PS Home erecting Santa's Grotto News

:-) Brilliant...

Actually sounds like one of the better additions.

The elf looks terrifying.

Nice idea, anything to make Christmas more Christmasy is good in my book :)

Blimey...

Nice idea, anything to make Christmas more Commercial is good in my book :(

Is it like in my local shopping centre?

"The elf looks terrifying."

All elfs look terrifying, surely (as opposed to Tolkien stylee elves, which just look undernurished).

I don't know if I would want my children to enter Santa's Grotto, in fact I think it's illegal over here.

Help Santa and the elf empty their sacks for special prizes!

Seriously though it's nice to see some sort of Christmas themed stuff on the consoles, though I'm guessing it'll be called anything but Christmas for fear of offending people who don't celebrate it.

"I think it's illegal over here."

Do you live in the Arctic Circle? I heard they had a bit of trouble with Santa over that way.

I read that as Santa's Ghetto at first.

Santa's Ghetto would be so much better.

I'm amazed they actually found a way to make PS Home even more depressing. To blend in properly, Santa and that Elf should start out by second guessing everybody's sexual orientation and then stand in one place forever trying out all the moves and finally settling on "Robot". Cheers.

What happens if you ask Santa for a 360?

I have not been using my PS3 for ages and therefore not been using Home either. I can remember Home being a small town square that was just as depressing as the majority of the PS3 games. Could someone enlighten me:

How do you enter the other areas, than the town square? And does it still take the best of a week for the console to load stuff?

"How do you enter the other areas, than the town square?"

By downloading them? Oh, and then there's that map, of course.

"And does it still take the best of a week for the console to load stuff?"

No, it's nowhere near a week, no need to exaggerate here. I'd say it's more like 6 days now.

I'll never quite forget the day when I tried out my new PS3 slim and, feeling adventurous, I downloaded all of PS Home and visited that EA Sports Golf thing. Imagine my amazement when it turned out the Golf simulator was "busy", because, apparently there was already ANOTHER bloke teeing off - just like in a REAL department store!

Now, who needs Second Life, when experiences such as that are to be had at PS Home?

Has he had a CRB check?

By the way, the first thing I saw when I left my "pad" on PS Home were two "guys", one of whom said "U R teh gay." Seriously.

Wish they could spend more money and time on improving other parts of PSN instead... Like STREAMING THE GAMETRAILERS INSTEAD OF FORCING YOU TO DOWNLOAD THEM!

@Monkey_Puncher:

"it'll be called anything but Christmas for fear of offending people who don't celebrate it"

Oh God. You're one of those.

That elf gives me an erection. No, nevermind.

That elf gives me an erection. No, nevermind.

Really?




I just got a an orange and a lump of fucking coal*.







*it's like regular coal, but squishier and with slight feeling of remorse the morning after.

Be honest who else sniggered at 'erecting' in the article title. :D

The elf looks like a reject from a Christmas Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Addon.

I want to be positive, but I went through the 5-10 mins of pain required to enter PS Home last week - and it was absolute worthless shite full of advert videos when I got there.

Will someone tell me where the good bits are please?

@knobgoblin: Really? How? Explain that to me please, I'm obviously too stupid for PSN then since I only see a "Download" button in mine.

reflux its not exactly streaming but you can choose to watch the video whilst it downloads, then delete it after....Plus most of those trailers are on websites like gametrailers anyway.

reflux
01/12/09 @ 13:53
Wish they could spend more money and time on improving other parts of PSN instead... Like STREAMING THE GAMETRAILERS INSTEAD OF FORCING YOU TO DOWNLOAD THEM!

sony force you to download them?? its seems to be purely optional to me! is this the same way as sony forced you to buy a blu ray player? or forces you to download home which you cant see the point of?
i do worry about some people...videos can be watched whilst downloading provided your internet is fast enough, but bear in mind if your downloading 720 or 1080p vids then it'll probably pause a bit.

as for home..well i do pop in now and then for curiosity reasons, it does have its good moments too, watching the sony press conferences from e3 (i think it was e3?) etc in the presentation hall was great, you kind of felt like you were there and whilst watching the huge screen it was really good sparking up reactionary conversations with people about what was shown.
also some of the mini games are quite fun, chess in the square is quite an immersive experience if you can find a decent player to play and some of the vip events at the singstar club are quite cool (dizzee rascal and the upcoming groove armada)
sony must see some value in home, they keep adding stuff and there always seems to be a fair population in most rooms, i can understand why some people dont get it, its far too clunky to be used for meeting and game launching etc but at least its FREE and purely OPTIONAL.

@Monkey_Puncher:

"it'll be called anything but Christmas for fear of offending people who don't celebrate it"

Oh God. You're one of those.

Oh god, you're one of those Are you suggesting this doesn't happen? I've seen it happen at a school about 5 miles away from me, and yes, people who aren't christian do complain. ****em, I say.

@Collymilad:

"I'm not a racist, but...."

Indeed, that's exactly what I'm suggesting. The Daily Mail brigade fan the flames of this rubbish but I'm yet to see any physical evidence of somebody complaining that Christmas offends them. It's a notion that gets assumed by some idiot somewhere and then travels on the breeze of Chinese whispers to infuriate every right wing simpleton it passes.

I don't believe for a second that anyone has voiced that they're offended by Christmas. I do, however, believe that certain institutions (your school, no doubt being one of them) buy into this crap and are forced to act as such.

The irony of all this is the number of people I've heard complaining about Diwali, Eid, et al. being celebrated in this country.

"It's political correctness gone mad!". Bollocks.

Watching a video while it's being downloaded is streaming, AFAIK.

"@Collymilad:

"I'm not a racist, but...."

Indeed, that's exactly what I'm suggesting. The Daily Mail brigade fan the flames of this rubbish but I'm yet to see any physical evidence of somebody complaining that Christmas offends them. It's a notion that gets assumed by some idiot somewhere and then travels on the breeze of Chinese whispers to infuriate every right wing simpleton it passes.

I don't believe for a second that anyone has voiced that they're offended by Christmas. I do, however, believe that certain institutions (your school, no doubt being one of them) buy into this crap and are forced to act as such.

The irony of all this is the number of people I've heard complaining about Diwali, Eid, et al. being celebrated in this country.

"It's political correctness gone mad!". Bollocks. "

Ah pull the racist card. Why exactly? Explain to me how I am racist since you think you can just make a BS statement with nothing to back it up. Go on.

Also, I know for a fact that the school in question acted as they did because of the opinion of PARENTS of children that attended the school. So yea, you can ignore it and pretend everything is just fine, but it did happen and it doesn't really matter if some prat on the internet says otherwise.

Just to add, don't make yourself look like a fool, religion does not equal race. It's nothing whatsoever to do with racism, and just goes to show how quickly you jumped onto that train of thought.

Just because YOU haven't seen it, doesn't mean it didn't happen.