Sony: Home ‘best-looking’ and most ‘user-friendly’ multiplayer environment

Sony‘s creative director of the PlayStation Home project Ron Festejo had a lot to say regarding the virtual world platform they plan on launching. Festejo also compared the differences of Home with other virtual environments and what made Home far superior to them in comparison. Read more about what Festejo had to say in the full article.

Creative director of Sony‘s PlayStation Home project, Ron Festejo, sat down with GamesIndustry.biz to talk about the upcoming virtual world platform for the PlayStation 3 and how it compares with other titles of the same genre.

He mentioned that Home is so far becoming the “best-looking” and the most “user-friendly” multiplayer experience he’s seen so far. Compared with other games like Second Life, Home appeals to people who found other titles too garish or too hardcore for the casual gamer.

When asked what advantage the PS3 platform had over other similar virtual environments, this was what Festejo had to say:

I think the PS3 platform has given us an advantage in terms of keeping a polished look, and it not to look like Second Life. I don’t want to dis Second Life, obviously they’ve been successful and they have to cater for people with old Pentium IIs and whatever, so I can understand why it looks the way it does.

Festejo mentions that his comment wasn’t aimed to criticise Second Life in any way, but rather he explains that the online space that the PS3 offers sets a high quality standard not found in other online virtual life simulators.

PlayStation Home will be introduced to PS3 users as a free download over time, though no specific date has been announced for the end of the current beta phase.