PlayStation Home And Second Life: Worlds Apart

Kotaku: "Ever since PlayStation Home was first announced in January 2007, people have been calling it Second Life for the PlayStation 3. We take a look at what separates these two very different virtual worlds.

Having been immersed in Second Life for the better part of two years now, We first ventured into the virtual world due to the initial impressions that PlayStation Home was a clone of the popular online community for the PlayStation 3. Now having spent a significant amount of time exploring what PlayStation Home has to offer, We decided to take a look at how wrong or right those initial impressions were.

Even if users thinks that both environments are the same thing, there are many people who have seen that both worlds got two totally different goals."

[Sez]

thats true,second life is actually fun to play. home is boring with nothing to do.

[Israfel]

We should try our best to stick together!!!!

[Graphics Whore]

Figures you would say that vega, when is your in-game wedding again? I haven't got the wedding decorator to spice up your dumpster yet.

[barom]

They both are somewhat boring but at least in Home I got my friends

[Sez]

was that surpose to be funny. or was that your lame @ss attempt to change the subject on the fact that home sucks.and that sony is trying to hide behind the word "BETA" because they knew they were going to catch flak for delaying it so long only to give ps3 owners this garbage. well i tell you this. I'VE NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF A BETA WHERE YOU BUY STUFF WITH REAL MONEY. when at anytime everything is subject to change. where nothing is writen in stone. except you just lost money in a beta.

P.S. oh i forgot your invite. i'm marrying your mother decorate that.

[MNicholas]

Still, now that the basic platform has been released and appears stable, expect content to explode in 2009 and 2010 as the stuff that's in development is added.

Will home be successful? If Sony makes it fun and free, people will use it. It really is up to the people running the project to figure out how to inject compelling content and how to keep things clean and family friendly at the same time (without resorting to naked furries).

[psnDevistator356]

Really one of the pluses of home is that unlike Second life. The crazy furries, pedofiles, or whatever can't make crazy things(to express themselves). They just talk and in home you just report them or ignore.

For a more stable person as myself. I would choose home over second life any day.

If I was like those people on 4chan, had no life at all, mentally unstable, a loser, or etc... then I'd probably love second life.

[Blademask]

1.Kotaku hates home/sony
2.Kotaku Calls HOME a Second Life Rip-Off.
3.Kotaku Calls HOME Nothing Like Second Life.

WHAT THE HELL? Its liketheir job is to not play their 360's and just sit around complaining about sony all day.

Is there ANY website that complains about Microsoft's 360 daily? Please, show me journalism isn't biased in gaming.

[Graphics Whore]

Marrying my mother? So you never did get your vision fixed.

[Sez]

yeah. like i thought. thats all you got. GTFO

[Hal Emmerich]

Its true, they only have one thing in common, they both suck!!

I kid, I kid...

[solidsnakus]

if only you were kidding...

[Eiffel]

I'll make it simple.

Fu*k Mii's, Avatars, Home.

Cut the virtual social BS and play your games.

If only Sony,Microsoft and Nintendo were people I would love to say it to their face loud and proud.

[Killzonegamer83]

Its still a mystery to me how home "didnt live up to the expectations" for some people, its a social networking 3d app meant to meet and socilize with people or just hang out with your friends. people overlook how big a step forward home is for gaming consoles. Just think, before Home the ONLY way you could meet other gamers is by playing another multiplayer game, well we all know during multiplayer games its noisy, everyone talks at once and everyone is concentrating on trying to achieve the goal. With Home its a place to relax if you just want to meet other fellow gamers and make it more personal.

I think home is great now and will keep getting better and better. Better than the NXE avatars where you cant do anything with them whatsoever and they look like little eerie 12 year olds whereas home looks more real. I dont get why all the hate for Home, i mean seriously.. what did you guys expect?! a 3d GTA style APP where you go around buying real life virtual hookers and beat them up for virtual money to buy things for your Home

[OOG]

I think home hasnt lived up to my expectations because...... Whenever people have asked for things that live had to offer such as private chat....voice messages....game invites etc etc.....everyone well at least on here...would be like o wait till home it will have all this and more...and yeah it doesnt........:/ ah well I have the systems to play games...not to live in a virtual world....so no biggie to me

[xlg]

This is my expirience on NXE. When i turn on my X360 i search for new messages, surf the NXE for new content and if i find something new to share, i select all my friends in my list or all the ones that i know that care about what im going to share with them and send a message with the news. Then like usual somebody send me an invite to play with them in multiplayer or chat in a Private chat, video chat or a party chat. Soon I look for between the games that i have the one feels like to me to play and get into the purpose for why i spend money for my console "GAMING" OFFLINE AND MULTIPLAYER while im doing that im socializing and ¿What better way to socialize with somebody in the world of video games than a head shot or a nice well executed combo?. In my opinion HOME its a waste of time. ¿Who wants to spend time wandering around in Home doing nothing and just chating? I can do that in NXE "WHILE IM GAMING" We have video chat but you dont see all my friends in my list spending their time in a video chat. I have 100 friends and 40-50 are always online between 12:00 PM and 1:00 AM but you dont see them video chating. You bring the idea of Home to the NXE its going to have the same destiny. People are here for GAMING and socialize while gaming i dont care about how many trophies or achievements you have, thats for a few ignorants that they wanna feel important in this gaming world. ¿Do i care about your Achievements? I DONT GIVE A Fnck! AND I KNOW THATS THE SAME FEELING OF A LOT OF GAMERS OUT THERE. Home its boring, the idea have good intentions but its boring. Give them some Gotcha or Water Guns, Baseball bats or a Sword to spice it up! Give them games where they can play their avatars against their heroes or favorite villains. Give them the oportunity to use their avatars on against Ryu and Ken to hit them with a Sho Ryu Ken! BUT WAIT! Wii already have that! so XboxLive and Home copy them! But XboxLive have the best looking ones for that! just put a Wii avatar and a Home avatar fighting Ryu and they dont looks nice even Ryu its going to say: hell no this guys looks stupid they dont even bring a good fight to appearances! But about NEX avatars: Bring it! im going to hit your cutiie face so many times im gonna let you dumb like the Pillsbury character.

[METtAL-GAMER]

Home is good if you are into meeting people online and like seeing a big number on your friends list.Me, I could care less.All I do on home is look at the video's playing in the theater and mall.

[Killzonegamer83]

Sony did not promise those things whatsoever to be included in Home, you created your own impossible expecations and listened to FANBOYS, next time wait until official word from Sony ok kid?

[Killzonegamer83]

your right!! While where at it forget online multiplayer gameplay at all, infact forget any disc format, gaming should have ended with the N64 because technology should never advance in video games according to your theory.. im so sick and tired of hearing people like you say "forget this and that i just want to play games" ok i tell you what, just stick with your PS2 if you want simplicity in gaming, its a fact of life that technology advances and video games are no exception

[OOG]

First off who you calling a kid??? Like you know me....hell im possibly older then you....

And if you read my post I said that home didn't live up to what people were saying it would offer...not what I thought it would...personally I didn't have any expectations for home because sony tends to bite off more then they can chew on a 24/7 basis...............

Anyway home is lackluster at best but its free so I don't care...cuz all I like to do is play games online right now and don't need some virtual fake life with fake clothes and fake houses to satisfy my needs.... If I want those possessions I do it in the real world.

[rawd]

Kotaku comparing a finished product vs. an open beta

gg

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

how Sony is handeling Home...

Sony NEEDS TO start expanding the space of Home in 09. Sony will be crusified if all we come to remember of Home is what we are currently playing...

If I were in charge of Home, I would've given us PS3 users more stuff to do. I'd throw in a carnival with mini games/rides. Ballon pop with darts, bumper cars, bumper boats, tilt-a-whirl (tilting be caused by sixaxis use), The hammer game where you have to get the weight to hit the bell (swing your sixaxis downward to test your might), etc.. also recieve virtual prizes to use to decorate your Home.

How about adding a Home public park? with baseball diamonds, basket ball courts, tennis corts, horse shoes, golf, etc.. all in it and have them fully interactive for their given sports?

How about the dance floor area of home where you can go to the Listen@Home screen... imagine if users could upload their own MP3's from their Hard Drive to the board... to expand the music variety, music tastes, and play lists for ALL the other users.

Imagine if you're on my friends list and I invite you to my house in Home, sit on the couch in front of my avatars tv. If I put in a Blu-ray movie... it would then stream to you via internet and we can watch together? or what if you users could go in the Theatre and open their own venue for multiple users to watch the hosts film?

Imagine creating tools where people can create and submit their own clothing designs and living space items for themselves and other users on Home?

If I were in charge of Home, seeing it as it is now... it's been in Beta far too long and needs a huge new fresh overhaul... these are small little things that I would definately try to do, to make Home something that would TRUELY be the Live killer it should've been!

[Sarcasm]

Phil Harrison is a nice guy, but he sure isn't turning Atari around from sucking yet.

[Keele]

Even finished Home doesn't even compare to Second Life.

IT'S A DISGRACE OF A HYBRID.

[anubis12]

but both s*ck

[Leio]

Fun or not Its facking FREE. Me dont see any problem with that :)

[BelleTwine]

10 Diffrences Between why Second Life is WAY better and PSHOME

1 - It's FREE
2 - Can Teleport ANYWHERE in the World you want to go
3 - Your not followed around every where you go
4 - You can dance to atucall Music and at atucall clubs or formal clubs for a nice night out
5 - You type by keyboard not an On Screen one
6 - You don't need a Credit card or anything to buy clothes
7 - You can WIN money to buy anything such as clothes and shoes
8 - Make friends easily by just talking to people and not harrased
9 - Watch Female or Male dancers on poles or work to make money wich is really fun
10 - Emoting where you can flirt with the other sex (female or male)

PSHOME

1 - It is free but its boring
2 - You Cant teleport anywhere like to Titanic or Paris
3 - Your followed around everywhere you go
4 - There's no music in this game at all to dance to
5 - No clubs at all to dance at or even formal ones at all
6 - You need Credit card to buy ANYTHING
7 - You can't win money
8 - Can't emote or flirt with someone of the other sex (female or male)
9 - There's no Male Strip dancers or Female Strip dancers to watch or even work as one to make money instead of using a Credit Card
10 - I played this for 10 seconds and got bored ... I have been on Second life since May of 2008 and not got bored one day yet