You can go Home, but would you want to?

The public beta for PlayStation Home is now available. Jerry Holkins, aka Tycho, from Penny Arcade had some choice things to say about it:

The Beta for Playstation home is now available to everyone, and now you know what I know: this is what happens when your marketing department tries to make a game. Here is everything you need to understand about Home, if you should accidentally launch it from your XMB: press and hold the Playstation button in the center of your Dual-Shock or Sixaxis controller. From the menu that appears, select Quit.

There are things about Home that are simply beyond my understanding. Chief among these bizarre maneuvers is the idea that, when manufacturing their flimsy dystopia, they actually ported the pernicious notion of scarcity from our world into their digital one. This is like being able to shape being from non-being at the subatomic level, and the first thing you decide to make is AIDS.

My dislike of Sony is no secret. I can't help but feel a little smug at this. Of course, they could make the necessary changes to correct the problems that Jerry outlines but, given their amply demonstrated arrogance, I don't think they will.