Sony Shows Latest PS3 Home, Now Recruiting Beta Testers
Sony is now recruiting beta testers for PlayStation Home, the virtual world that PS3 users will use to interact with each other–and try to have virtual sex. They will invite 10,000 users from today to August 11, with the beta starting later in the month. The beta will include only a limited number of places, including a Game Venue developed in collaboration with Namco, where you would be able to play Pac-Man, Galaga, and DigDug. All of them look very nice and polished, however:
The locations include:
• Home Square, the central plaza that gives access to all the places
where users will be able to customise their house.
• Your apartment.
• Theatre, to watch videos and trailers.
• Bowling and Billiards.
• Marketplace.
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I’ll say it…I’m a pretty loyal sony faithful. I’m not sure I qualify as “fanboy” because I am quick to point out the good things about xbox and the negatives about ps3, but call me what you like. However, I just can’t imagine why I’m supposed to care about Home. It seems absolutely pointless to me. I barely have time to get my gaming in. I sure don’t want to wander around some virtual world and meet up with avatars so we can go play digdug. Am I just stupid for not getting this concept? I just couldnt care less about Home
Is there any way to sign up for the beta? Or is it just a selection of random PS3 owners. If there is I would like to sign up, my PS3 username is Otto864.
@ boone
Home will be a game’s entrance point for games like Warhawk, Resistance 2 and MAG where you can just meet friends (or randoms from Home Square) and start a multiplayer game. Personally, that’s the only thing I know of that I’m interested in; business wise though, Sony’s reaching out to a wider audience of social gamers…who know, those old single men and women who look for love in a chat room might use Home as a free online dating service and the PS3 will quickly become the pervert’s console of choice so they can exploit Sony’s VR world to fulfill their sick desires. **Wow, I really did get off topic**
Anyways, anything that’s free will put a $hit-eating grin on my face, plus, this might give Microsoft a reason to refund my last few months of my XBL subscription. Either way, fanboys will b!tch.
**Stop fanboyism; hang yourself**
sign me up.
looks pretty cool…how does it stack up to SL in realtime?