Playstation 3 "Home"

According to the one PS3 Owner in the office, HOME is available today. To be honest, it looks amazing and probably what alot of xbox owners were hoping for with the new avatar system, HOME does look more 'grown up'. Whether or not walking through a giant mall to get to the arcade to have a game of something will become a long winded pain in the arse remains to be seen, but assuming there is a "quick Launch" feature like Xbox, everything should be fine.

Xbox has their premium themes but HOME has entire environments to walk around in! Imagine meeting your friends for a chat actually in Liberty City or in a Level from Gears? Amazing!

If the PS3 was a sensible price and didn't have controllers with the analogue sticks in an un-natural place that cripple your hands, this could swing it for me.

On the downside it might all be too good! The xbox system is simpler and kinda makes you play games because there is not really much to do, PS3 HOME might be too absorbing, finding yourself walking around for ages chatting to people is impressive but stinks of a 'Second Life' scenario where you'll find yourself hanging out with strangers on a virtual world instead of going out down the pub or you'll end up not actually playing games and marvelling at someone's 'digital' sofa in their 'virtual apartment' which, to be frank is fucking sad.... I don't know, but it's food for thought eh?