Sony reveals PS Home for PSP

By Robert Purchese Published 24 September, 2009

Room is out this year in Japan.

Sony has unveiled a new online community service for PSP called Room, which will be free and available to all Japanese PSP and PSPgo owners before the end of the year.

Like PlayStation Home, Room allows 3D avatars to be created and room spaces decorated. Friends can then pop over to see what you've done, relaying their thoughts in real-time. "It's rubbish, start again."

Blogs can also be posted, albums compiled and groups of people ushered into circles to share topics in and chat.

Sony Japan will send closed beta invites out to select people over the coming months.

Sony Europe, on the other hand, had no further information to share.

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Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (25) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • charming_fox #1 2 years ago

    PSPglol

    BTW: Thirst!
    Edited by 1 at 24/09/09 @ 15:18

  • Toothball #2 2 years ago

    You know, this is one thing I wouldn't mind if they didn't bother bringing it to Europe. Not like all of the other stuff.

  • elephant_stone #3 2 years ago

    If this can tie in with PS3 Home then I suppose its a natural evolution.....but I can see this being a bit pointless.

    Also - when are they bringing the functionality to post pictures from your mobile to your PS Home apartment picture frames (not that they are even out in EU land) and also post stuff to your PS Home online page. If your wondering what Im on about just look at the old videos of Phil Harrison when Home was being hyped.

  • Apostle #4 2 years ago

    They should sort Home out first.

  • Goffee #5 2 years ago

    "PSP Go Home..." as ET never said

    "Meh" as most (well three) PSP users said... can't we just have some complete games that aren't missing vital bits?

  • JohnnyWashnGo #6 2 years ago

    Home. as nice as it is, seems pointless to me. I have used it perhaps 5 times and no more. There is no reason to use it.

    PSP Home sounds like more of the same. I want to play games on my machine, not waste my time in some virtual world.

    There is a fine line between wasting time playing a game and wasting time using a games system. The former gives you a sense of achievement, the latter makes you feel like you could be doing something better, more constructive.

  • cnlfailure #7 2 years ago

    ...the latter makes you feel like you could be doing something better, more constructive.

    Like commenting on a games article?

  • Retroid #8 2 years ago

    What an excellent way to waste cash and dev time :/

    Of all the none-game things I use my PSP for, I've never felt the need for anything like this.

  • sneetch #9 2 years ago

    I'm surprised they've done so little with home or this new room. If they'd introduced some kind of "RPG lite" into the world it could be awesome. Instead it's a fairly heavyweight lobby system.

    If they'd introduced some kind of Pokémon knock-off into the Home world then it'd be thronged.

    Unless you had to queue to "battle" your Not-a-mons! Which you probably would have.

  • JohnnyWashnGo #10 2 years ago

    Like commenting on a games article?

    Lol, luckily for me, I get to comment on these boards when I kick off a build of my software.

  • Ryze #11 2 years ago

    Meh,

    I bet this is completely separate to the rest of the PSP - ie not integrated in anyway, with no idea if anyone you know is online using the service while you're using the PSP for other activities.

    Prove me wrong, Sony...

  • jonsaan #12 2 years ago

    Oh good god. So that's what they've been up to. And here's me thinking they've been building an awesome store.

  • Toothball #13 2 years ago

    @JohnnyWashnGo:

    You mean you're compiling?
    Edited by 1 at 24/09/09 @ 16:15

  • onyxbox #14 2 years ago

    I don't know why there's so much hate towards Home.

    Personally, couln't give a shit whether it exists or not... it's not my cuppa' tea but I understand that some people like that sort of thing.

  • Arwin #15 2 years ago

    I think Japan is getting this because Japan seems to like Home, and also has this white cat thing that is quite successful. The way it's styled and presented though, I'm getting the impression that it's built so that it can be easily rolled out to the rest of the world.

  • jonsaan #16 2 years ago

    I have no hatred for home, but I do think there are other areas SONY should be concentrating their resources.

  • Cataferal #17 2 years ago

    "It's rubbish, start again."

    My reaction to PS Home in general.

  • M_of_the_sys #18 2 years ago

    +1 onyxbox

    People tend to think that they're the sole target for a company and that if they themselves don't like it then it must OBVIOUSLY be a waste of time and money.

  • INSOMANiAC #19 2 years ago

    The only thing I can think of thats duller than home is home with less stuff, worse graphics, on a smaller screen with one analogue stick.

  • linksdad #20 2 years ago

    With the roaring success of home, how can they fail?

  • Ryze #21 2 years ago

    @M_of_the_sys

    Er... no - if Home was well implemented - it could be great. It's the shoddy integration of Home with the PS3 that's pathetic. It's just 'typical Sony' all the bloody time.

    If they want to plough millions into a service - then make it USEFUL and USABLE. the experience of using home's like a bad joke at the moment.

    Perhaps the option to store it on high speed flash memory would help? It would still need better INTEGRATION with the rest of the PS3 OS and experience.
    Edited by 3 at 24/09/09 @ 19:48

  • SeesThroughAll #22 2 years ago

    Oh...

    Interesting?

  • Marshall2008 #23 2 years ago

    PSP Homo.

  • SpaceMonkey77 #24 2 years ago

    This is silly bs.

    What Sony should be doing, is concentrating on getting trophy support onto PSP, so I can bother to finish some of my PSP games. I'm so damn surprised they haven't done this yet, especially with 360 games selling on achievements so much. Such a move might have more of a dramatic effect on PSP games sales.

    They need to strike while the iron is hot, because I'm betting that MS will intergrate Zune HD games onto their great Live Gold/Games for Windows accounts with achievements.

  • TRUTH #25 2 years ago

    does anyone even bother with PS3 Home ?...It's so shit and slow!