So yesterday I posted that the first ever community created game (Pong) was now available on the PS3. Well Microsoft has hit back in a big way.
While the PS3 version was a dodgy 2D black and white version the Microsoft one is a 3D sphere with multi-touch functionality.
Okay that’s really not very fair since the PS3 one was a huge breakthrough in community gaming done by a bunch of guys in their garage. While the Microsoft one was created by a crack team of geniuses with billions of dollars behind them.
The sphere is cool though.
Last Updated: July 30, 2008
alphaV1za
July 30, 2008 at 09:42
It’s like a round version of MS Surface.
Still, rather cool.
Rudolph
July 30, 2008 at 10:36
The sphere is awesome…
I don’t get what’s so cool about the community created PS3 game… MS has been working on this for a long time, see http://creators.xna.com/
Rudolph
July 30, 2008 at 10:43
After a quick google it seems that MS has been working on the community games thing for quite some time, with XNA creators club launched in 2006 already: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/11/microsoft-launches-xna-creators-club/
It seems only natural that Sony would do the same.
Werner
July 30, 2008 at 11:27
O yes… and of course, like everything else done by mS, you have to pay a subscription fee for this.
That being said, this was launched in 2006. Does anyone know of Arcade games that was created through this Club?
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Werner
July 30, 2008 at 11:29
Agreed, I don’t really understand why you would rather want the sphere to work on rather than the flat surface.
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ewie
July 30, 2008 at 11:40
scoloids.
LazySAGamer
July 30, 2008 at 11:42
Community games are actually quite a large part of the new dashboard.
There are some really good ones just waiting to be released so it is working.
xyber
July 31, 2008 at 11:50
cause the PS3 community thing is a hack. PS3 don’t have anything like XNA to make your homegrown game in. Wish Sony would wake up and release something like it, maybe the phyre engine.