PlayStation Home 100% guaranteed for 2008 release

by James Ransom-Wiley { Aug 25th 2008 at 5:10PM }

... by Martijn Van der Meulen. To be fair, Van der Meulen is a producer on the Home project, who apparently assured IGN during Games Convention that the service would launch sometime this year. "Van der Meulen told me (without hesitation) that it is a 100 percent guarantee that Home will be released by the end of this calendar year. He has absolutely no doubt that this will be the case," IGN's Ryan Clements reports. Well, there you have it, just blame Van der Meulen when Sony rushes to get you all moved in later this year and, with the first step you take into your new Home, you fall right through the ... map.

Tags: home, leipzig-08, playstation-home

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

lwelyk @ Aug 25th 2008 5:13PM

Read my lips: No Taxes.

Snatcher (MDF - Halo Ring) @ Aug 26th 2008 3:00AM

Leatherhead does not approve of your message. He shall pinch you with lobsters.

lwelyk @ Aug 25th 2008 5:14PM

Read my lips: No Taxes.

lwelyk @ Aug 25th 2008 5:14PM

Bah, stupid comment system.

Killjebus @ Aug 25th 2008 5:49PM

Its...no NEW taxes.

343 Guilty Fart @ Aug 25th 2008 5:57PM

Pics or it didn't happen.

Duke @ Aug 25th 2008 5:57PM

Yeah, he's got ya there.

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Aug 25th 2008 6:13PM

No Texas!? What, did Texas get invaded by Mexico?

j.howlett @ Aug 25th 2008 5:16PM

love that picture

Dustin @ Aug 25th 2008 5:18PM

This is the best news I've heard all day. Although... I don't know how much I'm going to believe in it. Home is reaching out and touching the la-la land of vaporware.

j.howlett @ Aug 25th 2008 5:38PM

how is it vaporware when people have access to use it? they are holding it back to work on it.

Rob @ Aug 25th 2008 10:59PM

@J.howlett:

Can any member of the public go into the store and buy the disk or get it from PSN?

If it's not out, it's vapor, it doesn't matter how much code or assets there are (cf DNF)

Ayrkain @ Aug 26th 2008 1:46AM

"Products with unspecified release dates or long development times that outwardly demonstrate regular, verifiable progress in production are not normally labeled vaporware."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

j.howlett @ Aug 26th 2008 3:34AM

@rob all i'm saying is there are people using it now even though it's a small amount. i've seen more of home than DNF. i'm not trying to sell you on the phantom or anything.

fyreblazer @ Aug 25th 2008 5:18PM

By the end of the year...meaning 12/31/2008 around 11 pm est.

Drew @ Aug 25th 2008 8:13PM

Oh no. Home WILL run on time.

Jonafun @ Aug 25th 2008 5:18PM

Is anyone really excited for this anyway? I mean, people don't really play Second Life anymore, right?

Mr Khan @ Aug 25th 2008 5:22PM

I don't know. Second Life lost all that praise and hype that was surrounding it when it was discovered that Linden Labs was badly overestimating the number of people who actually played

It's certainly less significant, but probably still very popular.

But home is a whole different idea. A more interactive UI, and the seamlessness of Home's transition from Home to media to game to whatever is what will make or break it in the end

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Aug 25th 2008 5:23PM

I bet Samfish still plays Second Life...

Drew @ Aug 25th 2008 5:23PM

Is trolling really exciting anyway? I mean, people don't really give you credibility anymore, right?

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Aug 25th 2008 5:40PM

@ Drew

He's not trolling.I know that troll-o-detector got a little dull ever since pure trolls either became mature or don't comment very often anymore but you've got to know the difference.

And yes, I'm not excited for this.Not because I don't have a PS3, but because I think it's as a pointless waste of Sony's resources and I don't see myself actively using Home.To me, a console is something that plays Video Games and not a place where you can "hang out".To quote somebody's comment from Joystiq, "If I wanted to play Second Life, I would've played Second Life.".

With Sony shamelessly delaying Home over and over again, even the toughest fanboys seem to be loosing hope...

samfish @ Aug 25th 2008 5:51PM

Well where else is a girl going to go to have sex with a panda bear man? Not Home, I can tell you that!

eugene @ Aug 25th 2008 5:54PM

I have nothing but morbid curiosity left when it comes to this.

[.sm0ke.] @ Aug 25th 2008 9:19PM

@ Mr Khan
Sort of like Microsoft Bob for PS3 then...

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Aug 25th 2008 5:22PM

Yes, Sony has a lot of credibility when it comes to promising stuff.Especially when you remember two HDMI/Six USB controversy and their full backwards compatibility.

By the way, who's that Crocodile Man? I'm sure I saw him before...Captain Planet maybe...

Mr Khan @ Aug 25th 2008 5:24PM

That's bugging me too. It looks like Captain Planet, but i don't recall an anthropomorphic gator from that show. A rat-man (Verminous Scum), but not a gator

It could be from another DiC cartoon, though certainly not from a Hanna-Barbera one

Titanium_Orchid @ Aug 25th 2008 5:26PM

TMNT.

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Aug 25th 2008 5:28PM

Quick google + broodwich tell me it's from TMNT but I've never watched the 1987 series. But why does he feel so familiar then?

Zertoss @ Aug 25th 2008 5:34PM

He's Leatherhead, children.

Why is he so familiar? Maybe because he was a boss in TMNT IV: Turtles in Time. You haven't played that, you say? Well why the hell not? Make that your homework.

BananaBoat @ Aug 25th 2008 5:41PM

He looks like a cartoony version of killer croc from Batman. It probably was TMNT though.

Batzarro @ Aug 25th 2008 5:57PM

My favorite boss in the Genesis version of TMNT. I'm imagining the music right now...

AirIntake @ Aug 25th 2008 6:16PM

I had Leatherhead's action figure back in 1989. If you opened his mouth too far, the top of his head & jaw would pop off, making him quite freakishly awesome. He talked with a Cajun accent on the show.

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Aug 25th 2008 6:19PM

Ach, so nostalgic and oldskull it almost made me shed a tear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prYDePGe6ec

Vault @ Aug 25th 2008 7:00PM

Crocodile tears?

broodwich @ Aug 25th 2008 5:23PM

Leatherhead, awesome. Oh yeah, home is cool too I guess.

Shagittarius @ Aug 25th 2008 5:28PM

You guys been watching Cajun Chef reruns haven't you?

What I'm gonna did is remind you of the late 80s.

Metal_Gear @ Aug 25th 2008 5:32PM

QUICK! Everyone in the bomb shelters call all family and friends make sure they are safe, the apocalypse is comeing!

Its been a hard battle, but we will finally have Home in less than 3 and a bit months. ^_^

Maverick Saturn @ Aug 25th 2008 5:32PM

Sony should back that up, give us pitchforks and torches and a few bricks, so that if it doesn't release, we can go raid thier studios as mobs.

deaftly @ Aug 25th 2008 5:42PM

I call shenanigans only because I've never called a shenanigan before. shenanigan.

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Aug 25th 2008 5:48PM

Don't you just hate that broken avatar system?

WiiFTW @ Aug 25th 2008 5:49PM

I call shenanigans on the claim that you've never called shenanigans before.

Mr Khan @ Aug 25th 2008 5:52PM

All i know of the avatar system is this:

JPEG is definitely supported
Bitmap is definitely not

Do not try to upload using Internet Explorer, because it will fail

I never explored some of the other formats, since most of my avatars are SWAT Kats screen-captures which started in a native bmp format, and had to be converted to jpg