Euro Home beta simultaneous with US

By Tom Bramwell Published 17 July, 2008

This autumn, says David Reeves.

PlayStation Home will launch into open beta at the same time in Europe as it does in the USA.

That's according to SCEE boss David Reeves, who told hacks at the company's Santa Monica gathering this week that it will arrive "with the same specs, same support and at the same time in autumn 2008".

According to Reeves, "The precise date will be announced by SCEI very shortly."

Home, which has been in development for approximately 2 billion years, is a virtual world where PS3 owners can come together and enjoy one another's company, launch games and behave in a web 2.0 fashion.

It's been delayed so often that it might as well be a train, and we'll have hands-on impressions of the latest build - and the current thoughts of its developers - on the site in very short order.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • GamesConnoisseur #1 4 years ago

    SCEE doing a good job to balance the good news re Home vs the bad re Movie Downloads in Europe not appearing anytime in 2008!

  • betahoven #2 4 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:36:16 17-12-2011

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #3 4 years ago

    We're about 6 weeks from the start of autumn, and there's no specific release date yet.

    Are you sure it'll be out this autumn, Sony?

  • wayneh #4 4 years ago

    It will be release same time in Europe as the US..........minus the standard 1 year time difference

  • zuljin #5 4 years ago

    @betahoven
    "I should hope it is released same time as the US, seeing as it's being made in Cambridge."

    No they're not.

    http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/SCE_London_...
    Edited by 1 at 17/07/08 @ 09:25

  • Beano #6 4 years ago

    Is this a open beta or a closed beta ?

  • Moz #7 4 years ago

    ah open beta the get out claws for any bugs in newly released software, essentially Home is release this autumn, just by putting the open beta tag on it people get to feel some how special and privilaged while at the same time can't complain if there are bugs because it's a beta build.

  • DFawkes #8 4 years ago

    I agree with Moz, seems like it'll just be an excuse if it's borked in any way.

    Open beta almost always means "Too finished to fix most problems", just look at MGO. I still have issues with it that were issues in the beta, with only small adjustments made to the game. Or non-game, as the case may be.

  • Beano #9 4 years ago

    "I agree with Moz, seems like it'll just be an excuse if it's borked in any way. "

    Isn't that just negative spin?

    I mean, labeling it as a beta seems pretty fair to me. Warning users that it's not 100% but still giving them a chance to try it out if they are willing to accept a few bugs. After all, it a free service and people will not lose anything by checking it out.

    I would rather have a open beta with many users which will mean more bugs found compared to a closed beta with fever users, or a later launch of the service.
    Edited by 1 at 17/07/08 @ 11:25

  • Saltefanden #10 4 years ago

    Release: Autumn 2011 confirmed then!

  • ISmoke #11 4 years ago

    So sometime in o9 then Sony ?

  • MilkYMoO #12 4 years ago

    After about ten minutes, its meant to get very boring, but I'm still really looking forward to it.