I just think it's funny that Lemmings come in calling PS-Home a 3d Myspace and using that as a grounds to bash the incredible idea. If you guys don't notice this, Myspace was the biggest thing to happen to the internet since Google and porn. While 360 users are staring at a list of arcade games to play with their invisible friends, PS3 users will be sharing anything they want on their 60 or 20gb HDD (or more considering they can be replaced by a standard HDD bought from a store, or linked up to an external HDD) and trying to choose who to play in which arcade games on display in their virtual arcade room set with whatever arcade games or bar games they wish to put in it.
I love how arguments like "IPTV will own everything" pop up, when Sony clearly tackled that aspect by introducing a virtual movie theater complete with trailers and full fledged movies. Achievments? How about having a whole room devoted to it where people can easy walk through and see what you did in what games. Don't even get me started on clan support....and areas of PS-Home devoted to what developers for certain games want in their space.
Sony basically took the best of what 360's Live had to offer, the best of what Nintendo's online networking had to offer (basically Miis) and made it 5x better. Hopefully they just implement it the right way....
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I find it interesting however that many people are making a big fuss out of all of this as if it were groundbreaking and original. Many of the concepts behind this have already been done and are fully available online, most for free or with a bit of research.  The line between console and PC is becoming more and more obscure, eventually to the point where we will be expecting our consoles to be torrenting files for us 24/7 and to process our powerpoint presentations, text documents and so forth while sharing files over hamachi and playing in a virtual lan session.
Groundbreaking concepts such as the ability to share files with others in a private environment, the ability to download trailers, videos, patches and demos, and the ability to create avatars of oneself to be used in a virtual chat room have all been done before. I wasn't awestruck or dumbfounded with Xbox 360's online features, Wii's online features or even PS3's online features.Â
I'm glad they are there however, and they do provide some nifty little gimmicks, fluffs and conveniences. But I've been exposed to these types of services and features for years now, as well as hundreds of thousands of other users have been.
At this rate, consoles will become cheap, media-centralized personal computers with an emphasis on user simplicity. But there's nothing wrong with that either. Anyway, as long as the games are fun there's no reason to complain.
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