Sony Europe says Home will be 'a system seller'

i wish phil harrison was here, he always made things better :(

Im with the 60% ill im doing right now is just dancing around (its a sausage fest)

I'm one of the 60%. But the network has been killed since the Open Beta was released.

Pretty smooth for 2 years but now i cant play online at all.

Send your frustration here if your having the same problem.

http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/board/message?board.id=419&thread.id=73116

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Considering the fact that this poll was taken on PS3fanboy, the results are pretty bad.

"Today, we are at the beginning of a long journey"

Don't take three years to make something and then say "Its the beginning of a long journey"

Whatever - i'll be on Resistance until i can find something better to do than dance

I'm with the 60% as well. There's potential there. I'm waiting for when I can place a flat screen tv in my summer house. And hopefully in the final build, there'll be more bowling lanes, pool tables, and chess boards.

Look, I like my PS3 as much as the next guy, but Home is just a crock of sh!t. I mean seriously... anybody see that gamespot video? Where the lead home developer at Sony was basically like

"One of the coolest things you can do is dance!" :$.

Home is to the PS3 what the Wiimote is to the Wii.. Nice idea.. but it's just a gimmick really.

"In time I would say that Home will definitely become a reason to purchase [PS3]."

"No one else is doing anything of this scale or ambition."

He's high as a kite, everybody: Goofballs!

This poll stunk. I mean I don't think Home is revolutionary, but I do really like it. Come on, nothing in between 'revolutionary' and 'Not great'?? What brainiac came up with this?

I played with it a little over the weekend. I lost interest before I even made it out into the public areas. Just not enough room for personalization out of the gate. Seriously, you spent three years working on this, and there are only eight shirts for guy-avatars?

I am in the 60% only because I am hoping the trophy Hall of Fame hasn't been canned. Is this feature still coming, that is really all I care about. I can't believe it has taken Sony years to get to this point and none of the cool features are incorporated yet (media sharing, trophy Hall of Fame, etc., etc...) AND I haven't been able to log on to Home since the Open Beta started. Right now I am in the 60% but if it takes a long time for these features to be incorporated or if they never come I will soon be in the 25% who think that Home is a bust.

I own and love both a PS3 and X360. In my opinion, HOME at this stage is incredibly lame. Did you see they are actually charging REAL MONEY to purchase lamps, furniture, etc in HOME? This to me is a ridiculous decision by Sony. "Hey, I bought a $2 lamp on HOME the other night for my place, you wanna come over and see it so we can text each other, dance, and waste our lives away?"

Give us a party game launching system through the XMB that doesn't require load a bloated SIM. I must be a 360 fanboy since I think Home is a waste of time regardless being in love with my ps3.

You might really enjoy barbie dolls then. I've heard there is tons of clothes for customizing.

All I want to do is a jump button. I that to much to ask for. I don't even care about getting on top of things I just like to jump in my games.

Well they better expand rapidly because at first I was impressed but by now I lost interest because Home is only a few spaces, it's just to small to be enjoyable. They better have about 100 spaces around christmas or Home will not fullfil my expectations.

While I concur with all of the issues that others have with Home I'm optimistic that it will eventually become something cool and useful.

Look at the firmware updates that Sony has provided. Compared to when it launched, the PS3 has tons more functionality now than it did. So there is some history of Sony slowly providing more functionality over time.

The other thing to consider is that Home must be a very expensive project. 3 years in development and now they have several millions of people logged into their servers from around the world. I haven't seen any dollar figures on what Home has cost Sony, but I bet it has to be over $3-4mil. I don't think Sony would be throwing money out the window developing something like this if they didn't have big plans for it.

At the start of a long journey? It's taken years to get to this stage. We'll be in the next generation before home becomes something worth using.

Unfortunately if they can nail the social aspect (Hard when console owners don't have keyboards for the most part) then I can see people getting into this. For core gamers I really can't see much happening unless they go the whole hog and effectively replace the PSN with Home. Give me downloadable content, demos of games, small 2d versions to play (Like Mirror's Edge).

I'd love to go to a special, huge area that contained everything relating to a game with decked out statues and things but it has to them have content for me to get. That's the clincher. Without game content and the ability to do things relating to that game it's worthless.

i believe this is true. us americans just are not really into stuff like home. home looks like its made for Europe.

Anyone who doesn't see ANY potential in Home is one of two things.

1) Not the demographic Sony were targeting in the first place, or
2) An idiot.

This coming from someone who has no intention of logging into Home again... until new content is added.
Think of it this way - what was the PSN Store like when it launched? Pretty damn bare. I logged in once, and didn't bother coming back until they added more games. Should they have just said "Oh well, people don't like it, let's pull the plug"? No, because it's an ever-expanding service that is now LIGHT YEARS better than when it launched.

I think a lot of people will be surprised when, 6 months from now, gamers are choosing to buy multiplatform games on the PS3 because they not only get the equivalent of achievements (trophies), but also extra items for use in Home... regardless of whether they use them or not (what use do you get out of trophies or achievements?).

I have a feeling that Sony has intentionally released Home as bare bones as it is so that they can trickle down a steady stream of content every week (like the PSN) and people will slowly start coming back. Hell, all it would take would be for a God of War 3 or Uncharted 2 game space with an exclusive trailer, and the servers would be knocked on their ass... AGAIN.

But hey, far be it from me to spoil anyone's fun... Home is boring and a waste of time, but apparently complaining it on internet forums isn't.

Home is a nice feature, just kind of useless till more features comes out. But a system seller? unless home can cook me dinner in the morning I doubt it will sell systems alone. A price drop will sell systems a lot more than Home will.

In the 60% but having to redownload all the areas after the Home went public made no sense. The only change was Central Plaza and a mall change. The Red Bull flying thing might be cool but it comes out next week, maybe. Alot of potential but once again Sony drops another ball. I think Phil should have stayed around a little longer for this one. At least there could have been a PlayStation Store in the mall.

been open 3 days and hacked, so far im not seeing, what sony is seeing, until they lose the beta....and open it fully!!!
its a dance feast chat room where everyone almost looks the same.

I got one question for Dan Hill. Where do you buy your crack?

I've logged into Home twice, and It seemed like nothing more than a place to give morons a voice (as if internet message boards and xbox live didn't fill that requirement fantastically already) crossed with a place where Sony could gouge my wallet with the most useless crap I've ever seen.

Seriously, Sony's canceling promising games just because they lack online components and instead sinks money into an app that bores and annoys much, much more than entertains.

Whatever potential this has, it hides it very well.