PS Home = WOW. Sony is upping the ante.

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TheSource said: 2) Can't Nintendo (in Japan) essentially negate this service with a really cohesive Animal Crossing game as an online hub? I imagine a section of Tom Nook's store where I can download a portion of DQIX and send it via wifi to my DS, or a "Hotel", where I can meet travelling avatar who come to trade goods or (simply fruit) on the 'stalk market'. Previous iterations of Animal Crossing already had 'other content' like Donkey Kong, so I don't see why the downloads couldn't become more sophisticated on Wii. If Wii sells in the same pattern as the DS in Japan, AC Wii would reach millions, potentially far more successful than Home consider PS3 may not even have a million users in Japan until May....

Exactly right. Apart from "doing it first", there is no technical reason MS & Nintendo couldn't copy *exactly* the same system. The Wii may struggle in terms of caching (and will have less realistic avatars/Mii's), but apart from that - it could be exactly the same. Still - kudos to Sony for doing it first. Now they just have to make it real... and make it work (anyone remember Killzone/Motorstorm at E3 a few years ago?).