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| Sony unveils PlayStation Home |
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| Written by Stephen Ebert | |
| Thursday, 08 March 2007 | |
 After much rumour-mongering Sony has finally taken the wraps off PlayStation Home and in the words of the President of Sony Computer Entertainment – “It will take the industry forward”. We already reported it was thought to be a zone where you can create an avatar of yourself, very much like gamers can already do on the Nintendo Wii . But PlayStation Home promises to be so much more than that.
Sony Computer Entertainment showed the world a new real-time 3D avatar-based community and communication service for the PS3. PlayStation Home puts users into a real-time, networked 3D community, where they can interact, join online games, communicate, share content and even build and show off their own personal spaces. And it will be a free service to all PS3 users. Not only will gamers be able to create a photo-realistic avatar of themselves, but they will be able to interact with the avatars of gamers from across the globe, as well as share content. In what will be a vast three-dimensional community users will be assigned their own virtual apartment, which they can customize. Those who attended the Game Developers’ Conference were shown a clip of a world full of shops, communal areas and gaming lobbies in which gamers can show of their virtual achievements in games to their peers. Users can communicate through text, audio and through video chats in what looks like an impressive environment. According to Phil Harrison, president of Worldwide Studios at Sony Computer Entertainment PlayStation Home “will take the industry forward” as part of what Sony calls the Game 3.0 vision. “Our vision for the future, Game 3.0, will continue our track record of industry advancement by leveraging the convergence of technologies, from broadband and video chat to supercomputer-speed processors, to make gaming more interactive and dynamic than ever before,” Harrison said. |
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