I've contemplated deleting Home but I'm worried that if something miraculous occurs and it actually become entertaining, I'd have to go through the install process again.

Also, depressing video is depressing.

Even though I love Home and use it daily...I can't say I blame you.

The only thing I can think of that's more boring than "playing" PS Home is watching somebody else do it for ten minutes.

"...And then i delete Home." is all i saw skimming down the page.
Sums it up perfectly.
Amused.

I doubt I'll go back to it either. I messed around in the beta for a bit, tried it again after the "open beta" started and have never gone back since.

I just watched this entire vid without skipping forward to completely eliminate any vague ideas i might have had to buy a PS3 lol.

Also, Baleur, if the only reason you wouldn't purchase a PS3 is because of Home, well, quite frankly, that's pretty lame.

a good 10%+ of this vid is lo.... load....loading

how much did sony spend on Home again? the correct answer is: too much

Remember when people defended Home?

You're playing it wrong! You have to buy all of the things in the Mall! Then you win!

@ Baleur
I know it's already been said but - seriously? You aren't going to buy a PS3 because of a free application that you can choose to play or choose to ignore?

Then I'm not buying a X360 because of Bomberman: Act Zero and I'm avoiding a Wii because of Game Party 2. Of course, those aren't good comparisons because they actually do cost money, but whatever - it still makes about as much sense.

hmmm....never tried the home, but I guess I don't have to bother with Home after seeing this video. Loading, loading, performing Jesus on the water act, loading, loading....and what's with the transparent avatar things? Is it your Internet connection? Or just crap load of skins missing from your local HDD?

ZZZZzzzzz...... what a boring video. Why on Earth would you waste so much time?

Eh, home, miis, the whole avatar thing - I don't really think any of it is any good. Gamers DO want to interact with each other, don't get me wrong on that - but they want to play games while interacting. Home isn't really a game. It's a social meeting place, and not a very good one at that.

Maybe it's because I'm not a very social person, but I do not play games to make friends. It's difficult for me to relate to people through a username, an avatar, and a microphone, when they are (probably) at least 100km away from me (I live in Australia, one of the least popuated continents on earth). I enjoy playing games against such people, sure. But don't expect me to forge any emotional attachment to them. I can't do that through a game.

Home doesn't appeal to me for that reason. I'm sure its fairly competent at what it does (what it is actually supposed to be doing, I'm not quite sure), but it doesn't have what it takes to truly introduce me to a gaming "society". Mostly it's due to a lack of technology. Avatars are not very customizable (on all platforms) - everyone ends up looking generic, sounding generic, acting generic.

Maybe in 100 years, when we've perfected the holodeck and Matrix-esque brain interfaces, things like Home would REALLY take off and be worth our time. For the meanwhile, it's just not doing it for me and most gamers out there. Technology still has a ways to go before it can replace real interactions with real people in the real world. One day it will, I am sure (and I long for the day where I can meet people without having to step into the rays of the dreaded Sun, my arch nemesis), but that day is not now. Home, Avatars and Miis are just.... pale imitations of real life, and can't compare to the real thing.

I mean, what can you do in home? You can.... talk to other people I guess, but its rare to find a decent conversation in such a place. You can.... dance? Not really. You can.... meet other people? I suppose, but the odds of you meeting anyone you can also meet in REAL life are rare (this is due to geography), and I doubt most interactions go beyond a few sentences and the occassional game. Plus, avatars are not realistic depictions of people. My Xbox avatar looks like an insane old man, with white hair, a cumerbund, hippie pants, japanese face paint, wearing a top-hat and a monocle and ski gloves and wooden shoes. Needless to say, I do not look like that in real life. Most avatars do not (and cannot) look anything like a real person (again, the limits of present day technlogy).

So, to Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, as well as to the developers of Second Life - just stop. Seriously, just stop it. With the current technology, you cannot provide a social experience even remotely on par with just... going to a bar and having a few drinks and talking to real people (not that I would encourage that, I'm a teetotaller). I admire their effort at TRYING, but that's all they are doing. Trying to provide an experience, and failing miserably. It's not really their fault, but they should stop. Try again in a few decades or in 100 years, when we'll have the technology to digitally create an exact virtual replica of a real person.

So pretty please, with sugar on top. Say your what's in your tiny little heart about the topic(which is Home, not Sony's current standing this generation) then STFU.

I'll say whatever I feel like, thanks. And what I was saying was that Home is one of the more ridiculous examples of Sony being out of touch with what gamers want, and since it is a component of the disappointing PS3, it simply reinforces my point, which was very much in the context of the topic at hand. Thanks for paying attention.

Why the fuck would I, or anyone, care to bait the idiot fanboys here? I'm just a severely disappointed PS3 owner, and I don't mind saying so.

If you've got such a big fuckin' problem with that, then I suggest you stop for a second and think about why.

Home sucks do not watch the video. All it does is take up 4gb of space on your hard drive.

So PS Home is just like real life. SO instead of having fun, playing games, or meeting cool people. You walk from point A to point B, and occasionally deal with douche-bags. Yay... where do I sign-up?

@ jamBOT
"Why is Sony so committed to this crap?"
It brings in buck. A lot of buck. Advertising and charging for virtual items, Home is practically pure profit.
"And forcing me to have to use it, is ridiculous"
Where the hell do they force you to use it? Have you even used a PS3? Either your sarcasm is flawed, or you are the most obvious troll I've ever seen.