Sony’s Jack Buser, Director of PlayStation Home, has been discussing who the average user of PlayStation Home really is. The virtual world was built as a platform for both the casual and hardcore gamer to meet new people online. However, it’s clear that one demographic crowd the virtual space over any other.
“If you look at the average Home user, they are the most hardcore gamer on the PS3. They buy more games than the average PS3 user, they play more games than the average PS3 user. We’re talking about rabid consumers of media and hardcore gamers. That’s who these people are.”
Buser explains that while some users visit “between games”, others are “literally spending their lives inside of PlayStation Home”.
Home has seen record numbers following the PSN downtime, which made Buser and the rest of the PlayStation team very happy indeed.
“We were watching the numbers and we were just so excited. We were just dancing in the streets. The numbers are through the roof. I think it speaks to the loyalty of our user base, and to the power of these kinds of platforms.”
So we ask you the loyal TheSixthAxis readers, what kind of PlayStation Home user are you?
Source: Giant Bomb, via CVG
gideon1451
This is making me feel guilty for not going on it very often now, haha.
Parker
“what kind of PlayStation Home user are you?”
A non-existent one. I haven’t touched Home since the beta.
A2J7C
And it’s still the Beta… xD
Parker
Oh touché.
Of course, I meant the closed beta ;)
david
Is it ever going to come out if beta?
Spotter5
Bet they were doing the running man.
GamingBlueBoy
Lol
MrTwP
Just put that trophy room in and i’ll be on home every day
tonycawley
No you won’t. You’d log on, go “ooh that’s nice”, then never return, just like me!
MrTwP
Alright you got me
Sympozium
Why does people want this?..
SpikeyMikey23
Always see GTown playing/using home. I bought a pirate outfit for the picture xmas time but quickly lost intrest (I seem to lose intrest in a lot of things recently)
Darksidesystems
You know what Home needs? Events. Flashmob stuff. Places where 200 people can get together and do the zombie dance from the Thriller video to on-screen quicktime commands. Make that happen and you’ll see me and a lot of other people there!
Darksidesystems
(trophies for staying in time to the music!)
BrainDiver
This would really be awesome. You should email this guy suggesting it, see what he says :)
aerobes
I can’t remember the last time I used it and have zero desire to go back. The place is probably unrecognisable now.
BIGAL-1992
I haven’t been on home for a bit. Might go on it soon.
Forrest_01
Not sure ‘hardcore’ gamer is actually the term that correctly sums up home users to be honest – I get what they are saying, but what I class to be a ‘hardcore’ gamer would be someone that was constantly plugging away at PSN & BR games, not faffing about harrassing women in Home.
Besides my tongue in cheek comment above though, where exactly have they gotten the data that users are ‘hardcore’ anyway? How exactly would they know “They buy more games than the average PS3 user, they play more games than the average PS3 user.”??
The only thing I can see that they could gauge it on would be purchases in Home (hardly ‘hardcore’) & perhaps trophy lists? Thing is that I could buy a game a week, do nothing on it apart from do the install & return it for something else – That would make my trophy list huge, but would hardly qualify me as a hardcore gamer (unless I was literally completing/platinuming a game a week!).
Dunno if I am being a bit naïve, but I really don’t get where they would get their data from…
Bilbo_bobbins
I agree with you, a hardcore “gamer” surely is one that is gaming and not trying to chat up woman in Home?
Very confused
Crazy_Del
Same here 0_o everyone knows that I game a lot (hence the vast majority of trophies) I never I mean never use HOME, went there once and that was it really.
Forrest_01
& that’s still one more time than me matey!
SpikeyMikey23
you call being a sex pest – chatting up women? lol
bacon_nuts
I dont use it, it takes up precious hard drive space and there is little on there that is worthwhile. I went on it before, but figured it was social, which i’m not. The minigames and such are usually dull too.