Advertisers ignoring PlayStation Home, but interested in PSN

As long as it doesn't turn into NXE, where my eyes are constantly assaulted by ads, I'm fine. I like how the Xcross media bar is simple, sleek, and most importantly, FAST.

Wait, you're telling me that advertisers would rather go with the service that plasters their front end with advertisements?

Just like with tonight's episode of LOST...

Mind = Blown.

I'd be in there all the time if the game launching feature was much more robust than the garbage it is now. Every game needs its own party feature, well at least most popular games that are online like MAG, KZ2, SOCOM, etc

Have to agree with them here. There is not much of interest in Home, and it takes so long to get started or do anything, that even when I occasionally have an interest in Home, I quickly get frustrated and leave.

Given an apparent high price of entry and low interest by the target market, I cannot imagine why game publishers would be interested in Home as an advertising model.

My opinion is that Home needs a couple of things to become viable.

1. Offer incentives. Unlocked trophies need a digital trophy room that others can view. Games should unlock content for user's rooms or wardrobe, something to get them to return to home to see what they unlocked. Exploration points for exploring things in Home across all spaces. Something needs to be offered for gamers to have a reason to return to home.

2. Reduce the clutter. No one likes the 1 minute loading screen going into home, or the 30 to 45 sec downloading and loading screens that pop up when jumping between spaces. This needs to be done automatically in the background when the PS3 is online or when it is off, not while the users are in the system. Further, get rid of the lines to play games or interact, it translates into alot of downtime that does absolutely nothing.

3. Add interaction. For a social networking program Home doesn't let you do much. You can't enter others places or interact with them when they are not in Home, many Home experiences allow only one person to play and without the input of others, etc. Add in viewing of singleplayer demos and let people comment on it. Bring in a netflix room and allow users to make MST3k parties. Allow integration between home and facebook so facebook users know what is going on in your home, and home users know what their facebook friends are doing.

Just a couple quick thoughts on how to improve one of Sony's offerings that has so far been less than impressive.

Before the PS Home hate really starts to get out of control, I'd like to kick it off with saying I really like the idea of Home. I also think that a lot of aspects, games, rooms, and ideas already utilized within it are actually pretty cool and sometimes moderately fun.

I think where it really suffers is with all the waiting times, Loading of individual places, even if you visit them frequently, and the snail like leisurely pace in which your avatar moves around.

I think if you could move more like the protag's of Prince of Persia, Infamous, or even GTA IV, it would all be 80% better.

It's a shame advertisers don't want to throw more money at it, but with the critical joke Sony let it become, it's easy to see why. In all reality, it was still called a Beta, and they only let the joke hyperbolize by leaving it as such for so long.

Clearly it could have withstood being taken down and retooled.

hahaha...sweet jesus. The irony.

I had such high hopes to Quincy someone in my Mountain Dew Room.

"DO THE D.......EEEEEW! WTF???"

Wish they'd bring back the Papa John's deal. Put either a full blown pizzeria in the mall or a kiosk in the plaza or even the theater.

I completely forgot PlayStation Home still even exists. I don't think I've been on there since it first came out. This is how my one and only experience in Home went:
-logged on
-made a character that mildly resembled me
-waited in line to bowl
-failed miserably at bowling
-gave up and did the casual dance next to random people till they got annoyed and ran away
-logged out

Is there any significant feature that I missed out on that should make me want to go back and give it a second try?

Home is a flawed implementation of a good concept.

And I don't want ads on my XMB! The Dashboard has too many non-game ads.

To be fair when you turn on your xbox it comes up to the "My Xbox" section if you removed the welcome channel. Either way, there are no ads when you turn on your xbox. They only pop up when you browse for anything else on the dashboard.

So, just don't move, Jerry.

That way you can have an ad-free Live experience.

@Wiizer

You are just full of love for anything Xbox related. We get it. You don't like the Xbox.

There are too many awesome ps3 games that need to be played. I just can't give any of my time to home, especially when good games are dropping as often as they are now.

Thats a pretty valid comparison. Game Room does seem a little spartan (though more focused, which may be a positive) in comparison, but I still don't think it brings the Sony Network experience inline with the LIVE counterpart. It's a hell of a lot closer now than it was 2 years ago though.

But if you guys are just trying to start a fanboy system argument, please use someone elses post. Chrono5577's post above looks ripe for the picking.

Keep the ads out of the PS3...

Advertisers neglecting Home is understandable. For me, personally, I don't enjoy the virtual space anymore because of two reasons: 1) It takes WAY too long for everything to load up, and 2) there is nothing new happening within Home for me to care. As with any product it needs to be sold to make money, and Sony is simply not selling it. Thus the lack of advertising dollars to support the virtual space.

"It has been a modest success, but perhaps it's fallen shy of the lofty expectations placed on it"

Well, yeah. Most people aren't at all interested in it. Really, who buys the crap on Home? No one I know.

Maybe they should of copied Second Life harder?

Wow. All I get is those squares for other content offered on XBL (Like: "Try the new bayonetta demo!") No actual company advertisements.

That sucks for you.

Home still has potential but it's just that sony didn't carry out it's "original" plan with it very well.

I would love more advertising similar to Sprint, when they sponsored free Rag Doll Kung Fu for a week.

I abandoned Home after two tries. I made a character that reflected my gender and was asked to strip by what I can only assume were a bunch of 12 year old boys who didn't understand that wishing a little digitized girl could get naked doesn't make it possible. I then made a male character, had a walk around and realized there wasn't much there to look at anyway.

The thing is, I personally don't play video games in order to have social interaction so I could care less if I can walk around as a little digital person and 'talk' to other people in Home. I don't want to buy fake furniture for a fake apartment, as I've got a real house to put furniture in. I'm never going to turn on my PS3 looking for a social network. Now if I could be that same little person and watch early game previews or somehow gain access to exclusive downloadable content for PS3 games, maybe I'd be more interested.

Home is a cool idea but badly implemented. I tried it several times with the same experience walk around with nothing to do, when i do find a game I have to wait in line for ever just to play a mediocre game or they want me to buy something so that i can play the game.

I purchase advertising. If I purchased console based advertising, I'd be looking for a steep discount on Home. My money would be on interactive promotions via 360's Dashboard. Avatar giveaways to enter into a contest or free previews of media or something like that would be my best. Not expensive interactive spaces in Home.

"actively engage" is not the phrase I would use to describe Home's interaction.

In order to actually see anything you have to walk around and wait for loading screens and maneuver around other avatars to see the content.

XBL is better because everything is there as a banner, but the problem is the amount of scrolling it takes to reach some content.

I did too and Jack Bauer might actually get me to log into Home again. Right now I really don't see much of a point to it.

Good I hope they keep ignoring PS3. If I have to suffer Doritos, McDonanlds and all those other crap ads on my PS3 I will no longer use my PS3 online. My 360 is bombarded with horrible ads that play videos and music when I don't want them to and the sad part is I PAY FOR IT. Live costs me 49.99 a year and I can't even disable the ads. The NXE is a great OS but its gotten ruined by MS's open to all ad policy. So far PS3's XMB only advertises games, which is fine by me.

i don't the ps3 home because every time i actually use it, i have to wait 15 minutes for it to install updates, and then if i actually do something besides wander around the plaze dancing, i have to wait for it to load that other stuff.

Debikul, in Wiizers defense, your first reply was pretty stupid. Is Jerry not supposed to move from the very first page?