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Well well. The console wars just got a lot more interesting. Sony have announced “Home”, a Second Life-esque virtual world to meet other gamers, download extra content (presumably via micropayments), and generally immerse oneself into the world of PS3. It looks extremely nifty and is probably the first genuinely exciting thing Sony have done in years.
I’ll be particularly interested to see how they tackle the constraint-freedom axis. While customisation and flexibility are obviously Good Things, complete freedom a la Second Life can feel rather unstructured and even aimless, even to an enthusiast like me (another post to follow on this). So I expect Sony will tighten things up a bit, with pre-packaged content, gestures and so on, rather than rely on ground-up community creation. Of course, if they go too far it just becomes another nasty walled garden that people will try to work around rather than in. Tricky.
One more thing though: isn’t it great that there’s finally something to excite us about the PS3? The Wii is still fresh and infinitely more interesting, but I do have concerns over whether it’s able to handle really meaty games. But that too is a post for another time, specifically after I’ve bought one and the fading-novelty test applies.
Note to self: Never turn on your laptop ‘to kill some time’ when you can’t sleep.
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