How this whole PS-HOME Beta thing will work out
by Nick Doerr 
{ Mar 16th 2007 at 12:00PM }
Yeah, ever since the announcement, a lot of the press-related folk and small-time bloggers have all raised their hands and asked in a query-chorus (where we all sing a question in very high-pitched, reverent voices): How will you present to us this Beta, oh Sony, father of PS3? Phil Harrison had his notecards ready and tossed a few super-sized quotes our way.PHarr... hmm, we're going to go with that (pronounced "Fahr"... closer to "Ffahr" though). Anyway, Pharr said: "We haven't announced the specific invite mechanic but it will be a closed deployment with a capped number of users and then we'll extend that through the summer. When we go live with the service we'll actually have gone through a number of betas before we get to final deployment in the fall." What's also interesting to note is that within Sony itself, testing bugs and glitches is pretty easy to manage because when online, one tester can bring another Sony member to the glitch and show them exactly what is wrong. We'll probably be doing that, too, if they miss anything (which everyone always does).
Pharr also was ecstatic that everyone else was ecstatic about all the announcements at GDC, but we've been over that already. Can we put this GDC thing behind us now? We'd like to get more info on the Beta, but that'll depend if we get invited or whatnot. Let's move on to bigger things, like... screenshots? May as well.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SlavedHeart @ Mar 16th 2007 2:05PM
Please Stop, the insinuation is killing me..
I had to say though, this is one point that had eluded me previously, that you could take a sony rep to a glitch and point it out to him/her. And though I like the idea, I'll admit that after umpteen years worth of complaining to Sony, I really don't think that this would be any different.
oh, and just so it's out there (and everyone won't think i'm just ranting for the sake of ranting), this is mostly because I'm all kinds of pissed about the fact that my new 3k+ Sony TV has haze clouds over pure black... so take this with a grain of salt... this actualy does look like an interesting aspect of the closed beta.. How bout it sony... you know where to find me... give me a beta spot and I'll post the screen shots for you, no need to do any more work! more time to devote to fixing my TV!