Sony details Home update plans

By Oli Welsh Published 2 March, 2009

Lots of stuff coming "in a few weeks".

PlayStation Home's community manager "Ted the Dog" has listed the short-term update plans for the PS3 virtual world. It seems there's a lot of content imminent, but he can't be specific about most of it.

According to Mr. the Dog, "spaces" for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and SOCOM: Confrontation are "nearly ready" and "due within a few weeks", as are the purchasable Street Fighter IV outfits.

Content relating to Siren: Blood Curse, Resident Evil 5 and Warhawk (which we were expecting to see last week) is "being prepared". "We will bring you more information on these as it becomes available," says our canine friend.

Slightly more concrete is a revised Home Square, coming "in early March, possibly as early as the 5th".

It sounds like Ted's got some news about expanded game launching support he can't tell us, because it would involve talking about unannounced patches to other people's games. He hopes to bring us news (can you guess?) "in the coming weeks".

On the long-promised music support, he's more guarded. "Playing your own music to others within Home is an extremely complex licensing issue that will take time to solve, if it is at all possible.

"In the meantime we are investigating various ways of allowing you to play your own music to yourself. We are also talking to other 3rd parties about making their music available to you in various ways," he says.

Finally, unlockable Street Fighter IV items (rewards for winning online matches) are already in Home, and some clothing's been added, including free Watchmen t-shirts and outfits which are now available from the Threads store.

Apart from the ones that are "not quite ready and will follow on as soon as they are".

Plenty going on then, but it seems like "never give a date until you know it's ready" is one of the many rules of running an online world that Sony has yet to learn.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Doctor_What #1 3 years ago

    Meh. I was quite excited by this stuff a year ago, but it's been too little, too late. I've not really seen the benefit of it to the system, except for lecherous boys to dance around cross-avataring other boys.

  • Santino #2 3 years ago

    they should release an update that allows me to remove the home icon from the main interface to completely rid my system of this unwanted stench. worst piece of software i've ever used, i've had more fun with a virus.

  • NotSoSlim #3 3 years ago

    All coming along slowly but surely

  • Widge #4 3 years ago

    Patch to remove need for MGO 'guff'

  • markypants #5 3 years ago

    I love how it's always a few weeks away...

  • drumbaby #6 3 years ago

    I love how it's free, but every fucker and his mum still whinges about it.

  • Rash' #7 3 years ago

    farty, if a software doesn't appeal to you it doesn't constitute it as bad software design...

    as for ads on a paid for service, well come on now... dubious at best.

  • Retroid #8 3 years ago

    A "space" for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune? How long after the release of that game, exactly?

    Obviously it'll probably get Uncharted 2 stuff added, but still!

  • linksdad #9 3 years ago

    Stop patching bloody games Sony. Especially for this garbage.

    Your non background loading 10's of megabyte patches from your hamster powered PSN servers makes me want to snap my dualshock every single time.

  • insincere_dave #10 3 years ago

    Game Changer.

  • Santino #11 3 years ago

    @ Umberty

    don't even get me started on the nxe interface, i hate the new dashboard and the limited avatars and like the xmb. you shouldn't jump to conclusions ;)

  • Widge #12 3 years ago

    how dare you say anything negative about Live

  • Ryze #13 3 years ago

    The SFIV outfits should have been free and available from the launch of the game.

    What should cost, is the ability to actually change your avatar into Ryu, M. Bison, Blanka, Chun-Li etc.

    There should also be a decent SFIV space in Home, which is more part of the game engine, but accessible from Home - and makes it easy to match up with other groups for massive arcade-esque winner stays on sessions and tournaments.

    It should be a place to watch others play on a 'big screen' and to check out the SF IV leaderboards. There should be a big notice showing who this day / week / month's best or most improved player is, who has pulled off the biggest combos etc and with replays of the best action available.

    Why am I not holding my breath for any of this?

  • moggsy #14 3 years ago

    In the meantime we are investigating various ways of allowing you to play your own music to yourself.

    I can understand how this would be an extremely taxing technical problem.

    o_O

  • moggsy #15 3 years ago

    @ Rash'

    as for ads on a paid for service, well come on now... dubious at best.

    Well Sky have made a tidy sum out of doing this and no one seems to complain?

  • GamesConnoisseur #16 3 years ago

    Golly!! I m soooo excited!!

    Cant wait and erm willl Home have content related to Halo Wars or Gears of War 2 anytime soon?!

    /Rolls eyes at Sony and people who declare their love for Home and they are very quite welcome to it!

  • Burkey123 #17 3 years ago

    Wait! The Warhawk room isn't even up yet!? I thought it was up last week?