Home will be worth the wait - Kaz Hirai
Not that he's likely to say anything else
It may have missing it's October 07 release date by some margin but Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai has promised new PS3 service Home will be worth waiting for.
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Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz he said "I would put it the other way around, because we got so much buzz, had we launched it before we thought it was the right time and the right features and functionality to launch it - with the high anticipation, people would go there in droves the first time around, they would check it out and say, 'This isn't fun at all, so I'm not coming back again."
"Okay, we've been dinged, I've been personally dinged many times," he confessed. "But if I know we're doing it for the right reasons and that once we launch the service this fall it's going to be something that the consumers, once they go there, see that it's actually going to be a fun service. That to me is a lot better than doing it the other way around."
Reiterating the 'when it's ready' stance Sony are taking he also added "I've said this on many occasions, and right now we're aiming for a fall open beta programme, but no beta should be opened before its time. It's important enough of an initiative for the platform and for SCE, that we don't want to prematurely launch it and then be dinged for having a bad service."
Ding. Indeed.
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