By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Sony - How will Microsoft respond to Home?

xman on 01 September 2008

Here is a link to the what the new Live dashboard is going to look like
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/14/xbox-360-gets-avatar-system-new-dashboard/



PS3, WII and 360 all great systems depends on what type of console player you are.

Currently playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Fallout 3, Halo ODST and Dragon Age Origins is next game

Xbox live:mywiferocks

Around the Network
S.T.A.G.E. on 01 September 2008
Staude said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Microsoft doesn't need to respond to home. It will destroy itself, secondly its optional (Which means not everyone will have it). Sony doesn't understand how you win an online gaming war. You don't do it by creating second life. You do it, by making the online experience quick/efficient and sensible. I'd hope for Homes sake that Xbox live on the 720 doesn't blow them away. Microsoft knows how to make online gaming great because they are in the business of doing that even outside of the gaming industry.

Home gives people with no life a chance to live their sims dreams. To invite their gaming friends to their fake house, sit on their fake couch (That they cannot afford irl), talk to girls (Who are probably fat irl) and Buy clothes and other useless pieces of junk that leave sad asses who cannot advance in the real world salivate.

 

Obviously you understand nothing and from past posts you don't learn when people try to enlighten you. You are unworthy of your avatar. (coincidence)

 

I will try to explain a few things though.

Sony keeps expanding the experience of the playstation in new ways. Not to with any product win the war, but as a total package being massivly better. That's how it works. It's not just home. It's home, integrated with the games, integrated with psn, integrated with the xmb, integrated with your friendslist.. etc etc. They want to integrate all parts of the experience and that is where they succeed. And that is what will make Home successful.

 

It would be extremely foolish for you to say that Home wasn't created to battle the online superiority of Live. Just because i'm not pro PS3 like you, doesn't mean I don't want one and that i'm not a fan of Tekken. I'm a huge fan of Tekken. You can bet your bottom dollar that i'll get it, and theres nothing loyalists like you can do about it. I'll get MGS4 too which is one of my favorite franchises in gaming and i'll laugh in your face with that. Home is taking the online experience too far, where it needs not be. It will be too scattered and you will be bombarded. Think about a time when your online experience was bearable, now...it will be impossible once you're adding every fool who walks by and challenges you. Hey "lets go shopping together!"Where do you live? "Bancock!" Oh...ok..i'll run over to the store. This is a depiction of home as i've seen from movies of it. It's not online, its second life. Get it through your head (I don't care if you want it, it's optional) that it will take your online experience where it needs not be. Watch certain people are going to get sick of it and get rid of it after a while.

 



S.T.A.G.E. on 01 September 2008
Staude said:
Cueil said:
Staude said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Microsoft doesn't need to respond to home. It will destroy itself, secondly its optional (Which means not everyone will have it). Sony doesn't understand how you win an online gaming war. You don't do it by creating second life. You do it, by making the online experience quick/efficient and sensible. I'd hope for Homes sake that Xbox live on the 720 doesn't blow them away. Microsoft knows how to make online gaming great because they are in the business of doing that even outside of the gaming industry.

Home gives people with no life a chance to live their sims dreams. To invite their gaming friends to their fake house, sit on their fake couch (That they cannot afford irl), talk to girls (Who are probably fat irl) and Buy clothes and other useless pieces of junk that leave sad asses who cannot advance in the real world salivate.

 

Obviously you understand nothing and from past posts you don't learn when people try to enlighten you. You are unworthy of your avatar. (coincidence)

 

I will try to explain a few things though.

Sony keeps expanding the experience of the playstation in new ways. Not to with any product win the war, but as a total package being massivly better. That's how it works. It's not just home. It's home, integrated with the games, integrated with psn, integrated with the xmb, integrated with your friendslist.. etc etc. They want to integrate all parts of the experience and that is where they succeed. And that is what will make Home successful.

All that shit is old news... Microsoft has been doing that since 2005... adding Home doesn't make it something more than it is it just adds a 3D interface to your online play.  I think that at best the mini games/arcades/billards style games will be the only draw besides pimping your room/apartment.  How do you know a service is good? When 10 million people pay for that service.  Live is a intergrated service while Home has a distinctly tacked on feel to it and it's probably optional.

 

Aparently you failed to understand what i meant. I'll cut it out as much as i possibly can.

 

Sony is creating a home entertainment center. It's no longer Just a games console.

They want to bring all of the good shit out of the bedrooms and into the living rooms without it being too hardcore. (they have done this since ps1 you know)

 

What they are doing with home is creating a online community where you can establish a visual feel for the "playstation world" in a sense.

Home enables you to (almost) be at the big events. E3, Games convention, TGS etc.

They bring a lot of features in one package where you get a visual overlook of the features instead of text. This is very wise as a lot of casual players probably will be more interested in it than, for instance, xmb (or any other less visual "menu" of any system.)

 

That is not a home entertainment center. A Home entertainment center consists of all entertainment electronics with bases and compartments in the same room. (IE: TV, DVD Player, Cabinets, Surround sound etc). All those things will be available to you in Home when you create your little barbie dream house. You're not using your words correctly.

 

This is why Sony had to cut the production costs by half  (Before the first three years, which is murder) to catch up in the game because they focused LESS on gaming.First off all Sony has nothing to do with why the PS1 was so great, it was Kutagari who had to force Sony to realize that they needed to get into making videogames if they want to save themselves (From dying out to their competitors) since it was a booming market with Nintendo and Sega at the helm. The head board members laughed at him. Kutagari wants to keep the gaming alive, while Sony wants to throw everything at you. Theres nothing  that Home can do to make you feel like your at E3 more than the real thing. They will only show Sony games and not the competitors. It's a one sided show and you're all for it.

 



S.T.A.G.E. on 01 September 2008
Million said:

Squilliam said:

It seems that Sony wants to cater to the people who have no life outside of a computer system... I have to praise them forgiving these poor people somewhere to go. :)

I don't want to meet up with friends in a virtual world! I have friends outside of it, I have no reason to try this.

 

"Microsoft Anounces MS Home"

 

Squilliam said:

It seems that Microsft wants to cater to the growing phenominom of online social networks , I have to praise Microsoft for capitlising on this brilliant opportunity.

I'm looking forward making new friends in an exciting virtual world ! my friends in real life will love this to. I can't wait for this.

 

 

Microsoft could care less about home. I'd hate to see Xbox live on the 720 for the sake of Sony's health. Online is the strength Microsoft has that Sony could never acquire.



S.T.A.G.E. on 01 September 2008
Million said:
legend92 said:
i personally think microsoft wont see HOME as a treat and i would agree with tat it isnt a threat like who personally is actually gonna use home probly 2 million people out of the 15 million who own a PS3.

I am a playsation fan all the way owned all the Playsations and never had an xbox so personally believe wat i said

It may not sound alot to you but 2 Million active users = Alot of potential revenue .

 

Personaly I feel that Microsoft won't react to Home unless it becomes a success probably meaning we wouldn't see an MS equivalent this generation if takes anywhere as long as Sony's version did. Microsoft often use tried and tested methods as opposed to oringinal or innovative things.

 

It doesn't matter whether its a success or not, they won't copy it. Thats not an online experience. Thats a virtual experience. Get it straight.



Around the Network
S.T.A.G.E. on 01 September 2008
drpunk said:

I'm not sure Microsoft need to respond.

Home strikes me as Sony's attempt to keep online free.

You need money from somewhere to run online. There's costs involved, and you need some way of covering that cost. Not only that, but as online grows the costs grow (in a sense, that's the beauty of Microsoft's model. It doesn't matter how big it gets it should always pay for itself).

So, Sony's hoping to make money from advertising space in Home and people buying stuff from Home. The problem with this is that it NEEDS to be popular. Advertising only works if there's people seeing it. Selling stuff only works if people are using it.

It'll be interesting to see if it works.

 

I totally agree, Home is going to be an advertising hound. They even admitted it when they were showing the videos. Tv's everywhere advertising crap as far as eye can see.



S.T.A.G.E. on 01 September 2008
xman said:
Here is a link to the what the new Live dashboard is going to look like
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/14/xbox-360-gets-avatar-system-new-dashboard/

 

You call that an answer to home?



SamuelRSmith on 01 September 2008
Sephiroth357 said:
blazinhead89 said:
Im looking foward to watching live E3 coverage directly from Home :D

 

 Yes, your looking foward to watching E3 just as me.

 

 Yes, your looking foward to watching E3, just like me.



Million on 01 September 2008
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Million said:
legend92 said:
i personally think microsoft wont see HOME as a treat and i would agree with tat it isnt a threat like who personally is actually gonna use home probly 2 million people out of the 15 million who own a PS3.

I am a playsation fan all the way owned all the Playsations and never had an xbox so personally believe wat i said

It may not sound alot to you but 2 Million active users = Alot of potential revenue .

 

Personaly I feel that Microsoft won't react to Home unless it becomes a success probably meaning we wouldn't see an MS equivalent this generation if takes anywhere as long as Sony's version did. Microsoft often use tried and tested methods as opposed to oringinal or innovative things.

 

It doesn't matter whether its a success or not, they won't copy it. Thats not an online experience. Thats a virtual experience. Get it straight.

Are you serious ? Microsoft will copy anything that works on another console if they feel it'll benefit the XBOX brand.

 

Home is a vritual and >online experience< .

 




slimeattack on 01 September 2008

MS is probably hoping that Home will never be released, but delayed, delayed and delayed.