EA Founder Questions Goals of PlayStation Home

Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts, has questioned the goals of Sony Computer Entertainment’s upcoming online service, Home. He says that it isn’t the correct approach for Sony to go after the Second Life or World of Warcraft market.

“What I can’t really tell yet about the various announcements [Sony has] made about online and what they’re doing so far, I can’t tell whether they’re going more towards this mass market idea – the way I’m describing this ‘omni-market’ – or if they’re being lured into essentially trying to compete with Warcraft or Second Life,” Trip Hawkins told Hatchet Job.

“My own personal opinion is: if Sony makes Home feel too much like a [World of] Warcraft environment, they’re just never going to create the kind of audience size that you’re going to see Nintendo and Microsoft create.

“Because clearly Nintendo is orientated towards the mass audience, and even Microsoft has learnt a lot of valuable lessons from things like Xbox Live Arcade,” he added.

EA founder questions PS Home goals [GamesIndustry.biz] [Image]