Dec

14

New Playstation Home Beta Live

Filed Under Free Games, Mac Games, PC Games, Retro Games, Shooter Games, Video Games 

Sony’s new social networking community has now gone live, it’s called Playstation Home.

PlayStation Home is a new social networking site, it’s free to use for Playstation 3 owners and it allows them to create an avatar, create your own apartments, join other players in online games, chat and soon the ability to stream music and video.

This release of their new virtual community comes after Sony announced that they are planning on cutting several thousand jobs. However, their new social networking site, playstation home could help to bring in some extra needed cash. Ideas have been floating around that Sony can start to sell new clothing and apartments for the players and also sell advertising for the various billboards and screens that are displayed around the Playstation Home.

The biggest reason why Sony has released Playstation Home now is to try and sway the minds of some potential customers during this holiday period. Sony is trying to compete with Microsoft’s newest Xbox 360 Dashboard redesign where Xbox customers could create their own avatars and play social games like 1 VS 100.

However, will their new social networking clubhouse be enough to sway the buyers? I don’t think it will work. Simply because of this new Playstation Home, I don’t think it will sway the minds of buyers, considering the price of the Playstation is still high, and not planning to be lowered.

By searching around, you can get an Xbox 360, with 4 games and 2 controllers for around £130, but with the PlayStation, you can get the PS3 and only 3 games for a whopping £270.

Although the whole idea of the PlayStation Home is good, and it’s great for current PS3 owners who want to interact with their games more, I doubt it will encourage more buyers, unless they reduce the price of the console. So, good try Sony, but I don’t think you’ll have much luck.

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