Atari plans to trump Sony's HOME!

via PS3 Fanboy



Phil Harrison's GDC keynote was awesome. About every single person in the audience was pumped about the announcement of PlayStation HOME and that LittleBigPlanet thing. Perhaps not... everyone. Are you playing dark, diabolical music? Picture this: an Atari chairman begins rubbing his hands together, laughs maniacally and proclaims: "Now that we know of this Game 3.0, we know our plans are justified! Just you wait, Sony... your end is nigh!" At this point, he begins stroking his pencil moustache and laughs a bit more. Seriously, Atari, are you really going to challenge something that's not even out yet?

It seems so. Atari Online Entertainment vice president Chris Bergstresser had this to say about their new online portal: "Phil Harrison had this big announcement of Game 3.0 and I think its great that he's announced that because it will lend legitimacy to what we're doing. But it goes further than that...We feel user generated content is not just something you just let people dabble in, we feel that it is something where you give people the tools to do whatever the hell they want."

So, they're making some kind of online experience where user-generated content is key? Sounds interesting, but as of right now the project is PC only and... well... we'd like to see what HOME has to offer before we can say this actually does go "further than that". Thoughts? Opinions? Diabolical cackles?

interesting, very interesting..

lmao, "lets bring back the matrix online!!!!" lol that would be funny.

I don't see how this can trump Sony's Home. Its for PC...

Now give us these tools for Linux on the PS3, then you have something that might hold a candle to Home. But really, what does Atari plan to do? Make a new Second Life?

Unless we can sit there, throw in some code and execute a few scripts that run Atari produced games in a small area of the game world (imagine playing NWN within Atari's new world; just make a small level and have people jump right in) then that'd be pretty damn good.

Other than that I can't see how this will trump Home... Not to mention, being on a different platform doesn't make it trump Sony's Home. Now if they went and made this for the Xbox360 exclusively, the field would be more level and PS3 owners may have something to worry about.