HOME renews with images

Kudgel
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | 9:48 PM
39 comments

PS3

The masons at Sony continue their good work with the Home construction, the social network a la Second Life planned for the Playstation 3 system. We see that the uploading of images seems functional in one of these new images, with nobody else than Shigeru Miyamoto shown in a frame. Also, would there be possibility of a mini-game with a unicycle? Look attentively in the window of that store.
Update: added nine images

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Bakutheswede

Commented on 2008-02-26 21:29:23

"Now everyone can be a slimy guido using the power of the cell possessor™"

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inel

Commented on 2008-02-26 21:30:12

Looks much more accessible and user friendly than Second Life. Lets see how this one does

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Jigen

Commented on 2008-02-26 21:39:10

Man so many people breaking NDA these days...

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Kudgel

Commented on 2008-02-26 21:47:05 In reply to Jigen

Posted by Jigen

Man so many people breaking NDA these days...

You say?

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rodrms

Commented on 2008-02-26 21:49:40

It's looking great! Hope it plays great too.

The time for me to get a PS3 might be coming. :)

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masteratt

Commented on 2008-02-26 21:54:03

HOME has been in 'basic' development since the early-life of PS2 according to Phil and now it keeps getting delayed AND in every bunch of screenshots they release, there is something new.

Sony are quite the perfectionists with this service.

I think I will use it often to go and play pool or bowling on it after a tough game of [insert ps3 online game here] with friends, it'll be cool.

It'll also be nice to get together with my PS3 friends list and just relax and chat even when I don't feel like gaming......

This has so much potential, I guess that's why it's taking ages.
I lvoe that it's free and god knows I'm not going to buy real money to buy virtual shirts lol so it'll remain free hopefully (unless no-one pays for stuff then Sony will have to start charging).

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KORNdog

Commented on 2008-02-26 22:04:13

i doubt im going to use this in the same way that second life is used, as some sort of meet new friends, socialising sort of environment. i'll just use it for the online gaming side of things. the idea of being able to play a couple games of pool between games of cod4 or resistance seems awesome to me. that and the whole room thing where you can have TV's streaming content direct from your PS3's HDD or even from your PC via media connect. at least on paper it sounds like you could get a group of guys in a room, stream a movie (porn...lol) and let eveyone watch it...whether its quite as free (and law breaking) as that i dont know.

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JediMasterMalik

Commented on 2008-02-26 22:11:08

Sexy! Hope I can get into the beta.

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Jollipop

Commented on 2008-02-26 23:08:25 In reply to masteratt

Posted by masteratt

It'll also be nice to get together with my PS3 friends list and just relax and chat even when I don't feel like gaming......

Hmm no offence but do you not have real life friends for that ? :S

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MugiMugi

Commented on 2008-02-26 23:14:38 In reply to Jollipop

Posted by Jollipop

Hmm no offence but do you not have real life friends for that ? :S

Many peoples have friends who live far away, my best friend example is curently living an entire OCEAN away. So there is for sure usages for stuff such as this.

Thought granted I would never use it myself, but I can see others who would have need for them.

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masteratt

Commented on 2008-02-26 23:53:50

No offence taken, fair point but I meet good people on forums and whatever that I can only keep in contact through PSN & forums and HOME will add to that.

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Trup1aya4rea1

Commented on 2008-02-27 03:03:30

i don't want to sound like a PS3 hater, but i just don't see the excitement in this. I mean I'm sure the technology is impressive, but i don't see how walking around in a "second world" can be fun. maybe, i'll be proved wrong?

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synce

Commented on 2008-02-27 03:20:02

Isn't it dropping this spring? Seems so sudden. Looking forward to it either way

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Stac

Commented on 2008-02-27 04:53:23 In reply to Trup1aya4rea1

Posted by Trup1aya4rea1

If you ask me, I'd say it is a waste of time walking around and go from place to place.

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phalanges

Commented on 2008-02-27 05:37:39

That image of the character makes me want to punch him in virtual reality.

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pythxvii

Commented on 2008-02-27 05:57:54

I really hope MS blatantly copies Home so all of us 360 players get to have something like it =) Guess I'm gunna be spending a lot of time at my buddies place =)

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pythxvii

Commented on 2008-02-27 06:02:20 In reply to Stac

Posted by phalanges

That image of the character makes me want to punch him in virtual reality.

At least the graphics are good though =p

Posted by Stac

If you ask me, I'd say it is a waste of time walking around and go from place to place.

If you ask me, I'd say this is a very cool thing to people who enjoy social games like this. And its more then just walking around, you can watch videos, talk to people, and play games.

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DJmizuhara

Commented on 2008-02-27 07:24:21 In reply to phalanges

Do you guys even realize that you don't have to walk from place to place, you can use your virtual PSP and jump to any place you want.

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Mikeey_kakashi

Commented on 2008-02-27 07:28:07

I'll stick to secondlife. Atleast there i can create/upload my own animations, make my own buildings etc
HOME looks good for consoles but nothing really in the way of being good for user created content.

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Zomoniac

Commented on 2008-02-27 09:24:07

That's not a unicycle, it has two wheels! Looks like a Victorian-era style bike, a Penny Farthing or similar. And what's going on with all the furniture?!?

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Stac

Commented on 2008-02-27 11:06:38 In reply to DJmizuhara

Posted by DJmizuhara

Do you guys even realise that you don't have to walk from place to place, you can use your virtual PSP and jump to any place U want.

Ahhh, I didn't know there is this function. Thanks for enlightening.

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Jigen

Commented on 2008-02-27 16:55:23 In reply to Mikeey_kakashi

Posted by Mikeey_kakashi

yiffing to your own... nevermind.

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Viginti_Tres

Commented on 2008-02-27 16:56:03 In reply to pythxvii

Posted by pythxvii

I really hope MS blatantly copies Home so all of us 360 players get to have something like it =) Guess I'm gunna be spending a lot of time at my buddies place =)

For the love of god, please no! Seriously I don't understand why people get excited about that. For me it's just a chatprogram and I'd rather have MS finally pull out a voice chat with more than 2 people in it than that.

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superchunk

Commented on 2008-02-27 18:17:58

It looks fine and all. I'm not excited at all; more like curious. Not that I mind having the option. With these interfaces more options is pretty much a good thing. As long as I'm not forced to navigate Home, just to play a game (which by all reports will not happen) I'm good with it.

But I tell you, I would trade all of this home stuff for the ability to do multi-person video conferencing (four at least). Come on Sony/MS let's get to it.

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fr0sty

Commented on 2008-02-27 18:23:07

The more I see of this, the more I want it!.......and I don`t know why lol. This is one of the reasons that a new, BIG tv should be on the cards.

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