AAAAAAAAGHHH SONY: E3 reading
I’ve been reading the E3 transcripts since last night to try and figure out what people are doing. Phil has some interesting points about the OMGCOOL games coming out, but this quote from a Singstar developer made me want to throttle someone:
12:10PM PDT - Singstar dev. “When you think about it, it’s like iTunes meets MySpace.”
I have no doubt in my mind that this combination would not only run your computer out of RAM in less than a second, but it’d be full of security holes. Instead of the music store, you’d get twenty popups from Russian brides and Nigerian scammers before having Justin Timberlake and Fergie tracks forcibly entered into your library.
Oh, and the default font would be Comic Sans MS.
Update: This HAD to be Photoshopped. Ads are from Something Awful in case anyone gets uppity about copyrights; I’ll remove them if anyone complains.
Phil Downey:
Haha to be fair, Sony’s press conference was probably the best. Microsoft’s was predictable, and while Sony’s was too, they at least got their hands on some timed exclusives which gives them a bit more foothold than it previously had in the market. Plus MGS4 and Killzone 2 give them some powerhouse titles which they need oh so desperately.
July 11, 2007, 11:03 pmAAAAAAAAGHHH SONY: iTunes does not need to meet anything else | Bus error: Jake Billo's weblog:
[...] Reading Kotaku earlier today, I noticed an article about one of Sony’s upcoming video games, LittleBigPlanet. This year, David Reeves decided to suggest that selling one’s own creations in LittleBigPlanet amounts to “iTunes meets eBay”. This is the second year in a row Sony executives have compared their product to “iTunes meeting X”, where X was MySpace last year. [...]
July 22, 2008, 9:47 pm