Playstation 3: December 2008 Archives

Well, I got in to Playstation Home without a problem on Friday. Wish I hadn't. Its dull and hopelessly juvenile. About 10% of the people have names that include misspelled genitals, and much of the talk among Home's inhabitants seems to be based around misspelling other foul language, so as to fool Sony's language filter.

The technical achievement is pretty impressive. Inside the theater, after a download, you can see movie trailers and music videos, all while walking around, changing your perspective, and interacting with other Home inhabitants. Its just, why would you want to?

For the first day of the open beta nightmare, see my previous post.

When I bought my PlayStation 3 over a year ago, it was primarily to enjoy Blu-Ray discs. And it has not disappointed.

But when I learned about Playstation Home, I was intrigued. It seemed like a neat idea, and it seemed to be coming soon.

Well, today Sony made Playstation Home available as a public beta. It had been available previously only to a closed group. I was unable to find it when I got home around 1pm today, so I started checking the comments of the masses on Sony's Playstation blog page. No one could find it.

After about an hour, it turned up. You only have to restart the Playstation 3 to download it. Yippee! It downloaded fast, and loaded smoothly.

Wish I had more to say about it. I can't log in, and the aforementioned masses commenting on the aforementioned Sony blog tell me I'm not alone.

I've seen "Request timed out," "Network Error," "Read error," you name it. I've been presented with the EULA several times. But I've not been able to log on.

They say there's no place like home. More like Home is noplace.

Update 5:52pm: There's a great forum at Sony where everybody's keeping track of their inability to log in.