twesterm on 01 February 2008
And just to make sure I remember what Home was, I went and read Home Wiki and it's still just what I thought it was. It's cool that they're bringing all this stuff together, but I still don't see it being good.
Just comparing all the functionality with XBL Dashboard, here's what I get:
- Play a game.
- On the Dashboard I scroll down to play an actually 360 game.
- On Dashboard I move to the arcade tab to play an arcade game and then go through another menu.
- On Home, I walk from wherever I'm at to wherever I go to play games (I'm guessing your apartment). To do that, I have to spend time walking and possibly wait for loading times.
- I should also be able to exit out of Home, negating the experience but making it quicker.
- Watch a movie.
- I scroll to the marketplace and scroll through the movies.
- I walk from wherever I'm at to the movie theater taking time to walk and possibly loading times (remember, you can only stream so much).
- I exit Home and enter the PSN negating Home but making things quicker.
- Listen to music
- I press the 360 button and press play.
- Hopefully I just turn on a discman, possibly a BluRay discman (BluPod?).
- Compare achievements with other players.
- I look at a list of games the other person has played that is easy to read that has their score and my score, click on the game, and then look at their achievements.
- I walk to the persons apartment and look through all their crap and probably have to click on each "achievement" to see what I'm looking at, why they got it, and what game it's from.
- Chatroom
- 360 doesn't have this (as far as I know).
- I either have to listen to the twits around me (may or may not be your thing, I hate it) or I have to read some WoW like chat screen.
