Sony: Home coming to PSP with blogs, chat, and more

great now people can chat up girl avatars on the move.

MUST GET PSP!

/bizarroworld

Hmmm.

This could be cool, depending on how they apply it. On the move blogging and easy communication with your friends on PSN? It has potential.

It’d be even better if they forgot the “virtual world” rubbish altogether and just did all that with menus.

Or if not, it could stil be a 3D interface, but then don’t fuckign mix it with MENUS!!! The very thing a 3D human interface is trying to avoid.

Blerk is just jealous xbox doesn’t have a online community like home. Why would you say something like that Blerk. Home is about 3D not 2D over advertising MCdonald panels.

Dude you really need to stop being a sour puss and buy a PS3 and PSP. You truly are missing out on a lot.

No, I’m really not jealous of Home. At all.

“Blerk is just jealous xbox doesn’t have a online community like home.”

I highly doubt most Xbox people care, seeing as we can… you know… do everything in-game and out-of-game anyway.

Cross game chat, instead game launching, etc, etc. Most people don’t *want* to have to launch into some sort of virtual environment in order to make use of features that should be directly integrated into the interface already.

Home is fun in places, and I log into on rare occasions just to check out some of the new spaces (I’ve even gone out of my way kit out my home with arcade machines and stuff) but one thing it is not is functional and convenient.

But wouldn’t it be great if xbox360 had a virtual world to go meet new gamers from different countries? 1vs100 was great and I loved it because some guys in other countries own my ass big time. It was fun and very interesting because I thought Americans were the smartest people on Earth (joking)

But my point is interacting with other people in a 3D virtual space with just avatars is just as entertaining…ain’t that right Cort

“But wouldn’t it be great if xbox360 had a virtual world to go meet new gamers from different countries?”

But you see, that’s the problem, you can’t, because PlayStation Home is region locked. European players can only meet other European players, US people other other US people, unless they go out of their way to register a foreign account.

You gave a good example with 1 vs 100. *That* is how I think it should be done. Freely sociable games, that uses the system’s features in really creative ways (in this case, the avatars).

I’m not denying that it doesn’t have its uses, it’s a nice idea, but honestly, how many people want to sit around and talk to complete strangers in a virtual environment?

The reason I barely log into it? Because every single time a female avatar appears on screen, they are surrounded by 20 male avatars that can barely type proper English, and who are typical rude and perverted.

It’s not only degrading to women, but genuinely disturbing to witness.

If its not functional O’connor then how are you able to log on and “kit out” your home space.

STOP WITH THE IRISH WHISKEY (for the hundred time)

Oh another thing O’connor stop fucking quoting people comments. You hated Shatner but you are becoming what you despised. There’s a term for that I believe….hypocrite,jackass,or troll. choose one you red haired,four leaf clover bastard.

LONG LIVE SHATNER!!!!

To be fair, O’Connor has a point. Home’s interface is incredibly clunky and unintuitive.

“Functional” as in useful not “Functional” as in working, numbnuts.

That’ll teach you to have a female avatar, Michael!

Its called little kids and freedom of speech they go away after a while when the girl ignores them anyway. what do you care. If a woman got robbed at knife point in real life I doubt you would have the balls to do something about it.

So just in real life walk away and ignore the dumb ass kids in home. report them, but nonetheless if VG247 had it’s own home space I pretty sure there would some good mature debates. You can’t bad mouth home just because of a few idiots. Home is good and even the hardcore xbox loyalist secretly wish 360 had a similar app.

“There’s a term for that I believe….hypocrite,jackass,or troll.”

How is discussing a topic “trolling”? Nowhere have I insulted you. I simply commented on my opinion of the service.

Being an hypocrite would requite me to contradict myself, which I haven’t done. It’s usable, but as Geki pointed out, I’m referring to functional as in useful, not functional as in working. I have kitted out my Home, but the doing so is horribly clunky.

In case you didn’t notice, I complimented some aspects of the service, whilst still criticising other parts of it. Where I come from, that is what is commonly referred to as “a balanced opinion”.

so is the NXE Syrok but he’s not complaining about that is he. Home is 3D of course it isn’t going to be perfect out the gate, but NXE is 2D and is still a cluster fuck period.

O’connor you are the new Shatner.

I still can’t see the attraction with home… and I think it takes a very specific type of person to like that sort of thing. But more power to them, if they like it, they like it.

I’ll be spending my gaming time playing games.

As a general rule virtual worlds sound like a much better idea than they actually are.

That said, Room — the PSP’s take on Home — seems a bit more grounded than its console cousin, and all the better for it most likely. It sounds like it’s all about personal as opposed to public spaces, which is far more feasible than Home’s multi-sharded “stand around with people you’d rather not talk to” approach.

seems you spend more time on forums so lets add a 3D perspective to that and what do you know. You fit right at “HOME”

I spent time on forums when I’m working. Gaming time is gaming time. I also have no interest in looking around advertising environments (thank you adblock!).

Of course the PSP version of HOME won’t compare to the PS3′s but the connectivity between the two is moving HOME in the right direction as far as being more expansive and open to PSN in general.

Then you must hate every time you have to see that damn NXE. You must have your games auto boot on when you activate your 360. then you must use the mini dashboard to communicate. Now I get why you guys love those in-game features so much.

It’s an impressive feat to make something more useless than Second Life but Sony managed it.

This reminds me I really need to delete the fucking thing from my PS3 hard drive. What a tragic waste of space and man hours.

Joystiq have some official artwork up.

Stylistically I think it’s far more appealing than Home’s dead-eyed mannequins, although I’m not sure we’ll ever see the service outside Japan.

“I’ll be spending my gaming time playing games.”

I totally understand where you’re coming from Psychotext, but Home really has come on leaps and bounds in recent months. It’s still populated by weirdos, but I find I’m losing more and more time to some of the spaces they’ve developed, particularly the Buzz space.

The Buzz space offers a communal quiz which you can just drop in and out of. I’ve lost hours to it sat next to my fiancee just playing quiz after quiz, it’s really hooking. The red bull thing isn’t bad, and both the inFamous and Resistance space’s have good little knock around games, and there’s always chess, pool and bowling.

I’d understand anyone whose response to that is why spend time on these sort of fluff games when you could be playing full on AAA games, and if your time is at a premium, fair enough.

I’d liken Home to a trip to the local funfair, sure the rides/games on offer are mostly fluff, but for just wandering through and enjoying the quick cheap (or in Homes case, free) thrill, it’s really not a waste of an evening… or your hard drive space.

Robo_1 the people who dislike it but still do the same kinda of stuff on the regular internet (chat and play mini games) don’t spend time in HOME because its not on their favorite console. If this was apart of live believe me everyone of them would love it.

I challenge all you 360/PS3 dual owners to use your PS3′s only for the remaining of the holiday season. Just try to use every resource PS3 has to offer as a gaming and multimedia machine. I bet you’ll convert and it will become your main gaming system. PROVE ME WRONG! In return I’ll buy you whatever 360 on demand game you want if you are not satisfied with the PS3′s hella line up for holiday 09.

You raise fair points Robo… unlike some other posters.

It’s not my thing though, no matter what system it may be on (I actually bought my PS3 so it could sit there without being used, true story). That’s of course aside from the fact that I currently have at least 30 games I haven’t finished, and more than 5 I haven’t even started. You’ll understand why my gaming time is precious to me… and something would have to be pretty special to take up that time.

yea yea. funny how I sent you a friends invite the same day you asked for it but it took several days to sign on. My next door neighbor theory just got a fresh breath of revival.

Or it could be… I don’t know, because I was playing Eternal Sonata at the time? Now I’m playing ODST… and next, I don’t know.

I have a PSN card coming in the mail soon, so likely something on there soon. It’s funny, when I first got it I was hardly on the xbox for about 6 months as I worked through a backlog, and now I’m doing the same on the 360.

Saw him quite a bit once he got it. Playing LBP and MGS4.

Never see you online TEA. Never.