It seems like version 1.0 of Home isn’t far away at all now. Community Manager TedTheDog (real name) has let us know today that over the coming weeks we’ll be hearing a lot about Home 1.0, starting with patch notes in the private Beta forums for those already invited, followed by the release of 1.0 to those of us with earlier versions. Sadly, this won’t be this week, but it’s not far away.
Soon after, SCEE will invite a large number of additional testers into the closed Beta, ramping up the invites over a period of time, and the invites will include non-English speaking testers for the first time. Languages covered will be English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, and the lists have already been chosen, so changing your language now won’t have any effect.
The date of the open Beta will be announced in advance, at which point Home 1.0 will be available to all, although this doesn’t imply the end of the road. Ted says that the first iteration of Home will grow from that foundation over the coming months and years, so there’s plenty of development still to come. Let’s hope that mythical 1.0 is soon, then…
Via the EU Forums
November 13th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Can’t see it being out before nov 19th tho
nice one Sony
nofi Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
It HAS to be.
Jas-n Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Yus, and ABSOLUTE LATEST 31st Dec. Otherwise, Epic Fail. (Check out Life in LittleBigPlanet Part 2)
November 13th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Second Life sorry Home is really starting to bore me now. I doubt that we’ll see it this side of xmas. Whats it going to do for me other than clog up valuable hard drive space.
edgefusion Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
If you’ve played both Second Life and Home then you’ll realise that they’re quite dissimilar.
November 13th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I speak english and german, does that double my chances of getting in?
lol
come on sony, 6 days left to get it out there…
November 13th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
i think hank the ranger, eric the cavalier, diana, presto, sheila and that annoying turd bobby will get home before us!
November 13th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Sorry i don’t believe a word.
Ramping up the hype methinks!!
Jas-n Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
thinking about it that word “soon” was used to describe Home quite a lot in the past.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Despite your post title, you give no details at all…. I guess if you’d have put ‘coming soon’ in the title, no one would have bothered read it!
nofi Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
What do you want me to do, spill everything that’s in it? Read the Beta forums, that sort of thing isn’t public knowledge.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
It’s got to the point where I now think that Home will arrive when it arrives and there’s f*%k all we can do about it so I’ve kinda lost interest partly… I’m sure when it finally does arrive I’ll be like a kid at Christmas but until then….
November 13th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
I want to get ‘erotic’ in ‘home’..or is that the other way round ?
November 13th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
C’mon !!! Get it out before the new 360 avatar system !
Get it done Sony or your gay for David cassidy !
November 13th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
It would be so cool to see a set up like this for mobile phones. That way you wouldn’t have to be at home sitting in front of your console all the time. It would be sweet to see how such a thing would be done on the Motorola Krave (motorola.com/krave). Ever since I started working with them I have become a huge fan of all it’s features. Anyone else have a set up they would like to see this system work on besides a console?
November 13th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
So you´re saying I will be kicked out of Home when 1.0 launches, since my PS3 is set to Norwegian?
Need some clarifications here, Nofi. Where´s your source? Beta forums?
nofi Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Where did I say that? The source is attached to the post…
November 13th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
“..the invites will include non-English speaking testers for the first time. Languages covered will be English, French, Italian, German and Spanish..”
I was just wondering since I´m not from any of these, and already in the beta
However, TedtheDog is a nice young man and we have no reason to doubt him..
But, to conclude, it will be nice that Home opens up a little more as the time moves on
3shirts Says:
November 14th, 2008 at 6:49 am
The key is ‘invites’. If you are a party and they invite some more people, they don’t kick out the current guests!
November 13th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
There were rumours of a Nov. 19th release date, take it that this probably won’t happen then. Would have been good for a release alongside NXE on the same day
cc_star Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
NXE will beat Home
Mike Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
You think so? I sure hope not, Home could be a good boost for ps3 sales if marketed correctly, but going by past track records, probably not….
cc_star Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
6 days to go…. well nearly 5
I can’t see it, the load testing on the servers will take at least 2-4 weeks
3shirts Says:
November 14th, 2008 at 6:53 am
How exactly will NXE ‘beat’ Home? They are on differnt platforms. What would you class as winning? Almost everyone who has a 360 will have NXE and likewise for PS3 and Home.
I can only assume you mean NXE will sell more Xboxes than Home will PS3s, and given all the other factors I don’t know how you’d even measure that
cc_star Says:
November 14th, 2008 at 10:50 am
I mean by release date
As in NXE will be available for all 360 owners to download from Nov 18th
Home will be available in beta form sometime before Dec 31t
November 13th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
can’t wait for home…. gonna sit in my virtual apartment and play a virtual world of warcraft on my virtual pc while eating virtual taco’s and growing virtually fat…
cc_star Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Deleted, sorry modded due to several IP infringements
Spotter5 Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Ah, rats!
November 13th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Wow, just wow. Another Home news update, another day without a actual release date.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Yet another beta i wont be invited too, and yet another home update i dont believe. In fact, i think this Home thing is all a big fraud!. I dont believe it at all. There is no Home!!! Cmon fellas, they’ve been telling us its coming soon since launch day. Wake up everyone, Home is a Hoax!!!
November 14th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Would be cool if it did release on the 19th.. Thats my birthday. What a great present that would be.
Not gonna hold my breath tho.
November 14th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
hope my internet comes back before home gets released