GDC 07: PS3 gamers to get "trophies"

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Mar 7, 2007 10:31 am PT

Sony's new online Home service will feature apartments with virtual "Hall of Fame" that showcases their gaming prowess.

"Is that a Hellghast in your case or are you just happy to see me?"

There's little doubt that the Xbox 360's Gamerscore system can entice console polygamists to spend the night with the platform at the expense of its rivals. After all, when faced with the prospect of playing a game that looks the same and costs the same, why not choose the option that will up what Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski calls "nerd cred"?

Soon, though, Sony loyalists will literally receive trophies for their own in-game accomplishments.

At a press event last night in San Francisco, Sony Worldwide studios president Phil Harrison unveiled Home, a new online service for the PlayStation 3. Besides avatar-based social networking, Home will sport three-dimensional meeting places, movie theaters, and minigame halls replete with pool and bowling. The service will also give gamers virtual apartments that PS3 owners can decorate with furniture, wallpaper, and Sony-branded electronics.

"Man, that dragon would even impress Anne McCaffrey!"

Home apartments will also come with a "trophy room" in which PS3 gamers can showcase their "gaming accomplishments." Each chamber of honor will have virtual display cases in which users can select fully 3D trophies that will be awarded when a certain milestone in a PS3 game is reached. The awards shown off by Harrison included statuettes for the PlayStation Store games LocoRoco 2 and Super Rub-a-Dub, as well as a Hellghast villain from the forthcoming PS3 Killzone preserved like a heavily armored pheasant under glass.

"How may I glean greater glory from flOw?"

The virtual trophy rooms will be part of a PlayStation Network-wide service Harrison calls "The Hall of Fame." Users will be able to access a vast hall reminiscent of the Star Wars prequels' senate chambers that will allow them to browse trophies from games they have not yet played. They will be able to see their friends' trophies by paying a visit to said colleagues' Home apartments.

Harrison did not mention whether or not all PS3 games, like 360 games, will be required to award trophies. The Hall of Fame feature will launch alongside Home in the US and Europe this fall.

404 Comments

  • NoseWeed619

    Posted Dec 5, 2008 10:48 pm PT

    They are just so trying to copy the 360 achievement system...and failing.

  • tg17

    Posted Aug 7, 2008 1:00 pm PT

    this is gonna be good

  • Panta

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 1:19 am PT

    You know, for all of you guys complaining about originality... The PS3 now actually has it... motion sensoring and online awards. Tell me a system that has both to prove that those 2 things together don't make it itself original.

  • Matinee909

    Posted Jul 9, 2008 8:46 am PT

    Some people seem to think that Nintendo invented 'motion senseors'...

    Yes they applied them well considering they were the first to do it, but are we really satisfied with the wii? Take that technology and improve on it. You can't complain about rip offs when companys not only take ideas, they make them better, competition between companies is great for gamers.

  • cloud6541

    Posted Jul 8, 2008 6:40 pm PT

    m33nst33k ur a F***ing idiot..... ps3 had the sixaxes from the start ... stupid ass ..... and the trophie system is similar but not the same.. plus they have blue ray and built in wi-fi .... o what u gonna say now... thats a rip off of wi ..... f***ing idiot.... go die... at least sony has the best failure rate meening lower then gaybox **** since ur a damn idiot HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA idiot

  • jak_two_ratchet

    Posted Jul 6, 2008 11:55 am PT

    who cares if they copied microsoft, its still gonna kick ass

  • jazzer14

    Posted Jul 2, 2008 8:02 am PT

    Tropies!! What a idea. Sony arnt coping 360 ffs... It's just a build up to HOME!!

  • gorillaz_3230

    Posted Jul 1, 2008 11:43 pm PT

    For those who claim this is ripping anything off, need to look at their own consoles.

    It is near impossible to create an idea which has never been touched before.

    Yes, this trophy system is SIMILAR to xbox live achievements, however, if ideas were never borrowed, there would be no progress.

    If we were to never "Copy" or whatever, you wouldn't have your xbox live.

    Trace it back as far as you like. Playstation and Xbox wouldn't be here if it weren't for the Black box, or Atari, or any of those.

    Just shut up, and maybe take it as a compliment if anything.

  • eriquo

    Posted Jun 24, 2008 11:26 pm PT

    i just dont understand how people think its a ripoff of live. i also dont understand how ppl think sony ripped off the tilt controller. wii and ps3 came out on almost the same day, and the controllers dont function the same at all if you think about it.

  • LordReithgar

    Posted Jun 1, 2008 12:19 am PT

    psgored21 : because Microsoft didn,t copy Nintendo and Sony for the look of it's controll, heck, making a console is copying atari and coleco's. Everyone copies other's good idea's, that's marketing and business strategies, if it works for others, it should work for you too. Sony won't charge for online because they are against the idea (or believe it might attracts more peoples in the end). They are making some mmo style games for Ps3 which are gonna be free as well, saying that Home isn't as good as XBX LVIE when it's not out yet and you have no idea how it's really going to be is silly, anyway, I find these communities thingey a bit dumb. I use my console to play games, not to see who has more points then me or whatsoever, what's the big deal with these achievements and trophies anyway? once you have them, they are useless...

  • LordReithgar

    Posted Jun 1, 2008 12:11 am PT

    Trophies or accomplishment are pointless, I'd rather have Dante's sword as wearable for my avatar as a reward, or unlocking some clothing from a certain caracter from a game you reach the reward with.

  • tyzwain

    Posted May 31, 2008 4:45 am PT

    Could not agree more Ratchetrulz. I got 360 PS3 n Wii - and play them for different reasons. I agree that the 360 is awesome for achievements (making me play COD4 on veteran...grrr) and now the PS3 gives gamers the chance to do the same.

  • RatchetRulz

    Posted May 2, 2008 5:25 pm PT

    jeez, it seems like every thread i go to it turns out to be a pointless console war.. little kids and their "loyalty" to their systems... why does it matter if Ps3 plays better than xbox 360, or Xbox 360 has better games... why cant people understand that they are both GREAT systems... p.s. Get it through your heads.

  • fartys

    Posted Sep 20, 2007 7:10 am PT

    cool!

  • eminem_trick_01

    Posted Sep 8, 2007 11:17 am PT

    it's looked like this game will have the ability to challenge players and making dates with playing online games on ps3..

  • ShadowOfSorrow

    Posted Sep 4, 2007 7:07 pm PT

    SPOILERS!

    Jay Allen, MGS4 didn't cross over. As of now, it is a PS3 exclusive. It has yet to be decided, however, if it'll go over to the 360. So it's currently a no-no. Oh, and I do think this is a knock-off (TO AN EXTENT) of the 360 Achievement system. I also own a 360, besides my PS3 and Wii, so don't call me some "damn fanboy".

  • shismoov

    Posted Jul 11, 2007 8:57 pm PT

    Oh, and JayAllen is right on the money! I will be too busy "Gear"ing up for War for the second time that I won't have time to dance around like a fruit on PS home. Sony can GET LOST!

  • shismoov

    Posted Jul 11, 2007 8:42 pm PT

    Finally a SIMS game that I dont have to pay for. LOL.

  • jaredcrazy3232

    Posted Jul 3, 2007 1:51 pm PT

    stop the hate'in

  • 500_pts

    Posted Jun 28, 2007 6:39 pm PT

    i knew killzone would pull through

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