The only way Home will sell PS3s is if it gets a job at Best Buy, as far as I'm concerned. Nevertheless, Sony would disagree, still clinging to the notion that its second rate Second Life is the killer app worth paying five hundred bucks for.
"It's really only on the PS3 where you have a neutral environment to get to know someone before you make that commitment to add them to your friends list," beams SCEA Home director Peter Edwards in an interview with IndustryGamers, seemingly under the impression that adding someone to a friends list is akin to marrying them. "And that's really the core reason why Home was developed and why we're here today."
"It's always been our desire to broaden the appeal of the platform and ultimately we'd hope it would be a big box shifter for the PS3," adds Home development boss Peter Edwards. "Where people will actually buy the PS3 so they can get access to Home. I don't think we're there yet, but we think we'll be there before long."
PlayStation Home is proving to be a successful venue for people who already have PS3s and enjoy spending money on fake chairs for their fake people to fake sit on. However, while PlayStation fans are eating it up, I can't see Home ever being a reason why somebody would fork over hundreds of dollars.
Maybe one day we can go back to the idea of games being the things that make game systems worth money. Maybe.
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9:00 PM on 06.15.2009
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OMG HOME IS TERRIBLE WTF IS THIS!!!!
I have not even booted the garbage up. WHY U ASK!
Because i don't want to get banned from PSN Network for falsely making sexual advances at fake "girl avatars". Which are actually xbots in disguise, getting people kicked off for no reason at all.
Seriously though... unless, SONY forces me to go through HOME to access the XMB. Please lord, NO!!!!
Honestly the PS3 has so much potential with a nice selection of games yet Sony manage to fuck it up with crap like putting so much effort into the flop that's known as Home.
Give us proper private chat.
Give us something better than trophies to match cheevos.
Give us some proper support that gamers would like to see.
Now... no, just no.
Games are just a little bonus
No, they don't.
So I told them what it was, and ask them does this make you want to buy a PS3?
No it doesn't.
And that concludes my amazing, independent research!
It's not as bad as you'd think, there is alot of free stuff to win in home from 3rd party homespaces with minigames, such as resistance 2 four barrels of fury, or the siren hospital escape (can be tough not well designed but there are 3 outfits and 1 really nice piece of furniture)
Also Home devs read their forums regularily and willingly take suggestions from people actually playing home on how to improve the community.
Unless you're the Wii. In which case all logic is thrown out the window.
i would have been interested if they had made it one seamless city with subways and stuff...and let the apartments actually have a location in the city.
hey if that many people enjoy it let them, if their contributions through home also improve the psn network its a win win thats why I won't hate on home ( seriously you people are looking a gift horse in the mouth, DON'T). some peoples taste are different and some people just cant comprehend that. whats good to you is trash to the guy next to you and vice versa.
hey if that many people enjoy it let them, if their contributions through home also improve the psn network its a win win thats why I won't hate on home ( seriously you people are looking a gift horse in the mouth, DON'T). some peoples taste are different and some people just cant comprehend that. whats good to you is trash to the guy next to you and vice versa.
I liked what Home was becoming though what with the inclusion of the Xi ARG. Now I don't quite as much since they finished up Xi and revealed that Xi is... never mind, go find out yourself if you're that interested.
If they want people to ACTUALLY enjoy going to Home, they need to offer incentives for going to game-spaces instead of just decorated rooms with nothing to do (I'm looking at YOU, Uncharted).
That Xi (?) thing is about the coolest thing I think they can do with Home and basically no one knew about it. And now they're apparently getting rid of it from Home in a short while. It needs to be ADVERTISED and it needs to stick around. Maybe even get a second season of content.
I know it's cliche to say that Home has lots of "potential," but it really does. It's just got a HELL of a lot of crap to trudge through before you can even see a glimmer of it.
Home?!
What next, a motion controller, oh wait......
Sony need to get their marketing sorted out, no wonder they lose money like it's going out of fashion.
In some ways I want Sony to fail because they're so stupid these days.
The "Xi" engagement that Home did just these past few months was amazing in the simple fact that you've never seen something like that done on a console or PC anywhere. Home has also come along a hell of a way with mini-games like poker, pool, racing games, soon to be golf game, bowling, brickbreaker arcade games and more, the inHome Siren game, all of which you get free stuff for participating in or winning. Might seem mundane to some, but ALL this stuff you pay for with X-Box live in smaller forms (which I do or rather did, too) is completely Free.
There's something to be said about Free this day and age.
I do think home is fairly cool, as a beta. But it needs to grow into a social network, we NEED to be able to share photos, videos etc, play music in our spaces, leave messages for each other etc.
Sony - go look at Facebook, put as many features from facebook into home and it will shine. i mean, fuck, put a message board on my home space for when I'm not there, give me a "doorbell" so people can buzz me and we can hang out, but also, give us something to DO in there!
Hell, if PlayTV could connect to home and me and my buddies could sit in my home space watching real TV that would be AMAZING. To be honest, i just want photoframes and TV's like they promised.
The best bits of Home are still missing. Where are my TV's to throw down the stairs!!!!
For whatever reason, I can't bring myself to delete it, but I have no desire to do anything with it any time soon.
He walked around for twenty minutes, trying to show me movie clips that wouldn't load, before ultimately going into a crowd of people and pelvic thrusting or something.
Then he got about four or five friend requests, which he denied, and logged off.
... Yeah, Home really makes me want a PS3.
And I own a PS3.