PS Home open to everyone this year
Closed beta to finish soon, says Sony.
PlayStation Home director Jack Buser has reassured gamers that the PS3 virtual world will be open to everybody this year.
"Like we've said, we're excited about moving PlayStation Home into its open beta stage this year. Once we make the move to open beta, everyone will have access to PlayStation Home," Jack Buser told IGN.
Hundreds of thousands of people were invited inside the closed PlayStation Home beta last week, and an even larger number are expecting invites today.
So far only "loyal" members of the PS3 community are being offered places, but Jack Buser said the closed phase is, well, closing.
"PlayStation Home is nearing the final stages of our closed beta. Last week we successfully moved to our 1.0 client, which places us on schedule for the launch of open beta this year," he said.
The ambitious and free virtual world was unveiled alongside LittleBigPlanet at GDC back in March 2007.
Since then, the online service has been delayed on numerous occasions, as Sony puts its features to the test.
So far, the results are promising, as our hands-on impressions of PlayStation Home pointed out.
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And whee, time to pretend to be 12 and chat up the girls
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No, you can't have it.
Jon
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I know you will be looking at this Lizer, so yes... I have posted a comment.
Oh, and playstaion love me more than you.
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But I bet they'll go hand in hand with 99% of the whiners here
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I'm guessing fannying about playing dress up in a virtual world is waaaay cooler, and somehow less camp then? Silly bugger.
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Homophobic and idiotic in one go! Great work!
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What?? I mean.... what??? Dear god man grow up. There's plenty of room in this world for more than one dash and more than one console. If you don't like it then why comment about it?
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Sweet, one less asshole on home then.
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anyway, looking forward to this home then. whenever it comes out. regarding the "open-beta" thing... most of google's stuff is still BETA... so, who cares?
it's free anyway, chill ppl
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So how's the whole loyalty working?
Anyway, I spent about a hour downloading the bowling alley (which is amusing), the mall (which has empty shops) and the movie theatre.
Where's the fabled "Uncharted" bar and the Warhawk strategy room?
There's not much else for me to do except talk to randomers and change my avatar. I now look like Djibriel Cisse. I have a red afro and white eyebrows with an explorers moustache.
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Then again, the universe usually has the last laugh. Everyone I've known who has felt the need to publically say 'Me I'm straight, I like girls' have turned out to be raging queens and a lot happier for it in the end. Funnily enough it also happened the opposite way arond with a gay friend who kept insisting how repulsed he was by women and then got a girlfriend. It's a weird world. NickJC, I hope you get what's coming to you if you keep up that attitude.
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Even if it was it's not necessarily called for is it?
Back on topic though i'm still intrigued by home and looking forward to seeing how it works once it's fully populated
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My main a/c which I've used 3 or 4 times a week on average most weeks since I got it on launch wasn't invited. Yet, my sub US account which I made in August and have used maybe once or twice a month for five minutes was!
Thought it was okay mind, not a lot to do yet.
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^ gay as a daffodil.
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Home started development in 2005 but the idea was first talked about in 2003 (possibly 2002) I believe, during an interview with some magazine.
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* talk about Home
* people calling NickJC a cock
good shit.
I'm glad he keeps getting banned and coming back so we have someone to ridicule. Although its a bit easy at times.
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oooo
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From the article: "The ambitious and free virtual world was unveiled alongside LittleBigPlanet at GDC back in March 2007."
Granted, I haven't been following the development of Home in the slightest, but unveiling does sound like they showed it for the first time in 2007? I'm sure there's been rumours since forever, but that's besides the point, I think.
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That probably explains why every now and then he pops up again. Apparently the ignore function is reset once people get banned.
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I don't do Facebook etc so this has a very limited appeal to me.
However, if the video bits work, then it would be a nice way of having friends round to watch naughty films
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I got on the Beta due to being a "valued customer" - read fool who got his PS3 at launch. Tried it for a laugh. I largely agree with you but it does have hooks into games in some respect. The party thing is done in home but through a different interface, it's also worse as it doesn't by default support all games. There are also little games in Home which kind of have an interesting social aspect to them - stuff like Bowling, Pool and Chess for example. What is interesting is that you wander up to the game setting and set up your game from there with someone else hanging about the area. As a social interaction it's more natural than simply connecting to a game with a random opponent. For people with a limited friends list this sort of interaction is more likely to get extra people on your list than a more usual connect to game type. Ok it's not that interesting but I can see a little more where they were going with Home ...
However, given they are not even competing with Live on some of the basic stuff yet, you can't really see the whole Home thing as anything but a massive waste of money and time
After having NXE for a while now I do love all the new features like parties and better mini-guide. But the "main" interface and organisation is still a bit of a mess. Too easy to get lost, too many ways to do the same thing or get to the same place and the advertising is obtrusive and adds to the confusion. The new mini-guide is a god send and makes up for the main interface deficiencies though - I just use that.
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PlayStation Home is a 3D, interactive, evolving service, exclusive to PS3. It's free to download and easy to use.
To take part please redeem your unique promotional code below using your PLAYSTATION 3 and join us in Home.
How to redeem your Promotional code and access Home
If you havent already done so, register for an account on PlayStationŽNetwork, then follow these steps:
1. Sign in to your PlayStationŽNetwork account via your PLAYSTATIONŽ3 system.
2. Once signed in, select [Account Management].
3. Choose [Redeem Code]
4. Enter your 12 character promotion code and select [Continue].
NOTE: promotion codes are case sensitive and must be entered exactly as displayed.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions to redeem the promotion code.
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Downloaded and installed (77mb file) Ran the update to 1.0.1 (26mb)
Created my character and went walkabout. Looks nice i suppose kinda like secondlife with beefed up gfx. Spent a total of half an hour walking round and downloading the extra areas like the mall and bowling alley. And thats that. Won't ever load it up again as its pointless unless you are into secondlife type social games. At least I can say that I tried it. I have no problem with home as long as they leave it as an optional download and don't ever try to replace the XMB with this.
I can't see anything worthwhile ever coming to Home so I deleted it and got back the 3,077mb of HDD space it 'reserves' for itself.
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