It looks great, and amazing, and I love the personal space with the trophy room. It gets me excited about owning a ps3. But to be honest I think alot of it will be deemed unessacary. I bought a game system to play games, when I do chat on my 360 I do it while I'm playing. For those of you who are not familiar a side window pops up I type a message send it and keep playing. If I have to leave the game to walk the virtual world to do it, well then I probably won't bother. There was software like this for windows too, it turned windows into a virtual house that you can decorate and put your shortcuts as pictures on the wall you can click on, I thought it was super cool for like two days then it just got annoying I wanted a fast easy access setup to just click on things, not walk down the hall and look up. So I don't know if this will be like that. I do like how Simsish it looks, and I hope publishers let you use your avatar in various games. Little Big Planet looks amazing too, I just hope you can play solo too, as I'm not big on coop