What do you get when you take Second Life, bump up the graphics, and remove the ability to sell or to create anything of your own? That's Playstation Home. Our friends over at Joystiq attended SGD'07 (that's Sony's Gamer's Day for those of us outside the gaming circuit), and got a chance to drive it around along with a bunch of other folks.
Joystiq's Kevin Kelly posts his hands-on impressions. Activity in the comments thread is understandably ... brisk.
"You can customize pretty much any aspect of your avatars facial features ... as long as they look human. No horns, fairy wings, dragon scales or stuff like that -- unfortunately."
Personally, I think Playstation Home is a great idea, generally - there's just nothing there to appeal to someone like me. What about you? Take a gander at the impressions. Does Playstation Home appeal to you?
1. Hmm. Apparently you can send your photos and music to others, but can't actually present them 'inworld' as it were - at least from what I've read.
I understand content creation will be limited to brands and businesses, with everything vetted by SCE.
Posted at 11:07PM on May 24th 2007 by Tateru Nino