Home Is Currently Plain But Geared Towards Success

PimpHandHappy - 403 days 14 hours ago

2see how long it takes for HOME to be finished or even improved on via firmware. I want to play some chess/pool/bowling/poker and i want to have rankings if i decide i want to kill a week playing chess! Give me that for free and you have a winner! Streaming music/movies would be really cool if they can make it happen....sounds complex

anyway

peace

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Lou-Cipher - 403 days 14 hours ago

I agree

Streaming movies or music would make it worth it to me.

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PimpHandHappy - 403 days 12 hours ago

to your TV or jukebox in your pad

you only allow the owner of the pad to stream

sounds simple but i hear its a copyright issue

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Jenzo - 403 days 10 hours ago

Sounds like it's far from done? I thought it was about to be released anytime soon.

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LeGenDx - 403 days 10 hours ago

its amazing. i already met alot of cool people an we played some R2

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40cal - 403 days 10 hours ago

And can honestly say that it is already awesome, and you can tell that they have a lot more lined up for the service.

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Wiimaniac - 403 days 10 hours ago

Home is going to make PSN better?in what way? these are my questions...

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pwnsause - 403 days 9 hours ago

the Mall is one of the cool things about Home. The Fact that its integrated into the PS store (even though theres nothing to sell there at the moment) shows lots of potential in the future when the mall goes live and starts expanding. think about it:

Imagine not only would you be able to buy virtual Items in the mall, but also PSN games (basically all the stuff that we see from the XMB Playstation Store right now.) Not only that, just imagine buying Blu-Ray Based games and Movies, and of Course PS3/PSP accesories from this virtual Store in the mall at Home (when you buy it from this mall, Sony Ships your stuff to your Real Home.) I see lots of potential.

Heck If Capcom gets their Own Homespace, I can already see a Virtual Capcom Store in their Homespace which is integrated to the PS store as well. (that goes to every other Publisher as well.)
All we Need for Sony to do is to bring in Cross-game Invites, Voice Messaging, and a few other things and the PSN can contend!

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Neo604 - 403 days 7 hours ago

It's a good place to meet people.

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FantasyStar - 403 days 4 hours ago

Rock!

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Figboy - 403 days 3 hours ago

and overall, i like it.

it DOES have potential for success, and i think those people that love things The Sims, redecorating, creative avatars, etc, will be immediately drawn to Home.

then, i think the social aspects of the service will slowly entice them.

yesterday, i was wandering around with my nephew, who lives in Milwaukee, WI, while i live in Los Angeles, and we were talking to each other via our headsets.

while we can talk to each other at any time on the PSN, it was nice to have a visual representation of him to chat with (although he made his guy taller than me. lol).

it's definitely plain, but it has infinite room for expansion.

remember what the PS3/PSN was like 12 months ago? see how it is now?

i imagine that in 12 months time, Home will have made similar leaps in terms of content and the services it provides, and we'll look back at these "plain days," and laugh, much in the same way we look back at when the PS3 didn't have Trophies, in game XMB access, there was no video store, the PSN games were limited to flOw and Calling All Cars, and the game library consisted of Resistance of Motorstorm as the only worthwhile games to own on the system.

*sigh* so much has changed, and for the better, and it's only going to GET better for the PS3, as more games and services are added to the console.

when Ken Kutaragi commented that the PS3 would be an "evolving/upgradable" ; system, most people thought he meant tech specs, and having to add more RAM, or change video cards or something, like a PC, and i remember reading many a flamebait story lambasting the comments.

NOW, i see what he meant. the hardware is the same, but the software has changed the hardware. it's evolving via firmware updates and new features (like HOME), not new hardware pieces like RAM and video cards.

some people think so much inside of the box, that they take comments at face value too much, and don't pause and consider the bigger picture.

don't get me wrong, I DIDN'T have any idea what Krazy Ken meant either, but i didn't jump to any conclusions either. after the PS2, and the console that it wound up becoming, i was willing to trust ol' Ken to do what he does best, and that's say crazy sh*t, but ultimately deliver a quality gaming console. he's done it three times so far (PS1, PS2, and PSP), and so far, he's done it a fourth with the PS3.

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Xi - 403 days 2 hours ago

Home is hit and miss. It has the possiblity to be one of the best social playgrounds ever made, but sony has to be careful. They need to keep things fresh and new, otherwise people will end up using it for the first 3/4 weeks get board, then just skip it entirely and play games like normal, maybe check up on it every couple of weeks when something "big" is happening.

I'm excited for it but I'm still causious about how well it will work. The lack of video/audio sharing was sort of a let down, specially since microsoft will have it on the 360 with netflix (or something), and since it's done in second life. It was one of my redeeming features of home. But you never know it may be added eventually (here's to hoping)

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