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PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
Sony will open PlayStation Home to the world tomorrow as the open beta finally gets into gear.
The game client will be free. Once downloaded, a Home icon will pop up in the PlayStation Network column of the XMB. While the service will be free there will be some paid-for content, such as extra clothes and accessories.
Europeans will be able to explore a Far Cry 2-themed environment, and Sony hopes to make areas for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Warhawk, Motorstorm and SOCOM available soon.
In the future, there will be partnerships with and themes from companies such as EA, SEGA, Eidos and Midway.
Fashion label Diesel will offer up some trendy togs, while furniture designer Ligne Roset has all sorts of upholstery collections to make your house stand out from the crowd.
Red Bull is hosting a virtual flying challenge where you get to be the pilot. This will take place on the Red Bull Island.
More importantly, Paramount Studios, Eurogamer TV and Hexus TV will be showing their wares in the Home Theatre. That means Johnny Minkley will be offered alongside trailers and interviews for films such as Watchmen, which actually looks quite good. Johnny Minkley also looks good, of course.
If only Big Phil Harrison were here to smash the bottle on the hull. At least Kaz Hirai had something to say, specifically: "PlayStation Home is truly a promising network community service on the PlayStation platform, made possible with the powerful combination of PS3's overwhelming computational power and PlayStation Network that covers many countries around the globe." Phew.
Oh, there's more: "We are committed to providing PS3 users with exciting gaming experiences with PlayStation Home and together with our partners and users, expand the new world of interactive entertainment as we move forward."
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4thVariety
10/12/08 @ 08:41
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Finally we can all show those Japanese Home designers what foreign barbarians are capable of doing to a piece of software.
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"Fashion label Diesel will offer up some trendy togs,"
"Red Bull is hosting a virtual flying challenge where you get to be the pilot. This will take place on the Red Bull Island." I'm not gonna do the whole Home bashing thing, it's not for me and I know it. I have to ask though, do gamers really wants this sort of thing? Personally, it makes me feel a little sick (could be bias though as I did work in advertising for years and HATE the evil stuff!). |
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influenceuk
10/12/08 @ 08:52
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It's good to see SCEE are finally releasing this. After being in the Beta since July, i still dont feel its ready for release.
Don't get me wrong, its good, and looks amazing. However there are still some bugs that need sorting out. Unless they have sorted them out in this release. Also whats more annoying is the fact that the UK/EU Home has still got the same Home Plaza area that was originally released. Where as the US and Japan have both had face lifts! At the end of the day, least we'll finally get some English speaking people back on home! |
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"After being in the Beta since July, i still dont feel its ready for release."
What's wrong with it? I'm also in the closed beta and mostly everything seems to work fine - the "only" problem is the serious lack of content and areas in the beta. I hope the open beta will have more content. But it REALLY needs a custom soundtrack option - the Home muzak is driving me crazy! |
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Good I guess. Get it out of the way. At the minute I'm not sure I care. Will the game party/switching stuff (debatably the only good thing about home) even be in place?
I'm still interested ti see it anyway. "I'm not gonna do the whole Home bashing thing, it's not for me and I know it. I have to ask though, do gamers really wants this sort of thing?" The Red Bull thing is actually some sort of minigame type thing. And as for saying do gamers want this sort of thing? You vastly underestimate how lame most gamers/people are. |
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Hmmm, while I'm certainly curious about Home I've never been particularly convinced of it's 'system seller' status. There's a few reasons for that (the fact that the PS3 doesn't come with a headset as standard so the number of people using voice chat is likely to be fairly limited, the micro-transactions, the possibility of Sony getting the demand horribly wrong and having a queue a mile long for the fun stuff and, most importantly, if you're going to build a social hub then why on earth not load it automatically on boot and put the XMB over it if necessary) but I'll reserve judgement until I get a chance to play around with it. That being said, I'm really surprised at the way they're launching this. It's seems to blow any momentum and excitement for the service that may exist in potential customers at the worst possible time when most big present Christmas shopping will have been done and money is scarce.
Oh well, roll on tomorrows and let's hope the PSN can handle the load... |
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Ended up chatting to some guy yesterday about Detroit Techno, Richie Hawtin and various other bits, got a new bod on my list and told him about a wee little music community that he may have been interested in. So good stuff!
I quite like home, although approach it with the mentality of "this is meant to be some sort of shit hot game" and you won't get it. |
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I quite like home, although approach it with the mentality of "this is meant to be some sort of shit hot game" and you won't get it.
That appears to be the problem, a lot of people have completely way off expectations of what Home is and what Home is meant to be.
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andywilkie35
10/12/08 @ 09:38
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I'm tempting but it sounds like too much hard work, so I'll wait until its officially out and then download it and never use it instead
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The Red Bull Air Race game looks pretty good :)
Video here: http://kotaku.com/5106205/and-the-home-m... |
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Indeed. I quite like it because I sit on here and chat to people, I sit on music places and chat to people, I sit on various other places, so its obviously something I enjoy doing. Also the entire "free to access" malarky keeps it open to the market. Will be interested to see how it develops over time.
Certainly its going to be of interest to lots of companies when it comes to pushing their games/products to markets as a source of PR. I've noticed it happening to Mr Sackboy. Got a product coming out? Release a Sackboy costume! Another stream of PR. The same for this, God Of War 3 is coming out, come to our ancient Athens area on Home and download a trial and some movies! Now you can like that or not, you don't have to buy into it. |
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Home is a good laugh if you have real friends, communication works well and its fun to meet up and piss about.... one friend is on every night.. but then he is a nosey bastard that likes to have a few sherberts on a friday and annoy people.. get a 15 man hammer going and try not too laugh... oh, and anything where you can wind up the french and germans is a plus for me.
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Did they not demo it with Motorstorm launching from it a big age ago?
I've got the PS3 headset now, but I tell you what.... I prefer it being text based myself. Two people started up in french near the guy I was talking to yesterday so we wandered up to them and muted them. Oh god, if only I could do that in real life. |
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Bigglesworth
10/12/08 @ 09:56
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How come I find out from Kotaku that EG are supplying video content for Home? (Edit: cos I didn't read the full page - doh!)
It'd be quite funny if its podcasts of Richard Leadbetter's face-off articles =)
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Dont know about game launching i was just talking about devs actually supporting Home. I am guessin that any multiplayer 1st party game will have game launching. It may be useless to most but its not mandatory and its an option to use. I will use it as i have not chatted to any of my PSN mates due to the broken nature of the communication. |
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JohnnyWashnGo
10/12/08 @ 10:06
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Can't wait for it to be honest... its not like you have to pay for it at the moment :)
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optimusprym8
10/12/08 @ 10:14
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Popped in over the weekend and was pleasantly surprised to see lots of people running about. Having to wait for a game of bowling or pool seemed kinda stupid though. Sometimes there are Real World aspects that shouldn't be replicated online. It's not like I can put a virtual pound on the side of the table to get in line either.
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spudsbuckley
10/12/08 @ 10:22
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It's just Second Life for PS3 FFS.
Actual gamers don't give a shit about it. |
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Bigglesworth
10/12/08 @ 10:22
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@menage
Allowing a completely automatic process to run while you make a cuppa or something is 'a real bitch'? Wow, your life must be an unending series of near unsurmountable trials... You'll be glad to know however that use of Home is indeed optional; thats one less thing to lose sleep over, eh? =) |
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iokthemonkey
10/12/08 @ 10:23
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"Midway themes?"
So what's that, a foreclosure notice you for your virtual house? |
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influenceuk
10/12/08 @ 10:25
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@Beano, there are a few bugs which need ironing out. Least it has improved over 0.98.
I am still lucky enough to have a sofa on the roof of my harbour appartment lol however it seems they have now fixed the bug that allowed you to do that! Also i can confirm that the sign, and the Warhawk mine are still in the harbour area :D |
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iokthemonkey
10/12/08 @ 10:50
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The other thing is, isn't this like Sony's "Animal Crossing?"
Personally I hate AC, as it's pointless gack, but the latest Wii ads are clearly designed to appeal to a certain demographic and the social aspect of that game is really being pushed to the fore. I could see Home being a similar thing. Except without the annoying furvert fuel. |
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