MTV Multiplayer: Phil Harrison on many things Home, including cars, PSP-based trophies, my office, gesture controls, the number of avatars in any given Home room and plenty more....
This entry was posted on 3/12/2007 7:11 PM and is filed under MTV News Multiplayer,Possible adver-gaming,PS3 Surprises,Virtual world craziness,PSP Issues.
Everyone and their brother seems to have interviewed Sony's Phil Harrison at last week's GDC. Actually, my brother didn't. But I did.
And at MTV Multiplayer today I've posted the results of that conversation. Ah, but there's a trick here. Some of Phil's answers are written out. Some are in the video linked to the story. The video part is about five minutes of me running rapildy through a list of PlayStation Home questions that popped into my head between the Tuesday night press unveiling of the service and my Wednesday morning chat with the Sony exec.
So in the clip -- which can also be viewed at iFilm for those international viewers blocked from MTV.com video -- I ask him about:
1 -If there will be outdoor spaces in Home (answered)
2- If there will be cars (humored)
3- How many people will be able to fit into each public and private Home room (answered)
4- If Home will support PSP remote access (mulled over)
5- How gesture controls work in Home (answered)
6- Whether Home avatars will show up in PS3 games (mulled over)
7- What kind of objects developers will be able to add to Home (mulled over)
8- Whether developers should be worried that Home distracts gamers from gaming (answered)
9- Whether Home will support trophies for PSP games (humored)
10- Who will be invited to the Beta (didn't explain as well as some sites have)
11- Whether my office would make a good room for Home (do you really want to know?)
So there's that. There's also a written piece at the link above in which he answers questions about whether Home is a game and why people would want to watch movies in a virtual movie theater.
Just so you know... I'm posting a video like this each day on multiplayer.mtv.com.... Tuesday it's Miyamoto.
(If you're reading this entry after the week I posted it, you'll have to flip through the multiplayer.mtv.com site back to the March 12 entry)