Sony, you've got my attention.

[Paco]

I doubt you actually NEED to go through the virtual environment to send out an invite or have the games linked. There's no technical limitation that would require that. That would just be self indulgant stupidity if the programmers required it.

You've imagined a lot of nightmare scenarios but until I hear otherwise I think they are all baseless.

The video only showed voice chatting in virtual space, accessing the arcade games in the arcade...I have no reason to believe it works any other way.

The thing is, Home looks like a seperate application you have to launch whereas Xbox Live is an integrated feature of the 360 hardware. I suppose we'll see in time.