At a Sony GDC roundtable where the company unveiled a major update for PlayStation Home, Jack Buser, SCEA's director of PlayStation Home, talked about the growth of the platform and Sony's major learnings over the past couple years. Buser noted that there are now 19 million users in Home currently (a user is anyone who has registered, downloaded the software and entered Home once). Buser emphasized that games are now driving the experience on the platform and the average time spent by a user is around 70 minutes.
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!
Yeah, but the thing is media sharing would be the bigger killer app.
If anyone hasn't been on Home in a few years, go on and try it out. It's a vastly different experience compared to when the beta first launched.
Home is great to be honest, they did a good job with the games and content in it. 2 years ago I'd have said Home is a joke but now they really have shown what it can do. The KZ3 stuff that did was fun and giving something for doing it in the full game was nice as well.
Only issue with Home is it needs more XMB integration and more media abilities. That and the menus need some work. I am sure I could think of other things but for the most part its going to keep growing and get better as it does. And if Sony is making $$ off of it and people are using it then that is great. I hope you can use Home on the NGP when it comes out.
Surprise surprise... The harocore gamers who bought a gaming console for hundreds of dollars actually prefer to play games and not aimlessly traverse virtual second-life like world?
i love the killzone and infamous game but i hate the fact that i can't invert the aim back to normal, or how i'm used to playing.