Home cookin': PlayStation Home adding 'cafe' space

by Randy Nelson on Jan 23rd 2009 2:24PM

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A new space for PlayStation Home has been revealed on the official PlayStation forums. The "cafe" space looks just like this one place we decided to try last week: it's empty and there's no service. We're sure that it will be packed with patrons once it opens on a yet-to-be-determined date, all of whom will surely be engaged in witty, intellectual discourse. Also, there appears to be no need to wait in line for food. Phew!

PlayStation Home Cafe Space

[Via PS3 Fanboy]

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So, do we use this to pretend we are eating? I don't understand the space choice.

That's because you don't understand the awesome power of the Cell architecture.

I doubt anyone here knows what this space may be used for. It could be used primarily for speculation. You know, a place for joystiqers to speculate about how it could be used as a virtual eatery.

This is where you pick up Yuppies to Quincey.

im starting to sour on Home. assuming this is wat i think it is, this is not the direction i thought they should be going with this whole thing. great potential, but they have yet to realize it.

HitnRun, that must be it. I guess I should give it the credit it deserves for making those empty chairs seem so real...and empty.

That's actually what I had in mind when I wrote that. Say what you want about Home, but those empty chairs are breathtaking.

Sort of symbolic of a larger endeavor, huh?

oof we get to spend money on fake food for our Avatars......sit down and have conversations with people, go have some fake coffee, then look around see that its gettind TOO noisy so we leave and go to our houses to stare at blank walls.....only to realize that was REAL money we spent for FAKE food.....

GAT DAMMIT!!!!!!

You sure do GAT DAMN a lot of things. Breathe, buddy. They're only games, (...or, in Home's case, inane boredom simulators) if they upset you so much, you can always shut them off.

Where does it mention any cost?

oh it doesnt.....just saying that myself....Sony isnt THAT stupi to try and charge for digital food inside of Home are they??

*Stupid

Don't knock it guys, this is the future. Why would you want to go and get dressed to go out in the real world when you can hang out with your friend here in the comfort of your home.

Pay .50 for a lobster dinner online while eating a ham and cheese sandwich on your couch. How can you beat it?

Yeah. That'd almost be like charging real money for virtual clo-

oh waet

the clothes arent that big of a deal to me......as long as its not OUTRAGEOUSLY priced....hell to me thats just DLC....hell you got people that spend HUNDREDS a year in MMOs....I just dont see myself paying maybe more than $10 a year for stuff inside of Home tho.....

and I know its coming but would MUCH rather have things that are useful in there......i.e.(Wheel of Fortune, Jepoardy, Buzz!, Warhawk War Room, Trophy Room, Game Launching, etc....but to me....this shit is useless and simply something else they can say they gae us in what will most likely be a 3+ year "beta"

You forgot the last part:

"Shortly after you will be raped"

oh no I didnt....I just assumed that was a given....

People used to get around just fine without cell phones. That was less than 10 years ago. Now people completely freak when they forget their phone at the house.

It's going to be the same with Home. You are going to NEED your .50 lobster dinner.

LMBAO!!!

Y'all are killing me with the idea of a .50 lobster dinner.....

Even as a hardcore Sony apologist... really? REALLY?

Wow!! Instead of giving HOME users the second resident evil degeneration shirt we were promised or forcing developers to use game launching, we get another place to sit in or a place to find new glitches. HOME was definitely released too early.

Agreed. Shit has potential, but I'm one of those people who used it once and didn't really see anything to come back to.

I'm sorry, I seem to miss the potential. If it had a physics engine kinda like lbp and the tools to actually customize everything, I don't see it as any more then a sims online ripoff.

Thank goodness! You're looking a little thin. Have you been eating?

(to be read in a Jewish grandmother voice.)

This MUST be a joke. It's to far away from April Fools, though. Will it be staffed with school lunch ladies, too?

finally! just what i bought my PS3 for...an office lunchroom simulator. PS3's will be flying off the shelf once this hits!

Now you can make virtual sandwiches to enjoy while your games install.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

It's about time Sony listened to their users and gave them what they wanted. Everybody's been asking for a cafe since day.

Sweet, another place to look at for two minutes before disconnecting from Home and going to do something else!
Oh man, you guys haven't lived until you've looked at a new space in Home only to realize that there is nothing to do in it. Good times, good times.

Problem is... Sony wanted to create a gaming community with Home (and is a good idead)...

But Home is not a gaming community, not at all... is a place where people go and do everything (well, mostly stalking women avatars and scream bad words and cursing) and nothing like talking about games or organize a multiplayer match, etc.

And yes, I have been in Home...

What you've said is absolutely true. I've been in Home several times, not knowing what I was looking for, and only ONCE did I meet anyone who seemed to play and be interested in games. It was shortly after Resistance 2 and Gears 2 came out, actually.

I see the potential, but it seems so far off in the distance. :/

Right on the money Fernando!

Home is garbage, end of...

Home ain't garbage, as it's a solid idea. There ain't enough shit to do right now though.

Eh, it is garbage. I don't use it enough to argue for it.

This is already in the Hong Kong Home, it's the blandest place I've seen so far.

oh.

Another way for $ony to financially rape its followers again, shit this is even more useless then that damn horse armor DLC for Oblivion.

I hope you enjoy your exclusive DLC for GTA IV and Fallout 3!

It's free, you fucking twat

At least Fernando is a likable troll, you sir are a giant bag of douche.

They need a couple of years to get the EA room and some surprises before I'll bother going back. Beta was good for a sneak peek, but hope they really do have much more planned.....and by the way....dl'ing every frigging week is weak.

No, there's a USB attachment, that pours coffee that's been transferred over the internet. You're getting a real product for your money.

It would be useful if it was set up as a portal to take out/delivery eateries that accept orders from the internet. Walk up to a counter at a pizza hut stall (advert kickbacks Sony?) place an order for a pizza and your real-life doorbell rings in 30 min or less.

My bad, it's too logical so it won't be done.

If I'd known it was this easy to develop big empty spaces for Home avatars to hang around I would have sent Sony my mock-ups for Alkali Flats Dance District and Floor of Unused Sports Arena.

Pizza Hut and Dominoes need to get in on this and setup a virtual eatery in here that allows us to order real pizzas for delivery.

What a pain in the ass! Just pick up the phone and call the pizza place.

Oh look, another space to stand around and do nothing except maybe wait in line.

The Japan's Home has a Cafe but its always empty. I only saw one person and he was in a corner spinning around in a circle. When I was in the Cafe there was nothing to do. Didn't really feel like a Cafe, just a empty place with four walls and some chairs.

It's pretty gorgeous, though, isn't it? A few more renders on the shadows of the foreground chairs and it'd look like a photograph.

Is that an actual screenshot, complete with lack of people? I haven't been on Home in weeks, I kinda feel sorry for Sony dumping so much time and effort into it.

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