All I have to say is wow how hypocritical. Home is outdated? Their using Wii graphics for Avatars, not only that but they are doing the same thing Wii is doing with Miis, putting them into games and such. I mean come on.

Home is pretty crappy. I booted it for the first time last week and I literally fell asleep while modifying my avatar. I love my PS3 but I will probably never use Home.

#1 warhawk room
#2 socom room
#3 media sharing for movie nights with friends
#4 chess
#5 free arcade games
#6 background advertisements that will make sony the money to keep the psn free
#7 its free and optional ( you don't look a gift horse in the mouth but everyone is )
#8 clubhouses to meet up with d-toiders on fnf
#9 game launching from said clubhouses
#10_in_the_hood_G!! that's 9 legitimate reasons.

and what's out-dated is everyone still calling it the "new" x-box experience when its now the "current"x-box experience. it was new a month ago.

Qraze made some good points, there are some features out there for a few people at least(even if it's mostly boring and not that revolutionary), plus its free and not required. like NXE, which is mandatory.

I'm actually looking forward to Home.
*GASP*
I love my PS3
*GASP*
Not a fan of the 360
*DOUBLEGASP*

I love my Xbox, but this dude should just shut up, let it fail on its own, dont need to put his 2 cents in!

My biggest complaint about home - judging from my time spent with the beta - is that they don't give you nearly enough at the outset.

-your home is boring, generic and empty
-you have like 3 choices for clothing
-there's nothing to do; no way to meet people (I assume that's supposed to be the main draw) once in there
-you have to fucking WAIT to sit at a game table...wtf sony really? only 6 people on the entire network can play at a time?

obviously Sony wants us to cough up some dough in order to flesh out the experience - but I'd be much more receptive to the idea if I was given something more substantial to start with.

@Qraze: MS's avatars ARE better than the Wii's.

The L4D SERVERS were not being hacked. People were hacking files on their 360 hard drives, which did affect online play. Valve issued a server update to prevent those folks from playing online. But it was NEVER Xbox Live being hacked.

Reading complete articles FTW.

if it affected other users on live then it hacked the servers. if it only affected the person using the hack then its a cheat. it affected all who were in that server.

I think it will be useful for FNF, like trev said. I've been using the beta but there's no real content yet. hopefully that changes with actual release.

First off, about the Sony Hate. Yeah, I think it used to be something the cool guys would do to be cool - but like most stuff, it gets old so you awesome cool guys might need to find a new angle to show how awesome badass cool you are. What about brands of Ketchup? You could jerk your hate muscle to a giant Heinz vs Hunts battle, couldn't you?

Secondly, the argument doesn't really matter, since it is optional and free. However, if the Dtoid club is any proof, there are quite a few people using home. I can't check now, because the servers are prepping for the big opening, but I want to say I had something like 30 or 40 people request to join. That's just destructoid readers. So I think, between the Club Functionality, being social with my other PS3 friends, in home online game launching and the occasional stroll for no good reason, I will get some use out of it. Plus I'm a total sucker for decorating, so I'll buy the occasional new clothes or new apartment item.

Oh, and one more thing, those of you who say you'd like it if you were forced to use it, like the new xbox experience, you're crazy! I like it being optional.

Yeah beacuse making an avatar that looks like an upgraded MII is fucking HARDCORE and sweet.

Outdated?




MS needs to check them self before making these criticisms, seriously.

@ Squawk

You talk about the perception that Sony is tripping up. What I think it comes down to, as far as the general hate for sony, or the perception that they are doing bad, is sour grapes. I think people try to sour grapes themselves out of wanting the PS3. They most likely already have a 360 or a Wii and maybe they dont want to drop the cash for a PS3 and they don't want to feel like they are missing out, so they convince themselves that the system sucks, when in all reality, it's just as good as any other. However, they have this perception that it isnt. I mean, they are all just gaming systems. I've seen people with just a PS3 do the same thing to the 360. But I think that is why you've seen so much hate. You'll notice that it's usually driven by people who just have a wii or just have a xbox or just have a ps3, or any 2, but not the third.

Either way, people will crap on home, they'll crap on on the new xbox experience, theyll crap on Miis. But really these are all just interface tools in the end, wtf does it matter? Use them, don't use them, who cares?

All I can say is, I love playing pool in Home.

sigh. Above: edition should be addition.

HOME doesn't look outdated at all. It looks pretty good. Of course I always end up thinking these social networking things on consoles are useless anyway.

You guys might call Reaprar a troll, but he just described my Home experience down to the letter.

Granted, I shouldn't have made a female avatar. And I did spend a little too much time on her makeup. And yes, her outfit is color-coordinated...but why the fuck as soon as I step out into the main plaza, a million horny gamers start running man humping me?

Fuck Home, fuck NXE, fuck Miis...I turn on the system, game/message from within the game, and turn the system off. Can't get more streamlined than that.

I've condensed my thoughts on this whole console war bullshit into a blog post.

as soon as Microsoft stops trying to ape Apple and Nintendo i'll listen to what they have to say about how innovative they think Home is.

I miss the NES interface... put in the game, press power, and play.

I'll try Home. It might be a good way to meet other people that enjoy a casual game of Warhawk. Or play Warhawk and actually have mics.

And everything microsft puts out like xbox live and it's lame online gameplay is outdated and not worth it and totaly poinless.


Ooo peer to peer online play without real servers that is so, 1996 and lame and it only cost $50 a year for this fantasic crap.


No wait a minute I think we had better online service in 1996, and battle.net was free and it did the samething.