Nintendo gives its thoughts on Sony’s Home

After the recently-concluded GDC, the freshly-announced PlayStation Home has caught the attention of many, turning heads and raising eyebrows of even the gaming community’s bigwigs.

Sony has drawn attention because of the similarity of its Home to Nintendo’s Mii concept, where players can build avatars and interact with people online for social or competitive reasons. Nintendo of America PR director Beth Llewelyn commented “I think Home is very interesting, it looks like Sony is trying to figure out where their niche is.

“I saw things in there that reminded me of products that we’ve done and things we’ve done. It didn’t seem something wholly revolutionary,” she added.

The PR chief went on to say that on a deeper analysis, Home is pretty different from what Nintendo has been working on. “It would be something I would never do” she says.

So is Home a Mii rip-off or not? A closer look at forum posts from last year suggest that Sony might have been working on the concept a lot earlier than we all thought. You can find the link to the post in the Read link below.

After the recently-concluded GDC, the freshly-announced PlayStation Home has caught the attention of many, turning heads and raising eyebrows of even the gaming community’s bigwigs.

Sony has drawn attention because of the similarity of its Home to Nintendo’s Mii concept, where players can build avatars and interact with people online for social or competitive reasons. Nintendo of America PR director Beth Llewelyn commented “I think Home is very interesting, it looks like Sony is trying to figure out where their niche is.

“I saw things in there that reminded me of products that we’ve done and things we’ve done. It didn’t seem something wholly revolutionary,” she added.

The PR chief went on to say that on a deeper analysis, Home is pretty different from what Nintendo has been working on. “It would be something I would never do” she says.

So is Home a Mii rip-off or not? A closer look at forum posts from last year suggest that Sony might have been working on the concept a lot earlier than we all thought. You can find the link to the post in the Read link below.