PlayStation Home has the builders in

By Fred Dutton Published 5 November, 2010

New group feature, wardrobe tweaks.

There's a number of new features and tweaks on the way for PlayStation Home, Sony has announced.

Client Update 1.4 adds a new group feature that allows up to eight people to get together on dedicated voice chat channels. New voice chat channels will also be made available for clubs.

The wardrobe feature is getting a few new bells and whistles too, including a new 'Storage' area where you can stow rarely used items.

Not only that, but you'll be able to mark items you use frequently as a 'Favourite', new items will be tagged to make them easy to find and some new filtering and sorting options have been added as well.

And that's not all - Sony is promising to show off more new features next week.

The update goes live on 11th November.

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  • madgerald Verified Studio Head of PR & Marketing, Colossal Games LTD #1 2 years ago

    Is this still in BETA?

  • riceNpea #2 2 years ago

    i'm betting the builders are Polish

  • LowEnergyCycle #3 2 years ago

    Can't they get a move on tweaking the general dashboard interface instead? Say what you like about the new Xbox dashboard update; it's a silky-smooth dream compared to the PS3.

    Background downloads? Marketplace? Games list? All horrible.

  • StooMonster #4 2 years ago

    At least they've got the builders in and not the decorators.

  • cherryuk #5 2 years ago

    Why bother it's broken! It's a constant building site! DELETED years ago!

  • paulf #6 2 years ago

    it amazes me that home is profitable

  • Jay-ITFC #7 2 years ago

    Keep flogging that cash cow/dead horse hybrid Sony...

  • RodHull #8 2 years ago

    Thanks Sony! Home sounds even more amazing than it already does!! If that's possible!!!

  • captain_Carl #9 2 years ago

    wow comments bashing on Home, i'd never have guessed that before i click.

    I boot up Home pretty often and, whether you lot like it or not, there are ALWAYS loads of people on. Even at ridiculous times of the night i boot it up and there are people everywhere. And 99% of them are wearing premium items.

    Just because you don't lie it, doesn't mean nobody does. Home is clearly very profitable for Sony.

  • Kanselier #10 2 years ago

    All you haters are welcome on my Ghost Ship. Don't mind the Dead Space suit I am wearing.

  • uknortherner2000 #11 2 years ago

    @cherryuk "Why bother it's broken! It's a constant building site! DELETED years ago!"

    If you deleted it years ago, then how would you know what it's currently like?

  • slickster #12 2 years ago

    Home is great fun and a good way to meet new friends, its alot better then just having a avatar standing on the dashboard doing f**k all.

  • curtlikesmeat #13 2 years ago

    Is Home the thing where you walk about? I liked the seaside apartment thing but it takes AGES to load even on a decent broadband connection. Haven't used it since the first week when I got my Playstation.

    They could spend some time sorting out the Store, it's a nightmare to navigate.

  • captain_Carl #14 2 years ago

    @curt

    If you haven't tried it since the first week, don't comment on it. It's totally different from back then, especially in terms of load times.

  • bladdard #15 2 years ago

    If the could get the loading speeds sorted in home and make appear to be a virtual world and not a load of disconnected locations the it would be excellent.

    Simply replacing the crap games in the bowling alley with classic coin ops with be a good start. Sony listen to me!

  • Raiten #16 2 years ago

    @TSB, or they could just like implement TS or Vent in to ps3 and not call it party chat, which is what the live chat systems basicly are, have better functionality and best yet it'd be free.
    Now if sony were to implement either of those programs in to ps3, it'd be a god sent gift and a smart move.

  • GamesConnoisseur #17 2 years ago

    My biggest gripe is the loadings, if Home and all functionalities were loaded in once and you do everything else, launch games, chat etc then would be very much more appealing. I would be a regular customer.

    Which is why I prefers the Avatar system, it may do fuck all, it's just a face on the menu interface and a simple icon representation of friends. Most important is the level of the intrusions, which is practially none! And near instaneous too.

    I do sincerely wishes the best for Home and respect people who love it, and I hope those people will understand that there are people who dislike Home even after trying it.

    Sony would need to add unmissable features to lure me in and encourage me to put up with the loadings and being more patience!

  • davisorle #18 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 20:44:35 16-04-2012

  • man.the.king #19 2 years ago

    @LowEnergyCycle

    "Background downloads? Marketplace? Games list? All horrible. "

    What the fuck are you talking about? Background downloads work fine on my PS3. Marketplace (It is called PlayStation Store, by the way, which you would know if you have EVER ACTUALLY USED THE PS3, which I doubt) offers plenty of games, demos, themes, avatars, movies, TV shows, videos and other stuff, much of which I intermittently buy. And the XMB interface, I actually prefer it to the ad-ridden NXE (haven't seen the Kinect-enabled dashboard yet). But I can understand that YMMV, something which you seem to be incapable of grasping.

    Stop trolling

  • toy_brain #20 2 years ago

    Home needs more updates like Sodium One and that golf game that recently went up (although the golf game did seem a bit shit)
    The whole 'game within a game/social space' thing is actually a decent idea, but they really could do with expanding it a bit more. Wouldn't hurt to somehow tie all the seperate home spaces togeather as well, right now Home feels very fragmented and its hard to know exactly what people are flocking to without jumping between each and every little section.

  • LowEnergyCycle #21 2 years ago

    @man.the.king

    Wow. I didn't realise you had such a love affair with an interface. That's a niche fetish.

    I do own and use a PS3 you know.

    You massive angry tit.

  • Doctor_What #22 2 years ago

    The XMB is definitely my favourite of the interfaces, but I do wish they'd get on with allowing us to sort our media properly - with hundreds of albums saved on my PS3 it's a right pain in the arse to organise or browse them for a particular style. Tagging them takes too long, I just want a decent folder system so I can make an 'electronica' folder and suchlike. Surely that can't be too tricky? If Sony truly want the PS3 to become a decent media hub then they really need to get these basics sorted.

    As for Home - it was busy last time I went there (a year or two ago) but seemed to have a lot of people saying 'are you really a girl' and dancing around anyone with a female avatar. It didn't make me want to go back.

  • AidyD #23 2 years ago

    XMB has won awards for its design ya know.... Just sayin....

    And you can quite easily organise everything into folders aswell... Just go to rename album folder. Or just copy over each album as one folder and rename it.

  • callum9999 #24 2 years ago

    Yeah, the PS3 would be good with a "SenseMe" application. It's on walkmans and the PSP so I don't know why it's not on the PS3 (for those who don't know, it analyses the music and sorts them into "moods" - basically genres).

  • MDL199 #25 2 years ago

    TSB 05/11/10 @ 17:28 ignore poster | #4 +2 "Client Update 1.4 adds a new group feature that allows up to eight people to get together on dedicated voice chat channels." That's amazing. Now if only a console could allow up to 8 people to chat together no matter what they're doing, so they don't have to wait for Home to load just to have a private chat with friends. They could call it "party chat" or something like that. Nah, it'll never happen.........

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    But if it did happen wouldn't it be funny if they charged some mugs £40 a year for the privilage. I'm being silly of course not even a mental person would wanna waste their money on such a minor feature surely?!

  • man.the.king #26 2 years ago

    @LowEnergyCycle

    "That's a niche fetish. "

    Says the idiot that said this: "new Xbox dashboard update; it's a silky-smooth dream compared to the PS3. "
    Edited by man.the.king at 07/11/10 @ 10:47

  • LowEnergyCycle #27 2 years ago

    @man.the.king

    I've got 2 tins of baked beans in the cupboard: an Asda and a Tesco brand. Can you tell me which one I should enjoy the most?

    I'd usually decide such things myself, y'know, based on my experiences with each bean. But I'm worried now that I'll make the wrong decision, and I wouldn't want to just blurt out that I preferred Asda beans if it meant you'd get all upset again.

    I mean, to me they're just beans. But it looks like this sort of thing is close to your delicate little heart.

    So, Asda or Tesco? What's it gonna be?

    Oh, and next week I was gonna buy a new toothbrush, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

  • AidyD #28 2 years ago

    Well Bob... They have only added a few icons to the options... Not really turned it into a blabbering mess lol