Either way, we'll see soon enough as PlayStation's Home update 1.5 will arrive this spring. Or at least those of you who are still using Home will. We won't. Because we aren't.
[Image credit: FourPlayerCoOp]
Either way, we'll see soon enough as PlayStation's Home update 1.5 will arrive this spring. Or at least those of you who are still using Home will. We won't. Because we aren't.
[Image credit: FourPlayerCoOp]
Reader Comments (68)
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:47PM darrenhupke said
Home was a neat idea, but the ease of use and load times make it forgotten on my PS3.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:48PM darrenhupke said
@darrenhupke
*is a neat idea.
Sorry, plenty of people actually use it and enjoy, I didn't mean to imply it was a dead service or anything.
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*is a neat idea.
Sorry, plenty of people actually use it and enjoy, I didn't mean to imply it was a dead service or anything.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:54PM LEONLEONLEON said
@darrenhupke Its easy enough to use, But it could be better implemented. Its not a huge loading time though, But isnt really worth it if you are going on for only a couple of minutes.
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Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:57PM TraceurRyuk Part III said
@darrenhupke
How long has it been since you were on? The load times are a lot better than they used to be.
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How long has it been since you were on? The load times are a lot better than they used to be.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:30PM Troy Powers said
@darrenhupke
Yeah, I think Home won't really hit it's stride until next gen. It'll probably be a huge part of PS4. I keep saying it, but I could see cloud gaming (a la OnLive) really taking off down the road.
Imagine, you don't even download your games. Just pay for them, and launch them from Home. The industry manages to cut out used game sales. Updates happen in the cloud instead of via updates. If you're not launching games from your actual console, they become harder to pirate. Somewhere, some super-genius is trying to figure out how to make this work.
That's probably the reason Home is in perpetual beta.
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Yeah, I think Home won't really hit it's stride until next gen. It'll probably be a huge part of PS4. I keep saying it, but I could see cloud gaming (a la OnLive) really taking off down the road.
Imagine, you don't even download your games. Just pay for them, and launch them from Home. The industry manages to cut out used game sales. Updates happen in the cloud instead of via updates. If you're not launching games from your actual console, they become harder to pirate. Somewhere, some super-genius is trying to figure out how to make this work.
That's probably the reason Home is in perpetual beta.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 5:04PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
@darrenhupke
I love Home. I like creating a slutty looking female avatar and having legions of guys try to "get at me". It's quite humorous.
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I love Home. I like creating a slutty looking female avatar and having legions of guys try to "get at me". It's quite humorous.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 11:45PM ptcamn said
@Troy Powers
I don't think cloud gaming will replace hard copies or downloadable games, at least not for a few generations, thus i don't see it as the way Home can become even more widespread.
The way it can be more widely integrated in this or next gen is if the Home space is your main XMB. That is, if you were loaded directly into Home when the console starts up and you could access all functionality of the XMB in the home space (your photo albums in an album or wall in your Home apartment, and so forth).
Of course, the original idea of Home was as a place to socialize with other players. I like the service and it has improved considerably since the early days. If at some point it could become an "always on" component of the PS (this or next gen), meaning that you could access it very quickly to check, for example, messages within that space, then it would attract even more people.
I'm not even sure if many people that got into PS3 since 2009 are fully aware that this is in there.
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I don't think cloud gaming will replace hard copies or downloadable games, at least not for a few generations, thus i don't see it as the way Home can become even more widespread.
The way it can be more widely integrated in this or next gen is if the Home space is your main XMB. That is, if you were loaded directly into Home when the console starts up and you could access all functionality of the XMB in the home space (your photo albums in an album or wall in your Home apartment, and so forth).
Of course, the original idea of Home was as a place to socialize with other players. I like the service and it has improved considerably since the early days. If at some point it could become an "always on" component of the PS (this or next gen), meaning that you could access it very quickly to check, for example, messages within that space, then it would attract even more people.
I'm not even sure if many people that got into PS3 since 2009 are fully aware that this is in there.
Posted: Mar 13th 2011 12:05PM BlingOnMyWrist said
@darrenhupke Home was a neat idea, but the lack of anything mentioned my Phil Harrison make it deleted on my PS3.
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Posted: Mar 15th 2011 5:11PM Franklin Gothic said
@ptcamn exactly what I was thinking! I'd even love to have a persistent character that exists in home exportable between my games. (at least as an option)
That said, not sure how likely that is if Sony can't even get every developer to include a 'invert sticks' option in their games :(
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That said, not sure how likely that is if Sony can't even get every developer to include a 'invert sticks' option in their games :(
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:47PM Che J P said
Does every post about Home have to have a bash in it??
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:58PM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said
@Che J P
Of course it does. Why try to be original?
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Of course it does. Why try to be original?
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 5:14PM tendoboy1984 said
@copa
We all know Joystiq has a bias against anything that doesn't say "Xbox" on it. The only podcast ("fancast") they have is for the Xbox, there is no Nintendo or PlayStation podcast on here.
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We all know Joystiq has a bias against anything that doesn't say "Xbox" on it. The only podcast ("fancast") they have is for the Xbox, there is no Nintendo or PlayStation podcast on here.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 5:22PM tendoboy1984 said
@Che J P
Yes, we all know Joystiq has a bias against anything that doesn't have the words "Xbox" or "Kinect" in it.
They hate the Wii, they hate the Move, they hate the PSP.
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Yes, we all know Joystiq has a bias against anything that doesn't have the words "Xbox" or "Kinect" in it.
They hate the Wii, they hate the Move, they hate the PSP.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:47PM eat it said
Still looks sterile. I wonder how many gigs this will be.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:48PM Billlop said
Wow this article just reeks of fanboy writing. Nice to see Joystiq is still a non-bias reporting site (!)
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:02PM sammo21 said
@Billlop eh, they are just trying to be snarky. Most people do not use Sony Home. I know the last time I seriously used it was around the time Ghostbusters the game came out. I jumped on long enough to do the killzone 3 stuff and get unlock points, but it still keeps me from doing what I got onto my PS3 to do: play PS3 games.
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Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:06PM TraceurRyuk Part III said
@sammo21
How is talking to people on Home about games any different from commenting on a website about games?
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How is talking to people on Home about games any different from commenting on a website about games?
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:15PM eat it said
@TraceurRyuk Part III
The internet isn't nearly as cumbersome, bloated, and sterile.
If they are going to make it so you have to walk to different areas and rooms to access certain features they have to make it more fun than going through menus, home is not more fun than going through menus.
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The internet isn't nearly as cumbersome, bloated, and sterile.
If they are going to make it so you have to walk to different areas and rooms to access certain features they have to make it more fun than going through menus, home is not more fun than going through menus.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:17PM A Sandwich said
@Billlop
Good God, man, why is the word "bias" and its derivatives so hard to use properly?
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Good God, man, why is the word "bias" and its derivatives so hard to use properly?
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:19PM mmmfishtacos said
@Dawglet "Every rational person I know hates Home". rational people wouldn't hate a program that they aren't forced to use. To me that seems the exact opposite of rational.
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Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:22PM TraceurRyuk Part III said
@eat it
Fair point. Though I'm not going to lie, I enjoy the interactive aspect. I don't even know why I do, just do. I don't want to say Home isn't flawed. It obviously is. But there is quite a few fun games (for free) in Home now, compared to what used to be offered, it has improved drastically.
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Fair point. Though I'm not going to lie, I enjoy the interactive aspect. I don't even know why I do, just do. I don't want to say Home isn't flawed. It obviously is. But there is quite a few fun games (for free) in Home now, compared to what used to be offered, it has improved drastically.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:50PM darrenhupke said
Actually, what's cool is that large COGS display. Has this been officially announced for PSN yet?
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:50PM LEONLEONLEON said
Reminds me of the Citadel in Mass Effect 1.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:52PM Spazgadget said
Back on topic, that screenshot doesn't really look "real" at all to me - am I missing something? It looks like an illustration.
Still, interesting. While Home isn't amazing, I still enjoy toodling around in it every week or so just to see what's going on.
Still, interesting. While Home isn't amazing, I still enjoy toodling around in it every week or so just to see what's going on.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:56PM LEONLEONLEON said
@Spazgadget Youre right, It is an illustration.
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Posted: Mar 10th 2011 5:07PM mywhitenoise said
@Spazgadget
Those are definitely not real, and I thought my eyes were bad!
Also, there's a "concept only" stamp on the second picture.
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Those are definitely not real, and I thought my eyes were bad!
Also, there's a "concept only" stamp on the second picture.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:55PM deathalo101 said
Harsh words there, although I have to admit, I don't get on either. It's a shame, I remember when I was uber excited about home, what happened, why can't sony get it off the ground.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:55PM CaptainProtonX said
More hookers like the one on the right of the image would help.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 3:59PM (Unverified) said
I liked killzone home. That actually got me to log to home for the first time since its initial launch, and I'm sure I wasn't alone.
If they want it to succeed, and voice chat and more in game tie ins, like KZ3 unlock points
If they want it to succeed, and voice chat and more in game tie ins, like KZ3 unlock points
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 5:09PM mywhitenoise said
@TraceurRyuk Part III
Not public voice chat. Not like back when it first launched.
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Not public voice chat. Not like back when it first launched.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:00PM spyder said
the fascination of home died off before most people got on the beta.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:01PM TraceurRyuk Part III said
I use Home and I enjoy it, actually. A lot of my real life friends exclusively play Call of Duty. I have actually met some people to play some of the more "obscure" games with. So you "journalists" can bash it all you want but plenty of people find use in it.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:07PM mmmfishtacos said
@TraceurRyuk Part III I enjoy home too, it's not an everyday thing, but i always find some new way to pass the time in home. Freeze ball was my last addiction, but sadly it was hard to find anyone the could beat me.... Oh and midway was a lot of fun too.
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Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:18PM A Sandwich said
@TraceurRyuk Part III
Man, you've got some shitty friends.
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Man, you've got some shitty friends.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:29PM TraceurRyuk Part III said
@A Sandwich
Lol, they're alright. Just not into "nerdy" things as they say. Which is weird because one of them has a tattoo of Naruto and Bleach, which is about as nerdy as you can get.
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Lol, they're alright. Just not into "nerdy" things as they say. Which is weird because one of them has a tattoo of Naruto and Bleach, which is about as nerdy as you can get.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:05PM subterfunk said
I'm afraid to even try to load home, last time I did there was a slew of updates that I didn't get through because it was going to take too long.
Posted: Mar 10th 2011 4:05PM Oxyrt said
Definitely looks like concept art.
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