Iwata: "PSN and Live too far developed for us to catch up"

[oniyide]

richardhutnik said:

oniyide said:

richardhutnik said:

oniyide said:

richardhutnik said:
I actually like Nintendo's approach. There may be a chance you actually get to meet people who have similar interests to you through your console. XBox Live really offers nothing like this, and Sony has Home as about it. Pretty much Microsoft and Sony want you to bring your friends onto their networks. Nintendo looks like they are having it so you may make contact with new people.

this doesnt even make sense, how are PSN and LIVE having you NOT meet new people? I meet new people everytime i boot up a game of...anything really. And i just go to the people's met list that PSN have and add them if I want. I dont see how its possible that Ninty can top that.

OT, this doesnt sound good either way you slice it. THey had the time and money to catch up. I was wondering were the online was at at E3 and now i know why. Well at least Iwata is being real, kudos to that.

Unless you are jumping into a game, and playing them, they don't facilitate meeting new people.  It isn't how it works.  Sony offers Home, but Live offers... check high scores and then extend a friend invite?  Thing is you can add names, but there isn't a way, outside of playing, where you can find out about them.  

this isnt FB or Twitter, its a video game console, why would i NOT want to meet people by actually playing games? 

I was saying that Microsoft, in particularly, doesn't offer a way for people to find and meet people who they share similar interests in, outside of a game.  Sony offered Home, but Microsoft offers nothing.  Why does this matter?  Well, take stuff like older XBLA stuff with leaderboards, or coop multiplayer, and it is such that, while some people do play them, they are not online when you are.  Of course, someone is going to go, "Why not just play the popular stuff?"  To this, I would answer, "So you are telling me my only option is to play a FPS like Call of Duty?:  It is a problem.  If you play a more obscure game, you don't find people for it, if they aren't on when you are.  Microsoft does NOTHING to remedy this at all.  They just want to make a buck off your network of contacts and do jack to have people expand this list.

you would have to be playing some real obscure game for NO one to be playing at the time. Im just not seeing it, no way to share similar interests outside of the game. If im on the console WHY would i want to do that? Even if you want to play something like...I dont know Streets of Rage and nobody plays that. What are your plans, go to NintyLand or Home and just ask a bunch of strangers if they happen to play that one or two strange ass games?? It makes more sense to play the actual game and see who shows up