Sony Online Entertainment Future Vision

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What I find interesting is that they talk about cell phone gaming in terms that seem complementary to traditional console and mobile gaming, rather than adversarial. Does Sony not feel that cell phones will begin to crowd the mobile market at some point? Even more surprising, from their talk, are they perhaps set to even embrace it? To release games themselves in that area? Someone point it out if I'm missing something here.

In the last year Sony and NTT DoCoMo cut the deal to enable the service in which you can pay for game contents on PSP/PS2 with electronic money on i-mode cellphones in Japan. (press release)

 

[Geeforcer]

What they are NOT saying is whether or not they are planning to charge for all that.

 

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Maybe that's true, but even you have to admit that at least they a looking into changing the pass solution which I'm sure you and others complained about not working for their last system. So instead of complaining about it, why don't you ask yourself this instead: What would you rather them do?... a) set on their butts using the same online service or b) do something to change it?

It doesn't really matter who copies what. As long as problem is corrected is the concerned issue. I'm sure you must have witnessed something very similiar coming from all three competitors before this news came about.

Sorry dude, missed your post. I wasn't complaining about anything if you look, just saying there's nothing that seems to be particularly new in what they want to offer. They seem to want to tie lots of existing ideas together, same as MS. What matters is who gets in there and starts delivering.

 

[Spidermate]

Maybe that's true, but even you have to admit that at least they a looking into changing the pass solution which I'm sure you and others complained about not working for their last system. So instead of complaining about it, why don't you ask yourself this instead: What would you rather them do?... a) set on their butts using the same online service or b) do something to change it?

It doesn't really matter who copies what. As long as problem is corrected is the concerned issue. I'm sure you must have witnessed something very similiar coming from all three competitors before this news came about.

Sorry dude, missed your post. I wasn't complaining about anything if you look, just saying there's nothing that seems to be particularly new in what they want to offer. They seem to want to tie lots of existing ideas together, same as MS. What matters is who gets in there and starts delivering.

You should have expected this. I said many times before, do not expect the competition to set on their butts after all the publicity Microsoft's Xbox Live server has gotten. Obviously, some didn't take it too serious. Until these guys reveal their entire hand, it would be premature of you to go assuming how much they will and won't deliver. You have to crawl before you walk. In Sony's case, I doubt they or any other competing firm would have skipped right on over what was previously layed out in favor of something entirely new and revolutionary without one single similarity favoring the other. All that was unveiled about their next online server was how they would adapt. Beyond that is still a mystery, and it makes perfectly good sense seeing how they are rumored, and most likely will, launch later than Microsoft.

And I agree, it does depend on who delivers. But, what happens when the both of them deliver, then what? In all honesty, that doesn't seem to be your main concern. It seems you are more concerned about them adapting than the problem actually getting fixed. I find this whole direction no different from Microsoft adapting the Sony's Eye Toy or the add-on HDD or the controller, etc., etc., etc.. It doesn't matter so long as the problem is fixed. The harder they work, the more the consumer gets out of it all.

By the way, I was never aware of Microsoft actually having a handheld or even getting into that market. Maybe you know something that I don't.