Leaked details on PlayStation Home Beta
- Posted March 1st, 2008 at 17:55 EDT by
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Leaked videos of PlayStation Home v.0.83 have just hit YouTube, showing off all the latest additions to Home including; functionality with in-game PSP, bubble machine items, chess, Home theatre, and more.
The first video is an introduction showing off a few new places in Home as well as the In-Home game Chess. The first place the player visits is a clothing store called "Threads" where players can purchase clothing items for their character. While the current clothes in the store are free, having a "checkout" and "confirm transaction" screen makes us believe some clothes will eventually cost money.
After leaving Threads, the player moves upstairs to the chess tables and briefly shows how gamers will participate and play Chess.
The video ends with the player entering a store currently called "Home Stuff", where at this time no items are available. Our guess is that "Home Stuff" will be the store where gamers can purchase specialty items like the recently revealed bubble machine.
Moving on to part 2. The next video shows Home's use of the in-game PSP. Using the functionality of the Home PSP, players will be able to access such things as:
- Community (Message of the Day, News, Handy Links, etc)
- Help (First time in Home, Character Customization, Moving to new locations, Your Home Space, and other step-by-step guides)
- Communication (phone a friend, accept call, reject call, etc)
- Game Launching (Create a game, Join a game, View Player List, Cancel game)
- Locations (My Home Space, Home Square, Game Space, Home Theatre, Market Place, Owned Spaces)
- Settings (Themes (skins), Pop-Up Colour, sound, chat window, controls, communication)
- Personal (Go to Wardrobe, Redecorate Home Space, My Inventory, My Purchases, My Profile)
One thing that's interesting about the Create-a-Game menu is that when selected it seems to pull up a list of games that the player may own. The list from the video includes such games as Call of Duty 4, Virtua Tennis 3, SuperStar Dust HD, Motorstorm, Flow, and a few others. Are these games already using Home integration or can Home use any game you own for the PS3?
The last video in the series shows off a few new things including the new bubble machine and Home Theatre. The player begins showing how to access items and interact with them in the world. In this case the bubble machine.
Moving to the Home Theatre, the player brings up the in-game PSP once again, showing how players can create game sessions, in this case Call of Duty 4. Whats interesting is that while in Home, players can choose how many player slots they want available as well as private slots. When the game creation process is finished, a controller icon appears above the players head and a message pops up stating:
"Session Created
Players may now join your game. You may hide this window and re-open at any time from the Game Launching Menu in the PSP."
With rumors of the Home Public Beta launching this month, it shouldn't be too long until everyone can get their hands on this spectacular multiplayer world. Stay tuned to PSU for all your PlayStation Home news.
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Jezer29 |
Jezer29- 8:14am GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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It looks hot.. And being that Im a grown individual.. Im not going to say the impatient thing like I want it now and when the heII are they going to come out with the beta already.. Sony keep doing your thing and until you get it right.. If Home is going to crush XBL, there is no room for mistakes..Its March already, 9 months to go.. lol
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markwesker
- 11:25am GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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before i thoyht home looked cheap but now home looks pretty ace,sum good graphics and its all for free :)
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NYShotgun05 |
NYShotgun05- 12:25pm GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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One the first vid, at 2:26 mins it shows that I have signed on "NYShotgun05" lol. I just found that out plus, i know who the person who made it
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brandonh33
- 5:11pm GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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People have already lost interest. I used to be dying for Home last fall when it was supposed to be released. Almost 6 months later I really dont care anymore. Some people might remember that Home was actually DELAYED untill last FALL! I am sure sony is going to limit the heck out of everything you can do for free. I am not going to waist $50 bucks for a virtual house though... Chances are that if you dont like second life, you are going to hate home. Sorry but when you promise so much when you have no intention of delivering, but just to sell consoles, that just pisses me off. Dont expect an open beta for a long time, and dont expect the finished home for about a year. Also when it does role out, dont expect people to actually use it a few months after the release. Again, sorry, but it is VERY hard to become optimistic about home anymore. All I see is an example sonys lack of dedication to owners that xbox fanboys will continue to piss us off with.
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SamTheSkater
- 7:45pm GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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playstation 3 is getting even more unique when this feature is released. i what a release date!
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Muzikguy |
Muzikguy- 9:50pm GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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Brandonh33, speak for yourself. Something tells me when Home is released they will encounter problems like COD4 did. "We didn't know there was going to be that much interest, it bogged our servers," they'll say. I'd spend money on my "apartment", not $50 though. H3ll, if Sony can make money doing things like that more power to them. I'm sure others will do the same.
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yoboyrob9041226 |
BIGROB904- 10:09pm GMT - March 2nd, 2008
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well im just ready to get it now so i can meet more people
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Deusthousand |
Deusthousand- 12:18am GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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People will bow to it. Brandonh33, you kiss men open mouth.
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Odium_Generis_Humani
- 3:05am GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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@Brandon
I'll tell you what I DO expect when Home is released...
...you downloading it with the rest of us doing the robot dance and making an idget of yourself not unlike how you did with your post. Everyone's agitated over the delays, but there's no denying the achievement that is Home. Not only that, but it's pretty stupid to claim that interest is lost after dozens of people before your post had just stated that they can't wait for it. "Misery love company", I guess.
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brandonh33
- 3:53pm GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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Well i guess this is what you get when you post something even remotely negative about the ps3 on a fanboy site. It is not just my opinion, if you go over to sites like cnet or even the playstation blog there are tons of people that dont even care anymore. I love my ps3, i hate 360 and wii, but there are just some things that we need to realize. Sure i am going to download home and be fairly excited for a while, but sony blew it! I dont like people saying what i said in my previous post and I indicated that in the end of my post! one of the worst things about all these delays are all of the 360 fanboys that wont shut up about it! Home might actually be really cool but that doesnt mean sony didnt blow it.
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tabular
- 11:50pm GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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Yeah... it's been been delayed for a while... but after watching that video I gotta say this looks like the coolest thing since sliced bread! This will mean so much for the PS3 online community! Very fluid frame rate and animation, great graphics, and it just simply looks fun. Wow, can't wait!
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Uniquelyevil |
Uniquelyevil- 12:08am GMT - March 27th, 2008
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GAHH!! Home is a GHUGE reason I invested in my beautiful PS3!!
I wish they'd hurryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
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