First of all it's good to see SONY with a Online Servce. I'm getting a PS3..soon so that good news.

However, stating that HOME will be better then XBL is joke. Microsoft has the edge over SONY....

 1. 2 Years Experince (Good luck to SONY).

2. Windows Vista (360 and Vista easy more then 20 million peepz online all around the world)

3.  More Memory (PS3 Oblivion the donwloaded item will to be reduced because of PS3 lack of memory)

4. 90% of 360 games are Online... (most PS3 games don't support online).

5. Great Community (everyone know PS3 fans are not a good looking =P)

My self, i'm not worried.... XBL will ALWAYS  be number  1.

Kast25

No disrespect to Home or anything, but I think Sony kinda dropped the ball (again many would say). In their drive to supplant PC's, they seem to be forgetting that people buy consoles to play games, not go to a Second Life wannabe chat room and invite friends to see their wicked awesome collection of gaming paraphernalia and watch movies in a virtual theatre. I mean who wants to watch themselves watching a movie? Online play for the consoles should be all about ease-of-use, playing games and just making it as easy and hassle free as possible to find opponents, DLC and whatnot.

In the end, PC's are the best medium for chatting, and instead of competing with, consoles should offer something unique, that is still as simple as consoles themselves are.

Anyways, that's my take and your welcome to disagree...
monco59

Here's what I posted yesterday on a few sites. It's just my two cents so don't be an arse and start calling me a fanboy. ...Even though I am... definately...

"Enough of the PS3 fanboyism!!! Now I want everyone in this room to sit up straight and listen carefully. This post will be fairly long and hardhitting, so if you can't stand the heat icecubes...

1) This is huuuuge. No matter how us 360 fanboys want to moan, this COULD POTENTIALLY be better than Xbox Live.

2) But Microsoft aren't stupid. They won't just sit back and let a newcomer to the online gaming space try and muscle in on their turf. MS and Sony (herewith referred to as 'The Evil One') are amongst the world's biggest corporations. As such, they always know what the other companies are up to, ESPECIALLY when they have competing products on the market. Now we already know that MS is in the process of extending their Live service to bridge the gap between the PC gaming world and the console platform. They are even targeting mobile phones. 3)Stats: MS have 6 million + users of the XBL service. Over 92% of the world's PCs run Windows OSs and, according to MS' statistics, gaming is the third most popular activity PCs are used for. How could they not see this coming?

4) There is NO WAY MS was not privy to the Evil One's plans. My guess is that the idea of PS Home was 'borrowed' (which is a trend commonly practised by the Evil One) from an idea clearly most suited for a quality, established community like XBL. 'Borrowing' in the gaming industry is the norm, especially in the Evil One's case. For example, the motion-sensor technology feature copied from the revolutionary Wii-mote and the blatant theft of the Xbox Guide button, dubbed 'Playstation Home' button (shock, horror!)Even the controller has more "trigger-like" buttons like the 360's.

5) Finally, I am sad to say that this seems to me to be nothing more than a clone or version of a service being developed already by MS and that the Evil One just beat them to market with it. I would love to think that this was an indication that the Evil One was beginning to ease it's head out of it's ass and finally buckle down to provide it's consumers with an innovative and killer service to rival it's competitors. Unfortunately, the Evil One's history doesn't quite back it up. So for me, just empty promises, smoke and mirrors again... "