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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 4:06AM (Unverified) said

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hmm...can we trust it this time...

and first :)
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 4:29AM (Unverified) said

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I look at Home's evolution from the same context of the first FW on the just released PS3. Look at how far the FW on the PS3 has come in just 2 years, so many new features.

Home will be no different, within 2 years one can only imagine the impact of this FREE service. Many companies are signed on, and if the Red Bull game is just the beginning, the possibilties are nearly limitless.

I applaud Sony for thinking outside the box and trying something different and much more complex and evolving. I have not spent too much time in Home, but I would imagine being Home will become more interesting as the months roll on.

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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 5:19AM MrHashbrown said

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Well I don't know if Sony deserves that much praise, and this will be an uphill battle for them, but they already have two great selling points:

1. It's innovative and there's nothing quite like it on the 360 and Wii.

2. There is no point to sell because it's free anyways.

So I'm sorry but the people complaining here should simmer down and just realize that this is absolutely free. And if you get bored with Home then fine, no one is forcing you to use it. I know that once I pick up my PS3 I'll dive into it head first.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 6:42AM SoCoolCurt said

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im with KillJebus. Home has great potential and should be equipped with lots of features that people conveniently like to forget about like party chat and game launching. its also a great place to meet people that have the same game interest as you. im in the beta now and i can certainly see that it has the potential to be something special.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 10:16AM Vcize said

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Like has been said, Home is free and just an "extra" thing, so it's kind of hard to really criticize it. You could just pretend it's not there if you don't like it.

My only problems with Home are that it likely:

A) Delayed us getting features that should have been easy to implement a while ago for the sake of having Home around them. Private chat and a party system could have just been a regular firmware update a year ago (MS had barely announced the same for a couple months before it actually hit release), and we could have been using it all along.

B) Will overcomplicate using these features. Game launching, party system, etc are all good ideas. But that's all a lot of people want. If it's going to be a cumbersome process of loading up Home, "walking" somewhere to meet the people, etc just for the sake of having it in "Home" rather than it being a couple button clicks like it is on XBL, then that's a problem for the people that don't care about the second life aspect of it all. Hopefully these new features will come not just in Home, but as a quick to access option on the XMB as well, though I doubt that will happen.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 4:07AM MarkezJM said

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Was the designer pants remark a joke?
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 4:27AM aaronxx said

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orly
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 4:44AM MrHashbrown said

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Home is releasing tomorrow so I JIZZ IN MY PANTS
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 9:41AM dbvii said

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Well played! Best work Andamy Sandlerburg has done.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 4:58AM (Unverified) said

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Wait, it's still in beta?
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 5:04AM (Unverified) said

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It will be like Gmail. In beta for a loooong time but available for everyone.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 5:06AM (Unverified) said

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Hey, I'm currently reading The Diamond Age!!!
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 7:57AM Xiard said

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That book is f**king awesome. I assume you've read Snow Crash as well, then. Great books, great author.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 5:06AM (Unverified) said

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EXCUSE ME!? What is up with the purple dude on the right side of the image?! Anyone else see this!?
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 5:15AM MrHashbrown said

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hmm....who is that?
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 5:25AM (Unverified) said

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No idea, but it's creepy as hell.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 6:13AM MrHashbrown said

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Is it...Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face in Batman Forever?

And he's confirmed to appear in HOME?!

HOME = AWESOMESAUCE
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 1:29PM (Unverified) said

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hahaha I didn't even notice that, hilarious.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 5:51AM aaronxx said

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oh my, a purple guy
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 6:00AM (Unverified) said

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I wonder how many "i don't care" or "its boring anyway" comments this thread will get, from people who don't even own a PS3, naturally.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 7:17AM John Z said

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I don't care how many "I don't care" posts there will be.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 9:40AM (Unverified) said

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I don't care about you not caring about how many "i don't care" posts there will be.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 6:28AM (Unverified) said

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wow........so it WAS Included in 2.50.......

thats HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!

they just set it to pop up on a certain date........

Ima go change the date on my PS3 and see if it comes up.........
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 7:09AM KarlW said

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No, changing the xmb doesn't require a firmware update. I installed PlayTV, and have an extra menu on my XMB without a firmware update.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 12:08PM (Unverified) said

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yea but play TV read from the tuner thingy when you plugged it up didnt it??
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 12:44PM Kodros said

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"No, changing the xmb doesn't require a firmware update."

Ok, but somehow, sometime, somewhere, Home was installed on your system. It had to have been attached to one of the firmware updates.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 12:56PM (Unverified) said

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thats what I was saying.......according to them it will appear tomorrow simply by restarting your PS3.......which tells me that its ALREADY on the system SOMEWHERE
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 7:22AM Ethan said

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Diesel? Really? They should have more taste than that.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 9:30AM Tez said

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In advertising, taste does not matter. Just the monies!
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 12:45PM Kodros said

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I've never tasted Diesel.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 7:27AM (Unverified) said

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The only people I have ever met who claim to like "Snow Crash" also learned English as a second language (this is not a derogatory remark about French Canadians. French Canadians are the best kind of people, honest.), and as such admit that they don't fully grasp just how bad a writer Stephenson is.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 9:12AM Ludwig Kietzmann said

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So, because I enjoyed the book, it signals a deficiency in my appreciation and understanding of language? Dissent must have an educational flaw at its root?

I think the more likely explanation is that, being from different cultural backgrounds, your friends appreciate things which you may not. In most cases, "bad writing" is a matter of opinion, isn't it? But hey, I'm a second-language English user who really enjoys Stephenson ... despite his exposition. Perhaps you're correct and I'm simply *incapable* of discerning bad writing. ;)
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 9:42AM John Z said

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As a native speaker of English, I will say this much:

1. Stephenson might not be a GREAT prose writer, but he is a) better than MANY other writers out there (Brown and Meyer come immediately to mind) and b) has some excellent ideas in his fiction.
2. I still haven't finished Snow Crash (ironically too busy playing games at the time, one of which being WoW), though I LOVED The Diamond Age.
3. Opinions are like... yeah, you know the rest.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 9:42AM (Unverified) said

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wut?
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 1:51PM (Unverified) said

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He's no William Gibson (Neuromancer era, not the crap he writes now), but he's not bad either.

Cryptonomicon is a badass book. It takes awhile to get used to his style, but it's worth the time.
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Posted: Dec 11th 2008 1:34AM (Unverified) said

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One of the most entertaining fiction writers of our time. And you'd be hard pressed to find one critic who would completely disagree with me. The Palahniuk of cyberpunk - he can write one good story. (english as a first language)
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 7:56AM Jayslacks said

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Home? What's that? Oh, PS3's answer to Xbox Live and stuff. Ahh. Its been so long since I heard anything about it...
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 12:58PM (Unverified) said

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Home is not the Answer to Live........

Thats what the PSN is........

Home is SO much more than a network interface......
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 1:52PM (Unverified) said

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Hmm? What's that? An Xbox troll who pays enough attention to barely formulate a weak slam on the PS3.

Wow, of all the places, I didn't expect to see a post like this on Joystiq. /s
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 8:00AM Abdo said

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All the more reason for me to acquire a PS3
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 8:22AM (Unverified) said

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If it is not any different from the closed beta that is currently out then who cares. I'm in the beta and it is so booring, there is nothing to do.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 10:00AM (Unverified) said

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So.....I'm guessing you did NOT read the press release? Y'know, the one where they announce many business partners that will have some neat things at launch like the Red Bull Island? And the themed game spaces?

On a different note, Sony...bring back the previously announced ability to listen to our own music in our private spaces, watch what we want in our private spaces, and put up picture frames of what we want in our private spaces. Make the private spaces FUN please.

It would be really cool to stay in Home in my Summer House or whatever with my own picture frames and decorations like LBP stickers, listening to my OWN music. I like to think of it like an interactive screen-saver and I could keep it running just listening to my music on my HDD while doing something around the house. Just like I do now when I loop a picture slide-show or put the planet Earth background on.

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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 1:54PM (Unverified) said

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Why you keep saying "private spaces" killjebus?

Is it like a fort made out of couch pillows and a sign that says "no girls allowed" on the outside?

something like this: http://static.desktopnexus.com/wallpapers/9326-bigthumbnail.jpg
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 8:48AM ExMcCloud said

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Though I've been hard on Home in the past I will say that even though the beta isn't as exciting as SONY makes it seem, its still has the chance to be the great Social network SONY wants it to be if they back it up with ONE game...Whether its Killzone or sum MP game...They need a game to make Home worth your time....The movie service and things like that are also great ideas to add to this...So I think Sony is on the right track with their Online service and social network....Just flesh out home more and make it apart of every game and you could have a Xbox Live killer
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 9:00AM (Unverified) said

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Well its about damn time!
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 9:13AM (Unverified) said

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I can't wait to jump in tomorrow and uhhhh..try to find..something to do.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 9:38AM vidguy said

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1. Did Sony intend from the start that Home would be a PS4 feature?

2. What's the black smoke from LOST doing on the left side of that room?
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 12:46PM Kodros said

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Actually, if Wikipedia is to be trusted, Home started off as a PS2 app.
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 10:52AM tmontana213 said

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I think I just shat myself...
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Posted: Dec 10th 2008 2:52PM tmontana213 said

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I'm so excited to walk around and...and...walk around!
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