Welcome... HOME
I won't bother you with more details of Phil Harrison's GDC conference, but I will say that it has got to be one of the best presentations that Sony has ever done. The amount of excitement and applause reached an almost Nintendo-like fan boy level, which is pretty hard to achieve when you mainly have a bunch of developers in the room.
I was simply blown away by the official unveiling of HOME and almost got a bit teary-eyed when the beautiful thing called 'Little Big Planet' appeared on the big screen. By far, that has got to be one of the most visually impressive things I have seen this side of pre-rendered stuff. It was truly breathtaking and I simply couldn't wait to attend the following presentation by Media Molecule (the studio that is actually making Little Big Planet) in order to see how they ended up making such an innovative title.
To put it mildly, the guys at MM are simply cool and very likable. It's amazing how they managed to sign a deal with Sony in such a short amount of time. In fact, they only had a week in order to come up with a working demonstration of the game concepts and managed to pull it together and impress the Sony producers enough that a future partnership was formed.
When asked why they chose the PS3 as the exclusive platform for the "game", the guys basically said that they felt that Sony had the best parties and that they wanted to be a part of that :-) Also, they compared it to meeting your wife. Once you meet that person and things click, there is no need to talk to anyone else. I couldn't agree more.
Kudos to the MM team and Sony for managing to shift countless peoples' perspectives about the PS3 and make me smile. I think that they managed to somehow make people forget about all the negative press that the PS3 has been getting recently and remember that Sony can still manage to surprise and impress when it wants to. It's just too bad that we have to wait until later this year in order to get further glimpses of these ambitious project.
In the mean time, I suggest all of you head over to your favorite sites and download the footage for HOME and LBP right away. I'm sure you'll be as amazed as I am... and I have a feeling that this is only the beginning for Sony. Expect some additional announcements of this caliber to surface in the near future :-)
I was simply blown away by the official unveiling of HOME and almost got a bit teary-eyed when the beautiful thing called 'Little Big Planet' appeared on the big screen. By far, that has got to be one of the most visually impressive things I have seen this side of pre-rendered stuff. It was truly breathtaking and I simply couldn't wait to attend the following presentation by Media Molecule (the studio that is actually making Little Big Planet) in order to see how they ended up making such an innovative title.
To put it mildly, the guys at MM are simply cool and very likable. It's amazing how they managed to sign a deal with Sony in such a short amount of time. In fact, they only had a week in order to come up with a working demonstration of the game concepts and managed to pull it together and impress the Sony producers enough that a future partnership was formed.
When asked why they chose the PS3 as the exclusive platform for the "game", the guys basically said that they felt that Sony had the best parties and that they wanted to be a part of that :-) Also, they compared it to meeting your wife. Once you meet that person and things click, there is no need to talk to anyone else. I couldn't agree more.
Kudos to the MM team and Sony for managing to shift countless peoples' perspectives about the PS3 and make me smile. I think that they managed to somehow make people forget about all the negative press that the PS3 has been getting recently and remember that Sony can still manage to surprise and impress when it wants to. It's just too bad that we have to wait until later this year in order to get further glimpses of these ambitious project.
In the mean time, I suggest all of you head over to your favorite sites and download the footage for HOME and LBP right away. I'm sure you'll be as amazed as I am... and I have a feeling that this is only the beginning for Sony. Expect some additional announcements of this caliber to surface in the near future :-)
posted by Frosty @ 8:49 PM
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