Atari working on “PS3 Home beater”

Atari - Image 1A lot has already been said about Sony‘s PlayStation Home service. While this post doesn’t add anything new to the previous discussions and conjecture about the service, it does add something else: possible competition.

According to CVG, Atari Online Entertainment senior vice president Chris Bergstresser has revealed to UK trade mag MCV that Atari is currently working on an ambitious community portal that is being billed as a possible Home-beater. Atari’s new online initiative is slated to roll out in the summer and will initially appear on PC only.

“Let’s just say it will be PC to start with,” said Bergstresser. “I can’t and I won’t speak for Europe but presumably if it is a success in the US then yes, it will be coming to Europe. We would quickly open it up to other territories.”

Bergstresser declined to give more details apart from hinting that their new service “goes further” than PlayStation Home and that the new service puts emphasis on user-generated content. “We feel user generated content is not just something you just let people dabble in,” Bergstresser said, “we feel that it is something where you give people the tools to do whatever the hell they want.”

More on this as additional details surface.

Via CVG

Atari - Image 1A lot has already been said about Sony‘s PlayStation Home service. While this post doesn’t add anything new to the previous discussions and conjecture about the service, it does add something else: possible competition.

According to CVG, Atari Online Entertainment senior vice president Chris Bergstresser has revealed to UK trade mag MCV that Atari is currently working on an ambitious community portal that is being billed as a possible Home-beater. Atari’s new online initiative is slated to roll out in the summer and will initially appear on PC only.

“Let’s just say it will be PC to start with,” said Bergstresser. “I can’t and I won’t speak for Europe but presumably if it is a success in the US then yes, it will be coming to Europe. We would quickly open it up to other territories.”

Bergstresser declined to give more details apart from hinting that their new service “goes further” than PlayStation Home and that the new service puts emphasis on user-generated content. “We feel user generated content is not just something you just let people dabble in,” Bergstresser said, “we feel that it is something where you give people the tools to do whatever the hell they want.”

More on this as additional details surface.

Via CVG

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