KeepMedia has reported that the Playstation 3 will not be doing a central service for PS3 online gaming. Instead, it will be done in the same manner as the PS2. The Playstation 3 is said to be with an open architecture for its online model. This means that each company decides what effort to put into it. Considering how incredibly poor their online support is for the Playstation 2, this does not look good for Sony.
Sony runs the risk of repeating its mistakes. The Playstation 2 online model has proven to work successfully on some sports games, a few FPS games such as SOCOM KillZone, and some RPG games such as Final Fantasy XI, but outside those, very few Playstation 2 games have been found to be a success online. We can only hope that Sony does a better job promoting their online experience with the PlayStation 3 and at least make attempts to have some sort of service in the near future.
What seems odd about this is that Microsoft and Nintendo have proven that advertising an online community can bring alot more sales, why isn’t Sony taking much advantage of this market?
November 2nd, 2005 at 6:34 pm
really really disappointing
November 2nd, 2005 at 7:10 pm
To think that they see Mircosoft sucess and Nintendo they do something about it
November 2nd, 2005 at 7:53 pm
Heh its not really that big of an issue… i never had a issue with ps2 online … socom did fine… ffxi was fine… ssx fine…and well i cant think of anything i playd and had a issue with…. it might not be as good as xbl but hell for the most part its free with the exception of mmos and those of us who play mmos understand why we pay for them
November 2nd, 2005 at 8:07 pm
well the thing is with xbox they made it so that the developers didn’t really have to put much work into it, the system was built in with various things that could be applied to almost every game from downloading content to multiplayer. It made it so the game developers had to do very little to make the game online, with ps2 on the other hand the developers have to basically design there own online network. so every ps2/3 game will be like making a halo 3 because of all the shit that went into that online in addition to the build in features.
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:07 pm
So you’re saying this could detract some developers from the PS3?
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:43 pm
yeah it could easily detract developers, because microsoft already has a built in system, so if developers want online with ps2 they need to do more work than with xbox
November 5th, 2005 at 4:00 pm
What the fuck?
November 15th, 2005 at 9:34 am
lol ps3 will suck mah bawls!!!!1
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:13 pm
Will we have to paying for PS3?
I would reall not like to.
December 26th, 2005 at 8:56 pm
This Sucks. I read earlier that at E3 SONY said that they were going to have an online service very comparible to xbox live. I can imagine why they wouldnt.