"when they HEAR", I mean.

I wonder what frequency that 30% group purchases games and how many.

i check out home every couple of days to see if there is a new space. once the 2nd SOCOM space comes i think i'll go more. usually though i just go to play a quick mini game to waste time while downloading something

25-30% seems pretty good, but that's only if they return regularly. If it's only 25-30% of people who show up more than once then it's terrible.

I'd be very interested in a more comprehensive study of "Home" users. Age and gender breakdowns, income and lifestyle, etc.

For some reason, I want to believe that a large portion of this 30% is stay-at-home moms/wives whose husband isn't necessarily even a hardcore gamer, but rather a latest-and-greatest, cutting-edge technophile.

My question is this: why is it not okay to have things that, you know, appeal to different people?

In before, "BCUZ I BOUGHTED MY VIDEOGAMES 2 PLAY TEH VIDEOGAMNES!!LOLZ!!1" - that is exactly the kind of attitude that will always make gamers appear to be a demographic of poorly-socialized man-children. Good work; only corporate money-vacuums will ever take your hobby seriously.

As far as 25-30% retention rate goes, that's not exactly world-ending. Twitter, for example, claims to have around a 40% retention rate through the web and third party applications. (27% through the web alone)

the problem is that there is nothing to do there and it loads slowly- I haven't deleted it yet but have also only logged in once since installing it to get that free tree garden thing and looked around- but that was boring too- home could be really cool if there was anything to do there but it seems more like a proof of concept than something functional. They should institute something fun like fighting games/tournaments with your avatars or the ability to randomly build things or something because right now it is just a bunch of ppl walking into each other saying "LOL, you suck" to everyone else

Yup, Home needs more shit to do!

HEY, SONY!

GET THE FUCKING GAME LAUNCHING ALREADY!

That would make it a useful app, that and some extra stuff to interact with. i'd love to meet up with people in a home space, have a chat, jump into a game - could be like, the whole missing party system, ya know?

I log into home every few weeks, look around at the new shit, figure out there's not much to do in there and go back to Socom or something.

Come on Sony, people are bored of Home and are not going back because it's not finished and is missing major features like the FUCKING GAME LAUNCHING!

Give me my trophy room and I'll be In there every day.

I log in to home every now and then to see what's new. For a free addition to the PS3 it's more than adequate. And you have to remember, this is a weird marketing balancing act for Sony. The last thing you'd want is for gamers to leave everyday gaming for Home - it is primarily an advertising space and should supplement the PS3 and not take it over.

There are some missed opportunities though - particularly media sharing. Why can't I invite people to my pad to watch movies? That would be awesome - especially since I have a lot of friends that are far away.

Still, if they keep the content steady and get a little creative then I can see myself enjoying the service for a while. Xi consumed my life for a while and better content offerings (such as TV stations that operate like mini-Hulu's or Crunchyrolls) would be brilliant.

And more ARGs. Home's structure is made for ARGs.

I have a confession to make: I signed into Home for a second time last week.

But it was only for a few minutes, I swear! I'd just been badly sucking at Street Fighter IV and wanted to see if I could dress my avatar up as Ryu to make me feel better. The Ryu outfit wasn't in my wardrobe though, so I left. I was probably barely in there for 200 seconds. Not including loading times of course, but still...

I accept full responsibility for this statistic coming to pass...

The only people that continue to play this are the Second Life junkies who quit, and need their fake-like fix.

@Discarded
I logged in for 3 total minutes when the Red Bull aviation mini-game came out, then deleted it, so I know how it is!

Isn't it obvious why people go back? They're going to check out the newer stuff and see if there's any point at all. It's the same as if you lived close to a busy intersection that was the site of frequent car accidents, only they announce when the crash will take place. There's no way you wouldn't go down once in a while when the flyer shoes up announcing when the next one will take place.

And they actually have done some interesting things with Home. I can totally see how someone could be into something like Xi (the Home ARG from a few months back), even if I don't have any interest in doing it personally. But it's the same with an MMO like WOW. I can completely understand what other people might see in it, even if I don't understand why they find that something that is worth their time.

At the very least Home is an interesting experiment, which I would have conducted better if I were designing it, and it's something that none of the other console manufacturers would have done, but they'll all learn lessons from it. Probably the wrong ones, but they'll learn from that, too. I'd much rather have seen them use Home as a sort of jumping off point to a cross-game persistent avatar system. Kind of like what Microsoft has been doing, but at a much deeper level and without the content restrictions for games that include the avatars.

Wait is there anything you can do in Home other than just talk to people and play mini-games? Jeez I've been wandering around the mall for 20 minutes and I'm thinking who the fuck would want to play this unless theres a goal to this game.

Why does destructoid keep calling PS Home a "poor man's second life" when second life is free and ps3 costs $400-$500?

Do playstation owners call 360 a poor man's ps3?

Wait... Sometimes...

I'd consider that a pretty impressive retention rate for something that is largely pointless.

STFU cocksucker, home is awesome..go make your faggot avatars on xbox live, i'm sure they're much better than the meez maker spin-off

I remember going back rather frequently when that Xi thing was going on. Haven't been back since it ended except to check out the infamous space.

I have never logged in to Home, and I never intend to.

Unless they actually make it useful, of course.