GamesIndustry.biz reports that Peter Edward, Director of Sony's very anticipated online social networking platform Home, has explained at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that Sony's taking online behaviour very seriously. Being quite frank, he said that serious abusers would have to "move house and buy a new PS3 before they could get online again."
Discussing their ability to track individual users, Edward explained, "Ultimately we know a user's details, we know machine details and we know where they live." Highlighting how seriously they're planning on treating serial abusers, Edward said, "If you really feel like you've been abused or that someone has just shown wholly inappropriate behaviour then you are able to complain about it. If you really, really misbehave you can have your console disconnected at a machine level, so you would actually have to move house and buy a new PS3 before you could get online again."
With great power comes great responsibility, and, to be fair, Sony's apparently not entirely keen on exercising it. Emphasising the seriousness of the actions, Edward said, "Clearly that's not something we would want to be doing very often but as a disincentive to mess round too much it's in our power."
However, for those keen on a more liberal environment, don't fret too much yet - Sony's apparently planning on having "open" environments, where those unable to articulate themselves without swearing can go to town. Explaining their "over-18 strategy", Edward said, "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. 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."
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