Sony: Home Launch Rollout Will Be Similar To Gmail

Kholinar - 576 days 5 hours ago

Just like gmail has never been a fully functional product. Or Live Mail or Yahoo Mail... right.

This is just something companies do these days to explain that, in a dynamic product, there might be bugs. You know, like most "Next Gen" games. Those aren't labeled betas but they're as buggy as hell.

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Relcom - 576 days 5 hours ago

Vaporware was the phantom, Home is gonna be in beta for awhile? who cares, this is Sony's baby they want it perfect. This is their answer to live, so let them take their time making it final. I myself will enjoy the open beta, BTW i have the yahoo mail beta and its awesome. Home will be too.

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marinelife9 - 576 days 5 hours ago

Gmail is actually great. I use it as default over yahoo and hotmail. And they add more and more features all the time.

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scottie2521 - 576 days 5 hours ago

Silogon, as someone that's actually IN the beta, i can tell you you have no idea what you're talking about.

Home is already fully functional. all they're saying is more will be added as time passes. and if it'll be like Gmail, which i use as my #1 email, it will just get better and better.

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Silogon - 576 days 5 hours ago

Hey, I hope you guys are right. I really do cause I think home has a lot of potential and looks pretty damn cool, but for those of us not in the beta we don't know. Don't disagree with my opinions cause I'm not in the beta or have access to home. All I'm asking.

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Kyur4ThePain - 576 days 4 hours ago

You know you just posted that comment on a site that is still in a beta stage, right?
That kind of negates your point.

You said
"Home was vaporware and a dream."

And then followed up with
"I'm not in the beta or have access to home."

How do you expect people to take you seriously when you comment on something you freely admit to having no knowledge of?

From everything we've seen of Home in leaked videos, does you really think that Sony would have put so much time and money into it if they never planned to realize it?

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tplarkin7 - 576 days 4 hours ago

Sony got caught with their pants down, so they made the Sixaxis and failed. They can't compete in the online realm, so they're making Home.

These are knee-jerk reactions and they're playing catch-up. Home will fail.

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scottie2521 - 576 days 3 hours ago

man, are you slow or what?!?! you don't even realize that what you're saying is basically impossible.

how can Home fail when its a FREE application that will be on EVERY ps3?

no one has to buy Home. it cost nothing to use. even if only half of the ps3 users use it will be a success. people could go into Home 1 or 2 times and month and it would be a success.

that is the problem with you guys, you're quick to type up something negative, you don't even stop to think if what you're saying even makes sense.

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Drekken - 576 days 3 hours ago

@ #1... I got like 5 words into your rediculous rant. Go outside.

Home is real and its coming. Beta or not, it will be available and working, so you are just a fool.

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tplarkin7 - 576 days 2 hours ago

Second Life is free, too. Also, it won't be installed on all PS3s according to this article.

Regardless, Home is a game, just like any other game. Yet, this game is just a chat room with nothing to do but look at trophies and watch Blu-Ray movies with other avatars.

It will fail because it is a novelty that will wear off very quickly, like Second Life. The average time spent per user in SL is 17 minutes. They then give up out of boredom.

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scottie2521 - 575 days 23 hours ago

#1 - you aren't in the beta, i am
#2 - no matter how they decide to distribute it, it will be available to all ps3 owners
#3 - Home is not a game, but you can play games within it
#4 - you don't watch movies in Home but, you can watch game and movie trailers (this could change)
#5 - you're a troll and i don't know why i'm wasting my time, you just sound like a jealous little fanboy

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Expy - 576 days 6 hours ago

I think so, but I think mostly on the lines of, a continuously evolving beta stage.

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Real Gambler - 576 days 3 hours ago

Think about it. If they would release Home, which is free, to 10 millions PS3 owners, what do you think would happen to the servers on release day? 18 hours download at 10 byte per seconds.

By releasing it like Gmail did, it will slowly ramp up, the servers never get extremely loaded, and they can adapt as the load is increasing.

So it's nothing more than just plain common sense. I'm quite happy that I have a long list of friends though! It does help getting those "invites" quickly.

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JackBauerIsHIGH - 576 days 4 hours ago

An open beta ala Gmail is not bad in any way. I've been using Gmail ever since it's been available and not once has it seemed like a 'beta' to me. It works like a charm and they keep adding new features when they are available.

Now tell me how exactly that would be bad for Home?

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Will-UK - 576 days 4 hours ago

I mean the timing should be good because it could launch near christmas

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JackBauerIsHIGH - 575 days 22 hours ago

I wasn't disagreeing with you at all. Whenever they do decide to release it it should be great, beta or not.

bubbles for you!

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Xakep - 576 days 5 hours ago

Back when it first started it was so hard to get a Gmail invite, they had websites up that had people offering money and other things for one. You pretty much had to know someone to get in, then gradually they replenished our invites so we could bring more people in then finally giving us 100 and by that time anyone who really wanted one could get one.

Aside from that I think they're talking about having a fully functional product that meets the user's expectations but is still "technically" in beta. I've been using Gmail for nearly 4 years and it still says "Beta" under the Gmail logo when you're signed in.

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Kholinar - 576 days 5 hours ago

"Aside from that I think they're talking about having a fully functional product that meets the user's expectations but is still "technically" in beta."

Exactly, there's no indication whatsoever of invites being involved. Just a product labeled beta because it may have some minor glitches.

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Drekken - 576 days 3 hours ago

If it makes Sony happy to keep it under beta status fine. That is their way of getting us, the customers what we want early then FINE!
They wont take the beta off until it is exactly the product they want it to be. Just because it will be in beta form, doesnt make it bad.

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tplarkin7 - 576 days 4 hours ago

No website stays the same over time. Saying "beta" for a website isn't accurate.

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Drekken - 576 days 3 hours ago

I've been saying this too. With in game XMB and tropheys and then HOME... Sony will crush MS'd pay to play BS. Only a fool will pay for what they can get for free.

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