The 3-D online social networking service is now a year late as Sony tries to provide gamers with a Second Life-type experience.
After keeping video-game diehards waiting for months, Sony has decided to postpone the rollout of Home—the PlayStation 3 video game console’s 3-D online social networking service—for several more months.The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant said on Apr. 22 that it now expects a test version to be ready this summer for a limited number of users in Japan, the U.S., and Europe. After getting feedback and giving Home a few final tweaks, Sony will release a beta version for all PS3 owners to try out this fall. The project is now a year behind schedule.
The delays are a setback to Sony as it tries to provide PS3 users with something that rivals Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii don’t offer that is, a feature similar to Linden Labs’ Second Life. Like Second Life, Sony’s Home will let users meet, chat, or play online games with others through computer-generated avatars they will control in a real-time, 3-D world. It was supposed to be rolled out last fall. But at the Tokyo Game Show in October, Sony’s games chief, Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai, announced that Home wouldn’t go live until spring, 2008.
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