I’m really starting to feel sorry for Sony fanboys these days. I mean, they’ve already had to mortgage their (mom’s) houses to buy a PS3, only to find out that there were no real games for it. Today’s announcement really seems like pouring lemon juice in a paper cut.
In what I think can officially be called “months late”, Sony announced Game 3.0, their online community…strategy…thing. Unlike Xbox Live, which lets you do crazy stuff like, say, buy and play video games, it would seem the core of the Sony offering is called “Home” or “LittleBigPlanet” (I couldn’t really tell, it was too complicated) which is something like Second Life. The difference is that in Second Life, there’s about a 15% chance that the hot girl you’re talking to is not a dude. I think I can safely say that any online community involving the purchase of a $600 console with no games is pretty much going to consist exclusively of Sony fanboys talking about how gay Nintendo is.
By contrast, Nintendo seems to have really figured out how to get girls to play video games. The secret recipe seems to involve “a console that costs less than $600″ and “games that do not take place in dark, dirty hallways” and “have Mario”. Their online offering seems easy to use, intuitive and, well, inhabited by people that seem to want to do something besides trade “your mom” burns.
So yeah, Sony, take note. Maybe you could poorly copy Nintendo’s online offering the way you poorly copied their motion-sensing controller. Call it “Game Thrii”. You can use that. I don’t want any money for it or anything. And take heart! You’ve still got the best selling console!
