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How can it fail? No one has to pay for it. You don't have to use it. Damn some of you need to have information before you post. IT'S FREE!



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Peter Potamus said:
How can it fail? No one has to pay for it. You don't have to use it. Damn some of you need to have information before you post. IT'S FREE!


it can fail harder that way u know : if no-one uses it....



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MontanaHatchet said:
eugene said:
Girls want a Wii. The system first has to attract girls, then they will use Poke Farm, it doesnt work the other way around.

Fixed.


Fixed.

Also, social networking almost always fails without a feeling of "everyones on it". Myspace and facebook literally have tens of millions of active members. PS3 and even live only have single digit millions. Friendster, msn spaces, and so many others fail even with millions of members. People also use myspace and such mostly to communicate with people they already know but not in real time, they usually leave messages to be read at a later time. Home is too ambitious with too small of a userbase and highly segmented demographic of mostly teenage boys.



kirby007 said:
Peter Potamus said:
How can it fail? No one has to pay for it. You don't have to use it. Damn some of you need to have information before you post. IT'S FREE!


it can fail harder that way u know : if no-one uses it....


The Wii's not failing, and no one uses it.



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Harvey Birdman said:
kirby007 said:
Peter Potamus said:
How can it fail? No one has to pay for it. You don't have to use it. Damn some of you need to have information before you post. IT'S FREE!


it can fail harder that way u know : if no-one uses it....


The Wii's not failing, and no one uses it.


is it free???? huh??? is iT??? OMG WHERE



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kirby007 said:
Peter Potamus said:
How can it fail? No one has to pay for it. You don't have to use it. Damn some of you need to have information before you post. IT'S FREE!


it can fail harder that way u know : if no-one uses it....


They have advertising in Home, thats what pays for it. If a PS3 owner has broadband or wifi, they will download it and use it. Will you use it? Do you even have a PS3?



Didja get that thing I sentcha?

I do believe however that Home would be highly successful on a PS2 type level. That indeed would be incredible. The wii right now has the best opportunity to create a successful social networking service because they attract so many different people at a fast rate.



my response from Bohds thread:

I believe 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 isn't 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.



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Peter Potamus said:
kirby007 said:
Peter Potamus said:
How can it fail? No one has to pay for it. You don't have to use it. Damn some of you need to have information before you post. IT'S FREE!


it can fail harder that way u know : if no-one uses it....


They have advertising in Home, thats what pays for it. If a PS3 owner has broadband or wifi, they will download it and use it. Will you use it, do you even have a PS3?


no way i have 360 and wii , but my friend has a ps3. but does that even matter?



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