Home downloaded by 3.4 million Comments by Oli Welsh

BOFH-UK: Good post lad!

No one defends or being fanboy for LG the TV manufacturer but they DO for Sony/MS the game machine manufacturer?!! I desist MS as the bloated OS/Office suite leeches but admired their consoles. People do have a consumer right to decide which product suits them the best.

As the potential consumer of HOME, I lost interest in it the moment I had to load in different areas and yet still put up with the loading in of avatars and so on after the initial wait. Yes more for Second Life/Sim crowd but even free simply not for me and I prefer MS's brilliant party system and if Sony implement that great! Trophy had actually encouraged me to spend more time playing game on PS3 which is fortunate as I now have dedicated BD player which relegated PS3 multi media function for me.

Home have potential but hard to see it will get going unless Sony dedicate more of their resources to better realise it but yet I DONT want Sony to be diverted from other improvments they could make to XMB. If it eventually succeed in big way, I will be pleased for them and consumers who are happy with that kind of stuff.

/Giggles that my attempt at going girly was quite successful and had plonkers droolings at a male!

I've had a play with it.. dont see the point.. it seems to just be a wrapper to get me into my games.. but it's a MUCH slower process to start my games - as opposed to just selecting a 2d menu option..

I just dont "get" it.. Although when i state this opinion to my ps3 owning chums.. they all think i'm just "bashing" the ps3 or something.

Which is weird.. i'm not saying the console is crap.. i am saying "home" is...

Well I thought the sofa's and stuff were too blocky so I didn't buy them!

All will go to s**t if home has an update - it's a beta for f**ks sake - don't buy anything yet!!

You know what'll be cool?

For the games section in Home, you could incorporate yourself into a game of football with other users, it'll be well amusing.

Better than playing Bowling imo.

masternameless, i think you'll recognise by the end of this year Sony are investing their money on exclusive first party content, which in my view is better than exclusive DLC. MS investing money on exclusives, first party or otherwise, is news to me. their investment in the online model they've set up as well as exclusive DLC, appears to be denting their first party output, but lets see what they announce. CES didn't prove particularly exciting from their perspective.

On topic, home doesn't seem exciting, i have to agree, but as more third parties contribute and more partnerships are formed, like the Redbull deal, I'm sure the service will expand to cater to a more diverse range of tastes. Good on them for reaching a more socially conscience market. Most of the snobbery on this thread is plain depressing.

Mach, the party system does sound cool. apparently Sony are working on a 2D home which negates the need do all the virtual world in home. lets see.

Tried it for 30 minutes, bored me to tears, uninstalled, will never touch again.

NO JUMP BUTTON.

SORRY SONY, BUT IT'S NO GOLDENEYE.

Exactly like Sony said, a 20/80 split, where the 20% makes up the income.

Yeah, right tRash'. Of course, MS haven't invested any money in exclusives at all this gen.

Fool.

Many people simply see home as an unnecessary gimmick. The money could have been used to implement the features lacking from the PS3's existing online service.

I've not tried Home myself (not really interested), so I'll reserve judgement.

'PS3 - This is Waiting!'

/waits...

NO JUMP BUTTON

glol!

Maybe EG should have a thing at the end of each review. FEATURE JUMP BUTTON Y/N? and mark games up or down one point accordingly.

@PrivateJoker

"Shrugs and yawns...whatever. Phony customer who owns PS3, PSP, iphone, PC, Laptop and used to Xbox360 (traded for PS3) and Wii(sold to mum, who loves wii fit lol) Ive been gaming for 25yrs mate, how about yourself?"

LOL, so your mums a bit of a fatty then, yeah? Seriously though, you're the worst kind of fanboy knob, most of the people who think home is shite are people like myself who tried it and deleted it, not 'xbots' who don't own a PS3 trying to troll. There is nothing wrong with criticizing a product you have tried and disliked. The fact that you've been gaming for so long is even sadder, perhaps you should have grown out of your childish fanboy hissy fits by now?

Ryze, sometimes i don't know whether it's your lack of understanding that makes you so arrogant, or your arrogance that makes you incapable of understanding.

of course they've invested in the years gone by but where's that investment now. honestly why don't you grow up. seriously dude karma. think about it.

@Mrwhite

"$1,000,000 would not cover the development cost, the server cost etc.

Home looked amazing.

Then they released it. And there was nothing there."

I am aware of that, but if Sony has made a million dollars from it and its still not out of beta yet - that suggests they will continue making large amounts of money.

To the people who say, "well, at least it's making money for Sony...".

Is it? How much did it cost to develop, market and now maintain? I'd expect they are a long long way from "making money".

And i fail to see how (as a consumer) making money for sony (or any of the console manufacturers) is good - for me?

its a bit bland at the mo, but I'm happy to wait and see what comes of it.

NO JUMP BUTTON

THERE IS NO RUN BUTTON EITHER which annoys me, surely you can run in a virtual world too?

Wasn't it just added in an update? I don't actually remember downloading it.. rather it just appeared in the menu one day.. I tryed it once (after about 10mintues trying to get it to actually log me in) Its ok for people looking for friends on the psn i guess but it could have been so much better... There should be areas for people looking to play certain games where they can all meet up, wait for other players and then lauch into that game together.. why not replace the stupid redbull adds with high score boards for the most popular online games? or stream the lastest psn game trailers?, Why not beable to play full psn games (if you have them on your HDD) on the arcade machines or beable to bring in your own music and pictures into your private area?.. 4 things there that would greatly improve home and it took me, what, 30 seconds to think them up.. Wasn't this in a playable form like 2 years ago now?.. wtf have they been doing in that time?..

The only thing they did right with home is give people the option not to bother with it.