If you close your eyes and get everybody to be quiet, you can almost hear my soul dying a little bit. That's because Sony has stated that its eventual goal for PlayStation Home is to make the horribly dull poor man's Second Life an "essential component" of the PS3 experience. Excuse me while I am sick into a little bag.
"Home is the starting point for PlayStation 3 online, and that's something that gamers are going to expect as more games support Game Launch from within Home," promises SCEE's Peter Edward. "This will become an essential component for all PS3 games."
Edwards states that Home is not going anywhere soon, stating that the company is "in it for the long-term." He also boasts 7 million users of the service worldwide. 6 million virtual items have also been downloading, leading me to believe that the world is full of incredibly bored people.
I really hope Sony's horrific vision of an essential Home never comes to light. So far, the best thing I can say about Home is the fact that I can delete it from my PS3's hard drive and forget it exists. I do so love playing the PS3, but I'll be damned if I have to boot up the game's slow and rubbish boredom simulator in order to get in a quick round of Killzone 2.
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11:40 AM on 06.26.2009
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Honestly what we're they thinking!?!??! When i think of my PS3, the only thing i'm ashamed of is HOME, Sigh, i wish we could have the cool Xbox360 online avatar thing...
Meanwhile, Real Life + Realistic Life when it acts as a "Look at me I look a bit like this maybe and spent real money on these socks when I could have spent it on getting a game or even just spent the time playing some game" simulator = Failure on all fronts.
Maybe that is that from were the 6 million download comes?
Hopefully they don't turn this into a required interface for the enduser. There's a reason we use menus instead of second life to get around in the system, they are quick and convey a lot of information.
I would have no problem with Home if I could avoid the pseudo-bars and pick up spaces and go directly to say a "Destructoid" space that was perpetual and used a simple password system for entry (rather than the clubhouse system of restricted memberships). I could see who was there, decide on a game, party up and launch into a game where we would remain together as a party. Such spaces would also be useful if they had game night calendars, leaderboards... anything actually related to games and gaming.
It seems that some people regard Home as a game... they seem to be there constantly and not actually out buying new games and playing "real" games. If Sony wants to actually profit then they have to make Home into a gaming function and not a social 2nd life rip off.
Eh... my thoughts anyway. I hope they do overhaul it... and make it useful.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Sony has been saying the complete opposite. They know it's not for everyone, they're not going to make it a requirement.
If they had, I wouldn't love them anymore. So no.
Howz? You mean I can actually get rid of that stupid icon under the Network section of the XMB? Or are you talking about some install data that fills up the HD when you launch it? I've never launched the thing, so I'm not sure.
I sure would love to get rid of that icon...