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From TheBitBag:

Sony Computer Entertainment Announces Expansion of Closed Beta Testing for
PLAYSTATION(R)Home in Summer 2008

Open Beta Service Scheduled For Fall 2008

TOKYO, April 22 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI)
announced today that it will expand the Closed Beta testing for
PLAYSTATION(R)Home in Summer 2008, inviting a further number of registrants
from the PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3(R)) users. Following completion of the Expanded
Closed Beta test, the PLAYSTATION Home Open Beta service will commence in Fall
2008.

“We understand that we are asking PS3 and prospective PS3 users to wait a
bit longer, but we have come to the conclusion that we need more time to
refine the service to ensure a more focused gaming entertainment experience
than what it is today,” said Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO, Sony
Computer Entertainment Inc. “Our overarching objective is to provide users
with new gaming experiences that are available only on PLAYSTATION Home.
Spending more time on the development and on the Closed Beta testing reaffirms
our commitment to bringing a quality service, maintaining the PlayStation(R)
tradition.”

The PLAYSTATION Home Open Beta service that will become available in Fall
2008 will be built around providing new and fun community gaming experiences.
Details of the Closed Beta testing features, registration for the test and the
opening of the service will be announced as they become available.

In other words, it's releasing this Fall, and they'll use the "beta" excuse to explain all any shitty parts. It will then get updated regularly much like it is now, and much like the PS3's firmware has been getting updates since launch to add new features.

This is all very disappointing. :|

 



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Damn, that's almost a year delay from the original release date.
Really disappointed.




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isn't what matters the end result? with the steps their taking im sure this will be the best possible outcome



Although im disappointed can you imagine the press if this thing came out this summer and was garbage? Even a patch that fixed it wouldnt save it. I think sony showed it off too early and are simply paying the price for it now. Anyone else noticing a trend here? Japanese hardware companies cannot do online but american companies can do online but cannot do hardware? Maybe they should all work together to make the perfect system. Maybe in another lifetime though.



 

 

 

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dabaus513 said:
Although im disappointed can you imagine the press if this thing came out this summer and was garbage? Even a patch that fixed it wouldnt save it. I think sony showed it off too early and are simply paying the price for it now. Anyone else noticing a trend here? Japanese hardware companies cannot do online but american companies can do online but cannot do hardware? Maybe they should all work together to make the perfect system. Maybe in another lifetime though.

 Yeah, you actually hit it on the head.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

Japan has never been a big online gaming powerhouse and it's showing how behind they are in this area.

It's ironic, because their sibling, Korea, is a very strong online PC gaming culture.



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Conservatives:  Pushing for a small enough government to be a guest in your living room, or even better - your uterus.

 

Oy vey... Well, so much for Home. Now give us our f****** in-game XMB, custom soundtracks and improved web browser with Flash Player 8 to take the bitter tastes out of our mouths.



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O ya, I so called this to my friend at school! It's face rubbing time!



Sony is not google, so I don't think we can call a beta a release...

PS: There wouldn't be any big disappointment if Sony didn't always hype things so early.



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