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Sony's Edward Talks PlayStation Home As It Hits 7 Million Users

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Sony's online social gaming service Home may have had something of a troubled gestation, but it's maturing quickly and offers many opportunities for publishers, according to Peter Edward, director of the PlayStation Home platform for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

Since the launch of the open beta in November 2008, the PlayStation 3-exclusive online world Home has gained 7 million inhabitants worldwide, 3 million of which are in Europe, and they have downloaded 6 million virtual items.

Edward said the global figure for downloads scales with users, but he was unable to disclose a precise total. The average Home session duration is 56 minutes.
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jack_burt0n - 189 days 20 hours ago
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it doubled my friends list, met some decent people bowling, its addictive I like having my apartment kitted out like an arcade with the free namco arcade beta, free items with re5 and sf4 was nice. xi was excellent was really well done. watched a couple interesting trailers in the theatre, and exploring the american and japanese spaces was cool the japanese cinema is cool. For a free app home is win from me :)

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Nineball2112 - 189 days 19 hours ago
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Home is coming into it's own. It might not be what gamers want it to be currently, but I think it's successful as far as Sony is concerned.

I don't frequent it all that often, but I'll drop in from time to time and it seems like there are always quite a few people roaming about.

7 Million people and the average stay is an hour...

Not too shabby.
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Karum - 189 days 19 hours ago
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I normally just go into Home when new a new game space or something is added, which isn't all that often in the EU version.

I'll start using it more when game launching is available in Home on the same day/week that game is actually released.

Home has so much potential that it hasn't got remotely close to realising and when it does, that will most likely be when I start to visit regularly.
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Cajun Chicken - 189 days 19 hours ago
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I find myself going on Home quite rarely, mentioning bizarre comments and running off and 'Quincy'ing', I also walk around in character and just on the whole wind up people or amuse them with my constant personality changes.
Somehow I can use up 3 hours in just doing this. I'm sorry, I just find myself incapable of actually socialising this way and in fact, just socialising with strangers through computers.

If there's one thing Home has, its potential and I like potential.
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teh-panda - 189 days 19 hours ago
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congradz home. It is really starting to blossom into Sony's vision.
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LiQuiFiedArt - 189 days 18 hours ago
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5.1 - My panda...
...Ownz yours.
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teh-panda - 188 days 10 hours ago
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*gasp* mah Panda has 2 gunz. bam bam
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