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Sony closes door on PlayStation Room

by JC Fletcher on Apr 15th 2010 11:45AM

At TGS last year, Sony introduced PlayStation Room, a Home-like social networking service for PSP that allowed players to create cute avatars, decorate virtual spaces, and interact with friends via chat and blogs. Today, following the end of a Japan-only closed beta, Sony announced that it's ceasing development on the service. That infinity symbol in the logo just got nicely ironic.

In the announcement, Sony thanked beta testers for their feedback and said that it planned to use the data gathered to enrich PlayStation Network services. Mind you, if said feedback resulted in the immediate closure of the project, it could't have been easy to read.

PlayStation Room

[Via Siliconera]

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Tags: japan, playstation-room, room, scei, social-networking

Reader Comments (65)

Monster Hunter series is the way to go for the PSPs. Its already a big thing and just wait for when they release Monster Hunter Freedom (Portable) 3 with the multiplayer infrastructure mode to the see the world go crazy

Damn I got locked out of my room.

That's what's happens when you piss on the floor....

BAD BIGBIKI!!! bad!!!

Why is this the first I've heard of this??

It shouldn't be:

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/24/tgs-2009-make-room-for-playstation-r-m/

Yeah, has been mentioned before. But it wasn't a fully fledged yet, it was just a concept which proved not to be favourable in Japan most likely and therefore won't see daylight. Can't blame people for not liking it, its just another unneeded software to be honest that won't be used nearly half as much as Home as people don't like typing, don't like being restricted, and hate anything that even remotely resembles farmville.

At first, I thought Dr. Perry had taken a wrong turn and ended up opening his breifcase in the wrong room :/ But now I see :D lol.

I think Playstation Home is good enough. We don't need a PSP version of this.

That makes no sense.

Playstation Home isn't available on the PSP, so how could it be "good enough?"

You seem to have missed the point, judging from your reply.

You're saying "I think Playstation Home is good enough. We don't need a PSP version of this."

Good enough for whom? Your assumption seems to be that PSP owners will inherently be PS3 owners. See the flaw there? If you don't, you may be a fanboy.

I don't have a PS3, so I don't have Home. Therefore, how can it be "good enough" for me? I DO have a PSP. Now I don't NEED another function (no one NEEDS ANY of this shit), but I always ENJOY new functions, even the ones I'm unlikely to use much.

While I always welcome new or enhanced features for my PSP, I can't help feeling they'd have half-assed this one anyway.

Playstation Room is like the PSP version of Home but dumb down. When I saw the Playstation Room, I wasn't impressed with it. Who uses a PSP as a social online interaction. Our Ps3 and PC can do that for us. Playstation Home will work for us, we don't need a PSP version of Home like Playstation Room.

Sorry about that,

I thought you didn't know Playstation Room and Playstation Home was almost similar. After you said you don't have a PS3, I think you understand now. Next time, please research before you say something to me even if you don't have a Ps3 but it kind of help to understand and compare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Room

It even said this service was supposed to be the Playstation Home for the PSP.

wow they canceled something and the first time I hear about it is the article telling me its canceled ..... way to fail at marketing sony ....

of course since it obviously sucked I guess its better they didn't bother to let me know it existed in the first place ?

I'm surprised no one has made a joke yet saying "Home will be next".

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