PlayStation Home Comments by Oli Welsh

I don't get why you would want to go into Home, its seems pointless.

Feels to me like buying a Sunday paper and instead of reading the paper and all its juicy articles, reading the first glossy advert leaflet to fall out when you shake the paper.

I don't want to be force fed adverts, let alone pay money for them (I mean the extra content before anybody tells me its "free")

Hmm. It's a Friday night (any old Friday night, not tonight). After a week of studying/work/job hunting/looking after the kids, I finally have a couple hours to spare.

Should I:

A) Play LittleBigPlanet with friends

B) Play Gears of War 2 with friends.

C) Play Super Smash Bros with friends.

D) Watch a Blu-ray film with friends.

Or

E) Explore Playstation Home...

You loser! You thought this was going to be an apologue on how great all the systems are...Yeah right.

I'll be spending many a Friday night as my female avatar in Home. It's hilarious having these losers follow me around.

It has potential, but fuck knows... what am I supposed to do there. I tossed about for a while "shrugs"

Like others have pointed out already, what amazes me the most is that after being in closed beta for a year or something, they still managed to release such an extremely boring product in the end. Did they for some reason only invite extremely boring people for the closed beta or did they decide to do absolutely nothing with their feedback?!

Sounds like Home is the biggest flop since the PS3. Wait a minute..

i'm really enjoying the tinkly bit of music that plays everytime I try to connect and get the C-3PO network error notice.Fantastic.

"The Beta for Playstation home is now available to everyone, and now you know what I know: this is what happens when your marketing department tries to make a game. Here is everything you need to understand about Home, if you should accidentally launch it from your XMB: press and hold the Playstation button in the center of your Dual-Shock or Sixaxis controller. From the menu that appears, select Quit."

LOL that made me chuckle (as did pathetic little home when I tried it!)

/ goes back to GAMING.

Seems to be full of errors so I can't login to check it out.
Although, can't help but think the whole thing is pointless.

it sucks.... buy a xbox360 instead

Yeah as that has kid like avatars...or perhaps try the wii with its Mii's.... Its free to use at basic level, its something different, no one is forcing anyone to use it.. .if you dont like it dont use it.. .simple.

Time line

Day 1 - Sony announce Home much to fanboy fanfare - 2008 to be year of PS3 because of Home

1 year later MS announce NXE

3 months later MS NAIL NXE does the important stuff Home wanted to do and much more,

2 months further on Sony release home "beta" does not do the stuff it was supposed to and is basically shit


What does this say about each company?

Some brilliant comments here for and against Home, thanks for everyone who brightened up my morning.

My 1penny. I love my ps3 but Home is dire, should have been canned a long time ago.

@gamerg

that sony try new things and microlol just copy whoever is on top?

its just a chat room with graphics at the moment. they shouldnt have released it as it is. once user-made stuff is in there it should be a lot better. i could have came up with better ideas then whats in it just now. beta or not, how long did it take to make a few rooms?! must be a lot of shit held back from the beta.

"that sony try new things and microlol just copy whoever is on top?"

You will find that all 3 take ideas from each other, you will also find most of sony's ideas over time actually started at nintendo... including the original playstation itself...

also can you invert the analogue?! its the opposite of GTA just now i.e. shit.

When I first read about Home I thought it was pointless. Two years later, its still pointless.

I checked a few websites to read different opinions, and it looks like the younger users (ie teens) rather like Home in its current state, while adults tend to hate it. Since the average PS3 owner is 30 years old, I guess sony has missed the target by a good 15 years.

@yerawldda: you can. first thing I did.

@ParanoidZombie: where'd you get the age statistic for PS3 owners?

Im more disappointed that Fart and Mig haven't commented yet tbh.

Where are they when you need a flame war to start ;)

For the guy that is complaining they shouldnt have released it now.. oh come on, how much grief would they have got if they had not released it before 2009. Even more grief i suspect.

To the "Don't worry people, this is just the bare bones structure, content will follow and it has so much potential!" group:

Potential is one thing, actually realising that potential another.

Don't you think that after showing the bare bones structure in march 2007, the devs would have used a large part of the 1.75 years after it to actually get all that content into place? Don't you remember Home was delayed twice because Sony thought "the Home service wasn't 'there' yet"? That it still needed to grow to become a truly worthwhile product?

But, I'll let Kaz Hirai/Sony jog your memory, he says it much better than me. Take it away, Kaz!

(november 2007, quote) “If anything, we believe the delay would have a positive effect. I personally am not satisfied with the current version of Home. This is a very big project for the PS3 and we want to make sure that we deliver to our hearts content. We hope everyone will look forward to its spring release next year.”

(july 2008, multiple quotes) "I'd much rather make sure we take the time to have a great service rather than rush something into the market - only for consumers to say: "This is not enough for me." I want to avoid that"

"If we have the right service, it doesn't matter when we launch - so long as it's in a reasonable timeframe."

"Whether our competitors decide to follow what we've done with Home or not follow us, that's up to them. Given the fact that I've delayed the launch of Home twice - for which I've apologised - I think I've done it for a very good reason, and that's because I want to bring the very best service possible to consumers around the world".

"We're very confident in when we do launch the open Beta service, it's something that will really resonate with the consumers."

Note that he IS talking about Home Beta there, and its launch. Confidently, one might add.

So, now that Home Beta is launched, where is that "very best service possible" (with functionalities beyond the march 2007 version, because that obviously wasn't good enough for Kaz) which caused all the delays? Where's that "resonance"? Where is the content? If it's there, how long do we need to wait for it? Is there a time table when new content will arrive and if so, what content exactly?

I'm not seeing answers to those questions, and I don't think we will. All that we can do is wait. And wait. And wait. And see. And then wait again. And dream of Home Beta's awesome potential. What it might be. Or not.

EDIT: 2006 -> 2007. Thanks Beano.

Oli Welsh returns and lives up to his reputation.

"3 months later MS NAIL NXE does the important stuff Home wanted to do and much more"

Really?... I'm still wondering what's the use of avatars on NXE. It was fun and cute to play around with for about 30 min. Now I don't care and mostly use the new guide menu to look at my friends list and start my games.

Besides NXE and Home are TOTALLY diffent concepts.

NXE is for communicating better with the friends you allready have while Home is for meeting new people.

"Don't you think that after showing the bare bones structure in march 2006, the devs would have used a large part of the 2.75 years after it to actually get all that content into place?"

It was announced march 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playstation...

Otherwise I agree... they should have focused more on getting more content from day one. Beta og no beta, people don't care if there is nothing to do or see.

It is not a beta, it's unfinished. The two things are different. Of course, it wouldn't be as cool if it was called PlayStation Home Unfinished.

Playstation Home: Welcome mat not to be found!

I tried to log in on 3 separate occasion the past 24 hours but no luck so far, so relying on the comments of others at the moment but really cant be arsed to faff about as the setting is already set to NAT open for PS3, X360 and so presume that the server is full up or summat.

Not panicking or anything as seem a slow burning thing and lots of 'hopes' expressed that Sony will fully support and ensure Home will have various features added in to caters to everyone's taste. Problem 1 for me is my style doesnt cater to the 2nd Life, Sim genre as I just always want to get to the meat of gaming without any faffing about.

I dont dispute that its will have its fans, but for me it ll be something I ll occasionally dips into but deffo not THE reason to own PS3 for!!

NXE on X360 is just a stylised menu, and the avatars are just animated gamertag but the main thing its doesnt interfere too much with my main needs....games.

"NXE on X360 is just a stylised menu, and the avatars are just animated gamertag but the main thing its doesnt interfere too much with my main needs....games. "

Neither does Home :)

At first I was a bit miffed when I didn't get the invite to the closed Beta a couple of weeks ago. Sony said that only the loyal owners would be rewarded... I SOLD my 360 games, leads, pads, power pack ( not the 360 because it was broken just like the other two that I had owned - enough was enough. ) and have been gaming on the ps3, happily, for over a year. Now, if that's not loyal I don't know what is!

After experiencing Playstation Home I understand. I am loyal, I am special! They DIDN'T invite me to home becausae they wanted to reward me. They wanted to spare me the pain. I understand now, Sony. Thank you. Although, you could have warned me it was such an utter pointless pile of cack once it was relased. You could have slipped us loyal PS3 fans an email letting us know not to even bother with it since it's shit. Don't waste your time lads, your eyeballs and brain will be raped ( not to mention pockets ) by bland advertisement space.

Great thread for polishing up the ignore list BTW. Home has a use after all... ;)

Personally I think it's 2ys to late - nothing that made me jump with joy!...I suppose I was hoping for something really special with all the hype - it just was bland, and unexciting.

I finally got in this afternoon before getting kicked.

It's OK. Very barren and needs to be fleshed out.

It could be as a place to meet and chill if you don't fancy meeting and chilling with real mates. For console socalising i'd rather dp that in a game but I'll be keeping an eye on how it fleshes out.

The trailer were coolbut i'd still ather turn on the console and download them than jump through hoops before doing so. Bit of an odd one this and i'm not entirely sure what to make of it.

"NXE on X360 is just a stylised menu, and the avatars are just animated gamertag but the main thing its doesnt interfere too much with my main needs....games. "

It's doing a better job than this,

You can jump right into a game or a game party and some games include avatars. That's further along than this is.. i have to load thus, load again and then join a game if it loads from this.. in nXE every game with online does.

Yeah...shame it won't let me connect... To be honest I doubt this is worth the 3077MB on my HDD anyway so I may just delete it..Meh!

Home is Sarah Palin. It can only get worse from here on out when the honeymoon is over. 15 million PSN users and 100 on Home by the end of January.

I've just spent an hour with Home.
To be honest I was wasn't sold on the idea from the start, It all sounded a little naive and ill conceived.
I've tried to keep an open mind though, But seriously what were SONY thinking? Its shockingly bad
I'm struggling to understand how this got made.
Every time I turn on my ps3 I get a sinking feeling, and its called disappointment.

LET THE CHARGING BEGIN!!!

After all the years of the moaning about the XBL fee and people saying Sony would just start doing it slowly through the back door. Who woulda thought it would actually happen?

I've had home for ages and i struggle to see the point in it all tbh. Actually, the ps3 leaves me feeling a bit like that of late. And you cant even connect now the beta is open to all.

I had a go last night.

It's full of fuckwits following around anyone who made themselves look like a girl.

I made my avatar a fat wrinkly old man,and wandered around saying stupid things like "Gaystation3" and "Xbox rules". Yes I know it was immature, but it made me laugh trying to wind up the fanboys.

I was told to "fuk off" by one guy sitting down who I kept running over. I really did laugh when he did that.

I would go and try again but I can't connect anymore.

Home is dumb , i say so , IGN ps editors and many others are saying the same thing...

Its not all bad, the video adverts look and sound really good and urm well thats about all I can think of.

Its been said so many times before but there is just no point to it, some nice ideas but poorly executed. Its the sort of thing that will appeal to more women than men but its just a giant sausage fest. Sony have stupidly built something for an audience it doesnt have yet, if this was on the PS2 would be a huge success the PS3 though is still too much of a "boys" toy. What they need to do is put in a shop where you can buy blackjack tables, poker tables, a nice bar, stripper poll then watch the money roll in as club houses become the best thing to happen to consoles since... well since ever

Even non-xbots come to the conclusion that Home [Beta] is a sterile, barren collection of rooms and advertising. It's not pointless, but the point it's making doesn't make it a system seller. It has potential, but: when will that potential be realised? All we can do is twirl our thumbs.

Home's biggest problem is that the vast maojority of people out there are people you don't want to meet, ever, anywhere. Same goes with online games. Guess the facebook generation might like to make millions of 'friends' but for everyone else the more anonymous the idiots that you compete with online are the better.

playstation homo

sorry

Heh, and NXE got rave reviews here for what.....doing what the 360/ps3 can already do. Funny cause Home BETA does something different. In saying that its not my thing, but i'm sure others will love it when its more complete. Its free and its there.

Another thing why give this to a reviewer, who like me, doesn't like this sort of thing? It happened in the MGS4 review.

read like a 10/10

so... not as good as Halo?

Very nicely written preview. Good job.

It sounds absolutely shit to be frank. I can't understand for the life of me why anyone would want to waste time on something like this anyway, even if it was all well implemented and crafted.

Wow, Home stinks. Anyone surprised? No.
Sony has its head up its arse to think anyone would pay ongoing fees just to hang with their friends in this sterile 3D waiting room.

maybe