I haven't thought once about PlayStation Home since I played it the one and only time, but I'm sure other gamers are still having fun with it. No, really, someone plays it. I swear. Anyway, Sony's US director for PlayStation Home, Jack Buser, spoke today at GDC in regards to Home's future. GamesIndustry.biz reports that Busey announced Home will be getting three new social spaces per month in the future.
Here's some more from Buser:
"Online games consoles have had the concept of the friends list for some time," he said, splitting online friends into two groups - those you meet online, and those you know in real life. We noticed at Sony a problem with the friends list with the first group - you don't really know them. We wanted a place, a neutral environment, where players could go and really get to know each other outside of the context of a particular game ... If you look at some of our competition, they really struggle with the idea community, how to foster a community on their platform. Home is the true community for PlayStation 3."
I love my PS3, but I can't stand Home, so that last sentence kind of troubles me. On the other hand, I think I just have to accept that a lot of other people are relating to Home. Buser reports that 2.2 million users are in North America alone, and over 5 million worldwide. He also pushed for more developers to support Home game launching, saying "it's going to seem like something's missing if you don't have it". I can't say I agree. Do you?
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3:20 PM on 03.25.2009 | 
We want more events! We want you to include free Home stuff in big games. It would have been awesome if Killzone 2 had come with a download code for a free Helghast suit or that kind of crap.
Also remember it's free and you don't have to use it.
But I still want a trophy room.
I hope Sony issues a firmware update to either turn certain XMB icons off, or at least let me arrange the icons how I see fit.
Good job.
Not being your typical internet gamer INTJ - I rather like it. It's a bit charming, and fun to dook around in. I've met a cool person or two as well. The secret is having a keyboard, and being awesome with it.
At this moment, Home is like a book. It can be interesting and entertaining at points, but will eventually put you to sleep if you use it too long or on late at night. To any sleep deprived PS3 users that can't fall asleep, just log into Home and go to the red bull space, that'll knock ya out.
People like to bitch.Home ( in my opinion) is something great that just needs time to mature, even now as they add stuff people will bitch that there's nothing to do. They will say its boring without even checking the stuff they add to it. And they will say no ones using it even though people are using it right now.
Like I said I haven't seen home in a few months but now that there adding stuff I'm checking it out instead of using an opinion that might not be valid anymore.
BLAAAAAARGH
That and being able to listen to my music would help a whole lot.