HOME demonstration

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shams said:

I don't know why (can't put my finger on it... :P), but Im not impressed (only watched the first min or so).

 

Many, many moons ago developers realised that implementing a "3rd environment" as a general "menu browsing interface" - sucked arse. No one wants to spend ages *physically walking* from the bowling machine, to the pool table, to the arcade machine. You also end up with a bunch of generally unpolished games, with poor interface, long loading times (etc) in a virtual world. Basically thiings you tinker with - not serious games you actually play.

I understand and appreciate the idea of virtual content - and populating your virtual home with this content. Its graphical, pretty cool, and allows the user to be creative in terms of placement, colours, items, etc (assuming home actually allows you to do this stuff? and things are not just fixed location?).

There had better be HEAPS of free content as well - not just a few token items, with everything else to be "purchased" (maybe some people are into this, but I would *never* spend physical money on virtual assets - games are one thing, a new couch cover/texture is another). Otherwise so much for "free" HOME - the shell is free, but you need to pay for anything to actually use the service properly.

But if Sony expect people to WASTE their time walking around in a virtual world - instead of using a simple menu driven interface - good luck to them.

 If you look at Home as just a gussied up menu, then it is a Waste. But I don't see it that way at all. So far it looks fairly similar to Second Life, which so far has 5 million registered users. People aren't going to use it to get to their games and movies, they're going to use it just for the sake of using it. And a lot of poor saps are going to dump tons of money into it trying to get the fanciest apartment around.

It's also going to be a festering crockpot of hormones. overweight male teenage hormones... Many of which pretending to be women.