Home

Sony announced Playstation Home during the 2007 Game Developers Conference. Home entails a free-to-download community based service for the Playstation Network. The service allows network users to create an avatar character within an interactive world. You, as the user, are assigned your own apartment in which you can customize to your own desire with items and furniture obtained through several achievements overcome by the player. It gives Playstation users a free way in interacting with players all over the world. Sony said that a Home icon and options will be added to the Xross Media Bar (XMB), so it is expected to be available through a firmware update or separate download from within the PlayStation Store. It was originally expected to feature in May 07 but has been pushed back by Sony to Spring 08. This Home-launch delay is said to be due to further testing and feedback evaluation to provide the best possible experience upon launch. This ambitious project would put Sony up there in the interactive world with ever-growing, virtual communitys such as the open-sourced, worldwide used "Second Life."