Bad news for PS3 owners…
Looking forward to setting up your new digital digs in the upcoming “Virtual Home” world coming to the Playstation Network? Well real-estate still isn’t for sale, and it won’t be for a while.
In another embarrassing blow for Sony, the much touted “Virtual Home” has been delayed until Spring 2008 according to Kazuo Hirai’s keynote address at the Tokyo Game Show today. What a way to kick off your first major public appearance as the new chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment… by announcing a delay.
“Home” is supposed to be an online virtual world similar to Second Life, but exclusive to Playstation 3 owners. Sony has been very vocal about the kinds of things people can do in this virtual world, including things like create a custom virtual “you”, setup your own apartment (complete with furniture, knick-knacks, and other digital gear), and a variety of social activities like play mini-games with a virtual PSP and watch video content with friends in your digital home theater.
Even SOny cant figure out how to program for their own machine and get there product out in time. Thats sad i hope someone figures out the ps3 soon.