1. Good for them...I recommend they start implementing gamerscores, XBLA, IM chat, marketplace, d/l content, etc.

Wait, I have a better idea, buy an Xbox 360 and stop using the RROD as an excuse!

Posted at 5:21PM on Aug 15th 2007 by TORO

2. this is getting out of hand cant MS sue them?

Posted at 5:23PM on Aug 15th 2007 by Project Ekim

3. good for sony.... "hey our online sucks! let's copy microsoft!" couldn't they at least call it something else?

Posted at 5:24PM on Aug 15th 2007 by spezzdispenser

4. Wow I agree with everyone that has posted so far. Sony needs to come up with something original, the Wii did (it may suck that you have to remember a bunch of numbers but hey they did it.

Posted at 5:32PM on Aug 15th 2007 by NitroFrost

5. IF this is something reverse-engineered from Microsoft technology, in essence, it wouldn't be a bad thing for Sony. It might be their last ace up the sleeve.

Think about this, dear reader: Sony has, for the most part, gone on their own path and tried to decide what their customers should want, instead of listening to them and hearing what it is they really craved. For example:

-The PSP turned into a movie player where most owners wanted it really for a portable gaming device..

-The PS3 has SIXAXIS control instead of the generally preferred rumble. Whether Immersion lawsuits prevailed in this case or not, Sony eventually decided that gamers would rather, and SHOULD rather have 'six degrees of motion' in place of an old friend...

-The PS3 is also going the way of the PSP in terms of sales targeting. It's being sold more as a Blu-ray player than a gaming device..

Maybe Sony is now realizing, albeit in a twisted way, that they may not have all of the answers for the gaming public.
Perhaps Sony's biggest hope for a chance in this gaming market this generation, is to somewhat utilize the same aspects their competitors use. We've heard about the Sony 'Trophies', Playstation Network, motion control in controllers, and now Gamercards. The end power, it may seem, of the Playstation 3 is in the Sony-bankrolled lawyers.

All I can truly blame Sony for is poor imagination and arrogance.

Posted at 5:36PM on Aug 15th 2007 by Magic Whiskey

6. The Gamercard, in a lot of ways, is really just a miniature profile. I do not think it's a big deal for them to use concept and I think it's a good thing.

At the same time, come up with a different fucking name.

Posted at 5:39PM on Aug 15th 2007 by Tony

7. Ahh, but the icing on the cake will be in a few months when Sony fanboys are claiming Sony invented it and it works a million times better because of the power of the Cell and Blu-ray.

haha.. I can't count how many bashing threads I've seen when MS decided to include HDMI and how they are always copying Sony.

Expect to see more of this as they rip-off gamercards, gamerscore and achievements. Then they will brag about how it's better and it's free, ignoring the fact that Silver members have it free on 360 as well. That's the double-standards that are the PS3tard.

I hope MS has some new/BIG stuff up their sleeve for GDC or TGS because it's obvious Sony knows no shame and is not holding back. IPTV alone is certainly not going to cut it.

Posted at 5:41PM on Aug 15th 2007 by SharpBlade

8. Right, what the Wii did is original, but it does not work. MS some what has nailed what online gaming should be on a console.

If it ain't broke....

Intergrating this into Playstation Home can be nothing but good. Don't hate congraduate!

Posted at 5:45PM on Aug 15th 2007 by coolbreeze06

9. I hope fear tactics don't prevail here. XBOX 360 does NOT need 'Home'. We do NOT need extra fluff to the Dashboard, IMO.

We need what we already have; strong games, strong vision for what we want, and a stronger community that listens to the consumer and gamer.

Posted at 5:46PM on Aug 15th 2007 by Magic Whiskey

10. Sounds like a good idea to me - Stuff like this should be used and improved by all partys. I don't here anyone screaming that Microsoft "copied" online from the pc, instead they just took the idea and made it work. Then again maybe that sort of thinking only comes about when you have all 3 systems. Oh but damn...they should have changed the name for real...

Posted at 6:01PM on Aug 15th 2007 by Xavierrose3001

11.
Amen, whiskey.

Whenever I think of home, I think of that scene in Tom Sawyer when TS cons the local kids to paint a fence for him. Moreover, he gets them to PAY him for it.

sony, instead of coming up with a decent online service (which would require that whole fee paying thing they've been badmpouthing) comes up with home, where they advertize to people and provide a MUCH more limited service, but make the operation of said service into a game. so what if it takes you 3 times as long to get a game...you are doing it in 3D! While dancing! And while paying real life money for fake apartments and sony Vaios that play game trailers you can already view on your HDD.

Posted at 6:03PM on Aug 15th 2007 by Marasai

12. Oh wow. I love my 360 but let's be realisitic... Microsoft only joined into the game console market because Sony was doing so well... You could play the PS2 'online' before you could play online on the XBox. The dual analog controller was made by Sony first, the 360 controller added shoulder buttons like the dual-shock, etc., etc.

I don't put any of these companies beyond making their own version of something successful.

Imitation of an 'inevitable' concept is simply part of competing businesses. In this case, can you really honestly act like Microsoft invented the idea of an 'online profile?' I can't, there have been many before on the internet, and now that consoles are on the internet so heavily, the first one there with a 'card' can't claim they invented somtehing that was going on for years before in other venues.

I think this is on '360 Fanboy' to stir up the hornets.

Posted at 6:09PM on Aug 15th 2007 by ill trooper

13. Marsai, funny how your Tom Sawyer analogy also works when applied to Microsoft making us pay for Live when Sony is building a similar network without a subscription fee. Just sayin'.

Posted at 6:11PM on Aug 15th 2007 by ill trooper

14. i really dont see the big deal... its not like Microsoft has the patent on an Online Profile or something like that.

Thats like claiming everyone is ripping off of MS because you can Download games on a console... or play online.

MS didnt invent ANY of that, gaming on consoles has been around since the Super nintendo days in some form or fashion and most the "originality" MS is unveling on the home consoles has been a part of the PC community for years.

So i dont think its fear to bash one company over another simply because they implemented the idea first.

Whats next? criticising a console maker because they use a dual analog controller or have multimedia features too?

Posted at 6:13PM on Aug 15th 2007 by JJ

15. ***Sniffs***

Ahhh.....Th smell of a lawsuit.

Posted at 6:24PM on Aug 15th 2007 by tobin92

16. 14 @ jj.


I think the big gripe here that we, the 360 fanboys are trying to say is that we want uniqueness from the three consoles, and there's no need to copy off each other in any way if true imagination would prevail.
At least that's MY bickering point. If Sony would make something similar, yet better and more unique than what's already out there, then that's cool for everyone. Lord knows they don't have many unique games!

If they copy almost verbatim what the competition has, well..we get what we've already got.

That's why Dino Crisis sucked and Resident Evil prevailed back in the day.

Posted at 6:25PM on Aug 15th 2007 by Magic Whiskey

17. @2, laughing out loud for the prospect of MS suing someone over stolen ideas.

Posted at 6:26PM on Aug 15th 2007 by Nick

18. cool to see edinburgh get a mention - i didnt even know there was an interactive show during the festival (call me a fanboy!?).
Pretty hilarous, its kinda cool seeing the ps3 resorting to xbox features to attract people, it'll be interesting to see the layout of the actual gamercard when they reveal it.

Posted at 6:30PM on Aug 15th 2007 by whocares

19. man i LOVE x3fanboy, everytime i go to ps3fanboy to have a look, all i ever see is people having arguments and insulting eachother

Posted at 6:54PM on Aug 15th 2007 by Irwin

20. wtf, half my comment didnt get posted..
well i said, Whose with me?


bk on topic, if sony implements this hole thing, it AlmOst gets rid of the reason people pay for XBL..almost

Posted at 6:56PM on Aug 15th 2007 by Irwin