PS3 Insiders have a difficult to read story in amongst the mess of advertising that might point to an earlier release for Home. Basically someone noticed that the code to get in to “personal spaces” was 1024 and jumped to the conclusion that this means Home will open it’s doors on October 24th. I know it’s a tenuous grasp for substance but it’s as good as anything we’ve got so far.
That would coincide with the release of LBP and Far Cry 2, signify the final nail in the coffin of my already pitiful social life and possibly put my marriage at risk. Unless Home has Pac Man, then I’m saved.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Ever expanding beta is confirmed, but when it starts expanding isn’t
They’re not going to let in 10,000,000 million or so people in one day
colossalblue Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 11:08 am
fair point, the servers would melt. It will have to get rolling soon though or it won’t have time to totally open before the end of the year
October 13th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Goodness me, that’s one hit-baiting subject from PS3Insiders.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:58 am
I really don’t think it’s going to be released then, i’m in the beta and it’s only on version 0.98, another update is needed before it can go to 1.00
colossalblue Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Version 1.0 is usually preserved for a finished product, Sony have already said that when home opens it will be a beta so shouldn’t actually be a whole-number version. If the current Beta is 0.98 then the open beta would be 0.99 and when they actually decide it’s ready it will become version 1.0
ddraegcymru Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Yea, that’s what I meant to say haha, I know it’s going to be pretty soon because when you log into the beta it says please report any errors etc so we can prepare for the open beta in the next few weeks
Tiran Kenja Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Version numbers are not decimal numbers. Instead they are often simply two separate numbers put together by a point (three numbers put together by 2 dots).
Depending on the version scheme they might have had a version 0.9 and then gone on to 0.10. Also they could jump several numbers in one release so they could go from 0.43 to 0.50.
Since they are in their nineties now there is a lot of speculation that the open beta will be version 1.0. But it is pure speculation and does not need to be true. Open beta versioning could just as well start on 0.100 or something like that.
colossalblue Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Fair point, well made. I hope that isn’t the case though.
October 13th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Wow - I took a stab in the dark and predicted Oct 21st over at PS3Attitude.
I didn’t ACTUALLY think it would happen though.
Still don’t …
October 13th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
1024 is a really tough number to base assumptions on. It is a way too common number to instantly say it has to be a date. It is also a very import number in computers, so it could just be the first 4-digit number a programmer thought of.
Also SCEJ has officially announced that they will have a final extended closed beta from late October to early November.
colossalblue Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I think of screen resolutions when I hear that number (as in 1024×768) but it would also fit memory alocations wouldn’t it?
Also, and this has just occured to me, isn’t home a SCEE thing? In which case the 24th October is actually 2410.
Tiran Kenja Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
1024 is the closest number to 1000 that is a power of 2, so it is used all over. For instance there is 1024 bytes in a kilo byte, and 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte…. and so on
October 13th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I’m thinking the gMail invites system will be a more favourable way of launching
Home will be better and maybe more fun, if when you get into it people you already know are in there
You’ll also be more likely to re-visit.
I know it’s not 2ndlife, but comparisons with it are inevitable as you basically are an avatar, and you can visit different places… including places corporations have set up
2ndlife has had millions of people download and play it once, but how many log-in for a 3rd or 4th time etc.. I believe the number to be as low as 10’s of thousands
This is because of hype, everyone talking about it so you download it and go into it, then your surrounded by other n00bs who also don’t know what they’re doing, you suddenly realise how to get around so you go off to another area and then your surrounded by other people who ‘live’ on the game, they usually hate n00bs so you end up not bothering to log in again, as the game isn’t accessible!
Home has the potential to be amazing but in this culture of blogging and forums it also has the potential to be written off as shit, which would be a crying shame, as the ideas and the tech are amazing
October 13th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I think you’ll find that in the forums on September 21st in a thread titled, FW 2.50 and Home v1.0 Out in October, I wrote:
“Maybe Home will be released on Firmware 2.5 on October 24th. The day LittleBigPlanet is released?”
A stab in the dark but it still makes perfect sense to me. Home & LBP have been talked about at the same time by Sony on numerous occasions and to release them at the same time seems perfect. Also to release them both on slightly different days through out the world would also stop Sony’s servers from meltdown when everyone is downloading Home.
21/10/08 USA - Gets Home & LBP
22/10/08 EU & Australia - Gets Home & LBP
24/10/08 UK &Ireland - Gets Home & LBP
27/10/08 Japan - Gets Home & LBP
Gawge Says:
October 13th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Personally I don’t think Home and LBP will be released on the same day. Sony would get more attention doing this on seperate days, not wanting to steal another games thunder.
thefamouskevin Says:
October 14th, 2008 at 10:34 am
I agree with this, but I think that Home will be launched worldwide at the same time, and possibly with a firmware update. To stop servers getting overloaded they can just keep Europeans in Europe, Americans in America etc. My feeling was always that it would be before LBP, and about a week before to allow things to die down. It also makes sense for it to be on a Monday - it might ease the flow of people logging on at the weekend.
I just hope when it does come then it is as exciting as speculating about it.
October 14th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
I am salivating for HOME. The features just really open my eyes wide with anticipation. If it drops this month or next year,I kno I’ll be happy with what I get.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Well the 1024 meaning Oct 24th release wasn’t true then…
November 9th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
maybe it means roughly October 2024, it’ll be the proud flagship feature of the Sony-Microsoft X-Playstation 6…and we’ll all be driving flying cars living on the moon and eating protein pills for food. PMPL
cc_star Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
And virtual T-shirts will cost 4 grand
I might buy several now, and just watch my investment grow
November 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Home release date predictions are getting as complex as some of the great conspiracy theories!! hehe… I think we’ve more chance of slapping a saddle on Shergar than getting a definite date! :p