home looks neat, with many multiplayer features including many free games, will be much better getting together with friends ala lobby system with your own charahcters all for free, rather than just a lame slide screen.

this gamerpad looks dire if u ask me

@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.

anyone who thinks Home will be a failure clearly lives on a different planet. The amount of people using applications such as; video chat; online games; chat rooms; facebook's and bebo's etc will all have a reason to enjoy Home.

Home will be an online world to play mini games and chat to friend like on msn messenger but in a 3D world which is forever evolving and changing.

Knowing facts on how many people use this applications online from all over the globe, it will be stupid to make an assumption saying Home won't work.

My God.

Innovation confirmed.

Looks like MS is trying to cover all their bases. If Home is popular, they can just tell people they already have the same thing on Live

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?

Does HOME take up space on the PS3s hard drive? If so, then how would this affect users of the Arcade? I don't think MS would like to alienate a group of consumers.

You can't go online without a hard drive in the first place, meaning that the Arcade buyers alienated themselves when they chose to buy it ;)

LOL. I make a prediction now. Gamerpad will be out 6 - 8 months before Home and Gamerpad will be classed as more successfull. This will only be Sony's own fault for all the delays they have had.

OT: I think M$ have gone for this look to pull in some of the Wii type gamers. The more casual ones. I think ot will work to a certain degree to. Thumbs up M$. Although like Home it's probably not my thing.