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Sony Home Is A "Social Layer" Says Lead Artist

August 29th 2008 00:37
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Guess what Sony Home is this week?
The launch for Home is not far off, with the 10,000 strong beta finally working out enough bugs, glitches and additions to have Sony happy enough to declare PS3 owners long wait to be coming to and end before christmas. But in the meantime, exacly what Home is meant to be changes more often than the underpants of the lead character from Dead Space.


Lead artist John Venables describes Home as a "social layer" for the PS3, pretty much contradicting the previous statements from Darren Cairns and Liam Wickham, declaring Home "is not a social network - it's focused on games. It's a visual representation of the PlayStation community."

According to the article, Sony's main goal for the service is to make online gaming more accessible and welcoming. The blurb and the quotes are incredibly blurred, but Home is made to sound like a meeting place for people to meet and then play casual games, be they strangers or friends. The open areas would be set aside for special events, but with headphones and microhphones, they will be designed to be interactive for the audience members. I guess we shall have to wait and see exacly what this beast turns out to be. It's easy to see why Sony want to distance themselves from the dwindling Second Life scene, but perhaps its too late to do that now.
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