Comments on: Wishlist: Public PSN Web Service APIs

By: dartmerc

dartmerc — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:48:19 +0000

Henning, the myresistance.net R2 stat page displays your friends list (very cool), so maybe you could browse to that page with your phone?

By: Henning

Henning — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:40:25 +0000

I think it would be fun to have an iPhone app that lets me see which of my friends are online.

By: darrin

darrin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:32:03 +0000

mcloki, they definitely would need to authenticate a particular user’s data. Otherwise, scenarios like you describe would be a major showstopper.

Good point on the amplifying herd mentality. I’m not sure if I agree though. The Wii has the most herd mentality culture surrounding it and that has nothing to do with stats.

By: mcloki

mcloki — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:18:09 +0000

This goes a bit into the privacy issue of everyone. It’s one thing to boast about all of your trophies or achievements. It’s another for your dad or Mom to go online and find out that you’ve played 100 hours of SOCOM. What I do with my time is my business and no one else’s.

By: Emrah

Emrah — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:23:03 +0000

I agree with Josh on the herd mentality

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:21:36 +0000

This would probably just amplify herd mentality, gamers shying away from the less played games, making them even less played, etc. This has been happening again and again everytime that kind of stats was available.

By: Darrin

Darrin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:41:39 +0000

Tons of gamers would love to read these kinds of numbers, particularly if there were several quality user-made sites that had good interfaces.

And Sony would benefit by having an increased community around PSN and increased customer loyalty. I also can’t imagine that these interfaces would be terribly hard to build. Building an actual AAA game is *far* more difficult.

By: mikael

mikael — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:02:01 +0000

I think it is a great idea and I know I would spend hours at the website that figured out how to best present the data.

Whether that is valuable for Sony or not is of course another question.