Home beta welcoming another 100,000 testers

Thanks for sharing.

Agreed with Envoy...your apathy is not as fascinating as you think it is.

Well can I call dibs if you don't want it? My PSN ID is T3mpr1x. :)

Well you can give it to me.

Because i don't know what's going on i filed for R2 Beta *pre-ordered* and i didn't get it and the home beta too. Give it to me please.

And it's... OK. Just a chat interface with avatars right now. And there's really not much to do; it's nothing like an MMO. What are the future plans for the service?

To be like Myspace/Facebook for Playstation.

Can someone tell me if Home replaces your entire system or is it something you click into.

In its current form, its something you click into, like if you were gonna start a demo or something.

its not a bad idea...
what did you think of the NXE idea??

The NXE is a new interface, it makes everything faster and simpler. This seems to be the exact opposite, I guess if you want a chat room, it's something.. but personally I prefer the friends list, and windows messenger.

I agree. After playing around with it for a bit, Home is the most inefficient way to do anything on your PS3 except waste time. What demographic are they trying to appease with this?

You guys can choose to look at it like that if you please. Home will be the wave of the future for social interaction in consoles. You can't really judge the entire value of the service as a whole from an open beta entry. You kind of hae to look at everything as a whole and see what the potential is for something like this on consoles.

The NXE and all that is great when you already have a list of friends to play games with. Home is going to allow you to interact with new friends and then launch into any game with them. It's essentially an open world sandbox environment with things to do by yourself to immerse into the world, play mini games and arcade games with old friends and new people and whatever else you want to do. Sure on Live you can chat with someone you know or launch into a game you both have but on Home you can activities together in a co-op environment.

When you think of Home you kind of have to think about what it is capable of and what it will become rather than simply what is right in front of you right now. Honestly the experience is pretty polished right now as well.

The XMB is what exactly? It's essentially a prettier (Vista) to the older less pretty (XP) dashboard interface. You can't even compare the NXE to Home because they are completely different things. It's arguable that the NXE has made the dashboard more efficient and beauty is really in the eye of the beholder when compared to the older interface. However, you have no choice but to use the NXE if you play your 360 online. Comparing Home to the NXE would be like comparing an update to the operating system in your computer (Vista) to a free social networking site like myspace. Except in this example myspace would only be available on a rival platform like OSX or Linux. Understand the difference?

lol i feel ya. Here is me.

i understand how to get into beta. they said DL Theme.... did that. and they were looking for people with lots of activity. well i spend $400 on their store in last 9 months... where s my invite on top of that i am in PlayStation underground and relieve the PS magazine... sucks 2 be a fanboy huh? at same time 2 of my friend who do nothing and spend No money got invites to Home and KZ2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English

Even funnier they actually spell it both ways - with an "s" and with a "z" at different points in the loading screen