than Twilight Princess
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ps3 is very useful for keyboard and mouse. im using ps3 right now here, typing. zip nintendo
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"Metal Gear" was on Nes. " Metal Gear Solid" was on Playstation you stupid worthless piece of *****...
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do you think metal gear solid 4 would better on wii, lol loser. metal gear is going to shoot your ass.------------------------------------------------------
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p.s. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake 1990 never came out for the nes version just MSX system. learn your facts idiot.
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That basically shot down every Xbox and Gamecube game at that point in time.
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And let's not even forget who made the first playable 3D game!
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Just don't waste money on Vista
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That's why the 360 won't ever be able to do Home - just the 3D world would tax it leaving nothing left for HD movies at the same time. Not a problem with the PS3.
And the Wii just isn't in the game.
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By who, and you don't count. The godfather game was crap a year and a half ago and it's still crap now. As for COD3 I refuse to play any WW2 game that does not let me play as the chinese, they were on our side you know.
And to the guy with the 6 month old dell, it wasn't top of the line six months ago? sure you may be burning dvd's on that piece of ***** but you'll have to pay 400 for a video card to do any thing spectacular, but you do have a Wii - what the hell do you know about graphics. You think the graphics on the first xbox were good enough, you didn't want anything better.
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I acually have a social life and hang out with "REAL PEOPLE"
What the hell are you doing right now moron. Besides the PS2 outsold the xbox by more than 2 to 1. So everyone buying 2 is not the reason what happened that xboys can't understand is that the old playstations had more than 3 good games. As for systems breaking, I guess you are the only person in the world who's xbox hasen't told them the brand new game they just put is was "dirty" and can't be read. Or all those people who preordered that first batch of trashed xbox 360's I'm sure they agree with you.
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and to all the people saying things like "OMFG $ONY COPIED NINTENDO THOSE BASTARDS". Sony did something right deal with it. Seems like if they put put great exclusives on it you guys would still flame it. It's also called a free market economy that's what companies do. As long as it's good who gives a ***** if they copied Nintendo.
Diss the lack of online features.
Diss the lack of fun exclusives.
Don't diss Home.
Peace.
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