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PS3 Home Service Only For Humans

June 05, 2007 in News comments 16

Sony has confirmed that the soon to be launched Home service for the Playstation 3 will be humans only. The team are trying to take a more realistic look at reality by banning such avatars as Aliens, and other non-humans. I'm guessing that also excludes animals? I wonder if this shows signs for Sony to drop all games related to The Sims. The only bad thing I can see coming out of this would be for those lucky hippie's who got their hands on a PS3, not being able to create themselves as a Green Martian and all.

"Sony has confirmed that the soon to be launched Home service for the PlayStation 3 will have avatars which will be humans only.

That means that those of you hoping to open an apartment in the virtual PlayStation 3 Home space as an alien from a distant planet will be sorely disappointed. The reasoning behind this most likely for Sony is to try to keep it as a realistic consistent world without having a lot of unrealistic aspects such as aliens.

Sony has stated that they want Home to be more of a Second Life type experience and the decision to have human avatars only is one which will likely end up being a wise one. Regardless though people who may not want to be confined to human skin may be a bit disappointed with this revelation."
Zhou Tai Rocks via ps3center.net »
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  • 1
    Guticb Jun 5, 07
    I can't believe people thought there would actually be aliens....
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    Zhou Tai Rocks Jun 5, 07


    lol. I also got a laugh out of that, I don't really know who would want to be aliens. Maybe a little kid would enjoy it, but I don't think Sony should waste their time adding attire and such for it.
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    redneonfish Jun 5, 07
    Hmmmm, I think kids would, and im sure alot of kids do play the sims, and would love Home so I reckon that's a bad idea.
    • 0
      volacide Jun 5, 07
      Generally kids don't own 600 dollar game consoles.
      • 0
        Ameer Jun 6, 07
        Generally kids don't buy 600 dollar game consoles. Just 'cause a kid can't afford one doesn't mean a parent can't.
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    Existenz Jun 5, 07
    Who cares about kids, most parents won't buy a kid a PS3 anyway and the console itself is not aimed at children, so taking out pathetic aliens and other unrealistic creatures will really affect a free game.
  • 1
    Jeterocks Jun 5, 07
    good, i dont want to be seeing a bunch of idiot looking things anyway
  • 0
    SS4Gogeta Jun 5, 07
    I like the idea of keeping it as real as possible. There are many kids on the PSN aged 12 to 17.
  • 0
    FFXFREAK Jun 5, 07
    Yeah that's good though, I mean keeping it as real as possible is so much better theng seeing a bunch of random alien kids running around the streets T_T.



    ~FFXFREAK
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    Final Blade Jun 6, 07
    LOl haha good stuff here.
  • 0
    Lazzara Jun 6, 07
    I think it'd be more interesting if PS3 is unrealistic rather than realistic.
    • 0
      Final Blade Jun 6, 07
      i dont get you, please explain.
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    teodortenchev Jun 6, 07
    I don't really think that keeping it "real" is a good idea, if I wanted reality at every corner I would shut down my console and go out...
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    Xenctuary Jun 6, 07
    Shame we can't walk around as cows
    • 0
      Zhou Tai Rocks Jun 6, 07

      Ah crap, thanks for raining on my parade.
      I was happy until i realized we can't be cows.
      *Begins to write angry mail toward Sony*
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    Moogo Monkey Masta Jun 6, 07
    I believe there were cows in one of the Home trailers?

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