PlayStation Home Gets 1.3 Addition
PlayStation Home has been gaining a massive amount of hype recently. The PS3 application had it’s extensive new 1.3 update detailed during Gamescom, and people have not stopped clamoring about it since. Now, the people’s cries for the update can cease, as Home is getting the update, very, very, soon.
With PlayStation Home update 1.3, expect a lot of new features coming to the service, such as:
Universal Game Launching
Come this Thursday, you’ll be able to launch from Home into any game whose disc you have loaded into your PS3. This is how it works: Titles that fully support game launching (like Street Fighter IV, Resistance 2, MotorStorm, and Far Cry 2) will be identified by separate icons that appear over an avatar’s head and will have varying degrees of additional multiplayer functionality built in. Simplified game launching will take you from Home to the start menu of your favorite games with ease. Never again will you have to sign out of Home to play with (or against) your friends. Simply insert the disc of your choice while in Home and follow the on screen directions.
In-Store Item Previewing
This feature will allow you to preview items of clothing on your character in 3D (including the ability to check out multiple items simultaneously to see what combinations best suit your taste). You’ll be able to preview all furniture in 3D as well, complete with zoom and rotate options so you can check your potential purchases from all angles.
New Emotes and Actions
You can flip a coin with your friends to decide whose apartment to retreat to, or play the old “pick a number between 1 and 100” game to decide who is hosting the next party in Central Plaza. You will also be able to pose your avatar in a variety of ways, adding significantly to your ability to express yourself in-world. Heck, there are even new dances to hit the SingStar Rooms with.
More Item Types
Including limited use items (like the brand new Shrink Cake that lets you shrink your avatar to a tiny size) and portable objects (think: Bubble Machine). These will be available shortly after the launch of the client. This list of objects includes a free camera that you can use to snap pictures from either a 1st or 3rd person view. The photos will automatically be saved to the Photo section of the XMB, from which you can then upload to the picture frames you have hanging in your personal spaces. Dates for the camera and other items will be announced very soon, so stay tuned to this blog (and be sure to check the Latest Updates tab in your Menu Pad, under Community).
Tons of Improvements
We’ve added some new categories of clothing (composite and outfits) that will allow you to customize your avatar with greater ease. We’ve optimized the targeting system. We’ve fixed a bunch of the bugs you’ve been reporting on the official Home Support forum. We’re even giving you the option to determine your cache size (you can choose from 3, 5, 8, and 12 GB).
The update will also give a redesign to the Central Plaza. This includes a new World Map directly in the Central Plaza area, and directly beside this is the easy-to-use new and improved Listen@Home kiosk. Leaderboards and rewards have been added to the popular Saucer Pop game, plus a new kiosk to view rewards associated with events.
And that’s not even it. A new artistic personal space is coming to PlayStation Home, in the form of the Neptune Suite, in which a variety of built-in mini-games awaits. The space also comes with the first pet, which will definitely be appropriate for the new home. Finally, the long-awaited Hot Shots Golf Japanese space is coming to the North American PlayStation Home.
We know you’re excited, and you know we’re excited. Can’t you tell? Post your thoughts on this new update below!
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19 Responses to “PlayStation Home Gets 1.3 Addition”
*Screams like a little girl*
Who want’s to gamelaunch LBP tonight?
alright bigger cache size.
Bigger cache size was needed soooo badly.
It’s gonna be sweet… they are really ramping it up..they weren’t kidding when they said HOME of today(back in Nov/Dec), will look NOTHING like HOME 6 months from now..and they were not lying.. opening up the World Map is overwhelming…there are spaces all over the place..NOW the only thing they need to do, is have those companies create MORE in-space mini games, or other type of games..
I posted it long ago here, and in the HOME Forums as well.. Us HOME users.. we NEED reasons to go back to that space.. once we beat the mini games, or unliock a costume..thats it..done..
Look what happened to the Uncharted Space when we 1st got it. We went nutso trying to break the door codes etc….we finally got them, and we earned awesome rewards like the Uncharted Globe.. the Uncharted Plant.. the Uncharted Display case.. that was and is still my favorite reward……well that was it…..What reason to go back? NONE, PERIOD!
Last Febuary,. i found a article on Sony’s web site and it was a news release where it talked about upcoming spaces like the Far Cry room, the EXPANSION of the Red Bull Island, and the key one, that no one heard about until I found this article, the Guitar Hero Room, and the UNcharted Room!
Now THAT was odd. I instantly thought, and safely assumed, we were getting a BRAND NEW Uncharted Space.
Why?
Because we got the UNcharted Space in what, September, early October? Well as we all know, companies are STICKLERS when it comes to press releases. So if we get the Uncharted room last Sept/ October, then why on a Press Release dated Dec 11th, mention were getting the Uncharted Space ?? Hmmm sounds like were getting a upgrade or something.
We NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED reasons to go back to spaces..if there is no reason, close the space up and end it.
still doesn’t make me care about Home, just like I really don’t care about Twitter…I have real people friends I can talk to
Isn’t this product still in beta?
Gotta love a beta where they sell you virtual products.
giese, is everyone on this site your real friends too?
Wow! Very nice improvements! I’m excited!
Sweeeeeeet! Many much needed improvements.
5/5
game launch is the most important update here.
KwietStorm – am I talking to them like they are? I’m not trying to socialize or find out personal info from anyone….besides I really don’t have anything against people using these sites, I just like making comments to get people fired up because the ones that get offended are usually the ones who don’t have real friends….oh there I went and did it again…I’m just giving you a hard time
You go out and insult people that have no friends?
Wow, you must be a great person.
Woot I gotta try this baby out.
l like the In-Store Item Previewing and the cache
I jacked my cache up to 12GB.
It won’t connect for me, might have 2 redownload. seems like 2 much of a hassle.
its not a big deal, but ever since this new update… my 60gb ps3 will not pull up home..it goes to initializing and then completly freezes… id like to check things out, but still not a big deal because i hardly ever went to home anyway…cept for FREE stuff!!
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