GDC09: PlayStation Home to feature three new spaces every month
by Andrew Yoon 
{ Mar 25th 2009 at 7:11PM } 
Surprisingly, Home has already accumulated quite a following, with over 5 million users worldwide, 2.2 million in North America. According to Buser, a "good space" will get a quarter of a million visits each week, with 75 percent of its users spending more than 10 minutes online. For advertisers, that looks like quite the sweet number.
Buser didn't reveal a timeline of future Home spaces, but we do know that EA Sports and Guitar Hero will be getting new Home communities very soon.
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CantFlame (PSN MariusElijah) @ Mar 25th 2009 7:14PM
Home just keeps getting better
and Guitar Hero space is coming tomorrow
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/03/25/backstage-with-guitar-hero-launches-tomorrow-in-playstation-home/
mrmackavelli @ Mar 25th 2009 7:16PM
I'm glad that Home is taking off. I was on the fence about it in the beginning. I'm still not 100% sure what the point is, but I like that it is growing. It will hopefully turn into a really good online space.
Xploited13 @ Mar 25th 2009 7:22PM
I would be more pleased if they cut down the load time between spaces.
SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread - XBL: SoCoolCurt) @ Mar 25th 2009 8:25PM
or if there was some way to download spaces in the background while i do other stuff outside of Home. i'd much rather play a game than sit in my room and wait for the rest of the world to download (which i have to do EVERY time they release a new update). that's really what made me stop using it, i got tired of waiting on stuff to download.
Popfrogs @ Mar 25th 2009 10:05PM
@CoolCurt: Yeah, you'd think that they'd integrate the Home downloads into the PSN, so on hooray-for-the-updates-Thursdays you could snatch the latest Home content in the background.
Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Mar 25th 2009 7:24PM
Well thats rather interesting. Home very well could be what we all want it too in the not so distant future. Now all we need is more games that unlock Home items AND Trophies for the Mini-games....oh and to be able to play music in our house for all to hear or at the very least play music over Home for our own ears
Troy Powers (PSN: TroyPowers) @ Mar 25th 2009 7:28PM
Yeah, I wasn't feeling Home at launch, but it's slowly growing into something worth checking out every now and again. I actually would spend a buck here and a buck there to pimp out my place. And this Xi thing seems pretty interesting.
Marty @ Mar 25th 2009 7:29PM
2.2 million users means 2.2 people downloaded it and used it at least once. How does that stack up to the number of people downloading and playing game demos? Or the number of people playing other online games?
F.E.F Red Fury @ Mar 25th 2009 8:08PM
Or the number of people quincying other online people?
el serpiente @ Mar 25th 2009 9:38PM
2.2 people? Did someone log in with their genitals?
Marty @ Mar 25th 2009 10:30PM
@Serpiente - If it were your genitals, it'd be more like 2.01. Woah!
sc00by_y00 @ Mar 25th 2009 11:27PM
There always has to be a xbox360 fan shouting about the size of his cock.. Its small its micro and its soft.. Put it back into your trousers and stop getting so excited.. Says it all really..
tmontana213 @ Mar 25th 2009 7:30PM
I can't wait to see Home a year from now. Hopefully it gets more interesting. Other than Xi, it's a snooze fest.
343 Guilty Fart @ Mar 25th 2009 7:31PM
Daaamn, look at that fine girl in the skirt! Or is that just a quincy?
Sly (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ Mar 25th 2009 9:01PM
for every 750 hot girl avatars, only 1 is a real girl. if you see a girl that ISN'T attractive, then she's either real or a quincy mishap.
The Baron @ Mar 25th 2009 7:44PM
Seriously, what are 5 million people doing on Home? Discussing how little there is to do on it?
sqela @ Mar 25th 2009 7:46PM
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/12/how-to-perform-quincying-in-playstation-home/
superklye @ Mar 25th 2009 7:46PM
This.
Maverick Saturn @ Mar 25th 2009 8:32PM
Depends on the level of your creativity, those with creative minds will always find something to do
Sly (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ Mar 25th 2009 9:03PM
one time, i left my home avatar in the bowling alley just dancing while i left and did other things like cook and take a shower. another time, i played tag with some friends. another time, it was a hide and seek/marco polo combo.
sc00by_y00 @ Mar 25th 2009 11:36PM
I go on and play pool all the time.. I cant be bothered to load up a proper game at night.. I have actually made about 10 friends already on home.. A girl from Belgium I was playing pool with, some other random people I have had a laugh with as well..
The helicopter game ain't bad either..
When voice was active I was taking the piss out of some Scottish girl playing bowling.. Its a chilled out environment man..
If you go onto home, its never empty no matter what time of day, I mean this seriously..
I wish they would update the physics add running jumping basically allow you to do some mad stunts in there as well (free running sort of ), it would take home into another dimension.
why not the LS2LS7? @ Mar 25th 2009 7:48PM
ZZZZZzzzzzzzz
Orex @ Mar 25th 2009 7:49PM
What are the chances this doesnt count for EU.
j.howlett @ Mar 25th 2009 7:50PM
i've met some cool people in home and played some games with them. only one person on my friends list has a recorded time in the redbull race and i'm faster
skyzbig @ Mar 25th 2009 8:11PM
Hopefully this is the start of the real potential that we all know Home has.
I reckon if Sony had just held out a bit longer and waited until it had some more spaces in Home before launching, the whole perception of Home could have been different from the current perception of "it's boring".
SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread - XBL: SoCoolCurt) @ Mar 25th 2009 8:30PM
it's crazy they had to wait til GDC to announce this. i honestly really wish they hadn't released Home until all this stuff was ready. people were begging for it so much though that they released it as soon as it was working and now there is nothing to do in there. im hoping it gets better because it's really not that enjoyable right now but it has the potential to replace the XMB as the main PS3 interface if they would get the ball rolling.
GoonieGooGoo @ Mar 25th 2009 8:55PM
I can already feel all that download time to be wasted.........HOME is worthless.
FeaturePreacher @ Mar 25th 2009 9:12PM
It's executives like Jack Buser who really shouldn't be allowed to speak. He honestly must know that Home is never going to get at least 3 new spaces each month. He's just setting up more reasons for the ps3's earned name of delaystation. He really should of just said nothing so ps3 users wouldn't get their hopes up only to be inevitably let down.
el serpiente @ Mar 25th 2009 9:34PM
Are you getting enough oxygen?
Popfrogs @ Mar 25th 2009 10:07PM
@el serpiente: No, Quaid hasn't put his hand on the alien generator control panel yet. Just wait a few more minutes.
Seishino @ Mar 25th 2009 10:06PM
10 minutes is the metric for a successful space? Maybe I have higher expectations, but that seems low.
j.howlett @ Mar 25th 2009 10:33PM
that's alot for advertising.
butlersp @ Mar 25th 2009 11:08PM
So does this mean "Central Plaza" might actually expand? Might Sony US actually make the theater a multiplex (Home EU) instead of a hang out? I am interested into how everything gets integrated in, there is not flow right now.
The way I see it if you bought or got for free the summer home, that should have its own Central Plaza for game specific map content. The place is already on the water why not have the Red Bull thing down the road one way and along the way is the RE5, Uncharted and whatever else game maps from there.
For the main Plaza why not expand it so I can go to the marina that is right outside everyone's place? Add pathways or streets to get to The EA complex whenever that gets here and the Warhawk area. Rather than doing the Beam me up Scottie thing.
When is the mall actually going to fill up or is Sony trying to make it like a real life mall, empty? Where is the TV that people were supposed to have?
Back to the subject sorta so I should plan on having to redownload Central Plaza 3 times a month along with everything thing else and is the 3+ gigs that I had to partition on my drive going to be enough to hold this great content?
s_m_o_o_v @ Mar 26th 2009 12:24AM
LMFAO @ these comments...honestly, I never thought I'd see the day where people would actually complain about having to download DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT...
You guys need some fresh air...Home's not bad at all; you're only bored on Home because you lack social skills...even the numerous internet pedophiles that constantly get ignored on Home find a way to have fun on it, yet you all can't...these are sad times indeed...
E.P. @ Mar 26th 2009 1:37AM
Almost all of the Home spaces are pointless. You run around see new things...and never return again. Put in more Xi type content. I've already entered the Hub space more than all of the other spaces combined.
yomachaser @ Mar 26th 2009 8:54AM
Then you must not be very social then. Home is full of people to have a laugh with, try the dance floor.