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PlayStation Home, Sony's answer to the question no one asked, was never where the company's heart lived. Maybe its greasy, suppurating id lived in those gleaming neon halls, somewhere between the bowling alley full of dead-eyed polygon people and the virtual shopping mall. You know the PlayStation Home shopping mall I'm talking about. It's the one where you could spend very real money on an entirely fake golden statue of a robot lady with impossibly proportioned breasts.

After seven years, the majority of which were spent in beta testing, Sony closed Home's doors this week. The PlayStation heart is secure elsewhere, for sure, but the shuttering of Home does mark the conclusion of an experiment true to the PlayStation soul, as well as the end of the brand's darkest era. When Home was conceived in 2006, the PlayStation brand was nose-diving hard after enjoying more than a decade of market dominance. By the time the Game Developers Conference took place in March 2007, Sony was in sore need of good will after the PlayStation 3's miserable release in November 2006. In the span of just a few months, the company with the best-selling home console of all time -- the PlayStation 2 -- became a laughing stock to both consumers galled by the PS3's high price and developers turned off by its notoriously finicky architecture.

Barbie Princess And The Pauper Computer Game. At GDC that spring, game makers were buzzing about everything but PlayStation. Xbox 360 was coming into its own after its first year, thanks in part to ease of development and the booming popularity of Xbox Live; Nintendo Wii wasn't even six months old and already a phenomenon with everyone from toddlers to octogenarians; and just two months earlier Apple had unveiled this curious touchscreen device called iPhone that had small devs intrigued with new possibilities. Seemingly no one wanted to talk about Sony's lumbering $600 console that had no clear vision for connecting people online. Sony did have a vision, though; a hell of a vision based on its invigorating presentation that GDC. The bright, bubbly arts-and-crafts fantasia of LittleBigPlanet, which would let people make their very own game levels and share them online, was just half of what Sony envisioned as a more physical (in the virtual reality sense at least) answer to Xbox Live. The other pillar was going to be PlayStation Home, a platform whose debut had people both inside and outside of the industry genuinely excited. The PlayStation Home envisioned in was downright utopian: People would have their own apartment in a vast virtual space that looked as open and malleable as Linden Lab's still-growing Second Life, but without the rough edges.

Even the avatars PS3 owners could make for themselves there would have the fashionable, smooth-lined sheen of a '70s sci-fi flick like Silent Running. Rather than the anonymity of text, people would meet up in Home virtual face to virtual face and either play games right there -- bowling, arcade games, billiards, etc. -- or seamlessly dive from Home into bigger multiplayer games like Call of Duty. Keep It Real Walter Updegrave Pdf. Sony even planned to have little themed clubrooms for specific games. Want to talk with your friends about strategy before playing aerial combat game Warhawk? Meet in the Warhawk room after shopping for avatar T-shirts and flirting with people outside. It'll be just like the little computer world of the '90s cartoon ReBoot, only sexy and stylish and modern!