Jeez, is there ANYTHING right about this screen?
So are the Stormtroopers of Mos Eisley have been conscripted from planets of giants? Does Wuher-lite have a bizarre miniaturized head? Is there anybody else in the Cantina today?
This public space headed to PlayStation Home. Where, presumably, the usual collection of glassy-eyed Home avatars will stand in for all the fun Star Wars aliens.
Although I once swore that Sony would never ever release Home, I've come around to being largely tolerant of it. But this, this is grotesque. How do you issue a screenshot like that and still manage to be all breathless and hyper in your press release?
Maybe it's some kind of perspective trick, and that Stormtrooper is actually standing about five feet away from the bar.
It also bears pointing out that the PlayStation Blog entry that announced the Cantina tried to position the entire concept of "Star Wars Items Now In Home" as if it's some kind of celebration of the 30th anniversary of Empire Strikes Back. And not that it's just more silly virtual stuff Sony (and Lucas) expect you to buy. Wouldn't everything in the world be better if marketers could just not jerk our chains about it? What possible percentage of PS3 > Home > Star Wars fans needed to be tricked into buying content on the grounds that it's celebrating the one Star Wars film that sort of gets off scott free with positive nerd cred?
And, you know, the Cantina wasn't in Empire. But that doesn't stop Home from pretending that they have exclusive "Empire Strikes Back events and content." Such as Chewbacca and C-3PO.
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