Eurogamer: "For many PlayStation 3 owners, their relationship with Home has been brief. They fired up the virtual world platform around the time of its public launch in late 2008, noticed a general lack of things to do, and went back to playing LittleBigPlanet."
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!
All the broken promises. While I still jump on from time to time it is nothing like it could have been. Something like this needs to launch alongside the console so it's there from day one and more than just an icon on the XMB.
Very gimmicky waste of time from Sony. It seemed geared towards in-game advertising rather than serving the needs of gamers.
youd be shocked if you logged in and actually saw how many home users there are and how much content and activities that there are to do. the userbase may be generally a casual audience, but i poke in every now and then to see whats new. ive spent a lot of time at the carnival playing whatever games they have gathering rewards
I've spent a lot of time on home . Especially in the early days . I loved the original square and shopping mall ... it was simpler and the actual avatars stood out more . It was a great social space and still is except that the design of it is messier. The original look was stronger.. more of a feel of an actual place.. there was much less advertising. While all the clothes etc you can buy now seem to mirror the ugliness of materialism. It's a noisy, busy place now with a lot of douch's showing off that weeks latest gear. But you can still find nice people to chat to and have a laugh with or chat about games. With a little effort you can make some very weird avatars, which is nice.