Most of us may mock PlayStation Home as a waste of time and resources, but it's doubtful Sony cares that it spent two years working on a complete load of crap. The crap in question is raking it in, and Sony's pockets are lined with the results of selling pretend chairs for a dollar apiece.
Apparently, Home has generated more revenue for Sony in its first four days than the rest of the PSN did during its entire launch week. Somewhere out there, people are actually buying furniture for their piece of sh*t Second Life knock-off that took valuable R&D away from actual videogame products.
According to Susan Panico, Sr. Director of the Playstation Network with Sony, it's a small amount of obsessives generating a lot of money: "It's a classic 80/20 model, where 20% of your customers create 80% of your income," she boasts.
I'm shocked that people are even spending more than ten minutes of their life in Home. I downloaded it, installed it, and lasted maybe three minutes, not counting loading times. By the time I got to the second loading screen, I exited, deleted it from my hard drive and never looked back. I suppose if there are people crazy about Home for some insane, Satanic reason, I can't blame them for buying useless bits of digital garbage -- there's bugger-all else to do.
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8:00 AM on 12.24.2008
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Heh, agreed...
They both are about stealing money from consumers idiot
I can understand why people may not be able to see the point in it at the minute, but without taking the time to see what it has to offer at least for now... well, just shows ignorance in my opinion.
I'm sure when more content is added, people will find plenty to do with their friends...!
anyways, back to Suikoden.
Of course, my sarcasm never translates well in type form.
I'm just hardcore like that.
Seriously, they should be so ashamed of themselves that they keep a standby PSN ID in case friends come over so they can pretend to not have bought anything.
You must have a degree from Open University!
I hate comparing but again I come back to pointing my finger at the Xbox. You need to pay 100 MS points to get a gamer picture for the game you just bought!? Honestly, as a budget gamer I like this Home thing. it makes me think that Sony appreciates the people who buy their products.. (and I'm sick of everyone saying that "sony is in trouble because PS3's aren't selling" that's a Bullshit statement and it's loaded like a 50 lb bag holding 100lbs of shit.Sony doesn't JUST make PlayStations. How does Sony dominate MS? Let me count the ways! 1. They make televisions 2. they make Computers and laptops 3. they make bluray players 4. they make cameras 5. they make phones, 6. they make audio equipment including car radios, speakers, and home component systems. 7. they make cameras.
Sony isn't going out of business anytime soon.
As for MS? What else to they make other than software and the xbox hardware? Are they known for their kickass TV's? are they known for their xbox laughing at typical gamer abuse? Are they known for building COMPUTERS?! No.. They're known for writing the SOFTWARE for COMPUTERS. And often botching it up. They're known for opening a direct link to your wallet to withdraw a monthly fee to let you play on the internet with your friends.
Sony isn't asking you for money for home or even for signing into the PSN. Sony's on YOUR side, and you kick them when they give you more FREE SHIT.
Shame on you.
10/10 for the ad hominem uncounterable argument, Jim :P
I wish I hated it. I wish I loved it. Apathy is boring. But I did get a couple of hours fun out of logging as a chick with my mate and dancing together while hoards of horny dudes tried to pick us up. Particularly the moment where my friend said "I wonder if they know we're dudes?" and after an awefully long pause...... "WELL NOW WE DO" and watching them scatter like we were the plague.
HAHAHA
Girls on the internet and all that.
Still, LOL @ people who buy furniture in Home.
Am I glad that I'm not getting raped like XBox users are with monthly fees just to play on line? You bet. Do I appreciate that Sony has offered Home for free? Absolutely. I've downloaded all of the various Home areas, but I still think that it's a senseless waste of time -- at the moment. It's mind-boggling to think that people are actually shelling out money for things on Home at the current time.
This site is still useless
i like free ice cream and i know plenty of people who do as well. i bought a samurai sword, so fucking what. i know of another certain bearded d-toider who did as well. can you guess who?
if you don't like it thats fine, don't play it. but don't assume you speak for everyone on the matter.
I went into the Japanese home environment, and I can definitely see the potential. What's cool is when you jump into a themed room for a particular game, like the Everybody's Golf room. Instead of typing in a text based forum to try and find friends to play with, you can talk to them and find out if they are a tool (like Jim) before you add them to your friends list. Also, you can share/trade tips, and general thoughts with them in a more personal setting.
For being an optional and free service, it's absolutely rediculous the way these so called journalists are treating Home. Especially in it's infancy.
No one is trying to dictate anything. But that doesn't mean that we can't make comments on how others spend their money. :P
Home is "ok" but I can't believe people pay for virtual couches and all that shit.
I Guess... I'm guessing.. Yojimbo?
I think home hits 3 kinds of people. Those who delete it and are for some reason angry it exists (maybe they don't have enough to be angry about, so they start just grabbing at pointless things). Those who don't care (me) but use it to hang out in the Destructoid Fan club and talk to my online friends occasionally (maybe I should change the name to something like Jay's Friend Club, to reflect Destructoid's hate of home?), and those who enjoy (OMG!!! People should NOT be allowed to enjoy things they enjoy!!) using it, and put money into it.
There you go. News of the century. Some people like things and some people don't. So what should I change our club name to? Any ideas?
Then again from what I hear the European regions HOME pales in comparison to the US and Japanese version
"If it LOOKS like it is successful and we have some sales data to throw around then maybe it will become successful!"
-<3 Sony
If only Sony spent as much money on PR as MS.
Hopefully it will become, as Wardrox says, useful and practical. I don't think it's there yet, as game launching was still not enabled last time I checked and chat options are thin. Plus I really don't get the whole virtual waiting-in-line thing. Can't Home just generate one always-open instance of every single player game?
Which doesn't imply home is selling well if the video service was selling slow. The prices, video quality, as well as the fact that they limit the number of times you can download a title you bought (not rented); it's not surprising.
It's funny to see the Sony fanboys try to defend the whole PS3 fiasco. First defending the cell and blu-ray, along with the associated initial price, as being necessary to deliver a "true HD gaming experience for the hardcore gamer."
Now they're defending Home as some kind of system selling saving grace. Yeah, just what the hardcore gamer you tried to define as the core audience wants; the bastard child of the Sims, a virtual dollhouse, and Second Life a virtualized chatroom- the most casual, not interesting, and certainly not fun "games" ever created.
I agree with Jim 100% on Home. "It's a pile of shit. Anybody who has taste can see that."
I'm glad you're enjoying your ... whatever Home is meant to be. Some of us just would have preferred something that wasn't shit.
But I could be officially a complete and total fucking moron. It's a vicious catch-22 where if you are a CATFM, you never think you are, and if you think you are, you're probably right.
Yes, I deliberately pick and choose shit so I can pre-fabricate stuff. I don't believe a word I say.
The problem is that once a person labels something, they usually have to fight with people who wouldn't label it the same way. And that fight usually devolves into a pointless turf battle, rather than an attempt to meander towards the truth. Case in point: most of your comments sections.
And Merry Christmas.
I know this isn't a news site. But what about people who LIKE the PS3. Should we just shut up and be content with more bashing, even though there are better things to talk about?