Sony Delays PS3′s Virtual World

September 27th, 2007

It’s another black eye for Sony. After closing its online music store in August, news comes that the entertainment giant is delaying the opening of its online community for the PlayStation 3.The online user community, known as “Home,” will let PS3 owners create their own avatars and explore a real-time virtual community, as if they are playing a detailed 3D game for PS3. The free community was supposed to launch this fall to allow PS3 users to interact, communicate, join online games, shop, share private content, and even build and show off their own personal spaces to others in real time. But Sony fell short of its goals once again.

Kazuo Hirai, the chief executive for Sony’s video game business, made the announcement Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show, a yearly event that displays new video game hardware and software. “We wanted to wait until we could offer what would be totally satisfying for consumers,” Hirai said in a keynote speech.

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