Looks nice, Bravo Sony!
(if not a bit of a Second Life ripoff -
http://secondlife.com/)
I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the trailer...with the hip avatars dancing and emoting with their sunglasses and beanie hats like you know Sony can't ever resist doing, "See, we're the cool console, we can dance to Euro music", the voiceover's latent pretentiousness was also priceless. What's scary is, this perception is pretty much a reality, Sony's consoles have always been thought of as the "Cool" console (Especially in Europe).
BUT, Good Job Sony! You've just earned yourself +50000 respect in this die hard Sega fans books. User created content FTW. MMORPGs are fun but for free, yes that's nice to be able to walk around and talk and have people look at your e-achievement stuff. If they ever announce "Oh yeah, it's free to download, but there will be a monthly charge" I will laugh. I can't imagine Little Big World will be free for one.
For ME, $600+ will never ever ever be justified. I can't afford that, and I make a lot of money. Please drop the price $200
Like the Next Gen.biz article is saying, Sony has finally awakened and this is the first valid and forward thinking response I've seen to their competition.