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Sony to launch YouTube competitor in Japan
News Corp and NBC Universal last month announced they would launch a similar site this year.
While Sony is launching its EyeVio site in Japan, the company plans to expand the service to other countries if it performs well.
Sony hopes to avoid the lawsuits that have plagued Google by actively monitoring the site for copyright violations from the get go, rather than waiting for content producers to contact the company with complaints. Of course, this raises the question: Without copyrighted videos, will anyone user the new site? There are conflicting reports over whether YouTube owes its success more to user-generated video or clips from programs like The Daily Show.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Matthew said 10:54PM on 4-26-2007
Nico Nico Douga (http://www.nicovideo.jp/), a video sharing site launched earlier this year then relaunched in March with their own servers and better video quality than YouTube, is already quite popular, so Sony's got more than a bit of catching up to do here.
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Darkstorm said 5:34PM on 4-27-2007
It's funny how the designer used the PS3 prototype controller as an icon.
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KirbyMeister said 4:21PM on 4-28-2007
Knowing Sony, they'll use Flash 8 or 9 just to make sure Wiis won't work with it. ;) Hell, they'll probably use a non-standard player to boot!
(They have to screw it up SOMEHOW! It's obviously just an attempt to get rid of Youtube so they can have their own video site on their own terms)
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