PS Home gets game launching today News

I like watching Home expand. It'll be interesting to see where it is a year or two from now. I look forward to this update.

Should be fully functional come 2020?

I think of Home as a trap for terrible terrible people. One day they'll all be in there and someone will press a button and they'll be trapped! Trapped forever! And there will be no more teabagging in games no more.

The End.

Welcome to 1995.

Cue hundreds of people claiming this has broken their PS3.

Also cue getting lost in a sea of "Home is SH!T" and "sonylol" posts.

I'd rather see them working on the PSN Store frankly.

I don't get it. I haven't used Home yet, is it really worth it? From what I hear it's a load of idiots dancing, if I wanted that I would just go to Flares on a Friday night.

@ M_of_the_sys

Hehe.

Is anyone actually still bothered about Home?

I still dont understand the point of Home.

There's no place like Home.

EG report on US Home shock horror! Next we'll get PS1 Classics on US PSN and where in the Big Apple to go to get a good bagel.

Stick to the stuff thats relevant for the EU!

without paying for it, PSN will never be upto the level of live. Expect a standard and a 'premium' version of PSN in the coming years. (silver xbox live and gold xbox live subscription)

As if Home didn't suck enough, the european Home sucks even worse. I really struggle to see where they're going with this.

"i wish sony would call it a day with home, as the time and money would be better spent getting psn up to xboxlive standard etc.."

As much as I think you're a moron, I have to agree.

Nice, these are features I've been looking forward to a lot. However, I haven't heard yet about starting games and demoes on the HDD ... Not supported yet? Or is that in the menu?

I log in to home probably once every 4-5 months. After half an hour of updates I play checkers for 3 minutes. I then realise it's still a load of sh*t and sign out.

Europe?

We'd all be fucked without the US... look at them... they can launch games out of HOME... man... last time I looked out my window at home I saw some drunk polish blokes... hang on....

Home is ok, I don't think it is really for misserable old people... social stuff like this is for the 'youf'.

By the way, I assume updates to Home will be mostly worldwide since you can still visit each other cross region in clubhouses and apartments. I use that for voice chat and such (voice chat is still active there) and for game launching as well (have four games that support it propertly now, so we're slowly starting to get somewhere with that ;) ) and universal game launching makes hanging out in an apartment with friends even more useful.

I don't think they could actually do anything to Home that would make me feel like downloading and installing it again, why not add cross game party chat and proper game invites to PSN instead?

But cant you just launch your games from the main PS3 menu? Why would I want to wait 5 minutes for home to start, then however long it takes to update, to launch a game!?!

Or am I missing the point?!

How is 21 miserable and old?

hey comrade, have you tried the pub yet?! last time I checked that place still showed footi + served beer on top of that... even with real ppl and all. I even heard it's supposed to be fun?!

Comrade-Bozzey: is that inbetween bouts of playtesting for Sony or actually working on Home itself?

I don't get the hate towards Home. I think it's an interesting experience and it's not like Sony is forcing you to use it. In fact, everytime I go to my cousin, I log in to Home just to annoy him. Because every time there's this 20 minute upgrade waiting to happen since he never logs in himself :P

'In fact, everytime I go to my cousin, I log in to Home just to annoy him. Because every time there's this 20 minute upgrade waiting to happen since he never logs in himself'

More fun than Home itself by the sounds of it, if I was him I would just delete it like everyone else.

mkreku, it would be fine and dandy if there weren't other things on the machine that needs the attention more... still if people use it, no problem for me, we all like different things. I just wonder where Sony's priorities are.

Yes horse, you're missing the point. If you're in Home, and you go say into someone's appartment or clubhouse, you have proximity based voice chat for up to 64 people in the clubhouse or apartment. If you launch a game from there to say do some multiplayer online or just to play a level, then when you quit out of the game you'll return to that apartment or clubhouse in Home and have your friends to chat with again. If you'd use your XMB for launching a game while in Home, then when you quit you'd return to the XMB instead of Home.

Additionally, for games that natively support game launching like Resi 5, SF4, Resistance 2, Warhawk, MotorStorm 2, and Far Cry 2 (I think that's most of them atm), you can then launch into a multiplayer game from Home directly while doing the setup and inviting people and friends etc still in Home, reserving friend spots, choose co-op play options or launch into a party in the actual game directly.

@ skerm

21... well past it.

This is LoLing.

"I love the Home hate from people who never use it and, in most cases, don't even own the console that uses it."

"It's optional, get over it."

I don't think that's the point, they are wasting development resources on something the majority of people find utterly pointless and don't use rather than adding the extra functionality to the XMB which I'm sure most people would prefer.

@ bozzy

freedom of speech ends on this site with anything positive about the ps3.. especially Home.

oh, and up the Latics.

I believe the real problem with home is not Home but instead Sony commitment to extend home but not the XMB. I believe a good majority of people on the PS3 will not use Home but instead we all use the XMB and having features like cross game chat, launching games Party mode like the 360 have are excellent value added features that everyone would probably use. I know I do not want to load up a front end go into another front end to meet my buddies and then start to do things I want.

Reply to raajaa comment "without paying for it, PSN will never be upto the level of live. Expect a standard and a 'premium' version of PSN in the coming years. (silver xbox live and gold xbox live subscription)"

so you really think your 50-60$ a year made Live what it is? The only difference between live and PSN is that MS is an experienced software and user interface developer. They knew how to make it easy enough for the children using the 360 to use. If you didnt have to pay for live it would be the same live and if you had to pay for PSN it would be the same PSN (growing and improving where they fell short).

@Machiavellian

I have been playing the uncharted beta and playing in parties can be pretty easy on the ps3. Its just mainly up to the developers to integrate those systems in their games. I have just started to see the benefit of cross game VOICE chat but i dont have a headset so it doesnt matter to me much even when sony does implement it. I doubt i would use voice chat to converse with ppl outside of the game I am playing anyway. Thats just chaos.

Regarding home, the first time i used it i saw it had a lot of potential to enhance gaming on the ps3. Sony needs to realize that though and make it a place where persons will want to visit whenever they have their PS3 on. your friends list would be there, your would launch movies there, launch games there etc.

Microsoft will copy it soon enough, thats a promise.

@Arwin thats impressive. Didnt know they got that far with it

Well somethings happened on the Euro Home.

V1.30 is out..