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Or, even more embarrassingly, he was playing a 360 build.

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^ yea thats wat i was thinking too

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There is a Gamercard in Home. You walk up to someone and the X button shows above their head, you hit X and you can check their gamercard and some other stuff. It is currently inaccessible, but it has been there since the beta started.

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Being the cynical type I would suggest an intentional 'mistake' in showing the menu option. A little hint here or there of a new improvement to the PSN/Home and these rumours quickly turn in to wanton gossip and hype. Oooh, hush my mouth.

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if this isn't a 360 build and it is a Home thing expect lawsuits

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@5 why. ppl 'borrow' ideas, concepts all the time, as long as it isnt the same thing. gamercard is not the same as gamertag. if that where the case sony would use achievem... i meant trophies eitehr due to a lawsuit

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or nintendo would own everyone for using their button layout in any controller after the super nintendo, oh and same goes for the shoulder buttons, and i am pretty sure someone thought of those buttong and shoulder buttons before nintendo as well...

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Couldn't be a "Gamercard". That's what MS calls the part of the 360 dash that shows gamerscore, gamerzone, etc and that wonderful signature that permeates even the Playstation Underground forums. Sony would be called a copycat if they did that. We can't have that, now can we. [/sarcasm]

I think that too much will be read into this and what is better than what will be drawn based on ridiculously incomplete data. He was playing a 360. Woohoo.

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I hope it wasn't for 360 something plz for home p.a. When does home come out

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My mistake. He was playing a Playstation, since you use triangle to use it.

Wow. Gamercard. That's...lame.

And a word on "trophies", too. Lame. Gamerscore is what makes Achievements work, not 3D trophy things.

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The "Gamercard" is for the XBOX 360

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/myxbox/mygamercard.htm

Looks like he was playing it on a 360... what a suprise!

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I disagree. Points are stupid, meaningless, and in no way encourage me to play.

Cool animated 3d models would, however, have a better chance to feel satisfying. Especially for games like Lair. Seeing a nicely rendered 3D dragon that I can rotate around and admire the art for... that's something to work for, not for some 32x32 bitmap that might be funny but generally is generic.


But to each his own. For all I know, the trophies won't end up being as impressive as I hope. They might be just as unsatisfying as getting 30 meaningless hacked points. We'll see.

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yup, sounds like a 360 build to me.

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ppl this is a tea/coffee debate no one will win so dont opine if you feel your stance is the only correct one and everyone else is stupid for not aggreing with you. some like gamerscore, i like xoonaka think they are meaningless and in no way encourage me to keep playing a game.* but im a coffee man, sissy can keep their tea. LOL j/k



* had a 360 at launch clucked it a while ago.

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Whatever it is, it's not a 360 build. First, the title of the article is "‘Gamercard’ spotted in UT3 demo – is this PS3’s answer to the 360’s Gamertag?". Secondly, the article itself says you press Triangle to access it, and none of my 360 controllers have a Triangle button on them - my PS3 controllers, however, do.

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I really should have got tickets to go to this thing.

Its less than 5 minutes away from my house.

Wonder if i can just show up and look like a poor little gamer and ask to play free demo's of stuff...

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it was actually an in Home image .. its not what you all think .. you want a gamer card like microsoft go here www.ps3tag.com

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My foam has been downgraded to a regular Cliffy B froth.

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@Ste

When we run PS3 builds where I work it shows all the X360 information because it's ported from the 360 to the PS3. Here's an example: When I look at the controller configuration page on the PS3 it will show a placeholder image of a 360 controller. This because it's made for the 360 and gradually ported over to the PS3. So maybe it was running on a PS3 but it's being made on the 360 and ported to the PS3. How many times can I say ported to the PS3? It's never a good thing when that happens. Looks like 30 FPS for the PS3... uh oh!

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If I was going to do an achievement based system, I would do it a la insomniac. Unlike some stupid number that you brag about to your friends, Insomniac has skill points in their games, which when you achieve unlock bonus content for you like making of videos and screen shots. Imagine every game was forced to have that kind of bonus content based on skill.

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