| Dolla Dolla said: Home seems so bland. If you're a gamer, my guess is you'll spend the least amount of time in Home. It sounds more like a service to entertain casuals. It's like the Sims almost. Here's how they could make Home a bit more interesting, to me, anyway: Based on your location (when you register your PS3 on the network), they have a widget that checks the weather and such. And based on the weather, this is how it is outside of your "house". That would be cool. Also, they should have a "Playstation" central house where everyone can visit. And the Playstation house would be updated on holidays (Halloween, Christmas, etc). Other than that, I don't know what else they can do with Home. |
Sony recognizes that it is going to be a glorified chat room, so one of the cool things that Sony has done to make Home better is that they are putting in a movie theatre in the central area, where they will show older Sony Pictures titles for free every Friday night. Expect a lot of advertising and so forth in the theatre but, hey, it's free.
Sony Pictures also owns several shows, like Seinfeld for example. They could put in a old Seinfeld show( or whatever they like) whenever they want. You might eventually be able to be in the exact same theatre as your online friends are, so it could be even better.
Essentially, this would allow Sony the opportunity for the consumer to bypass purchasing cable TV, or at least whenever PS3 consumers are using Home, which would increase the all important value to cost ratio for the PS3. So, expect Sony to take heavy advantage of this opportunity.
