What was dtewi then?

I love your PS3 threads eugene, but I have to agree, I think Home is going to fail miserably. Home doesn't look user friendly, and way too overcomplicated for the services it should be providing. I want to just watch a movie, or jump in a chat with someone, its super easy using XBL, and the dashboard. I don't want to have to wade through a bunch of random avatars, walk into a theater to watch a movie, or walk somewhere else to get something else done. It sounds cool, but I am willing to bet the implementation is going to be sloppy and people just won't buy in to it, I don't care if it is free.

People meet other people that they don't know all the time there. 

World of Warcraft is a game, just like Halo 3 is a game. There is no connection to Home or Xbox live. But the selling points of Home is social networking like a 3d myspace, but if fails cause its mostly strangers, no girls, and maybe a feeling of pointless. Just play the game!

i bet it's gonna attract alot of girls

Girls dont want a PS3, they want a Wii. The system first has to attract girls, then they will use Home, it doesnt work the other way around.

The Black Onyx ads, and the Play Beyond ads do nothing to attract girls.

I don't think it will fail, I think it's being done in order to replace the time that you'd spend surfing in social networks between play sessions. instead of turning off your PS3 you'd stay using it, now "at" Home.  it has a chance to fail, but being the PS3 social network, I believe it won't, just like there are people that can spend more time downloading demos from Live than playing "real" games.

 Fixed.

In the end, social networking will fail incredibly without girls. The end. Most guys wont waste a second of their time socializing with guys unless they are playing a game with an objective.