Home Beta out for all tomorrow

[Xtreme Rossco]

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=331684

Sony will open PlayStation Home to the world tomorrow as the open beta finally gets into gear.

The game client will be free. Once downloaded, a Home icon will pop up in the PlayStation Network column of the XMB. While the service will be free there will be some paid-for content, such as extra clothes and accessories.

Europeans will be able to explore a Far Cry 2-themed environment, and Sony hopes to make areas for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Warhawk, Motorstorm and SOCOM available soon.

In the future, there will be partnerships with and themes from companies such as EA, SEGA, Eidos and Midway.

Fashion label Diesel will offer up some trendy togs, while furniture designer Ligne Roset has all sorts of upholstery collections to make your house stand out from the crowd.

Red Bull is hosting a virtual flying challenge where you get to be the pilot. This will take place on the Red Bull Island.

More importantly, Paramount Studios, Eurogamer TV and Hexus TV will be showing their wares in the Home Theatre. That means Johnny Minkley will be offered alongside trailers and interviews for films such as Watchmen, which actually looks quite good. Johnny Minkley also looks good, of course.

If only Big Phil Harrison were here to smash the bottle on the hull. At least Kaz Hirai had something to say, specifically: "PlayStation Home is truly a promising network community service on the PlayStation platform, made possible with the powerful combination of PS3's overwhelming computational power and PlayStation Network that covers many countries around the globe." Phew.

Oh, there's more: "We are committed to providing PS3 users with exciting gaming experiences with PlayStation Home and together with our partners and users, expand the new world of interactive entertainment as we move forward."

what are your thoughts? are you looking foward to getting your hands on home CMers or Dont you care at all? discuss below

[mjmaskrey]

I really don't care too much for it...you load your console up as a means of launching a game...I don't want to be walking about having nobs foloowing me asking 'asl?' 'are you a girl...are you hot?'

Home sounds like a load of faffing about. Maybe I'll change my views when I try it.

:)

[Xtreme Rossco]

yea lol although i aint seen any asl as off yet but i guarentee it will be there when the beta is open to all.

The pool is really good, so is chess and draughts(drafts) lol

[Fleeboi]

What was the size of the beta you downloaded? Has it had many updates since you had the beta? If so, did you have to download them? And again, if so, how big was the updates?

ifsofacto

[Xtreme Rossco]

haha ok il explain how it works: firstly i?you will download home from playstation store which is only 75ish megabytes, you will load up home,It will reserve 3GB of you hard drive space(which is abit stupid but nesassary) make up your character then go into your harbour studio(apartment) where you will be treated to a tutorial where you can either skip it or do it,you then walk through the door of the house and it prompts you to download homesquare which you will be prompted to download the home square which is the biggest of all the downloads at about 70mbish but you can do this in the background so can walk around your house while dling(Which is useful while in other places) you will then be loaded into home square, and when you walk into the bowling alley,shopping centre and anything else you have not visited before in a small around 25mb download, This also applys if you go to another continents home i.e EU,US and japan as they all have differnt home squares and theaters ect.., there has been 3 updates with the last one about 15mb.
hope that naswers your questions :D

[Fleeboi]

Yes thanks.

[phatmuther]

Well at least now everyone can properly start internet stalking.

[bingo83]

I have downloaded and installed it, cant fecking use it though as i keep getting the C-931 error and then kicked back to the login screen. Why launch a beta test and then not have the bandwidth to cope with people trying it out.

[mjmaskrey]

I get the same error, gave up after on/off tries over an hour or so.

:)

[Dcontrol]

I had that error first of all when I tried it yesterday but then it connected. It is really silly that you get that error all the time it seems. Surely they will be doing something about this?

[gambeler]

yeh i kept getting the same error message but after about 20 mins or so of trying it finally started working.