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Home release will not be a 'big bang' event, says Sony Posted by XanTium | 13-9-2007 16:44 EST

From gamesindustry.biz: "One of the challenges that we have is to get over the mentality of Home being your typical product launch," said MacDonald, speaking in an exclusive interview published today. "In the past we'd make a game, put it on a disc and launch it in the shops. But this is so different. "It's a constantly evolving thing. Week by week and month by month it evolves. There isn't going to be this 'big bang' launch. That's how you do it in the Web 2.0 world, if you're familiar with the launch of Gmail or something like that," detailed MacDonald. "It's already out there in a closed beta and we're going to an open beta in the next couple of months and then it will be available on the Cross Media Bar soon after," said MacDonald, vice president of SCE worldwide studios. "At the moment the closed beta is employees, trusted third-parties and people like that. An open beta will be a wider audience but it won't be open to everybody. Full Story: gamesindustry.biz