Comments on: Doh! PS Home Trophies Not a Requirement

By: matt

matt — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:12:46 +0000

If it is so easy to implement than it should be mandatory. This way if Home takes off you don’t have to worry if a game you want has it or not. I strongly agree with Henning that developers will be slow to implement it and the feature may not be fully introduced for over a year.

Say what you want but the features that gamers want should be mandatory. Dolby Digital, 720p/1080i support, chat, trophies, and even more stuff should all be standard. This way the games are consistant. Screw developers, they should be able to put features in that their customers deserve. Games are now $60 and the few extra features can’t cost that much.

It is the Playstation 3, not PS2 HD

By: Segitz

Segitz — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:35:52 +0000

I dont think, they’ll dismiss it, for being “unpractical” or something along that line.

First, it uses Maya, which is basically THE industry standard for modelling stuff for games and movies, and second, the SDK has sort of a converter according to Harrison, so you basically drag and drop your assets into that programm and you are done with it. There may be some caveats to it, but mostly these guys are professionals and so, this should not be any problem at all.

This is a free opportunity for publishers to get their games into Home. Free advertising is always a good thing for them. And dropping support for Home would surely not go well with many gamers.

By: Sporty

Sporty — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:40:56 +0000

I’m sure nearly every game will support trophies even if they are just a 5 min hack on some of the cheaper barbie and Bratz games. Trophies add replay and they can be a selling point. If someone wants a item that’s game exclusive and a trophy that’s better the the whole of the game some people will buy for that reason.

The chat and splitscreen aren’t related to this topic really. Chat and buddy lists are going to be handled in home so it’s system wide soon. Split screen game support has nothing to do with the system and is only a developer choice. Evolution said they left it out since they figured most people will play online. Lame answer but they might do a patch or just wait for Motorstorm 2 or 1.5

By: Henning

Henning — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:01:08 +0000

Yeah. But just because something is in a developer’s best interests, doesn’t mean that they’ll do it.

By: bobeotm

bobeotm — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:55:04 +0000

It takes minimal effort on the developers part to do this, they are already used to doing things like this when it comes to game saves (the ps2 had 3d game based icons for game saves). Like harrison said, with existing models and content, making a trophy would take less than 20 minutes the churn out. Also its in the best interest of the developers to have stuff in home. It can advertise a game, it can make consumers more aware of titles they wouldnt normally know much about.