Never see you online TEA. Never.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’ll be spending my gaming time playing games.

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 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.

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!!!!

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.

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

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.

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