More PS3 Home Info

Silver Mirror | August 10, 2007 | News | Playstation 3

A few new HOME details coming your way, this includes the character limit for each room, details on traveling to different zones and how Sony plan to add to HOME over time.

Several new interesting facts to report on Home, Sony’s upcoming free product for the PS3. None of this is especially earth shaking, but many of our readers would be nonetheless interested:

Currently, Home limits the number of users in a single room to 64. This seems to be a performance related issue as the frame rate dips significantly with 60+ players. This will surely be addressed before the product is released.
Based on some beta feedback, developers of Home have made travel between different zones in Home a lot more straightforward. The length of time it took to move from one place to the next became a major weakness in terms of usability. As a result, the different areas have been reduced in size, characters can now run as well as walk, and quick access to any area is available through the PSP interface.
There are people within both the developers of Home and the larger Sony organization who would very much like to see Home completely replace the XMB. They would like users to directly be put into Home when they boot up their console.
The version of Home to be released this fall won’t in any way resemble the final version of Home. Work on the primary features of Home is expected to continue for at least a year. Initial versions released to the public this fall will be quite incomplete.

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tallteen86 | August 10, 2007

Totally unrelated question on home, but I wonder if when people access their PSP interface, that you can actually see (as an outsider) a person 'playing' on a psp, when they're doing that?

But I hope none of the real good stuff gets removed...
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sten mk II | August 10, 2007

65 people in one room is a lot...

I hope you can set up web cams for people to see you.

I'd like to invite people to my home, and play guitar for them to watch. That would be pretty cool, although people would be using that feature for bad reasons.
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SvR2008 | August 10, 2007

I cant wait for HOME it sounds so cool!
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Final Blade | August 10, 2007

PS3 home rules, Go Home!
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FusionWeapons | August 11, 2007

Lol people will use them webcams for bad reasons lol like sten said.The room is going to be huge and get to over crowdid though.
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JJBDude | August 11, 2007

PS3's home sure does sound interested, when I heard about it when it was announced it was a big feature in my mind that would persuade me to wanting a PS3 someday. 64 people in 1 room at a time is massive, no need for more! lol
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tidus04 | August 17, 2007

I can not wait for more on this as it looks and sounds great, Like I said in the last one I just hope I can dress as a female gothic, or japanese style type. I forgot the name of that =[