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GDC 2007: PS3 Home Beta opens up with shut doors photo

If you're as excited about the PS3 Home application as we are you might have a chance to participate before its scheduled release this Fall. A new Sony web site has sprung up with an ominous message looking for Beta testers:

Home™ is a real-time 3D, networked community that serves as a meeting place for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) users from around the world, where they can interact, communicate, join online games, shop, share content and even build their own personal spaces. Home™ will be available as a free download from the PLAYSTATION®Store and will launch directly from the PS3™ system's Home Menu.

Keep checking back on this site to register an interest in taking part in an exclusive closed Beta Trial of Home™

Follow this link to arrive fashionably late. I wish they'd just let us know by email so I could sleep a few more hours a night.

[Via Kotaku








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Yayoo's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 17:03
Yayoo
This thing just don't interest me, I have the feeling once it's out after a few days nobody will want it, am I very wrong or what?
Toneman's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 17:07
Toneman
Dude, the Dtoid home is gonna be worth it. Everyone will be throwing TVs down the stairs. Imagine the chaos!
Yayoo's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 17:10
Yayoo
Will there be boob and/or moobs?
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 17:14
Niero
It's going to be chaos, I cannot wait to throw pianos at all of you!
DoctorEuphony's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 17:15
DoctorEuphony
OH BOY....i'm gonna pay 600 dollars for this!!!!! GO SONY!!!
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 17:24
mix
So does that mean they are just monitoring just how much one person goes to the site, and the people who check it the most are given priority?

Anyone have a program that refreshes the page every second?
fra_diavola's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 18:12
fra_diavola
DoctorEuphony i'm with you....i couldn't fathom purchasing a 600 dollar console ever but with the home announced and the way it looks.... I might have to pony up some dough. Im totally ready for this to come out and once it does im getting me a ps3.
carg0's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 18:46
carg0
(laughing)

they call it "home", i simply call it "the beginning of the end".

Rainbowblack's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 19:17
Rainbowblack
yeah, the only thing PSHome is good for is the imminent destructoid pad. God that place is going to get fucking trashed!
poonster's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/08/2007 19:20
poonster
sorry but this doesnt interest me in the least..eventually i'll buy a ps3(when the price drops) but i'll be buying it to play games not run around in a virtual online community.i don't see this as a system seller,well it'll sell some but not to the hardcore gamer
Tim_Stoppard's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2007 03:36
Tim_Stoppard
I share your enthusiasm Niero!!!
Pianos for everyone!
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2007 03:50
wardrox
So... what is the big deal/excitement all about, isnt this just another 3D world, like cybertown was, like second life is etc. Why is this different, appart from the fact its an "exclusive" title for a £500 console?
maximum0v3rdriv3's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/09/2007 08:10
maximum0v3rdriv3
I'll admit this is no system seller and in the end won't matter at all if their aren't awesome games for the system.

However alot of you guys miss the point of home. It's pretty much sony's answer to the Mii and XBLA. To me this is what the Mii could have been and depending just how they handle ways to find players and friends, might just blow XBLA out of the water in at least player connectivity.

In the end this won't make me go out and get a ps3. But it's a step in the right direction. If they keep it up they'll get my 600+ bucks.
reytawn's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/10/2007 21:18
reytawn
yeah maximums right, a lot of you did miss the point. a few people were saying things like "exclusive" title, or comparing it to second life. well why wouldnt it be exclusive? do you want sony to design the online for all companies? this isnt a game people, its the online community. and some people like to use the excuse "well that doesnt make the console worth $600", but if you add up all the things youve said that about, then it more then makes up a $600 console.
Monolithic's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/11/2007 01:08
Monolithic
I was waiting for something to come out for the ps3 online service that was innovative, and i guess this is it. This is amazming yet I hope this doesn't destract from good online gameplay.
reytawn's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/11/2007 11:28
reytawn
if anything it should promote online gameplay
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