Home Called “Disappointing” and “Too Ambitious”

Scribbled on May 9th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
Filed in Industry News, Interviews, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF

The constant delays of Home - due to be released in 2009 or so - are becoming a pain for both developers and Sony.

Peter Moore has been quoted as saying that it’s “disappointing” that Home hasn’t come out yet, and that Electronic Arts’ hands are tied til it does in terms of developing games to work with it. Meanwhile, president David Reeves said that “maybe we were too ambitious with the non-gaming applications within Home, getting sponsors and stuff like that.”

Considering Sony wants to create a Second Life interface without having the servers to support it - which would force Sony to charge gamers for it - and having to use owners’ PS3s as a server… It seems Sony still knows jack about online access. In addition, will Home having Trophies (aka Achievements) 3 years into its lifecycle really matter? Do you want to watch texture-mapped movie trailers - or just download and watch them on your HDTV?

This is starting to sound like when Sony and AOL promised a Netscape Browser on the PlayStation 2 back in 2001. Oops.

Whatever the case, expect Home to be severely scaled back if and when it comes.

(Thanks, Joystiq.)

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