Playstation Home Beta

name='Bungral' said:
Heard that doing that is actually detrimental to performance in a percentage of games. Main benefit is to curb the noise from the (near) ever spinning DVD drive... And to be honest.. Xbox owners shouldn't have to use harddrive space and lose performance on some games just to shut up a crap DVD drive.

Heard this too
 
name='Rastalovich' said:
It wouldn't be so bad if u could buy ur own device and plug it into a port, like a usb port or firewire.

Not cost effective to allow u to do that.

Exactly, I would be ok to buy a external HDD and plug that in, but it only reads media. PS3 > 360. D=
 
i just received an invite today to join the beta... i will try to install that later tonite when i get home! Looks pretty good...
 
May i ask, where the heck do you sign up to be eligible for all these betas?

I want home

I want killzone 2

I want I want!
 
name='youpla' said:
i just received an invite today to join the beta... i will try to install that later tonite when i get home! Looks pretty good...

name='Brooksie' said:
I got a invite aswell, so i'll have a go at it later.

Sweet, you guys make sure you post an opinion on here :)

name='mrapoc' said:
May i ask, where the heck do you sign up to be eligible for all these betas?

I want home

I want killzone 2

I want I want!

Dunno, Sony just seem to send me invites on most stuff pretty randomly. I was pretty sharpish at signing up for the PS network (pre-PS3 release), hence getting Kempez as my user id.
 
I'll admit this looks pretty awesome. Will it be sold as a game, or included with every PS3 as an update? I don't know much about it, apart from the fact it looks awesome.

Nice screenies BTW, the graphics on PS3 are very impressive.
 
It will come in an update afaik unless its optional?

So as long as you have a psn...sony will randomly email you?
 
it's ok but the loading screens are annoying..

my dad did his character as my mum so i just finished watching a movie on the ps3 and me and my brother had a game of bowling on it and some guy started to hit on us! :D we played along for a bit saying we was from liverpool and he loves scouse accents.. then we told him we was a bloke and he started shaking his fists.. owned xD
 
LO0L :)

My friend got an invite :(, I feel so left out! The people they send the invite to are people who brought a game off PSN. I normally buy loads of games, my friend buys 1 thing and get's an invite.

The hype has gone now, I'm tired of waiting, Sony disapointed me :(, I must of spent over £200 on games now.
 
I really don't know how sony picks up thier beta tester, i believe it is totally random as i didn't apply to anything. I did buy a few games on PSN maybe that's one of their cirteria, dunno...

anyway i have been exploring a bit and the first observation i have to make is why the heck it is not in 1080p??? however visually it is pretty nice...

i spent quite some time to create my avatar, lots of settings to adjust and you can get a pretty decent clone of yourself LOL

had a few text chat with some folks there, works well... i did hear some audio chat going on but dunno if it is just for me, the sound was not really clear and pretty discontinuous... maybe some traffic congestion!?

it's pretty cool to look at the game trailers in the movie theate or on the various board outside...

haven't play any game yet but will give it a try when i have more time...

globally it is a very nice experience and the only annoying thing so far i can really see if the loading time between each location... hope it can be improved in the final version...

but for a freebie i think sony has a winner... i didn't try the xbox counterpart, but the friends who own a 360 and who saw Home beta were pretty envious ;)
 
i think for a freebie it's excellent has a lot of potential, i can see them making quite a bit of money from it for all the buyable extras, eg furniture and such....

i have noticed a few people with clothing items that don't appear in my wardrobe so that has made me wonder if the shops were populated with things and now are not?

its very pretty but doesn't look like its in proper 1080p (my telly says it is, my eyes say it's not) and the aliasing on even the startup logo is quite painful lol, something as simple as that should be sharper than it it :(

but it's early days... it's very promising and can take a lot of your time up trying to get a large group of randomers all doing the running man :) (my last count was 15 people i've never seen before all dancing the same... quite funny)

notice how for every girl there are 5 + guys, and they're usually all sat/surrounding/chatting up the girls lol... quite funny
 
Well you think they are girls...most probably guys getting off on the fact they can play as one :p

And before you say.. its not from experience lol
 
s'ok i was going to add that but waited for someone else to. i imagine most of them are infact guys lol.. it's so funny
 
lol, wonder if there going to need virtual police to keep the little teens from drooling over the nearest girl.
 
haha probably, they'll have to implement some kind of admin structure otherwise all hell will break loose. it does say that any and all communication can and will be monitored/recorded/ and filed for use in legalities.. which is actually pretty scary lol
 
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