This fabulous home can soon be yours!Hot on the heels of a story that The Times Online ran on Sunday, stating that Home--Sony's online-virtual-world-social-networking-advertising-buzz-word-thing for the PlayStation 3--was “slated for release in the next 10 days,” Joystiq has today received confirmation from SCEA that Home will in fact launch before the end of 2008. This is only kinda-sorta news, as folks from Sony have been saying since Leipzig that Home would launch this year. Though considering the number of delays Home has seen, it's good to hear that Sony is still on target. So the big question about Home can soon go from “is it ever coming out?” to “was it worth the wait?” For Sony's sake, I sure hope so.
This fabulous home can soon be yours!Hot on the heels of a story that The Times Online ran on Sunday, stating that Home--Sony's online-virtual-world-social-networking-advertising-buzz-word-thing for the PlayStation 3--was “slated for release in the next 10 days,” Joystiq has today received confirmation from SCEA that Home will in fact launch before the end of 2008. This is only kinda-sorta news, as folks from Sony have been saying since Leipzig that Home would launch this year. Though considering the number of delays Home has seen, it's good to hear that Sony is still on target. So the big question about Home can soon go from “is it ever coming out?” to “was it worth the wait?” For Sony's sake, I sure hope so.
It's just going to be an open beta, much like GMAIL. I just want to get in there and join my friends, who have been in the closed beta for a year and a half now.
I am not sure about "it was worth the wait?". It certainly looks nice and all, but right now it is nothing more than Second Life, with a lot less content...
virtual bowling with real people in a virtual world when i could go to a real bowling alley with people i know and like instead. I think i will use my ps3 for movies and games and leave the virtual hanging out to other people.
I have a feeling this will turn out like everyone expected.Kinda neat for a few days,but then you get tired of walking into a movie theatre and seeing a trailer for Uncharted 2 or playing Virtual bowling.This,much like the Mii's for the Wii,will fall by the way side in a matter of weeks.
It's good. It's a 3D avatar-based social networking platform. Stop thinking about it like it's a game or The Sims. It works perfectly for what it is, it's free, and it's a much better avatar use than anything we've seen so far this generation.
Someone remind me again. Why was this cool? It's a lobby for a virtual me, that I will get to fill with things that I buy from the Playstation Network Store, right so far? Or I can get things by unlocking them in my PS3 games. But not the ones I already own, stuff in the ones coming out next year. Ok. So I'll have an apartment in this thing like I do in real life. I can watch game trailers on my...in game TV.
Sony is going to get reamed when this launches. Whoop-dee-do, a 3D chat room with "uncanny valley"-ugly avatars. As for the "movie theater" it takes longer for the movie to load than it does to watch. But then PSN servers have always been incredibly slow for me.
I just think this is way way WAY over-hyped at this point.
Sony doesn't have any great exclusives anymore, except LBP and MGS (not sony for long), so they gave up on games and are creating miscellaneous stuff like this, looks good, but i'd rather play a game, it's a 3D social program, you don't see any of those words in 'video GAMEs'
Do you like sitting? Do you like standing around? Do you like standing around watching the same game trailer playing on a loop? Do you like watching teenage avatars trying to hit on anything that looks like it might be a girl? Do you like watching PS3 users trying to impress girls by making their avatar dance right in front of a what might be a girl's nose? Would you rather read abuse in neat little speech bubbles instead of just on voice chat?
Do you hate having furniture? Do you like moving furniture really slowly? Do you like paying for clothing that isn't real?
Do you like running? What about running back and forth trying to figure out how Sony have spent almost two years and all they've done so far is make 5 rooms? Would you rather chase after a figure that looks just like you so you can send them a message instead of just pulling up a quick list and hitting send?
Do you like performing cool stunts with in game vehicles?*
If so, then congratulations! You just found a new Home! Hurrah!
worth the wait isn't really a matter in my opinion. i don't think anyone was really waiting for it. but now that i have the beta, i like it and i think its a nice addition. as soon as i'm able to load my room full of my trophies it will be awesome.
man, it seems like everything sony does these days people will find something to bitch at. Just wait until the damn thing comes out and if it happens to flop than talk trash about it all you want to, but as of right now, please please keep your fanboism to yourself
Any practical game related use Home would have is a wash because it's a program that needs to load. How many honestly want to start an application so they can just boot a game? People wanting to play will just bypass Home unless certain features require it as a launch point. Which in that case Sony deserves a bitch slap for requiring people to load Home for them in the first place. What gamers on the PS3 need is a toolset that allows for fast, effective and meaningful game operation and management, not a pseudo MMO. Unless Sony offers a NXE Guide-like feature (when necessary) for use during game play I think Home will be relegated to a social networking novelty.
I have the Home Beta and the thing is just pointless unless you really like doing the robot with a large group of people just to block a staircase or playing so-so bowling and pool games.
I'm also of the opinion that since Home is free, I don't really feel Sony owes us an incredible experience. I think that it will get better with time...it's a cool distraction for now...and it's free.
I did the beta and I was not impressed. The whole concept of home is to get people playing games right? Why are they making matchmaking and the whole online experience more cumbersome than it already is? Bad move Sony.
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