Resistance Home Space Tomorrow, In-Game Launching

FINALLY, something they showed a long time ago and what we should have had in the get-go and it's finally coming. I think it's already out in Euro no?

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also no...it's not already out in euro =P lol

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What does the SRPA siege night entail?

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Last edited by King James on 5/20/2009 2:42:36 PM

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Game Launching!? In Home? Excellent. It's about time and very, very welcome. A pity R2 isn't my kind of game though.

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where's my media streaming sony?
untill thats storted,HOME is a 3d chat room/mini game! or to put it another way,a waste of my funking time.

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Relax, picture frames are coming tommorow. The media streaming is being hampered by government laws, so direct your fire in the appropiate direction.

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indeed, and it's obvious why they're doing it, me and my friends want to have some nights we all hang out in home and watch some tv in our tv's on our tv's with eachother XD

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goverment laws.. SURE,i'd say its more to do with kiddies getting their grubby little fingers on some twats porn collection or even worse(from sony's POV)camcorder cinema bootleg movies,being streamed & downloaded across the globe.
If thats the case then they should of stayed quiet on the whole subject.

"Oh here's HOME,its gonna rock,we're able to do this,this & this....but we're not gonna!!
Reminds me of the LBP promises,make your own levels from your photo & music collection...oh wait hang on,now there'll be 50.000 levels based on a pair of huge boobs.

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Blame society then!

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was'nt blaming anyone!
I asked a question.
I get annoyed when people or in this case companys say they'll do something then don't.

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Carlos, the problem with media streaming is 95% copyright issues and 5% risk of criminal action by morons.

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This is great news. I'm going to be looking into those reward items.

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Home comes into it's own, bet Qubex is happy ;)

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LOL WorldsEnd... Yes, these HOME spaces are coming along. I don't own Resistance though, so can't really enjoy all its benefits.

I still stand by my original thoughts and feelings about HOME. I feel "HOME" - as a place where I believe you should begin your journey of exploring everything PS3 related - game and non-game services alike - is not nearly integrated enough from the Get Go. I feel elements of HOME should be part of the XMB; it would be nice to switch on your PS3 and log into your virtual apartment; with your AVATAR at the centre of your representation within the PS3 umniverse.

A series of "Minority Report" style virtual menu systems should extend the XMB beyond what it is now... you should have a better movement of menu items, stacking elements in 3D and the like. Think of IPhone type interface/crossed with "Minority Report" type menus... so all elements are translucent 3D; you essentially browse your XMB assets in 3D... A very nice "Matrix" style-type experience.

If Sony wants to go with a Wii mote ripoff, what better way to navigate a 3D XMB type interface with the "magic wand". Or if you have the PS3 eye you could use "data gloves" to do exactly what they were doing in "Minority Report"; PSN type mini games and HOME mini games and applications (in-world) could also use these features in the future. It is all for the taking really.

Whilst I think HOME is improving; if you see what people really want; one feels Sony needs to concentrate on actual HOME features first; bolster up what the application can do. It is good to have new spaces; but I would rather have the ability to stream my music through to my apartment for friends and family to hear, video and pictures etc. I know some of these things are coming; but they should have been available already to us. This is exactly what Sony is doing anyway when they stream video into HOME themselves... so the tech is there; they just haven't given us the tools and options to do this for our apartments yet. Very odd. Maybe it is bandwidth and speed concerns... it is the only thing I can think of.

I am still waiting for COMMUNITY support, with regards to allowing users to develop spaces. Similarly to users developing levels for Little Big Planet, we should have user spaces that win the right (via populate vote) lo live in the HOME umniverse.

Game launching is great, but their needs to be more of it. There seems to be no HOME spaces for the PSN titles yet. Maybe there should be a special place that represents PSN titles. Once in this space, for the PSN titles that support multi-player, players should be able to game launch from within that space too.

Overall, I do hope Sony intergrate more 3rd Party apps; iPhone style along the XMB. Why not have a fully fledged Google Earth application. PS3 would do well to have it.

Also a huge improvement in the browser should be a priority. There are many websites I still struggle to run through PS3 browser; let alone trying to stream anything. Codecs missing and media type incompatibilities kills its true potential...

So many niggly things I feel Sony could do, but they seem to be spread thinly like butter... attacking and/or staving off attack from the competition but missing the point with regards to what users want.

Have they ever set up a public poll for people to vote for what they want? Where is the community driver in all of this? The community is what I believe, in the end, makes a platform. Of course software is the core; but the community support around the platform, enthusiasm for it (which ultimately does help sales to some extent - word of mouth etc) and commercial support combine to make it a success... for the long term anyway...

Some thoughts!

Q!

"i am home"

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Last edited by Qubex on 5/20/2009 9:29:02 PM

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The irony of this all is that most of the people complaining about Home's lacking features are the ones who pushed Sony to release it early in the first place.

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impatience and excitement are the core of disappointment...

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Indeed, so Sony goes ahead and releases it, telling everyone at the time that it would change and get better, and as soon as they released the beta, the complaints started about how it wasn't done and they should have waited...damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Catch-22.

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Last edited by TheHighlander on 5/21/2009 12:09:59 AM

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Yay!!!!!!!!!!! But but what's with the Uncharted space, is it secret?

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Wait, but Bryan from Insomniac said on the forums that Sony messed up on the Home Launching, timeline and it won't be coming so soon?

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Damnit I just re-read Ben's article and it is pixed =D

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Stupid question but what's In-game Launching?

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Game Launching allows you and one or more friends (depending on multi-player support), to launch straight into a multi-player session of your favorite game from within Home. No exiting Home to start the game and set up the multi-player session invites, game launching transparently does all that and takes you all straight into the game.

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It's a longer more round-about way to do what you've already been doing since Resistance launched.

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It's a longer more round about way, unless you and your friends are already in Home. Game launching isn't supposed to replace the 'normal way' it's supposed to provide a seamless way for you to use your games without leaving Home.

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