Sony: PS3 Home Won't Be Dumbed Down

by Mark Renton

Sony is fully aware that a large percentage of PS3 owners who will be using PlayStation Home will be over 18. Thankfully, they don't plan to bend over backwards to make sure that the virtual world will be sanitized for the kiddies.

"It's relatively simple to be confident that somebody is over 18. So it's no problem to have areas that are only open to those aged 18 years' and over. We are able to do that quite comprehensively, we have access to the log-in data that they use for the PlayStation Network," explained Peter Edward, director of the Home platform for Sony.

"Undoubtedly there are going to be some things and some brands that we are not going to want to be involved in the environment at any stage. But a large proportion of our demographic is over 18 so we will make a point of catering to that demographic – we certainly don't want to dumb everything down to the lowest common denominator," Edward told the audience at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival.

"...we don't want to be walking around telling everyone off for saying 'bloody' so we've got to strike a balance there," he assured the festival goers.