Rumor: Home Beta Launching November 29?

[BrewCityUpstart]

The excitement and hype surrounding PlayStation Home has abated a bit, primarily because the launch has been delayed until spring 2008. However, rumors of a beta trial still endure, and it only helps that Sony's own Phil Harrison said we could expect to see that beta in "late November; early December." While it remains just a rumor, it has gained new steam thanks to some astute gamers over at the official PlayStation message boards.

As you can see, the speculation and debate comes from the picture taken from a PS3 ad, where the Home icon is clearly portrayed under the Featured Selection area next to the Pain icon. Considering the latter title is expected to release on the PlayStation Store on November 29, this causes people to believe both icons will pop up in the same update at the end of the month. It fits Harrison's time frame, and it would make sense to see the beta arrive at a particularly big time of the year for the gaming industry. However, Sony has said nothing official regarding a PlayStation Home beta test for November 29, and we also don't know if it would be open to all regions and users.

Hopefully, though, with this rumor circulating throughout the Internet, it will prompt Sony to respond in some way. They did say in their response to October's NPD numbers to "just wait until next month," but that could be more promotion for sales. Either way, we'll try to nail down a clarification on the issue soon.

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[WormholeXtreme]

Any idea when they will enable DTS-MA decoding? My list of DTS-MA discs keeps growing.

[Serren]

How come the PS3 has so many obtrusive updates? The 360 gets an update in a just a few seconds, installs and reboots in about a minute. Everytime I get a PS3 update, it takes about 20 minutes, many button presses are required and is some it's a royal pain in the ass. I dont understand why they make this process so complicated! Weak!

[Peench]

Originally Posted by Serren

How come the PS3 has so many obtrusive updates? The 360 gets an update in a just a few seconds, installs and reboots in about a minute. Everytime I get a PS3 update, it takes about 20 minutes, many button presses are required and is some it's a royal pain in the ass. I dont understand why they make this process so complicated! Weak!

At least you don't have to plug in the controller anymore. That was way worse weak sauce.

[WormholeXtreme]

Originally Posted by Peench

At least you don't have to plug in the controller anymore. That was way worse weak sauce.

But I still had to pull my controller out of my cabinet. I couldn't use the PS3 bluetooth remote.
If I could use the controller I would think I could use the remote but apparently not.

[Peench]

Worm - good point. I had to do the same thing and thought it was odd.

[Thornes70]

This is never coming out. I am convinced it was all a marketing ploy; now that we have an expensive paperweight and AWESOME GAMES like Lair - you're too tied up in it to give up!

PS3 = WTF was I thinking?

[BrewCityUpstart]

Originally Posted by Thornes70

This is never coming out. I am convinced it was all a marketing ploy; now that we have an expensive paperweight and AWESOME GAMES like Lair - you're too tied up in it to give up!

PS3 = WTF was I thinking?

People need to get off the Retard Train-theres plenty of good games out, more recently with Drakes, COD4, Asassins Creed, Ratchet and Clank, and a few others.

[Thornes70]

CoD4 & Assassin's Creed I have for the 360... Ratchet & Clank? Yeah, I'll give you that one. Other than that - the two games that I have bought for the PS3 and have gotten very little use hasn't justified me getting the PS3.

As for the retard train - stop kicking the back of my chair, special boy!

[Peench]

I wonder if they are making any more huge changes. In the 3 months between when I saw it here locally and when I saw it at E3, it had changed dramatically. If they are making large scale changes like that still, it could be a long time before it comes out. I dunno tho, I'm still not that amped on the whole home thing. It might be interesting, but then again, might be just weird.

[BrewCityUpstart]

Originally Posted by Thornes70

CoD4 & Assassin's Creed I have for the 360... Ratchet & Clank? Yeah, I'll give you that one. Other than that - the two games that I have bought for the PS3 and have gotten very little use hasn't justified me getting the PS3.

As for the retard train - stop kicking the back of my chair, special boy!

Are those still not great games for PS3?? If you would've made a differant platform choice, you wouldn't say that.

I'm kicking your chair because you keep licking the windows on the short bus