Avatars to Get a New Home (R)

[BreakABone]

And pun intended.

It seems like MS is set to announce Xbox 360 Game Room, which is some sort of Retro arcade/Home inspired set-up for your Avatar.



This has the potential to be cool, if done in a vein similar to the Netflix party system where you could watch movies/TV shows with friends while their avatars enjoy it in their little living room, with random reactions and stuff.

If they try and make it like a living hub like Sony Home, I'm out. Home was just so bleh.

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=636761

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Guess not much of a rumour
http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/...ES2010_ch9.wmv

Around 11:50 into the clip.

Well, Game Room in some ways is sort of a retro approach. And it's interesting, there's a generation of people -- sort of my advanced, mature age [laughs] -- who grew up with a set of games like Centipede. They look almost like casual, fun games today -- at the time they were high-end, edgy games -- and so Game Room is the idea of bringing that back to the market. And bringing that to a very broad audience. And I think what we're gonna find is that when people can get 30 or more of these games, they're gonna love it for the experience. And it's not just you and I who are gonna love it, even the people who would call themselves "hardcore gamers" are gonna say "Oh wow this is fun!" In a retro way. It's sort of like my daughter going to watch Journey. I'm like, this is a band that was playing when I was growing up. And she thinks it's a cool band and I like the music. And I think you're gonna have the same phenomenon with Game Room. We're gonna enjoy the games and they're gonna think it's cool. I think that's very powerful.

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