No avatar-on-avatar action in PS3 Home

10:18 PM on 03.21.2007   |   Chad Concelmo

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And to think, I was actually excited about PlayStation 3 Home.

In an interview with ThreeSpeech, Phil Harrison talks about none other than America’s favorite pastime, porn (to be fair, he does talk about other things as well, but this was the most interesting).

When asked about the kinds of actions the Home characters can perform with each other, Harrison says:

Well, it’s absolutely deliberate that there is no physical impact between characters, between avatars. We are going to have animations that will allow you to shake somebody’s hand or to have some social touch but in a very, you know, appropriate way. But no, we’re not going to have ‘those’ kind of animations that I’m imagining that you’re thinking about.

I would love to have been inside Phil’s head the moment he said “’those’ kind of animations.” I bet some pretty amazing stuff floated in there.

ThreeSpeech goes on to ask about the chances of someone downloading porn to their personal Home space for everyone to see. Harrison’s response:

Well I’m disappointed that you would use those as the first questions. I think Home should be used for a much wider and more beneficial scope than that, but I think that people can express their creativity inside Home in a wide variety of ways and it’s not necessarily for us to dictate what that should be. However, if somebody feels uncomfortable about an encounter on Home, it’s very easy for them to ban that person from their friends list …

What do you think? Are your hopes and dreams of throwing a Home key party completely crushed? How long do you think it will take for someone to ignore Harrison completely, hack into the Home server, and spread debauchery all over Sony’s virtual world?