After hours of waiting and some confusion, it appears as though the official open beta for Sony’s Home has begun. If you want to take part, simply pull up the XMB on your PlayStation 3 and choose the Home icon. At that point, you’ll be whisked away to a magical, albeit virtual world, rife with social interaction and advertisements.
Many of you may have been wondering why exactly it took so long. It appears as though the Sony network gremlins experienced a few kinks in the process of putting Home up for everyone. According to PS3Fanboy, the entirety of PlayStation Network went down for around an hour. Then, the team found a “couple of technical problems” that they needed to address before mass release.
If you were a part of the closed beta, be prepared to be surprised when you walk out of your apartment. Sony has rearranged all the buildings, created a new Central Plaza, redecorated interiors and much more. Expect our impressions later this afternoon.
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3:10 PM on 12.11.2008
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.......yeah
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It's amazing how many people will comment in a subject that they are nor interested in or don't have the proper hardware to use it.
Not much changed from the closed beta.
Still running round as a hot chick, watching the nerds circle around me like vultures.
@Miguelcar808: You are amazed at uneducated and unqualified people offering unasked for and uninformed opinions? Are you new to this whole "internet" thing?
Mainly 'cause I tried to download it just now, and it took like 10 minutes to get to 2%.
K...Done downloading....logging in...."Resquest time out. /HUBPS3_SVML/unity/unityNpLogin.jsp"
Ok, seems this $400 piece of shit wont even let me play virtual doll house. Back to being a dust magnet on the shelf you go.
Any other UK'ers got this to work yet?
Any other UK'ers got this to work yet?
Also, if you got the invite, come and hang out, I'm in the clubhouse right now setting it up and I could use some help moving the furniture. See you there.
Let me know once you've spent 15 minutes in it and you're bored.
YAY!
WTF? I'm not home to try this out, but the fucking clubs cost money plus a monthly fee!? Who's bright fucking money grubbing idea was that???? Jesus I thought only MS pulled stupid shit like this.
Sony gave us home finally, now if only they'd open the damn door
i guess sony saw the epic fail they had on their hands and didn't bother to prepare for this launch.
this is why PSN is free
I'm wondering where all these people are.
/asscommentout
i really don't know what's so special about it .. i think it's totally boring. people are running around and no one's talking to each other.
NXE is 10x better because it delivers important features.
it's good that it's free though.