Note that he actually said:
"To try to build Second Life on Xbox Live --or YouTube, Facebook, any of those big social networking services and sites--it's a lot of work".

And yet, the only thing anyone cares about was that he mentioned Second Life. What he's doing is pulling a tour of major social networks and looking at the plusses and minuses of all.

Home will still be better

it is fun to watch these companies battle it out to win us over...competition...it is win win for us gamers.

well except EA...they are anti-competition.

It's got all the features that Home has and more. I'm sure Linden Labs would love the exposure and it would be an easy answer to Home for Microsoft. It shouldn't be too difficult to port from the PC to 360 and it has a small hard disk profile as all the content is streamed.

I can hang out with friends in games and in real life not in a social digital enviorment where all you do is walk around. No killing, explosions, new areas to destroy, or massive weapons to rack up multi-kills. Nope, I want just games to play...Can you rape people in second life? I read that somewhere.

I mean don't gamers want a DASH that is quick and Nimble when they wanna get to the CONTENT they wish to at the touch of the D-PAD?

I can't see myself dating in HOME and running to the movie section or music section, when I just wanna click here and there, when I'm looking at titles or whatever content. This is a waste of PS3 resources.(25%+)

This is basically SIMS with XMB implemented. Just boring to me at least. Just keep it simple please...Personally I just don't need it. I never got into SIMS..waste of time, walking around a virtual world doing sh!t.

I know Sony is trying to outdo XBL, but for me it doesn't cut it.
Just wanna play games..

I'm happy with games... just keeping making great games and I'll be happy. If I want to walk around and meet people, I can go to the mall.

I don't like this whole new home/second life thingy
i hope ms doesn't do it

i really do think that at first alot of ppl might use it, but after a while wether it is on sonys ps3 or ms x360 it will wear off and get boring

A modder could be like neo in the matrix and fly all around and do all kinds of crazy stuff. You can bring in a gun or a rocket launcher and blow up everybody that kicked your ass in your last UT3 deathmatch. You could get a little virtual black market going where you sell people guns that expire over a certain amount of time, so they would have to come back for more. The possibiities are endless.

Home looks cool, I'm looking forward to it. As it catches on I'm curious to see wha tMS will do to improve Live. I love the competition. Anything that improves gaming I'm for and I think home does that.

I don't think people like it because it's a different apporach to game interaction.

When my friends and aI get together online to play Halo it's boring sitting there talking compared to actually seeing a life like avatar on the screen. They could come to my house and chill and look at stuff or we could bowl before everyones gets there and we're ready to play whatever.

It's just my opinino but I like that the companies are pushing each other to be better. We get better options and better games. Nothing wrong with that.

Microsoft has seen what a recpetion Home and little Big Planet got at GDC from the developers and press now there scrambling to do something like it, typical MS copyng that's why Sony didn't show anything about eather of them projects until GDC...

Does anyone actually doubt that Microsoft will come out with something similar to Home? They'll downplay it until it comes out, trash it while it's going, and then copy it a few months later.

I mean, you can't really blame companies for copying. I would be pissed as a 360 owner if Microsoft could pull off something similar to Home but didn't because they wanted to be more creative. I just can't stand how hypocritical Microsoft has been concerning the PS3 so far.

PS3's basic design is 360(xbox) based. lol

that would absolutely great if they got second life on the console, but only if it was a game and not required. I love building and gambling in that game.

Talk about taking things out of context. Here's what has been said:

"Shack: What do you think about PlayStation Home? Are you guys going to do anything like that, or--

Shane Kim: No. I don't think we need anything like that. I've spent some time with the Linden Lab guys [developers of Second Life]. To try to build Second Life on Xbox Live--or YouTube, Facebook, any of those big social networking services and sites--it's a lot of work. It's all software, and we're the software company in this market here. I doubt [Sony's] ability to implement it and execute it in a really rich and compelling way. PlayStation Network is not Xbox Live, it's not even close. To think about layering [Home] on top of that--wow. The hardest part is not even creating the system, it's regulating the behavior and all of that too. Boy, that's a massive investment in infrastructure. I actually believe that most gamers will always find more value in what we have on Xbox Live and now Games for Windows Live and how we're building that out, which really started all about gaming features and now has added more like instant messaging, Video Marketplace, etcetera. That's what I think is a much better approach, and that's what our approach is going to be."

Let me repeat the really important part:

"Shack: What do you think about PlayStation Home? Are you guys going to do anything like that, or--

Shane Kim: No. I don't think we need anything like that."

Case closed.

React Microsoft, react. One of these days you guys might just get it right from the beginning.lol =]

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Microsoft - "We think Home sucks. We can't really explain why, it's purely because Sony is our competition. But here's our cheap ripoff attempt of HOME for the xbox 360! Why is it better? Because we're going to charge you an extra $15 to use it!"

i think second life on the 360 would be great, nevermind the fact it would rock home out of the water... i cant see HOME having even half of the features linden labs have come up with for second life

This guys a jackass, obviously HOME has been made and is in Beta testing so it is possible. What an idiot, go back to trying to rip off Apple.

i didnt say that HOME couldnt be made... if you read my post i said i doubt Home will have as many features as second life, i dont think sony will have ripped off.... sorry. come up with their own in world oject creation tools or allow other users to download their own textures and contents. it will be a case of furnishing your 'space' with a limited amount a furnishings you will have to pay for..
i also doubt that they will alow users to create their own scripts or to customise their avatrs to second lifes extent. if you think home is a good idea id recommend trying second life before you react badly to its existence.

"They may not buy as many games as the Xbox 360 or Elite customer, but they're still a really important part of the overall market. People say, 'Why don't you just kill that thing?' Well, that thing is a $300 price advantage versus PS3, right?"

He just admited the "Core" package is not even an Xbox 360. Did he forget about the $500 PS3? That would be a $200 advantage. That is, of course, if people actually bought the Core system, but they don't. Just like nobody buys the 20 GB PS3, which should tell you people want WiFi (Which costs you another $100 with the 360). The difference ends up being $100 bucks, which gets you 3 - 5 times the HDD space (13 Gigs versus 55 gigs), better Backwards compatibility, free online and Home.

"I doubt Sony's ability to pull this off"

Another "he would say that" statement. Hey shane, didn't you see the HOME beta? It's working wonders you retard. And by the way shane, I doubt Microsoft can pull a Second Life on Xbox LIVE; and I don't say that because you'd have to dedicate more RAM from Xbox 360 unified memory pool; no, no, I doubt Microsoft's ability to deliver a quality product. Watch out dipshiit, you might develop another Xbox 360 killer app. And by killer, I mean another cause to get a red ring of death ;)

Home,

Hate it or love it, home is the reason why PS3 is free to everyone. I don't care if you don't like the concept and think you'll never use it. You know you'll be curious about playing it and it will likely sucker you in.

Who here chats on MSN or Yahoo, or in a forum? Home will be the used as the same thing except in a Virtual World. Want Yahoo or MSN games, Home's got it, people play those all the time on the Internet and they never act like "What the hell am i doing on the computer when i could be playing games on a console".

That brings me to my next point Ps3 is aiming to be a computer not just a console, so not just something you go and chuck a game on for an hour or two and turn off to go on the computer. It's aimed to be used for both.

On another note if MS managed to implement there own version of Second Life/Home into XLive then surely that should mean that Xbox Live would have to drop it's charges and become a free service as this is how PS3 is making there online free. (Ads and content pay the bills)

Peace Out

Sony's been working on this since the PS2 days. Good luck catching up dude. ^_~

Well well well look what they are copying now. It just shows how sad M$ are when it comes to ideas.