[Rumour] PlayStation Home Release Dates

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I disagee. There's a lot in the background that people don't appreciate with NXE that equals, or beats Home in terms of development task. With NXE, they moved away from having several static panes, to having a whole new actual operating system. They developed an operating system to enable 3rd parties to add features to the console in the form of application-type products, so along with that they also had to put together the development tools, etc. I fail to see how writing and testing a new operating system pales in comparison to a silly MMO application that looks never to actually be released.

Don't Microsoft make Operating Systems for a living ?

Anyway, you seem to selectively be forgetting what goes into creating "a silly MMO application". Building a 3D graphics engine, models, animations and textures takes time, skill and iteration. Even if you are just licensing out an engine, building a game still takes time. Lets not forget coding any of it to work, fixing bugs or deploying and testing it too.

To say either NXE or Home is any more laborious than the other is crazy talk.

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I disagee. There's a lot in the background that people don't appreciate with NXE that equals, or beats Home in terms of development task. With NXE, they moved away from having several static panes, to having a whole new actual operating system. They developed an operating system to enable 3rd parties to add features to the console in the form of application-type products, so along with that they also had to put together the development tools, etc. I fail to see how writing and testing a new operating system pales in comparison to a silly MMO application that looks never to actually be released.

I disagree.

Anyone can write software. Is NXE good software? The initial reactiosn have been good, but time will tell if it's actually _good_.

It's a lot more dificult to build a community. Especially one that links virtually every service you offer and one that scales properly.

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I downloaded the update today and it hasn't really changed. You can use the XMB now but you still can't play music. The new control panel thing is a lot better than the old PSP and the background downloading is nice. Also they still haven't added a beard yet. :| So as of this moment I have the curly mustache. Someone needs to make a Neowin Club. All of that being sad I more than likely won't use it. They need to work on more XMB stuff. Hopefully they will when Home comes out.

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Speaking on the official SCEE forums, Home community manager ?TedTheDog? has revealed that over a hundred thousand Home beta invites are being sent out to lucky PlayStation 3 users across Europe today.
?Today, Friday 21st, over a hundred thousand invitations will be sent across the SCEE region and next Thursday the 27th another larger batch of invitations will be sent. For everyone else Open Beta will not be far behind.?

So there you go. Go and check your inbox if you think you might be in with a chance, but the full thing can?t be that far away now, can it?

Source: http://www.dpadmagazine.com/2008/11/21/100...oing-out-today/

Fingers crossed, 100,000 is a fair amount, I gotta get lucky with one of :(e betas :(

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they really need to quit screwing with invite crap and just let people in.

anyway kinda offtopic i stumbled accross this if it's any useful reading.

http://asia.playstation.com/hk/promo/home/eng/

http://220.232.130.120/psn_recruit/

no idea if any still work or not or what but yeah.

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Word is version 1.0 is shareable like PSN games are

PlayStation Home can be shared needs no activation

PS3-Sense writes "Since the launch of PlayStation Home 1.0 the service knows the possibility to be shared. The DRM-value of PlayStation Home is set on public so it needs no activation. Its also possible that if your in the Japanese Home beta to play on your European PSN-account. Since regional travel is still possible."

Source: http://n4g.com/ps3/NewsCom-235253.aspx?CT=2

So if you know any friends with Home, ask away.

What I would say though is the PSN sharing thread on Neowin was closed, so don't start asking for people to share Home in here. PM people you know, or go ask on another board.

An no, I'm not in the Home beta.

And FTR,

The DRM-value of PlayStation Home is set on public so it needs no activation

I believe that means someone can use your PSN account to download, and they won't use up one of the five activation slots on your account. Can't confirm that though, so don't blame me if I'm wrong!

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Well yeah its just like a add on for PS3, so works for all users on the PS3, just like Life with Playstation. Thats why no activation or anything.

Did we have to do anything to be available for chosen, or just having a PSN account is enough?

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