| eugene said: Live did not sell the Xbox. Compelling games to play on live sold the Xbox. People would rather have free online, but they want to play games that they wanna play, so they would rather pay $50 a year to play the game they want rather than something for free that they dont wanna play. In the end, its all about the games. The mass market is blind to features. Sony is gonna have to spend millions educating people about what HOME is , what blue ray is, and etc. The only thing that can sell it is compelling games that people want to play. |
I disagree, slightly, I beleive that Home like Live will enhance the gaming experience. Live only enhanced so far but also limited developers to one online field. Home brings together different styles of gaming networks and allows for management of a global system versus an internally housed system. Online gaming should never be a closed box, thats why Live is a compete failure on PC. PC is a global network and with free tools like xfire that world becomes inter-connected. It's the same thing Sony is trying to accomplish. Home will bring that idea closer and enhance areas of it because of the interactivity. You can have a clan meeting while you bowl or play pool. On PC you would have to use skype, xfire, teamspeak, or ventrilo to enable you to chat and then have to go pay yahoo pool or something which isnt close to half as pretty.
I see with Home Sony pushing ahead of Live for an online game pay due to all above and the fact that you can also interact with other people from around the world. As long as it never becomes as bad as the XBL nubs in game with the shout-feasts Sony definitely has a better overall network and online gaming experience.
