For those not in the know, Pottermore is a website that allows you to relive the stories from the Harry Potter books while also getting a taste of what it would be like to be a Hogwarts student (albeit in virtual form). Users are divided into houses which they can then earn points for by completing various extracurricular tasks such as potion brewing and wizards' duels.
Other "game-type metaverse" projects in the works
Would love PlayStation Home 2 on PS5 with seamless transitions between different areas.
There's still IMVU and Second Life but they're not quite like PS Home. Btw folks the Home restoration project is still going and they have brought Home back online through the PS3 emulator. So if y'all interested in goin back HOME there's that.
As good as it was It missed the opportunity of becoming huge... Imagine if just eat or similar and you could order food from within checking out menus of local restaurants, Or items direct from Amazon etc whilst in shop in game checking out the items in real time, or even clothes from your favourite shops. The thing could have been Enormous ! I realise it could be dangerous in over spending but hell kids max out parents cards on fortnite, just need to keep control of them.
The new loyalty program PlayStation Stars boasts an array of rewards, many of which would be perfect for a display in a reboot of PlayStation Home.
Thanks to the Destination Home Team working in tandem with the PSOne Emulation Team, PlayStation Home is back online this 2021 on the PS3.
Ah yes good times. I remember bowling, making psn friends, dance parties, flirting with girls, and pretending to be a girl with hoards of dudes following me lol. I even created eu and jp accounts because they had their own unique hub area and game spaces. It was just dumb fun.
I still think the ps5 is getting it with London studio making an "online game" they keep posting. They also have experience making VR games so who knows. It would be amazing as a free game packed with the psvr2.
HOME was a broken mess last time, and it still makes no sense now. This whole META verse hype - i just dont see it. VR or not makes no difference. We are far off!
This is a bit late in coming, isn't it?
More so if Sony made the movies. Or is it Fox?
I didn't even know Pottermore was still a thing. Didn't it end up being a miserable failure?
I'm still not sure of what to make of home, it could have been something great but never really grasped it. For me personally, there is not enough incentive to repeatedly use it. Sure some of the mini games are fun but it needs to go beyond that. Perhaps by introducing more rpg elements, so there could be levelling up etc.
It just needs to go a lot further than the current concept.