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Kotaku.com caused a stir after receiving a rumour about a Playstation feature to be announced at GDC next week. PlayStation Home as they were informed would be “Sony's blending of achievements and Miis”.

Their source went on to describe the Playstation Home, “Basically, you get to make an avatar for your console (like a Mii) and this avatar has a room. As you play games and accomplish certain tasks, you will receive items with which to adorn the room that are specific to the game (achievements). The kicker is that this is going to be a new requirement for every PS3 game.”

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Kotaku delved deeper looking at keynotes from last years GDC, where Sony said, “So we move from product based to service based, starting with packaged product augmented by downloadable content. We'll enhance this with social networks, the MySpace experience, this will be a key part of the PlayStation3 going forward. What brings it to life is the voice chat, the text chat, the video, the social features we're building in for the future.”

At this point Sony cut loose all ties with Kotaku, for a day, but even more information has now been revealed. NeoGaf did their own research, and found a trademark filed by Sony, called Playstion Home.

All in all, it looks like Sony’s keynote at GDC next week has got a lot of people excited.

#1 Chanser on 03 Mar 2007 - 00:23

In the end, we all lived happily ever after.

#2 Nose Nuggets on 03 Mar 2007 - 00:41

people actually care about this sort of extra stuff?

(2 replies) #3 +badger face on 03 Mar 2007 - 01:59

so let me get this straight, sony thinks a key role in the playstation 3 going forward is to incorporate a gamerpoints reward system except with a tamagotchi-esque 'build your own doll house' feel. or did i read that wrong. It looks like the more games you play, the more you get to decorate your virtual house....

.... a lot of people are excited by this?

#3.1 +Smigit on 03 Mar 2007 - 15:20

sounds like something kids or certain Asian markets may enjoy anyway.

*sorry for the stereotyping, just based on many other fads those regions get into such as pokemon and tomagochi ect.

#3.2 Cole on 05 Mar 2007 - 12:22

It is extremely smart. With the popularity of Second Life exploding, Sony had the right idea on making a similar system to cash in on.

#4 El-Diablo on 03 Mar 2007 - 02:26

this is just sad.

#5 jamesisdaman on 03 Mar 2007 - 03:42

""got a lot of people excited"" hummm im not sure! Altho i guess it does sound AWSOME!!!!

#6 yert* on 03 Mar 2007 - 07:43

I think it sounds cool...And I love the achievements on 360. It gives the games a longer replay value (the good ones anyway)

(1 reply) #7 GEIST on 03 Mar 2007 - 13:01

That's only cool for people who don't have the slightest trace of a real life. =|

#7.1 Niccos on 03 Mar 2007 - 14:20

like 99.7% of the users on neowin.com, right?

#8 Athernar on 03 Mar 2007 - 15:32

"The kicker is that this is going to be a new requirement for every PS3 game.”

Oh joy, yet another reason to pursuade developers not to make games for the PS3.

#9 DrunknMunky on 05 Mar 2007 - 13:46

So much for Kazuo Hirai's comment on "and we're not interested in gimmicks" E3 2006

(1 reply) #10 +majortom1981 on 05 Mar 2007 - 16:29

Its funny that Sony and other companies are calling Nintendos wii stuff a gimmik but yet they incorporate those GImmicks into there own console.

#10.1 mrt2 on 09 Mar 2007 - 17:46

Well said... And the funny thing is they aren't even trying to be subtle about it anymore... it's pretty much a blatant (oh we're getting our ass handed to us by the wii let's copy all of the corny stuff from it that we can't be sued for and try to get extra sales... It IS To Laugh...

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