Underwhelmed by Home Beta

[KBG29]

Yeah I am starting to have the same feeling. I have been in Home for a while now, and they are always saying this is just the beggining of a long journey with tons of new features, and content to come, but I have a hard time believing Sony will give us the right content.

If Sony wants this to succed they have to make it part of the OS whether a user is online or not. Right now I see nothing that is going to ever make me want to go into Home. I can not use any other feature on the PS3 while I am in Home, so basically it is a waiste of time. Now if Home was just part of the OS so everytime my console turns on it is running, and I can still browse the web, listen to music, pop in a blu-ray, watch it, and exit dirctly to Home, look at pictures, and anything else the PS3 offers seemlessly, then I could see no reason to ever need to leave the application. But as someone that often browses the web or plays movies on my PS3, not being able to from within this application makes it kind of usless.

Home has the potential to evolutionize the way people interact with the internet sites, and others over the web. Sadley I don't think Sony is the company that is going to make it a reality. I think just like every other chance Sony has had to grab the market and be the undisputed leader in consumer electronics they will screw this up. It will not be long before Microsoft or Apple have a copycat application that allows users to enjoy it at the click of a button while also allowing them to do other things with the hardware, like browes the web, listen to music, look at pictures, or watch movies. Whoever does it first will very likly have an application that replaces Myspace, Facebook, iTunes, and most other social networks, and delivery services on the web. Sony will not be the company to do it. They have never been a company to do most things right.

Sony has always been about making the best products that do not interact with eachother on the market. Just watch, Home will be on the PS3, but it will not interact with the content or features on the system. In the end this will be just another Sonicstage, Connect, Walkman, Beta, Atrac, and the list goes on.