Details of PlayStation Home open beta for Japan

Posted Oct 9, 2008 at 9:36AM by QJ Staff Listed in: PS3 Tags: beta test, biohazard, Japan, Playstation Home, SCEJ, Sony

At the Tokyo Game Show, SCEJ announced that they'll be opening up the open beta before the year ends. Via press wire, they released more details for the event.

According to the PR, the final stages of the large-scale closed beta test will occur between late October and Early November in preparation for the Open Beta service.

When it does open up, several game titles will have new stuff to offer in Home, including Biohazard 5 (that's Resident Evil for those who aren't from Japan), Street Fighter 4, Siren: Blood Curse, and more. More than 20 developers have also joined in on the Japanese version of Home, including Activision, EA, Konami, Ubisoft, Sega, and more.

To commemorate this year's Tokyo Game Show, SCEJ replicated their real-life booth at the event inside the closed beta of Home, where testers can watch promotional videos and get exclusive items for use within the service.

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Comments

# So what they're saying is... — Techni 2008-10-09 08:15

Home which was announced 2 years before MS announced they were copying Home's avatar system, will be out after MS's copy of it.

Way to go Sony.

# Enough with the whining — SnazzyD 2008-10-09 09:06

Why do people bash something they don't have to pay for, don't have to use, and aren't being inconvenienced in any way by.

STFU already !!

# - — mr.x256 2008-10-09 16:17

An Echochrome themed area could be nice!

# @SnazzyD — ticky99 2008-10-10 01:19

Perhaps everyone is put off by the intense BS train that Sony is running. I like my PS3 but I'm really tired of the carrot dangling in front of my face. Sony has been trying to use home to get new buyers for a long time now, and you're going to act like we don't have an entitlment to it?

If you are going to use a platform such as Home to indicate what a great system you have and encourage purchases, you damn well better deliver.

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