Welcome Home: PlayStation Home Beta is live!

by James Ransom-Wiley on Dec 11th 2008 4:20PM

The PlayStation Home Beta is now live and public for all world regions. Fire up your PS3, navigate to the PSN icon and scroll down to PlayStation Home -- yup it's there! One 77 MB download later and you're ... almost Home! (You need to install the software* and agree to the necessary legalese first.) So, how's your first day of your new second life treatin' you?

4:25PM ET – The PlayStation Home "Message of the Day" invites everyone to a "huge dance party" in the Central Plaza at 6 pm tonight. "This party just might last throughout the night, so come on in and meet your new friends." (We'll bring the stuff to spike the punch!) You gonna be there?

4:30PM ET – Doh! "Network Error: The connection to the server was lost (C-991)." (Twice.)

4:40PM ET – We're still unable to connect (from NYC, San Fran and Oklahoma), but PS3 Fanboy's Jem Alexander reports Home is up and running "flawlessly" in the UK. Anyone else have a status update? Please post in the comments.

4:55PM ET – New error! "Request timed out: /HUBPS3_SVML/unity/start.jsp" -- we'll keep trying ...

10:25PM ET – We're Home! Finally.

*Note: "To use PlayStation Home, 3077 MB of HDD space will need to be reserved."

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Reader Comments (179)

Just downloaded it, but when I try to connect I get a connection lost message. I guess too many people trying to get on right now....I'll give it a go later.

"u realize we were on 56k modems back then?"

"u" entered the race at 56k? Newb.

well, crap. There goes a perfectly fine comeback lost to user error.

Working here in the UK. Apparently, because American gamers are such childish brats, they are intentionally witholding it.

borland-
yeah 10 years ago i was on dial up.
my mom wasn't paying the $ 100 + bill to have t-1 or broadband back then like some spoiled kids had.

i would goto the internet cafe to play counterstrike.

I actually can't find it on the XMB (UK user here), what am I doing wrong?

It's under the PSN logo on the XMB. If it's not there then I don't know what to tell you.

Don't be surprised when the download is 70mb either. It makes you download every single map once you are in game...kind of a pain.

Good timing. I just turned my ps3 on and saw this sitting there on the xmb (would have been nice for a notification...I almost passed over it). The download's as slow as ever too, at this rate it's going to take 5 minutes at least to download something that's only 77mb :(

Yeah, well, back in my day, we had to wait 30 minutes to download a 3mb mp3 song off napster. Count your blessings my friend.

Why, when I was a kid we used to have to walk 20 miles barefoot uphill in the snow carrying a rucksack full of lead weights to get home. You whipper snappers got it easy!

haha... in MY day, there was no internet... then there was AOL, then one kid in the entire school had broadband, and we all paid him money for downloaded music and porn..

morisato- damn defensive much...

lol.. yeah well back in the day a movie ticket cost 10 cents...

u realize we were on 56k modems back then?

this is broadband now...

psn is slow thats all they were saying...

oh man, if I had to go back to dial up, I would stop using the internet

I thought he was being sarcastic, no?

Anyway don't bother trying to get in right now. As predicted the servers are getting crushed.

Morisato,

Thirty minutes? You lucky bastard. I had a 16 kbps connection; it literally took me four hour to download a file that "big". That fact is made even sadder when one considers most of my friends couldn't even get extraordinarily crappy dialup due to location (we all lived in rural Kansas). We aren't a technologically advanced civilization out in the boonies; up until high school (we graduated in '06), our "high end" video games systems of choice were the NES or the Sega Master System. Hell, my friend had an archaic PC that played Leisure Suit Larry off of a 5.25" floppy and that was considered living large.

For $3 a pop, I'd download a few thirty second porn clips, burn them off on a CD-R, and give 'em to my "client" (usually my friend Gerald) sometime on the two hour long bus ride to school. $3 isn't a whole lot, but it's enough to feed one's Dr. Pepper budget for a school week.

When they finally got dialup, that put me out of business (damn you Earthlink). I eventually turned to selling some of the 5 or 6 year old playboys for $5 a pop or bartered; for example, I traded a Playboy for a T-bone steak once (I brought a small cooler for that one). I almost miss being a smut peddler.

Good ol modem days, I can see it now

awwwwwwwwwww, eakkkkkkkkkk *rumbling sound of loading* eakkkkkkkk, awwwwww, eakkkkk, awwwwww, ahhhhhhhhgggggggg

Sounded painful >.

Why back in my day, you could tell sarcasm by the sound of their voice before you unleash your tiny flame.

At one point I used my relative's computer, which had dial-up internet. It was torturous just to check my mail.

jackal: 16kbps? Bliss!

The only thing worse than my old 300 baud modem (that's 0.3kbps, kids) was when my new-fangled 1200/75 baud connected the wrong way around, and gave me a whole 75 characters per second.

I got broadband a week before Napster hit the internet. I can still remember the shrieks of "HOLY SHIT BALLS!!!" from the BBS's. Yes, that was the summer of my content, followed by the winter of my sore package.

doesn't matter you wont be able to log in...its swamped right now

I remember when I connected to my modem late at night to watch porn, I would go, "SHH! SHH! Hurry up!" 'cause I was afraid it'd wake my mom up.

This is correct, 3Gigs need to be reserved. (glad I upgraded my hd to 320) As you go to different spaces you will need to download that space, (only once if you've never been there before)

yea me too........gotta love the 320GB HDDs.........although I want a 500GB now......lol

Prices on the 500 aren't low enough, I just succumb and figured I'd be good for a couple of years with the 320. by then I will be able to afford 50 terabytes or so. lol

I just caved the other day and bought a 500, upgrading from a 320. I probably should've held out for the prices to come down a bit further, but I can live with it. I can use the extra 320 as an external...

WTH do you need with 320/500 gb on a PS3? O _ o

I'm rockin' the 80, and 90% of it is empty. Then again, I didn't buy MGS4 so I didn't have to have a MEGA install on my system just to play a game.

Arghhhh ant log in

Let the flame wars commence!

Why?

yeah I'm just waiting for it... I hate them so much...

So clever, witty and original!

Boy do I hate it when people think they're so smart and they'll post '*prepares popcorn for flamewar*' or 'Let the flamewars begin!' in an Apple/Microsoft or X360/PS3 related post.

Well done, you smartass you!

Anyone actually getting in? I got the dreaded C-991 error message.

im going to try later today.

any issues people???

Oh JUMPIN JAHOOZAFRATS finally.

I won't lie sony, i doubted you for a bit

I take that back, Home doesn't work, my PS3 crashes every time i try loading Home up...fcking dammit

This = hilarious

Home is where the heart is...

I was about to say -- 77MB didn't sound like much. 3GB is more like it.

Only 77mb?
Im impressed, being the DELAYSTATION I was expecting more like 30gb.
But hey?

To use PlayStation Home, 3077 MB of HDD space will need to be reserved.
maybe u missed this in the article...

3 gb space reserved for Home.

But its not a 3gb download.
They must have MEGA-ZIPPED'd it.

No need to flame. remember the NXE on its first day?

YEA....MINE WORKED I was on netflix and playing fable 2 withing 10 mins of it downloading...this is BS!!!!!

Yeah I remember vividly. It took exactly 3 minutes to download and install then I was streaming Netflix by minute 4.

Exactly. It took 5 minutes to set up. The problem I had was that it red ringed later on which is not related to NXE.

I've had nothing but problems with Home, and when I was on, it was boring. I really hope it gets more fun with more friends joining.

What about NXE on its 1st day?? I have both consoles so im not blinkered and biased like some, No problems with NXE for me or any of the 98 peopl eon my XBL freinds list!!
Unlike PSN and Home update, had so many connection issues its unreal!!
I guess it is true, you get what you pay for in life!!

Sony i wanna stab you sometimes

ALRIGHT!! I'm kinda glad I'm at work right now, I'm sure the servers are sweating right now...can't wait to see what's up when I get home though (pun intended). They said they'll be adding stuff next week as well...hope the game launching is working again!

Can we just get these out of the way now, so as to spare the rest of Joystiq from suffering their horrible over-usage for the next day or so?

I'm finally home
I'm coming home
Welcome home
Homeward bound
Home sweet home
Home is where the heart is
Homeboy

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