As we previously posted, Life With PlayStation is live. We downloaded it (did you?) and took it for a spin. And yes, it’s basically Sony’s take on Wii News and Wii Weather — which isn’t a bad thing, per se. Life With PlayStation has literally just launched and it kinda shows. For example, there aren’t many cities on the Life With PlayStation globe. (Hello? Where’s Dallas?) But, we don’t doubt Sony will continue to add cities, though. Users can pull up news from Google, which is also kinda nice if you don’t have a computer. Our one big gripe: It’s somewhat hard to read the news text off a television from the sofa.
Feel free to rattle off your own thoughts and impressions in the comments section.
Sony has just released Life With PlayStation. The Sony service shows the Earth, and users can access current news and weather for locations around the world. It’s possible to even pull up the full article from the headline. This comes as yesterday the service was available for a short time to some PS3 users. Hit the jump for the full press release and info for how it interacts with Folding@Home.
We’ve filed this as “rumor” because we haven’t been able to verify for ourselves — even after downloading the latest PS3 update. But apparently, the 2.43 PS3 update adds Life With PlayStation for some. The Sony service shows the Earth, and users can access current news and weather for locations around the world. It’s possible to even pull up the full article from the headline.
Word is that Life becomes available after updating Folding@Home and that it supposedly becomes available then. As previously, mentioned, we were not successful and many others weren’t as well. But there are pics, and hi-res pics at that, of Life with PlayStation of people who claim to have been able to download it. Folks over in the Sony forums state that it appears this was only possible for a short window of time. At the very least, we do know that Life with PlayStation is around the corner.
Re: LIFE WITH PLAYSTATION OUT NOW!!! [PlayStation.com Forums Thanks, sirpilf!]
Sony isn’t quite ready to release it’s new service Life with PlayStation. It needs a little longer in the oven. But fret not, Life be ready sometime later this month. Writes SCEA’s Noam Rimon:
We know many of you are eager to try out the new service for yourself, but you’ll have to hold tight. Due to a few procedural matters, the new service will make its way to PlayStation fans in August.
Rest assured, Life with PlayStation will be a service that introduces a new way to interact with your PS3. By bringing information from around the world into your living room, Life with PlayStation will offer a variety of interactive content and channels on a visually stunning worldwide map interface.
So, sit tight and use Google Earth on your computer or something.
Life with PlayStation update [PlayStation.Life]
