Sony’s Trophies

Maybe I spoke too soon. The big buzz around the GDC is Sony’s online Matchmaking System “Home”. Essentially a more structured version of Second Life, but fully integrated into the PS3 Matchmaking service. The video below shows it off pretty well.

Kinda makes Miis look pretty chinsy.The gorgeous open visuals are really starting to tempt me on that system. Unfortunately a lot of the content they’re pitching will probably suffer the same problem us Canadians have with Apple’s iTMS, Microsoft’s Video Marketplace, and Amazon’s Unbox… in that the content is only sold in the US, not in Canada. Somehow I don’t see Sony being the ones to carry that torch up north.

Sony’s Trophy room or “Hall of Fame” as they call it looks pretty sweet. And while I can imagine playing around in there for my person ego boost, somehow I don’t see myself spending that much time playing around in OTHER people’s Halls of Fame. The only time I really look at other people’s Achievements in Xbox Live is when i’m sitting around in a lobby waiting for a game to start, and that doesn’t require me to start rendering gorgeous 3D visuals. Nevertheless, probably something you should check out. See the video below for more details.

It’s here.