Online gaming

The PS3 comes with a inbuilt online system called 'home'

What is home?

PlayStation Home (known as "Home™") is a community based service for the Playstation network which has been in development since early 2005. Home allows users to create an avatar character for their PlayStation 3 console. This avatar will get their own house, which can be adorned by items players can receive in several achievements. In the future the service will also expand, allowing players to have more sorts of clothing, as well as hold pets.

Microsoft Xboxs' rival online gaming system (xbox live, see below) has been running since the first xbox was released in 2002.

Since then with the new release of the Xbox 360 console the system has become huge and the two systems 'home' and 'Xbox live' are going head to head in the race to become the online gaming giants...

What is Xbox live?

Xbox Live is a multi player gaming and content delivery system created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It was first made available to the Xbox video game console in November 2002. An updated version of the service became available for the Xbox 360 console at that system's launch. Live for Windows makes certain aspects of the system available on other platforms such as PCs (using Windows Vista), handhelds and mobile phones.

So whats better then?

Only time will tell as the beta version of PlayStation's home is yet to be released, but with the huge Xbox live online community already built is it too late for PlayStation to enter the race let alone win it?