Five Reasons Why Sony Home Will Probably Fail - Sony , PS3 , Second Life , Gaming

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nwn.blogs.com - 12/15/2008

Five Reasons Why Sony Home Will Probably Fail

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People keep asking me what I think of Sony Home, the virtual world for the Playstation 3 which just launched in Beta last week. It's an affirmation of Second Life's influence that such a large media corporation would consider experimenting...

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