Sony Europe says Home will be 'a system seller'

You're saying the same things that people say every time a new platform appears.

Why would I use Home when I can just use IM? Why would I use IM when I can just use IRC? Why would I use IRC when I could just use email? Why would I use email when I could just use real mail?

That's too linear a progression, but even so - each of the systems mentioned above has is own advantages.

Home is already showing its potential in the friendships and communication it's facilitating. It's a really good networking tool. It depends on people. The potential is similar to when the Web wasn't so full..

What do you expect Home to do for you? It's going to be an excellent framework for programmers to make small games and have them distributed in a fun, low risk way.. It's a great place for people to advertise.. It can, and will bring more gamers to the PS3. It absolutely WILL, no question. Girl gamers, casual gamers. Older gamers who just want to chill and socialise and not be shouted at by a load of XBL style kids. I've seen all these groups in home and on the forum and they're all making it their own.

The other consoles dont give the community much in terms of ownership. Yes it's all still sony's but this is much more tangible and will give a lot of people a greater emotional attachment to their PS3 and Sony brands.

The hardcore did all this hating on the Wii, and look how that's doing now. The difference is that Home doesn't completely isolate the hardcore, and will cater for them quite nicely.

In depth enough?

When the iPod was first announced millions of people went "meh! it plays music, I can already do that! This is a huge waste of time! They should be working on their core business!!" ;)

The hatred you're applying to the FAKEness of Home amuses me. You know none of the games you own contail real things either? Obviously everything in home is fake. Everything in WoW is fake, doesn't stop people spending millions of man-hours using it. Oh no, gamers using escapism? Isn't that the whole point? Aren't you always "pretending to be something you're not?" - a lot of people are really honest on there anyway.

It's not a dolls house for boys any more than Oblivion is a wardrobe simulator for medieval looking guys - you're taking a tiny part of the home experience and making it out to be the whole thing.

Achievements and trophies are super fake. That "trophy" is a collection of pixels. People still collect them. There's no difference. Dolls houses equally about collection - you still likely have the same mindset with different window-dressing. Half of the stuff you can get in home you unlock by playing the games inside Home..

Nobody's trying to pretend the world in Home is better, everyone I've met is intelligent enough to see it as part of this world. It's not a roleplay to most people. It's a networking tool.

Sounds to me that you're trying to convince YOURSELF that you like HOME. You are definitely alone in that opinion. Two years is a long time to wait around, hoping that Sony serving crow for us "nay sayers".

Please, I'll guarantee that you'll have your heart-rebroken in 6 months, before Sony starts warning the pots.


http://www.giantbomb.com/news/open-house/662/

Yea, these guys are the person who said "why the heck you want a cassette player with a small speaker stick to your ear? It's a total waste of time and money for Sony!" Heck, if they dont invent anything, they say Sony is a layback non innovative company, if they started something, they say Sony is wasting their time and money.

I like Home, don't really use it much but play some bowling with my overseas friends in the weekend, it's like a gift that Sony create for me for my purchase of PS3 and I appreciate their effort.