wasnt M$ all against this type of thing when sony came out with home?

If someone can somehow recreate the arcade atmosphere online then i'm down.

Actually, fuck it. I'm going to the Arcade. There's one 3 hours away.

Doesn't Playstation Home suck and just be horrible all the time, or whatever?

Don't really see the point. The current XBL set-up is great. The avatars are kind of dumb and useless and trying to make them matter seems to be asking for trouble.

If this is as shitty as Home is, I hope Microsoft doesn't do this.

If it's free, it looks fun to me. I always have a random 5 mins to kill. If it's another pay service, then no thanks.

So... Wait, no.. I don't get it.

Please, god no.

Didn't look interesting when Sony did it, still doesn't look interesting now.

Home's arcade functionality was sloppy and annoying, having to log on to Home in the first place was bad enough, then waiting in line and THEN waiting for the game to load made me stop caring altogether. If they can pull this off with minimal load times then it may work, but I have to wonder if it will be free. If it is, then hey, I'm all for it. Stupid as it may be, at least it gives me something to do with my avatar. And I'm always for a free time-killing app when I'm half asleep on my bed staring at the dashboard. Of course given the copy-paste mentality of the big 2, I have a feeling this will be just as pointless as home, and knowing MS, it won't be free. I can spend 10 bucks in gas and drive to a local arcade here and play games MS will never recreate, namely the Japanese version of Taiko Drum Master.

@Dangsterr
Last hope of what? How is any of this affecting you? Fuckin' seriously.

People can criticize but do they have to take it so personally?

It could be cool, as long as they don't screw it up by microtransactioning it to death. Like they seem to do with everything else, that they do on the 360.

So it'll be like Playstation Home? No thanks.

I really injoy Playstation Home so I'd be happy if this were to become real. Of course it will have to be free and not have a lame name.

Hit.

I would hope they wouldn't charge anything for this, but considering they sell retro games on XBLA, I don't see what they'll do. Will they stop selling the games that you can play here for free, or will they start charging per play to play these games? Or will you just have to own the game to play it at all?

"If it's free"

THIS FUCKING MICROSHAF%T! OF course it's not going to be free. Don't be stupid.

HOME is lacking in, uh, things, but this is how different? Sure you can bring up the ques or the login as faults but as it stands, apart from a few annoyances this is pretty much a little part of HOME.

Plus, check out the Japanes Home - it's the bollocks!

Providing Sony bring the TV's, Picture Frames etc to HOME by the time (if it ever) get's out of Beta it will be superb. Would be really nice to have my friends round to my home space to watch those episodes of the wire.

Incorporate the PSeye and you've got a virtual hang out, but not without those all important TV's, Picture frames etc.

Uh no Meson - "it's lacking, things" I rarely go into Home, I certainly wouldn't say it can do no wrong in my eyes! I think it's pretty poor as it is, but if Sony can get round the performance rights issues with TV's etc they could completely transform it into something brilliant.

However around the Gameshows HOME shows it's benefit, it's nice to head to the even space, watch the press conference while chatting with others watching the press conference. Perhaps having a dance in front of a giant Kaz Harai talking about the Go.

No it's not perfect, as it is, it's not even good, but if/when they put in the ideas shown at the start it COULD be superb.