10 Million Use Home
There's no place like Home.Published 18/12/2009 at 16:07 by Gastos84
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Sony have revealed that PlayStation Home now has over 10 million users – that means over 20 million pieces of ‘chicken skin’ covering over 20 million elbows!
The news was accompanied by the announcement of 3 new themed spaces: Uncharted 2, Ratchet & Clank and Motorstorm, and Sony don’t want it to stop there.
For developers, there’s no better way of driving interest in their titles than giving fans a hands-on, interactive experience based around the game itself. A game space in PlayStation Home ought to be a core element of every studio’s marketing strategy for new titles.
Home does seem to be evolving a lot as of late so you can expect many more spaces cropping up in the near future. Yesterday saw the opening of the first ever space to incorporate a purchaseable MMO game – Sodium One.
From a personal point of view, I have never been in Home except for 2 minutes when it launched. I’m hoping for a gory God of War 3 Home space…that could entice me back. How about you, do you use Home?
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skibadee | 18/12/2009 20:18
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been meaning to go back & have a look.
Imaruler | 18/12/2009 20:53
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I havent used it in a while. I only go on when theres a new space.
DRCD1 | 18/12/2009 21:38
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10 million… that is the population of Portugal, Y’know
FireasBall | 18/12/2009 21:55
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Sometimes
Hicko | 18/12/2009 23:20
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Chicken skin Gastos? Isn’t it scrotum skin??
illogicology | 18/12/2009 23:38
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Surprised by this, last time I used home it seemed like there wasn’t much interest.
hazelam | 19/12/2009 15:47
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bet most of that ten million is in the us, where they get the most content.
BryOnRye | 18/12/2009 23:44
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Haven’t been in Home for months and have no desire to go back any time soon.
ANTS101 | 18/12/2009 23:50
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I visited Home quite frequently when Xi was on but that was the only thing drawing my attention.
Since then I have deleted Home because I can’t waste 3gb of a precious 40gb PS3 on something that’s in my opinion very boring quite hollow. If you can’t find some decent people to talk to it just becomes very dull and starts to send you asleep.
I may move back into my virtual Home if I hear of something interesting and interactive coming.
justinjh | 19/12/2009 08:32
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I used to go onto Home quite a bit when it first launched. Now I pop on every now and again to see the new spaces, but after a quick wander round I don’t stay very long…
justinjh | 19/12/2009 08:33
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Oh, and I went on quite a bit when Xi was running, Home needs something like that again.
deadwelsh | 19/12/2009 08:37
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I go and have a look once in a while, but nearly everytime i log on i have to re-install each area i want to visit and then spend a few minutes watching the progress bar fill up very slowly.
I then usually switch onto sky for the evening and completely forget about home. Once it is downloaded i never stay for more than a couple of mins
hiab-x | 19/12/2009 11:50
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Well I fall into whatever demographic 38 year old male gamers occupy. I wanted home to intrigue and invite me in for multiple visits. In reality I found it rather dull. About a decade before I’d been a fan of Cybertown (A more basic- web browser based 3D chat community) Home isn’t a massive evolution of the 3D chat community principle-Graphically it is vastly superior but unless you go the extra mile and buy a keyboard, the whole experience is marred by a rather clunky comms interface that isn’t redeemed by throwing pretty graphics at it. I wanted to be ‘at one’ with the way my avatar worked and communicated, I just never felt it and so, lost interest in Home and began to view it as a waste of space on my 40GB PS3. It would be a greatly improved service if users could upload their own designs into the mix (I know that’s a can of worms that Sony will probably never dare to open)
Home would be a far more interesting experience if avatars and apartments had a far less generic mix of Sony approved designs. It would be vastly improved if headsets/mics could be used outside of the apartment environment. If the avatar mouths moved in sync with the users voice, If the Playstation eye recognised body gestures so the avatar could mimic them in realtime- thus removing all necessity piddling around with menus to find a pose- THEN the service would be much more interesting. Will it ever happen? hmmmmm
SYY2127 | 19/12/2009 18:30
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I dont go on home either
GGCAN | 19/12/2009 23:37
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I still use Home each week to view new spaces and get the free items in the theater. There are some strange people at times in Home, but aren’t there these same people out in our REAL world. I have met many great people in Home and have become friends with some of them. I love the new Sodium space and hope that it will expand into an even better space. I was an early Beta Home tester and wish they could have left the Voice chat in any area open, but it’s because people abuse their rights that others have to suffer for those idiots….Also loved the ability to region travel in the old days and that’s no longer there either, but that’s due to the different laws of each country around the world. I think Home is much better than the Xbox or Wi versions and think Home is the application that will expand most compared to the other two.
Severn2j | 21/12/2009 09:35
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I tried out Sodium over the weekend, and while fun for a few minutes, it got dull very quickly and then just dissolved into the general background tedium of Home itself.. Pretty much as I feared, really.