Thread: Playstation HOME beta

I'll reserve final judgment for the final product, but I can't see it being something revolutionary - rather evolutionary. 3D-space chat rooms have existed since the late 90's, and then moved onto things like Second Life. This is basically a step forward from that, but for a closed and specific base of users (PS3 owners), with huge marketing elements.

I guess the bonus here is that it's polished, and it enables current-gen games functionality. What sucks is that virtually no one has a mic or a keyboard, so you're walking around with a bunch of mute's who spam random pre-written pieces of text while dancing on the spot. Might as well be playing World of Warcraft.

For it to really grab me at all, there'd need to be a 90% take up of microphones so you COULD actually just hang-out and chat with friends, or randoms. At the moment it feels vacant and sterile, with voiceless avatars running around, seemingly aimlessly, repeating the same text phrases over and over and over. It's almost creepy - like a bad dream. Everyone on the 360 has a mic, because Microsoft give them away for free with cameras, chat-pads and even Xbox Live subscriptions.

Home finally arrives...
Official: PlayStation Home launching tomorrow :: PlayStation Universe (PSU)

I hope they have like... about 50x as much content ready to unveil. Otherwise it's going to be another premature launch, and another huge disappointment for PS3 users.

Originally Posted by rec

I hope they have like... about 50x as much content ready to unveil. Otherwise it's going to be another premature launch, and another huge disappointment for PS3 users.

Its open beta so I assume it will be very sparse with limited "awesomeness", I'll give it another full year to reach its potential.

Ah so it's not really being released at all. It's going into open beta. So we'll see a gradual trickle of cool things, that might make it less crap? That was their plan with the PS3 too though, right?

Zzz what a wast of time. I hate to be a negative Nancy, but in a year we'll be hearing about the Playstation 4 specs and next Xbox. *waves fist in the air at Sony

Hope is completely lost. Years later the graphics aren't actually better, Sony's big exclusives are simply MGS4 and LBP (everything else moved multi-platform), the PSN is still being pooped on by Xbox Live, Sony are only starting to catch up with their OS features and are still way behind in the peripheral race despite their new chat-pad release.

I think I'm going to curl up into a ball and rock myself to sleep. It's sooo frustrating. And my mates PS3 just died, too (last night in fact). Xbox 360 shopping (again) today!

you forgot gran turismo.

actually i recently had to toss up between an xbox and a ps3, and ended up choosing ps3 partly because i have faith that it will be more future proof.

How so? They're making no fast progress, and the next generation of consoles is right around the corner.

And Gran Turismo? You mean the game that'll finally be released on the PS4?

i hardly call roughly 4 years (or around 6 years for the ps4) 'right around the corner'.

The console life-cycle averages 5 years.

1994 - PS1
1999 - PS2
2006 - PS3 (delayed over a year, and even longer in most regions)

Xbox - 2001
Xbox 360 - 2005

N64 - 1996
Gamecube - 2002
Wii - 2006

2009 is just days away, and realistically we can expect to see Nintendo or Microsoft's next gen console by Christmas 2010/start 2011. We're talking 2-3 years, which is over half way through the life-cycle.

Maybe 2012 for Sony, though?

Missed a few great games that are only on the PS3 as well, R2 (personally don't think its great), Valkryria Chronicles, Uncharted and Motorstorm 2 if that's your thing. GT4's release date is Christmas 2009 (while they generally bs with release dates this one seems realistic).

What were you expecting home to do that has made the ps3 "a lost hope" when its main focus is an interface to chat and another method to interact with other ps3 users in various ways, join games and do up a virtual home :/(if that's your thing) etc which is what is has achieved. It would be better if the thing was better integrated within games and even the XMB in some way though.

Killzone 2 clearly looks better then any other console game (most game sites have already stated this). I also think MGS4 is a very good looking game with a lot of atmosphere which most games seem to lack.

Also how are they way behind in the peripheral race (there's a race to this?). They have the better steering wheel and pretty much everything else is similar and that TV recording thing in some countries which means it has more addons?. Am I missing something that the 360 has that's a major factor against the ps3?

You seem to be over exaggerating pretty much every little thing the PS3 doesn't offer you or didn't have after release. There seriously isn't anything wrong with the system atm :/.