Comments on: A New Mansion From Sony

By: ted2112

ted2112 — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:48:46 +0000

The private club space is better than this estate, but not by much. The river that runs on the club island is utterly painful to look at, it’s almost funny.

I think if real world physics were at work here. The insane speed of that river would physically propel the entire island into a collision course with the diamond beach mansion!

By: MsLiZa

MsLiZa — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:27:40 +0000

Good review of an overpriced, underwhelming space. To repeat what I posted in the Sony Forum…

“Just putting the word Diamond in the name does not make it worth triple the price of most personal spaces. Especially when the diamond is dull and full of flaws.”

By: SealWyf_

SealWyf_ — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:16:17 +0000

I’ve visited the open house space a couple of times, and each time my reaction was a profound “Meh”. Perhaps actually owning the space would provide more satisfaction, but I don’t see spending the cash to find out.

Jin is right — Lockwood does luxury ever so much better. And seeing the re-skinned x7 cocktail waitresses in the Yacht Club was an über-creepy moment for this Seal. So, no thanks, Sony. Nice try but… no.

By: kookynikki

kookynikki — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:47:18 +0000

I just told my friend that I might as well get Dream island. It has a wonderful layout and you can get a lot for a cheaper price.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:42:58 +0000

Think you got it right there about exclusivity Krazyface, but it’s not that they need to know. They already know that selling overpriced more exclusive stuff works. Using the word limited or exclusive and people will pay more. Giving away rewards aswell there must be some users doing somersaults. You could make a gold plated jewel encrusted dog turd hat make it exclusive and sell for 19.99 and people would buy it lol

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 07:35:18 +0000

Agree Jin, completely.

I’ve been in and out of this space a few times now, over the course of a couple weeks and on each visit I’ve been hoping for texture improvement; it never came. As you’ve said Burbie, the shore line is a flat, straight line that would be acceptable in a PS2 game, but not what we’re used to (or simply expect) in Home products now.

I’m not sure why you couldn’t, but you can swim in this space around the shore area but it’s just another static, boring experience; nothing seems to shimmer or move under the water either -- it kinda feels like your flying rather than swimming.

I’ve not had the chance to try out the Wake-boarding mini-game that comes with the space either, or if there are more rewards attached to it but I can only assume, going by the overall quality, that it may not be all that good.

As far as exclusivity goes, this is really nothing to want for -- it’s visuals are that of (nearly) two generations ago, where they’ve clearly been sacrificed for functionality and aside from the day/night cycle and the ability to change the tint of the windows, I fail to see why the aesthetics have had to be hit so hard. If Glittering sands can do it…

Personally, I think you’ve gone too easy on this space Burbie; for the asking price, I find this such an oddity I can only assume someone somewhere is using this ugly space with a massive price tag as an experiment to see how important “exclusivity” is to some Home users.

By: Jin Lovelace

Jin Lovelace — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 04:46:07 +0000

I feel, in short, the Dream Island is much better than this Space. I feel there’s no life to the Space and for $14.99, we get a Waterfall that fails on appeal, Sand that looks painful to walk on than believable, water--you know what? Screw this, the Space is just not great at all.

Good article.