PlayStation Home Full v1.50 Change Log Leaked
by Cubehouse, HSM web designer
PlayStation Home 1.50 will be launching in the very near future. We’ve managed to get our hands on the full change log of 1.50 which includes some remarkable unexpected radical platform changes.
It seems Sony has been listening and watching the competition from other platforms (specifically the incredible Avatar Kinect) and have made some significant advances to altering the service.
AlphaZone4 contacted Sony for more information from these leaks and got the following reply:
After the announcement of “Avatar Kinect” and the wave of public reaction calling it a “Home killer”, PlayStation Home will be undergoing some significant changes in the near future. The recent unveiling of “Avatar Kinect” for the Xbox 360 has put a great deal of pressure of the Home core dev team to make sure PlayStation Home is the same as the service Xbox.
Thanks, Sloof Lirpa
See below for the full change log:
- All Home public spaces will all be closed and removed by July 8th
- Home avatars will now be restricted to a single spot in front of a small selection of chairs that can be placed in 1 of the 3 specified “seating points” in your apartment
- All animations will remain, however Home will now implement some basic image processing from the late 90’s with the PSEye to make your arms move similar-ish to your actual arm positions (made redundant due to the fact your arms are almost always by your side and gesturing in a virtual environment from your sofa doesn’t make sense in the slightest as you are in a completely different perspective to that of your avatar)
- Home will no longer have any kind of game support:
- Game launching has been removed
- Arcade cabinets have been removed (But stay tuned for a really exciting update that overcharges you to buy really old game cabinets for an apartment you can’t do anything in and which everybody will forget about 2 months later and after 9 months we will quietly stop updating and hope nobody notices –
XboxPlayStation Game Room) - All Home mini-games have been removed
This appears to be in direct retaliation to when Microsoft called PlayStation Home a “glorified chat room”, apparently getting Home confused with their own Avatar Kinect program. Microsoft now refer to Avatar Kinect as “already redundant, significantly less than a glorified chat room with nothing to do in it”.
For previous correspondence with Sloof Lirpa on AlphaZone4 see here:
- 2010: Exclusive: PlayStation Home expands to the Wii, now called HomeMii
- 2009: Exclusive: Leaked Xi report
Source: AlphaZone4.com
April 1st, 2011 by Cubehouse | 5 comments
Cubehouse is a very British computer scientist who loves everything PlayStation Home and serves as HSM's webmaster. He lives and works in Bristol, UK and holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science. Cubehouse is working in the internet security and gaming industries.
Great Jumping Jehosephat! Hope this one isn’t true Cubes! ROFL!!!
Well… how is this good? We are just losing everything… Im not sure I understand.
Might want to check the date
WOWZERS
*cheers wildly*
Been waiting for this FOREVER!!
It is my understanding that male avatars will no longer be able to wear pants and all female avatars will have to wear some variation of a French maid’s outfit. Is this true?