Sony is retooling and re-awesoming PlayStation Home, adding new content, features, and otherwise enticing PlayStation 3 owners. Version 1.3 of Home will hit your console this September. Below, in handy bullet-pointed form, are the major improvements:
- Universal game launching. Finally, you'll be able to kick off any game, any place in Home. Never again will you have to sign out of Home to play infamous. You just insert the disc of your choice while in Home and follow the on screen directions and bam: You're in the game. Some titles (Street Fighter IV, Resistance 2, MotorStorm, and Far Cry 2 so far) support advanced features, and avatars with those games in their drive will be indicated with special icons. So if you don't like some dude's shirt in Home, challenge him to fight in Street Fighter and kick his ass. Just like real life!
- In-store item previewing: When some dude beats you up because he doesn't like your shirt, you'll be able to preview a less offensive one with this feature. It's full 3D, and allows you to check out furniture, clothing and other items from any angle.
- Consumables: Certain items will be yours to consume and/or horde in Home. Sony gives the example of a shrinking potion to make your avatar tiny. Neat.
- Portable objects: To start, Sony will be giving everyone a free camera to snap pictures from either a 1st or 3rd person perspective. These photos will automatically be saved to the Photo section of the XMB, from which you can then upload to the picture frames you have hanging in your personal spaces. The other example given: A bubble machine. More object announcement will be coming, so don't sleep.
- Other improvements: new categories of clothing, optimized targeting system, new queuing system,various bug fixes, , and the option to determine your cache size (you can choose from 3, 5, 8, and 12 GB), to make Home run smoother.
So, what do you think? Is THIS enough for you to try out Home again? For me, there is no improvement I could think of to the experience to get me to go back. No offense meant to Sony, but I was seriously creeped out by Home. Chat-rooms and malls are my two least favorite places on earth, and Home reminds me of an unholy combination of both. Plus, I already have a real home I can decorate any way I want, and I can already shop for real clothes, and hang out with my real friends, and watch real movie previews of movies that don't necessarily come from the movie-making arm of Sony. Plus, I'm an anti-social person by nature -- that's why I like video games. What about you? Are you a Homer? Am I totally missing the point here?
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mikemill
Home definately isn't for everyone. I think it's pretty cool and pop in there from time to time. Sony has definately brought it a loooong way from when it first launched.
The Universal game launching feature will be huge.
RROD is right though, Home isn't for everyone... but it is a cool service. Several of my PSN friends came from chatting up dudes in Home, so it definately serves a purpose.
Bruce_Lee2099
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Wozman23
i've still never returned to Home since the first day i got the beta.
jwhite33
@Shockwave562 true. i guess i just haven't played online with my ps3 enough. I'm sure there are spoiled kids everywhere that have both, i just haven't had the opportunity to run into them.
@snookgum123 i would also like a fix but don't think we will get one. just talked to my neighbor and he thinks owning a modded controller is fair. Says he has one because "everyone else has one". whatever.
contactone
I only got o Home to check out the theater. The recent addition of screens makes it work the trip. I hope sone day that sony wises up and starts playing movies and shows that the corporation has rights too. They could use the theater space to preview pilots or something to get PS3 responses.
My oldest daughter uses home more that anything else on the PS3.
blasphemous
I do like the "Batman" apt. though, I may download home again just to get that. Too bad that the game in on the vasiline engine.
snookgum123
BTW i'm not trying to bash xbox i just haven't seen it on my ps3 but i like g4 to ask microsoft and sony if they are planing on fix it or not? theres always a solution but if no one talks about it than there wont be one... I rather you all bash at me and talk about it than to keep it hush... I play fair and I like to have it stay like that =.=
snookgum123
I dont want to pick up mw2 when it release just to have hackers from the gecko racking up points... Than I might just have to get one myself O.O
Shockwave562
That's the second time I've heard someone say that kids on XBL are younger than PSN... I'm only 24 but I've definitely noticed that I'm in the older demographic when I play games online anymore. Killzone 2 or CODMW it doesn't really make a difference. I think 12 year olds have both systems.
Juicelee
I like home and its a fun place to meet people and talk about games and a bunch of other stuff when you dont feel like JUST playing a game these improvements are pretty welcome imo and truth be told home is not really for everyone and because I dont spend a whole lot of time scouring video game sites and forums it is a great marketing tool to find out about certain games that I would have never known about such as modnation racers
snookgum123
there's not the many moded players on the ps3 than I can tell. But playing at my friends on rainbow6 and halo I can point out easy just because of the type of guns they use and not having a head shot... etc ... you know what I mean. Killzone2 everyone is getting blown up left and right soo fast you dont need hack for that lol...
jwhite33
well I'm sure most PS3 owners have a life though. I know plenty of 360 owners that sit around all day and play CoDMW just so they can talk crap to little kids and go 40-7 every round because it makes them feel grown up. i haven't met a ps3 owner yet that tells me "Yeah i've been playing since release and i play 10 hours a day." thats just ridiculous.
And i don't think that MS or Sony can "fix" the controller issue. Its tampering with the console they are worried about.
TKEmysterio
I still don't understand the appeal of HOME. I buy consoles to play games, not to interact socially or live in a virtual world. Seems like a waste of time.
Shockwave562
wait... I can play the game once I follow the on-screen instructions? I don't want to have to virtually walk to the game why doesn't it play when I put it in the console... I think RROD nailed it, home is not for everyone. I don't need a "second life"
snookgum123
sorry for being off the subject there. I like what they are doing with home. I find myself going there alot more now...
SlickyFats
I already like Home. I will be sure to use the 12Gb cache. Hopefully then I can pop in and out of place faster.
jwhite33
I like home. just wondering why i have to wait 45 minutes to bowl a game
snookgum123
Well if they all have one than G4 should investigate on it and see why it's still going on. I like to play fair.... I haven't seen anyone in killzone go 20 over yet! But at least i'm not paying monthly sub just to play with hackers !
RRODisBack
It's not for everyone SJ. But, if you dress your Xbox avatar when "you can shop for real clothes" then you contradicted yourself.
jwhite33
Hey snook, why dont you go on ebay and search for a PS3 modded controller. Your holy box has one too. So lay off little girl.
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