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Speaking with Pro-G at last week’s GDC, Harrison delved deeper into the development of PS3 Home, a new online world for the PS3. Rather interestingly Harrison revealed that Home began life back on the PS2, where it was to be the lobby for an online game.
“… it’s been in development for quite a long time. It actually started life on the PS2; it was a 3D lobby for a single multiplayer game and then we thought actually that it might be worth extending out to support more than one game on the PS2. And then we started to come up against some technical limitations of the platform. It couldn’t quite do all of the things that we wanted it to do and the user created content was really the key factor that we wanted to include,” said Harrison.
Harrison believes that the PS3 is a much more suitable system to fully realise Sony’s plans for Home. “Obviously, PS3 allows us to do that with a hard drive in every machine and cell processing, so the PS3 was the right platform to do it on,” said Harrison. “We’ve been working on it for two and a half years now.“
If all goes well, PS3 users will be able to begin using PS3 Home for real in the autumn, and as early as April in its beta form. You can read more of what Harrison had to say, including thoughts on Afrika and Killzone 2, in our full interview.
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