If you haven’t heard, Sony has announced their new service/functionality coming to PS3 users this fall. Home is expected to be a socialization tool in which PS3 users’s can interact, socialize, and be informed of the latest offerings and news being offered for the console. Sounds interesting enough, not exactly trying to be inventive but innovative.
There are TONS of things about Home that show Sony is headed in the right direction. Some things I personally think that may need attention are within reason.
- Online gaming needs to have some set of standardization on the console.
- Fix existing online scheme.
- Make communication easier.
Aside from the other offline related PS3 grumblings, these are a few relatively minor inconveniences that pop to mind. Home looks like it wants to address these problems. But it looks like it’s gonna fail at that. Why? Home looks like it requires a lot of time and effort by the user by offering the level of cusotmization that it’s implying with respect to the avatar figure. Yes you can make proportionate avatars that resemble actual people, but this is not a new innovation in gaming. One look at Home and the eye immediately draws comparisons to “The Sim’s” and “Second Life“.
