Microsofts own response to HOME : Mygamerpad?

[NJ5]

Videogirl said:

NJ5 said:

@Skeeuk: In home, how exactly do you get together with your friends? Do you have to travel to their "homes"? If so, it looks more like a waste of time than anything else (taking 5 minutes to get everyone together for the game, then someone gets lost and enters the wrong house? no thanks).

 

 

No once you're in home, you can very easily relocate wherever you want or wherever your friends are.

So in what way is it different from (and I quote) "just a lame slide screen"? If you can just press a button and instantly go to wherever your friends are, what's the advantage? Is it that you can see your friends' avatars for a few seconds before starting to play?