Sony, Microsoft begin battle of virtual worlds

Sony and Microsoft are poised to do battle in virtual worlds.

The console kids both announced Second Life-style virtual environments at the Tokyo Game Show today. Both games show striking similarities to Linden Lab's creation

Players are represented by avatars which live a virtual life - engaging in relationships, going about day-to-day business. These can be personalised to look as similar (or different) to how the user looks in real life.

Sony's "Home" virtual world for the Playstation 3 will be released on November 19th, after its delay twice already. It will go up against Microsoft's Xbox 360 "New Xbox Experience".

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Can't wait to go Home.

[nbsmatambo]

finally..

it better be polished and ready to go with all the time they had

[johover112]

Im also ready to go Home, about time i heard a release date, YEA!

[C_SoL]

because Home is almost at version 1.0.

[play_b3yond]

I think it is true. Sony is releasing LBP with Fable II, Resistance 2 with GeOW 2, so why not release Home with the New Xbox Experience and finish Xbox 360's lifespam this year instead of letting it to be around for another year.

[johover112]

I like the way you're thinking man. oh and also Final Fantasy Versus 13 would be the iceing on the cake

[sunnygrg]

One day after my birthday. What a nice belated treat from Sony.

[Lanoire]

With
LBP
Home
WKC
R2
Motorstorm 2
WipeOut HD
Fat princess
SOCOM

The PS3 certainly has the best line up ever seen.

[BobDog]

@ above, ur not looking forward to kz2, gt5 infamous and GOW3?

[Saint Sony]

Someone is trying to give HOME another delay status. This date is not official before Sony says so. I would not expect Home any day soon.

There are more than enough games for holiday season, so actually I would not be surprised if they would push it to 2009 release.

[Lanoire]

I merely stated the 2008 line up in my post above.
2009 is a whole different ball game with KZ2, Infamous, God of war, Heavy Rain, EyePet, Mag and more.

[LoVeRSaMa]

Sounds good, hope its ready though!

[SL1M DADDY]

Home is an ongoing service that will improve with each new addition to the virtual world. In other words, it will be like fine wine, it will get better with age.

[Ateanboy]

I hate it when people put title's like this, fooling people into clicking on the link, when the information hasn't even been confirmed yet.

We don't know if this is legit.

Sony hasn't said anything yet.

So don't make crazy headlines like this.

[whoelse]

I think this guy just got it wrong. XBE comes out on the 19th, not Home.

[TheDude2dot0]

I'm just hoping they can perfect it for the PS4 when that comes out.

[jfrdricks7931]

Would too.

[INehalemEXI]

TGS 08 sony booth recreated in home -> http://www.gametrailers.com...

Sick..

[INehalemEXI]

Chun li model in home -> http://www.gametrailers.com...

Seems like Home is really going to drop this time.

[ape007]

home will give psn a TRUE identity

[VP of Troll Corp]

Home, sweet Home..I know that was lame but anyways

I'm in the Home Closed Beta and it's like nothing else!

I've met about 15 people that I added to my friend list and I play with constantly! It's cool cus you get to know PEOPLE not what the best gun in Call of Duty 4 is.

Home needs to be released so everyone can enjoy it!

It's in version 0.98 so 1.0 should be releasing soon. A couple months ago Didn't a Sony rep say "I'm 100% sure Home will be released by the end of the year."

I love Home :D

[Omegasyde]

???? Seriosly did he just pull a date out of his @ss????

[slave2Dcontroller]

he did just that.

[ChrisGTR1]

true, sony hasnt said a release date. only that itll be 'a month' after FW 2.5

[rhood022]

It makes for a more compelling story line for game journalists to just make up release dates. Plus, if you throw out a concrete date it tends to catch on rather quickly around the internet and gets ingrained in the minds of the people who read these sites as fact. Even if the company comes out and denies it, the fact that the concrete date was even mentioned sticks with people. It's like telling someone to not think of the color blue.

In the case of HOME, the results then go like this:

If it releases before the date, then game mags, blogs or whatever can write up how "Sony surprised everyone" by releasing it early. If these sites then find something that they don't like, either valid or not, then they can push the storyline of how Sony failed to deliver on their promises. Or how Home shipped as an unfinished product and Sony should have taken more time to "get it perfect," whatever that is in an ambiguous definition.

If it releases after the date, then writers can continue to use the "OFTEN DELAYED" label when doing their comparison stories. Moreover, these journalists can continue with their "Is Home worth it?" "Will anybody care about Home?" "Will it move console?" stories instead of actually having to come up with new material.

[ugabugaz]

I don't wanna be Home(Less) Anymore! Sony give me a place to live!

[TheColbertinator]

I noticed the contributor had some fun with the story description.

[play_b3yond]

What's up with Sony. Are they trying to kill Xbox right now or what. They are releaing LBP with Fable II, Resistance 2 with Gears of War II and Home with the New Xbox Experience.
LBP >>>>>>> Fable 2
Home >>> New Xbox Experience
Resistance could be as good as Gears 2, better than Gears 2, or worst than Gears 2. We just have to wait for them to be released.
So right now it is 2 to 0 for Sony. I'm putting my money down on Sony wining 3 to 0 because I'm sure Resistance will do better than Gears of War II.

[JOLLY1]

Wanna know what is more intersting. The THis submitter has only done this one thing this month. nasim.....I mean this submitter hasn't been on here for months! Yet he is already a submitter?. Now that is something to notice.

[eric100]

good points there

cant believe MS is releasing Fable 2 on the same day as LBP?
HOME kills new Xbox FLoperience
I agree . Resistance 2 is atleast as good as Gears 2 if not way better
Ofcourse WKS will totally kill wii in Japan on december 25th

as for europe was x360 ever relevant. same goes to Japan
I think LBP will finish off competition for SONY this Fall and beyond

BTW remeber what happened to Ninja Gaiden 2 which was released against MGS4? It mega flopped and made Tecmo bankrupt

[caffman]

but lets face it, Gears has gone gold already. Resistance will not match the sales of gears.
And Fables release date has been public knowledge a lot longer than LBP. And why should it be a competiton between them? They are completely different games.
And nothing will kill Wii. Its sold possibly more consoles than the ps3 or xbox will sell this gen!
Oh and Nasim, stop trying to use yet ANOTHER login (eric) because you are as obvious as an elephant in a cherry tree

[Fallen Empire]

PS3 FTW

[Hydrolex]

Xbox 360 officialy DIES !!!!!!!!! OMGGGGG

[play_b3yond]

@ eric100
Actually Sony is releasing LBP on the same day as Fable 2 and Resistance 2 on the same day as Gear of War 2. Now they are releasing Home on the same day as New Xbox Experience. It can't all be a coincidence. I'm sure Sony is releasing all their games on the same day as Xbox games on purpose because they know they will win.
LBP will probably win game of the year award and there is no doubt it is better than Fable II. Home will eat NXE up easily. You can do lots of different stuff in Home but in NXE all you can do is make an avatar which you can make on Yahoo as well. I also think Resistance 2 will be better than Gears of War II. Now I'm sure Sony is going to win this holiday season even with the higher prices. Even if xbox drop prices again I think Sony will win anyways.

[eric100]

I completely agree man
I can even get to meet some girl gamers at my HOME unlike some lame WII -MII rip off avatr crap

I think Fable 2 should be canned. I mean not even Xbox owners would buy it over Fallout 3.
Gears 2 is a decent game but Resistance 2 is the best next gen shooter this Fall

cant believe that MS will release WiI -RIP experience against HOME --a virtual world for fun and leisure

[caffman]

feeling lonely? Well just put your dualshock to good use eh?
I'm just annoyed that my girlfriend is currently playing the world at war beta and I'm at bloody work

[eric100]

no not feeling lonely
But it is good to have a GF who is a gamer too.

your GF is a retard. Me and my GF we play LBP beta --thats better and more fun than any game on the planet

@jolly
wow using 2 accounts at the same time.
Anyway doesnt matter what a BOT like you says

[JOLLY1]

You can always tell it is nasim. He always calls everyone that snukada guy. Now I get to show the moderators this account. I just have to have him write that name. Well there are a few other keys things I have to get him to say, then I get to report him to the mods. Thanks nasim for saying one so I can report this account also.

[play_b3yond]

Can someone tell me who Nasim is? He/she seems to be loved and hated by many people.

[caffman]

number 2. No matter how much I think you are a little sh1t I would never insult your girlfriend.
number 3. PM me your address so we can discuss this face to face as I believe you have crossed a line. I know you live in europe and its no problem for me to travel so come on and lets see if you have the guts

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Nasim only exist's in the minds of 360 fanboys.Nasim is just a myth."it" doesn't exist..

[JOLLY1]

he is a guy that flames til he gets down to one bubble and a permanent ban to the open zone then he starts a new id name. YOu can always tell who he is by the way he writes. He never changes his writing style. If you ever say something that scares him, he pms you about 5 times in one minute.

[dukadork]

like they're hoping nobody will notice the ugly me-too rip off once again... 'hey look we just invented the mouse!'
i love the 'fair and balanced' coverage: "The console kids both announced Second Life-style virtual environments".

after the ugly Mii ripoff now they're pulling off a laughable just in time Home wannabe with their usual lack of style, creativity and vision

LMFAO! xb!tches enjoy your gaming dog food, we get the real stuff

[Sir_Ken_Kutaragi]

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[TheHater]

Where is this site getting it info from? I call BS as of now because no other site, Major website, are reporting this.

[BlackRaven85]

Let them have their hopes crashed, I called BS when I read the title.

[soljah]

forget about the polish and shine Sony needs to release and the community needs to define what home is now and what it should be in the future. just like the ps3 and xmb and the psn the feed back the users provide should go into future content

good to see a actual date

edit- could be right about not a absolute date till sony says
but i stand by the above it needs to launch

[TheHater]

it not an actually release date, because they site didn't support it release date with any statement from Sony.

[Neo Nugget]

I smell BS.

[dimitry21]

i cant wait to go home:}

[leeger]

is this true? Home Nov 19??? Any link for the official announcement from SOny?

[leeger]

I'm just asking a question and then I got a disagree?????

[SonySoldierEternaL]

^
LOL

[leeger]

Will this also get a disagree?? As long as I am seeing the official statement from Sony about Home's release date I'm not gonna believe this news.

[ChrisGTR1]

you know, a dissagree is also the lazy mans way of telling you "NO" you asked a question and the people responded with a no. lol

[LoVeRSaMa]

Don't Complain about Disagrees, because as you can see you will get Raped on every reply you make about it =D

[GUNS N SWORDS]

the original title doesn't say that.

it says

"Sony, Microsoft begin battle of virtual worlds"

http://www.pcauthority.com....

it's assuming it will come out by then.

[JRaptor]

Later on in the article they straight out state the release date:

"Sony's "Home" virtual world for the Playstation 3 will be released on November 19th, after its delay twice already. It will go up against Microsoft's Xbox 360 "New Xbox Experience"."

No source mentioned at all for this claim, although they do quote a Sony rep for the 24 companies supported home.

However, I'm pretty sure that this sounds like a reasonable release date. It seems like home is hitting the final stages and Sony have been aiming for a fall release, with it definitely this year.

[kratos-i-am]

Kinda saw this comming as a direct assault from Sony on the NXE. Though in all honesty I wish both companies spent their money on GAMES! But MS I think is probably worse of considering their update seems as useless as their latest OS, Vista. I don't want Mii avatars or some floating menus that advertise a whole lot of **** and have to pay for through a Live subscription! Man is MS a stupid company!! Has anyone seen those "I'm a PC" advertisements? I am really crossing my fingers for another company to create an OS! Common IBM looking at you!

[Goon 187]

I have no doubt the PS3 will win. The new update for the 360 looks silly to me,It looks like little kids sh!t but I'm excited about the netflix feature. I been in the home beta for a while and all I got to say is it's amazing. The wait is almost over=).

[Wurider]

What exactly will sony win? I am curious!!

[chasuk08]

The war in iraq ! The console war you dumbass !

[NowGen]

well so far its not looking too good for sony.i mean 2 yrs in and still the 3rd most systems sold. and the way nintendo and now 360 with price cut, both are selling better than the ps3. so 2009 looks like sony will still be in 3rd. but by yr 5 they may be set to make some moves. to bad by then the new xbox will prob. start to see some light as far as news. sony gimmped again.

[rsbrage]

Wow! its going to be a busy Nov. 19 for me. I might need to request that day off from work. I cant wait for the both of them.

[MAGNUM RAM SUPPORT]

is that a fckng release date ???

If this aint true its too late I just took a huge
bite from that fishhook!!!

Better be for real or somebody has got to die.

Home FTW !

[CliffyBee]

Now no one will play my new game :(

psssst....GoW2 (GoW1.1 is rubbish anyway XD)

Everyone go and play LBP, its better than anything I could even dream of. Home will crush 360 with a swift swipe to its inbred face.

[caffman]

another home "release" date

[Dawn_Of_Ashes]

the date is official? Does it come from an official sony statement?

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

"SONY AND MICROSOFT are poised to do battle in virtual worlds"

"Let virtual battle commence."
- Emma Hughes

Microsoft is creating a virtual world and not changing the way we navigate? In order for a "virtual battle" to commence you'll need at least two virtual worlds Emma Hughes, lol. I'm guessing she isn't a gamer, common mistake.

I still don't see why Microsoft even created avatars when you don't even use them outside of the mini games. So if you don't play them the whole purpose of creating one is non-existent. At least with Sony's PlayStation Home if you don't use it you don't have to create one.

[Tidus11]

I think they said sony announced the date at TGS .... I was wondering the same thing about how they came up with the date..... it makes sense though if its right.

[Blu Ray3]

dawned on some of you fantards that Sony,Nintendo,and MS are really business partners behind closed doors....hmmmm?(in cahoots)
What if they work in unison to create a console gaming utopia for us all?Cool huh?

I like this theory,
so you idiots,(NOT ALL OF YOU),can dwell in your realm of jealousy and hate,while I enjoy the fruits of all of these great companies labor.

I swear,I get drained coming in here reading some of these comments.

WTF?

[eric100]

Guess how big the virtual world is.
poor U --stuck with a DVD player cum toaster with no good games, Wii -rip avatar crap and garbage games

U cant even imagine how big HOME and LBP are. as for LBP 2 new reviews will be posted in a few hours from now

:)

[psycho360]

After reading the article I call it fake. The source mentioned has not said anything. And if some no name site can get this info i'm sure some major sites would have posted this by now.

[John_McCain]

Version 999.6
Version 999.7
Version 999.8
Version 999.9
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Version 999.91!!!! #*@k!!

[CaptainHowdy]

Lucifer, you owe me

[PMR_21]

BOTS

SUCK

BALLZ

[MAGNUM RAM SUPPORT]

I made my rounds on the psbrowser & I didnt find any official word from Sony: (
who aproved this crap?

Dont let me catch ya A$$ in the street. You got God of War fury upon you .
I'm gonna put kratos facepaint & shave my head for you.

Yup! Make-up & underwears: )

LOL
I crack me up.

: )

[xhi4]

HOME for the kill! woo haha

Mii's? Woops Avatars, or virtual world?

hhhmmmm......

[Gam71]

avatars or second life whoops home

[CurlUpAndDie]

lame

[MAGNUM RAM SUPPORT]

see you xbots next week.
Dissagree with that.

I'm a ps3 gamer, I have patience. Cmon! You got do better than that!

Peace

[Kush_Reaper]

Home! here i come

[andyo13]

with the price of houses these days i will finaly have somewhere to go home!

[Pika-pie]

Home is absolutly nothing like the new Xbox dashboard. To compare the 2 is insane.

Home IS a virtual world.. Xbox just gets avatars.
Meaning Home is gonna PWN.

[darkequitus]

You say:

"Home is absolutly nothing like the new Xbox dashboard. To compare the 2 is insane."

In the next breath you campare saying one will PWN the other. Dumb and childish!

darkequitus: XBL/PSN/Steam/XFire/WoW

[HairyBrownSack]

Sorry, but FONY is the only one letting u pretend to walk around in some nerd matrix chat room. not M$. M$ offers a real service.

stupid, f*cking pathetic fanboy, NAZI'm

eat sh1t, scum!

BEST OF ALL:

Sony will RUSH Play House out the door to TRY and compete with M$, but the thing is, the new xbox experience will be FINAL and won't see another update for another half a year or more. I GUARANTEE you Play House will have a firmware update once a week for the next YEAR, easily, just trying to keep up with M$'s perfected SINGLE update.

pooooor droids know I'm right :(

[Egzekutor]

You are retarded.

You comparing home to fuking avatars hahahah ??
Ok.. you prefer LEGO games than real ones.. cool.
good luck

[juuken]

Oh go f*ck yourself.

Don't pay him no mind Egzecutor. Morons are usually morons at the end of the day.

[juuken]

WHOO-HOOOO!
About time Sony! :D

[MaximusPrime]

looking forward to meet new ppl in Home. Im in HOME beta and its still awesome.

[Neo604]

I'll be in the adult section. The big boyz club.

[felidae]

nice

[Pandemic]

I hope this is true :)

[Dark General]

I wouldn't get my hopes up. In fact after Home missed it's launch date of first quarter this year i'm not interested in Home at all. I've been patient but now it's just a "Ehhhh i'll download it when it comes out and see if it's crap or not". The day when i can sign on PSN and download HOME will be the day i believe it's out.

[last_snake]

wow it's on birthday, hopefully they're right this time

[wazborn]

well we shalll see..

[White_hell]

This is actually a RUMOUR!!

Its not offical or anything, its just a site speculating

Though it would make sense for sony to release HOME before NXE or on the day it comes out.

Sony cant afford to get beaten by it.

[Captain Tuttle]

The crazies will hype themselves up into a lather again and come crashing back down to earth. Happens every time.

[PureGamer]

ye of course it is, some fanboy trying to spark a war by saying it will release on the same day as NXE

[Majors]

So what happened to Oct 24th ? I suppose its just aswell as there will be just toooo many games at that time and no one will have time for anything..
Home has the potential to be MASSIVE !!!! apart from the social networking side of things imagine walking into Amazon or Argos and browsing the new releases and ordering from there, Everything will be paid through your online account so there is no remembering thousands of U/N,s & P/W,s or even going to Pizza Hut and ordering some pizzas... WOW the list is endless.. If Sony play their cards right and get plenty of companies into it just think of the possibilities. Food, books, dvds, clothes, music, electricals etc etc etc.. direct to your door...

[Zip]

belive it or not, but I actully brougth my ps3 in the first place for homes possiblities, and of course the upcomming nice game libaery of the ps brand :-)

[X12Celtics3]

That's two days before my birthday.

[MGRogue2017]

Theres no place like Home.

[dcbronco]

If Sony is releasing this on the same day as NXE just to show up Microsoft, they might get more than they bargained for. Put Home out there before it's ready and the problems will cause more trouble than it's worth.

[ReBurn]

Home was originally supposed to release a year ago, so I'd hope that it is ready by now.

[enjoi187]

homes full of bugs and co*kroaches...come i can walk around and waste my time in home and not play my game.....

at least the NXE has something amazingly good...netflix/starz...up yours sony.

lol it would let me type coc*roaches lol

[NickIni]

The NXE doesn't deserve a 10th of the hype it's received. It has nothing new or exciting at all, NXE is MS attempt to stand up to Home, Sony have been clever and set the release date the same, so people will see clearly that Home is the better product, as it will completely trounce NXE.

[trancefreak]

sweet cant wait to pimp my pad

[Crazywhitie]

I hope they do something with Home because the Beta is Boring!!!

[PimplePopperMD]

what a pointless feature

[onenut]

oh come on, when the helll did they ever release stuff on a damn sunday
i'm thinking, if they do release it next week, it will be to qore subscribers

[Ren]

Apparently Home will have lobbies that make finding someone to play online with easy.

Sweet. :)

[Knightofelemia]

Hmm I might just buy the 160 gig for home and keep the 40 gig for games.

[ReBurn]

Just curious, but why would you do that?

[Spike47]

hope it comes out this year, it has to.

I think that PS3 owners will not be dissapointed, the media will act like they are probably just to start flamewars so that fanboys can bash HOME when they don't even have it!!!!!!!!!

[ActionBastard]

I expect a loading screen bonanza with Home and 360s dying all over the world after their update.

[ReBurn]

My 360 died immediately after the November 2007 update. I would hate for that to happen again.

[ActionBastard]

Mine died after updating Halo 2 (warm up before Halo 3). Once I got it back from MS, I sold it. Before that, my console died after a Dead Rising update. No one can convince me their updates don't kill systems. Good luck ReBurn.

[S1nnerman]

Given the hype for Home and the extended delays, I think the media are going to give it a hard time regardless of whether it's good or not. I just hope SOny manage to make Home available before Microsoft mae their version available otherwise they have thrown away a 'home' advantage (see what I did there?)

Personally, I am looking forward to Home. Just hope it works!

[Crazywhitie]

This is true, but with all the Delays and the time they've been working on it the beta should have more.. The Home Beta is Horrible.. It's Very Boring... You can walk into a Movie Theater watch a Trailer of a game thats been all over the Internet... Go to this thing they call a Mall Thats know bigger then your Beach House(in game). or go to some Bowling Alley Place,, where they got crappy arcade games, Boring Bowling, and Boring Pool... oh yeah there's a Club thing where you can stand out front of it and tell your guy to dance ... Give me a Break, I Feel Home isn't for gaming at All Mainly a Social Chat Room... Sony needs to pick up the pace, because know one is waiting for them to get the act Straight...

[NickIni]

Could be BS, but it does make sense.

NXE is MS's answer to Home. From what we've seen, Home looks to be the better of the two. By setting the release date the same, they will be directly compared, and unless MS has an amazing feature hidden away inside NXE (I doubt it though, I think all of NXE's features have be shown), Home will appear the superior of the two, making the NXE look a bit of a laughing stock in comparison.

[grantps3]

well i would hardly consider avatars and a new layout a new "experience"

but @ play beyond

i agree lbp>>>>>>fab le 2
resistance 2 vrs. gears 2...its harhd to tell...maybe gears will sell better due to more people owning a 360, or i think theres more. but in terms of replay value and online...r2 takes the cake.
home>>> xbox experience

killzone 2 will be a system seller...amazing online..campaign looks epic...once co-op is patched in it will be unstopable

[CrazyOrange]

acually ps3 owner only interseted on killzone 2, just like 360 owners the only guys intersed on halo 3 ( mostly likly)

so its not gona sell system its like anyother fps ONLY spicall games could be system sellers ( LBP, GeOW, MGS, KH, FF, RE ,GTA "if it was exclusive" )

[resistance022]

have to say home looks a wee bit better

[ReBurn]

I'm pretty tired of all of the talk of virtual worlds. I just want good games.

[Keltiik]

Some of you said "The war is almost over" please explain that to me how is HOME better then NXE? You make fun of Kiddie looking interface of the NXE but you have LBP? Doesn't make much sense. Also in HOME you guys keep bragging how much better it is. Ya know if you think about it the Netflix update is actually pretty amazing you guys get a place to walk around and look at apartments? Please tell me what you do more in HOME? You walk around look at a fake apartment and you dress your avatar and you what? Look at tropies so that takes about 5mins to look at all the trophies then what? Oh wait, you also get to listen to your friends music off his HD when your in his "apartment" You underestimate the update MS is doing. You can't make fun of MS for selling things on marketplace either cause guess what Sony is going to turn into $ony, and then since it's on the PS3 its ok.

Here is something else to think about. Look at the list of features NXE has and how everything is based around PLAYING games with each other how easy it is, not getting your avatars and asking someone to look at your fake apartment do you know how retarded that sounds guys? If 360 was doing that man it would be a kiddie console and not a gaming one. Oh and since the HOME avatars don't look like Mii's it's ok. Before you say something think about NXE features and HOME features. Think about how lame it sounds your friends are going to come to a virtual home and hang out. Why don't they come to your real house and hang out? NXE was made to play GAMES together. Kiddie as it looks it has the upper hand on the gaming side. You have second life. Oh wait, it's on the PS3 so it's cool.

Oh wait one more thing, don't think I'm a troll I came over here to read about HOME (friend has a PS3 and he didn't know about home doesn't play much PS3) and I wanted to read the comments I was just defending NXE I dont see why that would be wrong cause you will defend HOME or NXE your choice.

Reply--Disagree all you want that is fine but give me a answer if you can't then I guess I'm right.

[AKIronMaiden]

You say..."Look at the list of features NXE has and how everything is based around PLAYING games with each other how easy it is, not getting your avatars and asking someone to look at your fake apartment do you know how retarded that sounds guys? "

And I say the main and coolest feature of Home is the Game Launching, Instead of going through the games lobby, you can just create your game directly from Home and the game starts automatically with all your party members. All the additional features such as apartments, music, videos and all that jazz is just the icing on the cake.

[retro]

while HOME is more or less a Second Life clone, NXE is a advanced GUI for the Xbox LIVE service.

[ActionBastard]

LOL! And wtf do you think the GUI for Home is to PSN? Preferences aside, at a minimum, KNOW what you are talking about. Jesus man...

[gersh]

Home ftw.

[LakerGamerEnthusiast]

this link is supported by something if you go back to the news section showing all the different news go a little down and you will see this add saying the upcoming games coming up click on that and you will see home right below saying that it was confirmed!!!!! .....estimated time left 37 days!!!!!!!

[DJ]

Sony created a full fledged online world, while Microsoft is simply adding Nintendo-style Avatars and redesigning the dashboard.

[llMurcielagoll]

LOOL Microsoft won't leave Sony alone lol. So now Microsoft want rival Playstation Home. I think the console wars will never end lol.

[C_Dub]

It's a great time to own both consoles. That's for sure.

[joeynox]

> home/avatars.

Nothing is better than both of these stupid ass ideas.

[DARKTRINITYxxx]

LOL its pathetic that MS can even think they will be competition for HOME with thier pathetic avatars idea stolen from the wii. Everytime i see a article about MS avatars going up against HOME i just cant stop laughing.

[enjoi187]

umm its not about avatars....its about new things add to LIVE....can you stream netflix/starz on your ps3....no

but you can search the internet...so can my computer...ALOT FASTER...
and for those you play 360/pc exclusive...gg thank for supporting microsoft.

gg sony got a gayer version of the sims....with real people for every person..man i can see the little kids now.....home will be out next year...there still working on all the bugs and then when released...
6.7
6.8
6.9
7.0
etc.......pointless updates...but not there fixing a crappy product...
wii music will do better than home....

Microsoft / NETFLIX for the win..

ENJOY
720p ps3 titles..so far....and alot more to come.....HD GAMING....pssh

soul caliber
tiger woods 09
silent hill
vampire rain
fracture
nba live 09
star wars the force
madden
mercenaries 2
devil may cry 4
timeshift
motorstorm
overlord
burnout
haze
resistance
grid
guitar hero 3
guitar hero aerosmith
army of 2
battlefield bad company
turok
uncharted
unreal 3
ratchet and clank
armored core
fear

....i mean come time to step up

[GamerGirl4life]

Did I read this correctly??? Is it really true? If so, THANK YOU SONY! I have been waiting for ages (or so it seems...)

[Egzekutor]

I didnt even know it started ???
Where is Microsoft's virtual world ?

[M3 Superhero]

The New Xbot Experience is no PS3 Home.