PS3 Home will finally arrive tomorrow

The Red Bull Island in PlayStation Home
The Red Bull Island in PlayStation Home

The two year wait to see Sony's Home world will be over tomorrow, as the Japanese company plans to unveil the service as an open beta.

It will be available as a free download to all PS3 owners, allowing them to use a 3D gaming space and interact with friends and other players.

This means you (or more specifically, your avatar) will be able to wander the world in real time, talk through text and voice, and play mini games and special events.

It also means that putting together multiplayer games will be a whole lot easier too, as there will be themed 'game environments', such as Motorstorm, and SOCOM.

Partnerships

A Red Bull island will be among the first partnership offerings in the space, where users will be able to interact with the Red Bull Air Race.

"PlayStation Home is truly a promising network community service," said Kazuo Hirai, President of Sony Computer Entertainment.

"We are committed to providing PS3 users with exciting gaming experiences with PlayStation Home and together with our partners and users, expand the new world of interactive entertainment as we move forward."

The launch of the service has been coming for some time, after the launch slated for 2007 was pushed back until 2008... so Sony was clearly struggling to even meet that date.

Gareth Beavis
Formerly Global Editor in Chief

Gareth has been part of the consumer technology world in a career spanning three decades. He started life as a staff writer on the fledgling TechRadar, and has grew with the site (primarily as phones, tablets and wearables editor) until becoming Global Editor in Chief in 2018. Gareth has written over 4,000 articles for TechRadar, has contributed expert insight to a number of other publications, chaired panels on zeitgeist technologies, presented at the Gadget Show Live as well as representing the brand on TV and radio for multiple channels including Sky, BBC, ITV and Al-Jazeera. Passionate about fitness, he can bore anyone rigid about stress management, sleep tracking, heart rate variance as well as bemoaning something about the latest iPhone, Galaxy or OLED TV.

Latest in PS3
RIP, PS3: Sony Japan prepares to lay the console to rest
PlayStation Now support is ending for PS3 and many more devices
PS 3D TV - it's coming to the UK
PlayStation 3D TV UK release date and pricing announced
3D figured heavily in Sony's E3 PS3 demonstrations, with a veritable welter of quality titles on show at this year's event
Sony at E3 2011: Top ten PS3 games
Sony's new 3D PlayStation-branded display lets two gamers see two seperate images simultaneously
Sony announces 3D monitor for PlayStation 3
Sony's new official wireless headphones for the PlayStation 3
Sony releases official wireless PS3 headset
Latest in News
Garmin clippd integration
Garmin's golf watches just got a big software integration upgrade to help you improve your game
Robert Downey Jr reveals himself as Doctor Doom to a delighted crowd at San Diego Comic-Con 2024
Marvel is currently making a major announcement about Avengers: Doomsday's cast on YouTube, and I think it's going to be a long-winded reveal
Samsung QN90F on yellow background
Samsung announces US prices for its 2025 mini-LED TV lineup, and it’s good and bad news
Nintendo Switch Lite
Forget the Nintendo Switch 2, the original Switch is getting one last hurrah in a surprise Nintendo Direct tomorrow
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge on display the January 22, 2025 Galaxy Unpacked event.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge colors seemingly revealed in new video, and there’s another sign of an imminent launch
Microsoft Copiot Studio deep reasoning and agent flows
Microsoft reveals OpenAI-powered Copilot AI agents to bosot your work research and data analysis