Sony boasts of big support for Home

By Oli Welsh Published 9 February, 2009

24 companies licensed to create content.

A Sony Japan presentation has revealed a list of 24 publishers and developers that have been given licences to create content for PlayStation Home.

EA and Capcom have already revealed their plans for Home content. Other big publishing names on the list include Activision, Disney, SEGA, Konami, Namco Bandai and Ubisoft.

A number of independent Japanese developers - Q Entertainment, Nippon Ichi, and Game Republic - line up in the list alongside stalwarts of the Japanese game industry like Acquire, Atlus, Hudson and Tecmo.

There's nothing to say that these companies will definitely develop Home content, but acquiring a licence is some kind of statement of intent.

Here's the full list, as revealed by the presentation slide at Watch Impress:

  • Acquire
  • Activision
  • AQ Interactive
  • Atlus
  • Capcom
  • D3 Publisher
  • Disney Interactive
  • EA
  • Game Republic
  • Genki
  • Gungho
  • Hudson
  • Irem
  • Koei
  • Konami
  • Namco Bandai
  • Nippon Ichi
  • Paon
  • Q Entertainment
  • Sega
  • SNK Playmore
  • Spike
  • Tecmo
  • Ubisoft
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Comments (51) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • jonsaan #1 3 years ago

    \Tries to polish turd

  • Razz #2 3 years ago

    /thrusts crotch at jonsaan

    /dances

    /teabags random person

  • jerrymanu #3 3 years ago

    yeand..........

  • Hunam #4 3 years ago

    24 companies and I still don't care.

  • Gurgeh #5 3 years ago

    One day they'll tear it down and make it into a multi-storey carpark, with attached waste land.

  • DFawkes #6 3 years ago

    I can see the point of some things - like the Resi 5 space, so you can get a co-op partner and get into the game. That's if the invites and party stuff all works, the Resi 5 demo Invite System isn't easy to use.

  • strelok #7 3 years ago

    even if i did give a sh*t about it, sony somehow forgot to make home available in all of europe.
    how...surprising.

  • kangarootoo #8 3 years ago

    I'm not sure where you got "boast" from in all of that.

  • Bealsy #9 3 years ago

    All I can say is I'm glad it's not my Home. What a pile of wankity wank

  • Rash' #10 3 years ago

    there's a good selection of jap devs there and the big western publishers are all accounted for. will look forward to home when there's more content.

  • jonsaan #11 3 years ago

    If they could build on the current HOME and eliminate ALL loading of any kind then they just might be on to something. Just bunging in more areas that take forever to download ain't gonna cut it.

  • SixFootHalfling #12 3 years ago

    So Sony has 24 advertisers on its new service - good news everyone!

  • insincere_dave #13 3 years ago

    Game changer.

  • bad09 #14 3 years ago

    "So Sony has 24 advertisers on its new service - good news everyone! "

    That made me chuckle :)

    I remember when Sony used to announce games not advertisers, I guess there's nothing coming out in 2-3 years they can show a FMV mock up of yet.... ;)

  • Cappy #15 3 years ago

    How about some games Sony?

    Please?

  • Goodfella #16 3 years ago

    I'm not into Home myself (as it stands) but I can see why a lot of people are, and they are and no amount of hating on it will stop that.

    They really need to sort out the load times though, I was shocked when I first used Home and saw that you had to load each (small) area, and they're not short load times either!

  • jim1975 #17 3 years ago

    @ jonaas\Tries to polish turd

    the mythbusters proved you CAN actually polish a turd

  • rascoj64 #18 3 years ago

    home is toooo slooooowwwww & stuff is too expensive to buy! they should have lots of give aways like they do with LBP! It's getting a yawn looking at everone with the same outfits on etc.

  • Widge #19 3 years ago

    I want a Microsoft area on it.

  • Thunderbolt #20 3 years ago

    'How about some games Sony?

    Please?'

    You just got Killzone what more do you want!

  • onyxbox #21 3 years ago

    If people in here don't like Home then it's a good thing IMO. I don't think we're the main demographic.

    Like many others, I've been in, had a look around and thought... it's an interesting concept... virtual space 'n all that but I'd rather be playing CoD4 / Dead Space / Resistance or anything else... but that's me.

    Sony, are widening their appeal by putting out stuff like this, Little Big Planet and Singstar's etc. Their platform has a pretty broad appeal and they're building on it... the last barrier to a wider audience is price and if Home is well established by the time the price drops to about £170 then I can see a lot of 'casuals' enjoying it and buying crap for their space etc.

  • themorganator #22 3 years ago

    PS3 released in Europe: March 2007.
    PS3 HOME finished and working in............................................

    nice.

  • DFawkes #23 3 years ago

    Someone once said LBP would've been a perfect Home - custom Sackboys for all, custom Home spaces, and the main spaces could be a lot more interactive. But as is, Home is functional enough.

  • kangarootoo #24 3 years ago

    @jonsaan

    "If they could build on the current HOME and eliminate ALL loading of any kind then they just might be on to something"

    How on earth could they eliminate all loading? Or have I misunderstood something.

    Do you mean streaming instead of loading screens? Given that you can hop to anywhere from anywhere, I don't see how streaming can be an option. Streaming only works if the game has an idea of where you are able to go next.

  • Buztafen #25 3 years ago

    /logs onto home for first time
    /walk to apartment door
    /downloads exterior location
    /wanders around finding 4 people doing 'the robot', 7 people playing chess (one person on his own!), 9 people watching a screen with random adverts on all claiming Sony are the best thing to follow since that well know corporate entity 'christanity' was founded...
    /walks to door and gets asked whether or not to download a new area
    /tries to find the 'facepalm' action in list of commands
    /fails...does manual facepalm
    /logs off
    Edited by 1 at 09/02/09 @ 14:26

  • Cappy #26 3 years ago

    @cappy

    think they've got plently of games this year, more than microsoft anyway :p

    Of course, but more wouldn't hurt. They need to offer a broader range of titles and stop pouring sacks of money into titles like Killzone and make types of game that we wouldn't often get from second and third parties.
    Edited by 1 at 09/02/09 @ 14:29

  • penhalion #27 3 years ago

    24 companies pledge support and two users pledge to use the service................hmmmmm

  • interceptor #28 3 years ago

    I bet they all signed the contracts before everyone realised how shit Home is

  • Cappy #29 3 years ago

    There are some interesting games there, but there are still gaps in the lineup they need to fix such as a lack of RPGs and adventure/exploration type games.

    Sony just don't seem to have any clear direction with their first party output. Why did they rush Resistance 2 which could have done with a little more time when they had Killzone 2 waiting in the wings? Why even pour resources into making two games that are so similar to each other in the first place? It definitely doesn't serve PS3 owners well, those resources could have been used for all sorts of things, such as putting stuff worth doing into Home, or Dark Cloud 3 or Parappa the Rapper 3, or a new Vib Ribbon game etc. Instead we got first person shooter x 2.

  • Widge #30 3 years ago

    Well, they're not the only first party games in the last 12 months....

  • homerramone #31 3 years ago

    funny how all those who think home is shit/ dont care/ dont get it?/ dont own a ps3
    I own a Ps3. I think its shit, because I just dont care to get it....


  • Cappy #32 3 years ago

    I've got no problem with Home, I'm not forced to use it and I don't have to pay for the base functionality.

    The real gripe is that we'd rather the press release was "Sony boasts of big support from software developers".

  • jonsaan #33 3 years ago

    @kangarootoo. I mean ALL loading once you are in HOME. I have no idea how they would do that. I'd just like it! :)

    Surely it's possible to maks the loading of areas? Jack and Daxter managed that umpteen years back.

  • Cappy #34 3 years ago

    Two RPGs? Demon's Soul and White Knight Chronicles you mean?

    Demon's Soul I'm definitely looking forward to, White Knight Chronicles doesn't look very good at all. So thats two exclusive RPGs in approximately two and a half years of the PS3 life span. So I'm going to possibly have four or five exclusive RPGS worth buying in the entire life span of the PS3?

    I think there is a little bit of room for improvement there.
    Edited by 1 at 09/02/09 @ 17:29

  • Widge #35 3 years ago

    You can't ditch the 'loading' in home completely. When you're going between areas its effectively attaching you to a server for that area. Like swapping servers on Steam or something. You're always going to have that syncing as you go from place to place.

  • Widge #36 3 years ago

    Folklore as well, and Valkyria Chronicles, and Disgaea 3.

  • Cappy #37 3 years ago

    Disgaea 3 and Valkyria Chronicles are SRPGs.

    | forgot about Folklore, it's a hybrid game which is difficult to specify as being in one genre but yes I'll put it in the RPG column. Three RPGs then.

  • Widge #38 3 years ago

    \o/ is the magic number \o/

  • kangarootoo #39 3 years ago

    @jonsaan

    What you are talking about there is the streaming of neighbouring zones, but that is limited in scope. It doesn't suit Home (or any game) where you can just teleport between areas. It only works when areas are physically connected in a way that restricts the routes you can take between them.

    It gets used in games all the time, but only when the game knows where you could possible go next. Its the reason so many games have strange little zig-zagging corridors cutting line of sight between areas (or the reason doors take seemingly random amounts of time to open in Dead Space).

    Something like Fallout 3 uses a combination, so if you walk from A to B it will stream in the landscape ahead, but if you teleport there, you have to wait whilst the new area loads in.

    Incidentally, a little game dev tit bit for you re Jak and Daxter (assuming I am remembering the right game). J&D would use long corridors as branches between streamed game areas, but occasionally (due to disc read lag or whatever) they found the player character getting to the door at the end before the area behind it had loaded in. A solution to that issue was to make Jak trip up. He would take an extra second to get back on his feet, and that extra second was enough time for the next area to finish streaming into memory :)

  • kungfubob #40 3 years ago

    I really dont care about HOME and i would rather see Sony invest all that money into games,after all thats why i bought my PS3 in the first place.

  • penhalion #41 3 years ago

    I liked folklore, though the devs should have asked some Irish people about their myths before hand....

  • paulf #42 3 years ago

    24 companies - thats about one for each person who has logged on more than once :)

    seriously though the more content the better, they need to drop all the silly micropayments though - do that and in a year it might actually be decent

  • Thunderbolt #43 3 years ago

    kangarootoo,

    About J&D, thanks that was very interesting, I always like hearing about little quirks in games.

  • GamesConnoisseur #44 3 years ago

    I own PS3 and have a reasonable game collection, as can be verified by my trophy being at level 6 nearing level 7 and 25 games with trophies attached so far and plenty more without.

    Still I have to say am gosmacked at how praises are heaped at HOME when PC have equivalent doing far far better with far less loadings! Idea is good on paper but in practice I hated it! What can it do that XMB cant? Why not add party system to XMB like NXE for X360 and that would have been a lot more popular?!

    Why should I waste time loadings to get into a game changer, and party option but not after faffing about other 15 mins trying to chat up people who too busy doing robots. People who wanna socialise are better off with Facebook/MySpace!

    I m not xbot but for me its not a feature that I or my PS3 owning mates loves!

    Maybe they can make it more attractive but games would be a better bet! Resources spends on Home is resources less for PSN/Games.

  • kangarootoo #45 3 years ago

    @Thunderbolt!

    I thought that was a little bit of genius when I heard about it. Taking a technical problem and actually adding extra value to the game with the solution, as many players would view the occasional stumbling over as a little expected comedy gem :)

  • Ryze #46 3 years ago

    As I mentioned probably a year or more ago:

    Not enough RAM, not enough RAM, this wont work well as there's not enough RAM.

    Loading, please wait....................

  • rarebit #47 3 years ago

    i think it was me playing chess on my own...

  • Daymare #48 3 years ago

    Home should be based completely on LittleBigPlanet (but in 3D), where you could hop around with customizable sackboys/girls (also based on famous game characters - easy advertising) and do all those things you can already do in Home (not much, from what I gathered here) and more but without everything looking so goddamn boring. There would be more physics-based special rooms/levels you could go in with only a couple of people and play around and of course game-based sections, promoting released and upcoming games. You could design and arrange your private space like your own little LittleBigPlanet-ish level and there would of course be an option to buy extra, special content for your sackboy and your "appartment" and so on. Theater section, bowling, all that would still be there.

    Now *that's* a Home I'd be interested in! But hey, too late for that, I guess.

  • onyxbox #49 3 years ago

    home just needs guns and violence and drug dealing... then it will appeal more to the 'hard' core

    ;-)

  • jonsaan #50 3 years ago

    @kangarootoo. Cool info. Thanks! My only question would now be that in it's current state, Home isn't very big. So surely the loading of areas is still a bit....well naff? I mean I could understand if it was this giant land you could wander through but it's actually pretty damn small no?

  • davisorle #51 3 years ago

    And the point of this list is that there is a POSSIBILITY to see videos you can find everywhere else online of their games?

    I really don't get how this is something to improve for the gamer his experience on the damn console through the crapy Home... Oo