Play magazine says “prepare to be a bit bored” by Home |
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| BY Adem Kermad |
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Speaking on their official blog, videogame magazine Play have been sharing their thoughts on PlayStation Home, Sony’s social networking tool/game launcher/whatever it is they’ll end up calling it. Having obtained access to the closed beta earlier in the summer, the UK-based PlayStation-centric magazine spent the past few months trying out its various features. Although they didn’t know what to expect from Home, it seems that they’ve found it a little underwhelming.
Entering Home Square was, in Play’s view, “like walking into some kind of nightmarish, Sony-generated Dystopia”. They also warn players to “prepare to be a bit bored” by what Home has to offer. However, aside from subjectiveness of opinion, it also appears that there may be a few technical issues, “For every new building that we entered, a 30-50mb additional update was needed,” Play comments. It seems odd that the developers felt an initial 200mb file with an additional download per building was the way to go.
On a brighter note, it appears that fans of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four might look upon it more favorably. Home, according to Play, “seemed a bit…Orwellian”. Time to make that Winston Smith PSN account before someone else does.




September 29th, 2008
at 12:14 pm
They should hand out Prozium
September 29th, 2008
at 1:49 pm
Soma. Yum.
September 29th, 2008
at 2:22 pm
I really WANT Home to be worth the wait, but I just don’t see it being a big success. They still haven’t really defined it and it looks to me like they’ve just taken the Mii/Avatar thing and blown it way out of proportion to a point where they don’t really know what to do with it nor how to tie it all together.
Still keeping my fingers crossed for Sony though.
September 29th, 2008
at 2:26 pm
I thinks its too late into the ps3 lifespan for Home to succeed, as in be more than just a nice distraction. The problem they face is that they can’t scrap it. If they do then Sony will take a lot of criticism. But its also too late for Home to be integrated into the framework of the PS3. So deciding what exactly Home is supposed to be is their main problem. They can’t get rid of it and they can make it the focus of the PS3.