Posted on Friday, 12th December 2008 by JR Writer
So its finally here. After 2 years of talk and speculation, the public tried out the Playstation Home beta yesterday for the first time. So I tried it out as the reports started rolling out that people were downloading the new app. From 10 am till 6 pm Pacific time, I would get time out errors that the server was too busy. Frustrating but also understandable. So as I finally get in the PS home program at 6p I start character design.
The details to facial shapes and body types were very in depth. I cant say the same for the clothing. But Im sure as the new xbox service is doing, they will roll out with a larger wardrobe. As you start off in your new condo overlooking the beach, in your surreal perfect home I started thinking “how cool is this”! I go to leave the Condo and get the message that I will need to download the downtown area. I go ahead and do so. It takes 2-3 minutes to go so not to bad. I get into town and for the first minute or so, everyone lookes like a ghost until they load. I start checking out the interactions available. Theres a selection of dances, anger motions, happy motions etc. I checked out the movie theater as that seemed to stick out the most. Again I needed to download, but it was only a minute or so; not to bad. I get in to see crappy quality videos of Movie trailers on the screen. And even more annoying, was that most people were standing in front blocking your view. I believe there is a way to go into full screen mode but I was not in the mood to watch ads. Then it hit me. There had been sponsor ads riddled throughout the the home network. I am not one to point and yell sell out, but Im sure many others will feel this way. I guess overall the graphics were cool, the atmosphere is nice, the people were.. well people. Not really something that will improve the system or revolutionize the gaming industry in my eyes. Hey I can be wrong. Maybe Home does have more purpose then I found. I say to give it a try still.
Posted in PS3 News | Comments (2)
February 20th, 2009 at 6:55 am
On behalf of Sony i feel obligated to inform you that this software is still in its beta stage and will grow a lot over the next few months. Also the PlayStation home software has been made to be of a great standard and will hopefully be very successful. After a few years of complaints about the speed of this software’s construction Sony decided to speed up the process by getting a few sponsors in to help them. If we didn’t decide to do this I’m sure PlayStation home would continue to be under construction for another year.
Dr Hoiuloi
September 10th, 2009 at 8:40 am
i love playstation home found out about it last nite when i was browsing my ps3 its sweet