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[Deleted member 1235]

has anyone got to the bottom of why microsoft or sony haven't just ripped off one of the wildly successful poker sites on the net? Shit, microsoft has your credit card aaaaand texas holdem poker already. Idiots.

/tangent

 

[pswii60]

has anyone got to the bottom of why microsoft or sony haven't just ripped off one of the wildly successful poker sites on the net? Shit, microsoft has your credit card aaaaand texas holdem poker already. Idiots.

/tangent

1) As a console platform holder, they have to be seen as responsible.

2) Internet Gambling is illegal in the not-so-free-country US anyway.

 

[InterMoniker]

Are you counting PSN or XBLA games? Are you counting Virtual Console roms?

Yup /\-/\ Never bought any of that since I don't have a 360,PS3, or Wii only a Pc. I've bought stuff off Steam though.

Aren't XBL snd PSN games in a different category than a micro-transaction or horse armor?:lol :lol :lol

 

[pswii60]

Yup /\-/\ Never bought any of that since I don't have a 360,PS3, or Wii only a Pc. I've bought stuff off Steam though.

Why are you in this thread?

 

[PS360]

has anyone got to the bottom of why microsoft or sony haven't just ripped off one of the wildly successful poker sites on the net? Shit, microsoft has your credit card aaaaand texas holdem poker already. Idiots.

/tangent

Internet gambling is illegal in the states. The only reason sites get away with it is because they operate out of other countries and law enforcement just hasn't done anything about the ones that operate here.

Still, a casino purely for fun would be nice.

 

[theBishop]

It seems like Sony is on the verge of getting online "right", but it may take 6-12 months before the pieces come together.

 

[PS360]

There was also this posted yesterday on the same site. Don't know if anyone posted it here.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13872

Although it relates to PC gaming, you can read the following near the end of the article:

Are there any future plans to integrate the Station Launcher on to the Playstation 3?

NP: It’s not going to stop at the PC.

Now there are def. some features that would be cool on the PS3.

 

[Wollan]

Probably just a tie in with SOE games.

 

[Beer Monkey]

Very happy to see Home as a distinct element from 'Store' and 'Online Games', instead of a replacement.

Not entirely..the TRC can and does oblige them to use certain features. Hopefully if there is a 'Home services' module (perhaps including those mention 'in-game phone calls'), it will be part of the TRC for all online games to support it.

Thats kind of crazy when they don't even make you support the friends list and voice chat.

 

[rothbart]

I'm thinking we might start seeing main menus in games which look like:

New Game
Load Game
Options
Home

When you choose the Home option, it would probably prompt you for confirmation since you're leaving the game and if you confirm it could just take you right to the pavilion they've set up. And give you a free hat. That would be pretty cool

Why not just add a "Home" option to the PS button menu just like the "Home" button on a PSP? That would be for simply returning home... as in like "let me out of this game and start Home", but to exit an EA game into EA's pavillion or whatever, yeah, that's be nice to have that ability (minus the EA part and the requisite microtransactions for each step, turning left/right, interacting with anything, and of course the "viewing" tax for even having the lights turned on in the pavillion...).

 

[kaching]

Why not just add a "Home" option to the PS button menu just like the "Home" button on a PSP?

Home is optional. It's not going to be packaged as a part of a firmware update and people have to download it separately, so there's the possibility some what have it, even though it's free. As such, it probably wouldn't make sense to implement it on the PS Button menu.