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Sony brainstorming with the Home community

PS3Fanboy writes: Sony kept saying it, but we finally understand what they meant when they said that Home would be expanded "based on consumer feedback." A SCEE community manager, MusterBuster, started a thread on the European PlayStation forums, trying to figure out why people were congregating around the PSP-3000 adverts all the time. After learning that people enjoy dancing to the advert's music the thread quickly evolved into a discussion of how best to deliver more music to Home users.

Suggestions came in many forms, such as a jukebox (as can be found in the US Home Plaza), downloadable podcasts, or a live radio show. The latter seemed to elicit the biggest response, with suggestions including live DJs, gaming news segments and "PSN in" (rather than "phone in") competitions. We'd like to think that all of these ideas are now being discussed internally at SCEE. Hopefully we'll see something come of the discussion relatively soon (though, setting up a radio show won't happen overnight).

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Cajun Chicken - 379 days 5 hours ago

1 - This is real good.

I should join the forums.

Sony pave the way for User Generated Content once again.

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faiizow - 379 days 4 hours ago

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Pfft. Sony are dumb. Game Launching has many potential, but i don't know if they realise that, It's too simple atm, they should advance the functionality abit more . They should do the following:

- Local Multiplayer Installation!

I want to be able to store the multiplayer segments of games on to my HDD. It's like a beta game, except only Home can launch the game, and it stays safely hidden within the Game Utility folder. This will make launching games very quick and easier so you dont have to get out of your seat to put a disc in. And a way to tackle piracy for this is to register the disc to the console and then upload data to PSN, so only one console can have that unique feature of the game. Slipping the disc in and playing the game online works, but the MP installation for Home launching can only be used on one console. This way, developers will LOVE Home, mainly 'cause they hate people buying pre-owned games.

- Game Playlist's!

I have R2,KZ2,SOCOM and Warhawk all locally stored in my HDD (KOOOOOOOL). But i wanna be able to play all of these after another whilst still in my 1-32 player party! Playlist style! Dropping out of Home after a match of Warhawk is FRUSTRATING and then to set-up one again makes things repetitive.

- Between Game Party Screen!

Whilst the next match is busy being created on the ____ game servers. There should be a little text based chat room for the party and tweakable settings menu for the next match exclusively for the party leader! (the tweaking thing) You cant have a 32 player private chat room can you? but you can certainly have a 32 player text chat.

All of these feature's can be done. The only one they have to devolop is the Between Game Party Screen, other than that all they have to do is improve upon on their features they've laid out for us. These are DEFINITELY the reason's why I'd boot up home!

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Cajun Chicken - 379 days 4 hours ago

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Good ideas, I like.

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1.3 austere | 379 days 4 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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Jackthepwnsaur - 379 days 4 hours ago

1.4 - faiizow

thats already been stated in the closed Beta Forums before you brought it up now. sorry to break your heart.

Edit: the standard motto, They're looking into it. If you have any ideas, take it to the Forum. You and everyone else knows that SOny doesnt listen to its fans on N4G, they listen to their fans on their webpage.

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faiizow - 379 days 4 hours ago

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What did they say about it?

lol @ breaking my heart, quite the opposite tbh!!

Edit: Ugh

I seriously hope they do add it. Otherwise, I'm bricking their houses tomorrow.

Edit: DUDE I GO THERE EVERYDAY, Everyone down their is stuck in thier virtual second life world by sugessting "I want a fridge!, with virtual food! and some PETS!!". It's disgusting. Any thread that says "Insert Suggestion's here" made by any guy trying to start a revolutionary thread of Idea's of ultimate win , I simply go there and copynpaste my idea's. I'm literally spamming there. I dunno if they're listening or not. But until the day i hear "KK FAIIZOW STOP THEY SO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT", i soooo ain't stopping.

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SiLeNt KNighT - 379 days 3 hours ago

1.6 - i always say this so ill be consistent

give us a tv in our house so we can invite friends over and access our HDD to watch the movies/shows stored on it!! this will make home worth it to me. its lame now. and the retards on the forums suggesting refrigerators with virtual food is the lamest idea ive ever heard. Home is NOT a game, some of these kids need to go play the sims.

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LokMessier - 379 days 3 hours ago

1.7 - @SiLeNt KNighT

Agree with the Television though being that I'm also for music streaming I'd like to add that perhaps it should also be able to stream music. That way the people in Home could just ask for one item [the TV] that will be able to play Shows,Movies, and Music on it. I'm also hoping we can full-screen it to!

I know Second Life has something like this, but I can't full screen it. I've watched at least 3 movies in that program back in the summer when I started out, it's pretty good. Quality was 'okay/meh' but hey at least it worked, just waiting for Sony to pick this up.

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SiLeNt KNighT - 379 days 3 hours ago

1.8 - LokMessier

yeah i like that music idea. maybe just have the xmb pop up on our in 'Home' TV. that way you could access everything on your ps3. same goes for the psp. any music stored on your HDD should be accessible from any where in home from your psp. i think it would be good marketing for sony to make the psp used as an mp3 player also. steal some apple customers.

not so sure about the legal issues but sharing with my friends is the key to make it successful. i have a real tv, real ps3, real psp that i can do this with. i want to be able to share with friends online though!!

@faiizow

very true. being that sony owns BMG and the easily hackable psp they know all too much about piracy. i hope they find a way around it though! otherwise home is pretty lame. not complaining, its free, but none the less its my opinion...

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faiizow - 379 days 3 hours ago

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Yeah but they said if they included them features, it supports piracy. I know for a fact the functionality is there, they've shown, you can see it on youtube. But I think we're old enough to realize what people are gonna do with that.

They can combat Netflix by allowing movies/shows off the store to be video streamed to friends in your own (you don't own it in Home obviously) personal cinema or personal bravia television. Same thing with their upcoming Music Store.

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LokMessier - 379 days 3 hours ago

1.10 - Agreed with both.

The PSP as an MP3 player would be nice, then I could delete some music off of it. If the range is long enough then I would probably just use my PSP instead of my MP3 when doing work outside.

As for that legal aspect, I think Sony should know by now that sharing has occurred amongst friends this would be no different. Sooner or later someone is going to find a way to get the streaming feature to work inside of home [ probably in the theater and I won't be surprised.]

@Faiizow, are you talking about streaming the music and movies outside of home and just with people on the friend list?

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faiizow - 379 days 3 hours ago

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Well who else would you wanna watch a movie with?

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LokMessier - 379 days 3 hours ago

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I could be extremely sarcastic with that, but I won't :p. I get what you were saying now, just had to make sure I was reading it right.

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faiizow - 379 days 2 hours ago

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Stop teasing and say it! xD!

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micro_invader - 379 days 2 hours ago

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But we need a fridge! Our virtual stomachs will get virtually hungry after a while, and what better way to fill yourself up than some good ol' virtual apple pie :P

Anyway, I only spent about 10 mins in Home today, so I still can't judge.

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SiLeNt KNighT - 379 days 2 hours ago

1.15 - LMAO @ 1.11 -1.13

nobodies mother! just me friends! haha, i can just imagine now the anti social fridge wanting people having 'real' dates in home.

"Want to go bowling and back to my place for some drinks and a movie?"

we need that fridge quicker than we thought! [vodka storage]

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Socomer 1979 - 379 days 4 hours ago

2 - oooh join up!

they should get the music jumping!
like special events at a certain time.
more videos on screen.
movies in the theather like final fantasy and deadspace.
more arcade games !
bring out tvs and music to play in your homespace!

oh and what about q and a for developers like in the sony blog, live streaming? that might be too hard to pull but it would be cool.

Laser tag!
Amusement park !
or
Gamelaunching to socom
and
PAIN

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Cajun Chicken - 379 days 4 hours ago

2.1 - For now

I'd like a run button like in Saints Row 2, a jump button and some kind of compatability with Sixaxis features.

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LokMessier - 379 days 4 hours ago

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Lazer tag would be awesome in home, I'd love to play that and being that achievements are becoming a big thing, I could see them including trophies in the whole thing :p.

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Johnny Rotten - 379 days 4 hours ago

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they should let you have an MP3 player which would act as a in-game XMB music player.

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LokMessier - 379 days 4 hours ago

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Agree and am waiting for that. I think most people want that In-game music player.

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Cajun Chicken - 379 days 4 hours ago

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I'll go for that, TBH, I'd thought that would be essential.

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meepmoopmeep - 379 days 4 hours ago

4 - All I WANT

is that Virtual gaming conference thing to be a GO!
going to E3, GDC, TGS would be awesome via Home

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LokMessier - 379 days 3 hours ago

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Sony has the power to make that possible and very great, they could use the theatre [hopefully by then we'll be able to full screen the screen] and listen/watch developers. Or they could have a spot where they could have their avatars standing on a podium and have all blue tooths disabled except for perhaps the developers ones. Screens could be used for charts and game footage of what they have so far. Sometimes I wish we could also have like a daily 'town' meeting in home, that is similar to the way developers had that in the Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach game.

They had a town-hall meeting, everyone gathered and one place and people voiced their ideas, developers gave feedback and tried to tell people of what their next objective is. If Sony could accomplish that I would be most impressed and would find that home truly will be that connecting factor between gamers and the developers.

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Alcohog - 379 days 4 hours ago

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Its not music we are after, its just that there is nothing else to do. That and doing the salsa on the stairs while doing "guns" makes you look drunk.

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divideby0 - 379 days 3 hours ago

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They also used it against the community. I have been a day one beta tester and filled out surveys only to find a few items which were free in the beta, have been removed and will be inserted for charges later on. They basically saw the most wanted items and features by popularity and removed them since they realized they were popular and can make $$ of them

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LokMessier - 379 days 3 hours ago

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Weren't they talking of using trophies for monetary things? I don't know if it's rumor or fact, but I remember reading an article about it which can be seen here:

http://www.ps3blog.co.za/20...

Being that most people have trophies already [quite a bit I might add] doesn't seem like it will be much of a problem. Though again I don't know if it's true or not.

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TIKUP - 379 days 3 hours ago

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LMAO^^...........Yeah good idea im already a sexual predator in real life and now in home......it works both ways!!!!!

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ultimolu - 379 days 3 hours ago

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This is a really cool idea. I'll give some input as well.

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callahan09 - 379 days 3 hours ago

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OK, this is going to sound really dumb, but I was in the Home Beta for a long time, and when they officially "released" Home the other day, it was supposed to either show up under network, or in the store, or SOMEWHERE like that... and it didn't. Is this because I already had the Beta app on my hard drive? I haven't launched the Beta since the official launch, so is that what I have to do in order to download the newest release? Just launch the original Beta and then it'll prompt me? Thanks in advance if someone knows.

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aiphanes - 379 days 2 hours ago

9.1 - Launch you old beta...and it will update.

The current version is 1.03...but might be 1.04 after tonight.

Just launch and it will prompt you that it will update.

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callahan09 - 379 days 2 hours ago

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Thanks!

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kalel333 - 379 days 2 hours ago

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I was expecting great things from home but now I'm left with disapointment , I was in the private beta and now the public beta and I just don't see the point of it right now except it being a giant ps3 myspace... The only thing I find fun in it is looking at men all dancing and doing things next to a girl LOL morons haha. I would have liked for home to be a game more then just a social network. Like if I was sony I would have gotten the people who made everquest or planetside to make a MMOSRPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Socializing Role Playing Game) haha, but that's just me. I know I some people love home.

Cheers

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aiphanes - 379 days 2 hours ago

10.1 - It is a game...you just do not get it....

HOme is exactly what it should be...and its gonna grow to something great.

Look at home Sony has upgraded all of their playstation systems or projects since the PSP has been released...

What was the PSP like when it first came out? It sucked...now it is awesome.

What was the PS3 like with firmware 1.0? It about sucked...but look what sony did in two years?

Look at HOME when the first open beta came out....it sucked but we saw the potential...look at what it is like now...realtime shadows, and reflections...even teh chess games are in reatime..the onlookers can see the pieces move in real time...simply awesome!

How do you not know that Sony will not build in a MMOSRPG into HOME? It is entirely possible...the way HOME is built into different sections...means it is possible to add just a game section...

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DERKADER - 379 days 1 hour ago

11 - STILL WAITING

All i ever wanted from my PS3 was a cross game multi person dedicated private chat like my 360 so i can talked to my friends no mater what i'm playing. Home needs to be better incorporated with the games and multiplayer. Also there is no party feature so when ever you want to follow some one into a room you can't just follow them trough the door you have to make sure they're a friend and then once they have reached the room to press the go to option under friends. When i first hoped on home i was impressed then 10 min later after i had seen everything and played with every option i was very disappointed. When you do start a private chat/phone call the only way to speak is to hold down R2 with i find annoying during private chat, R2 should only be used for voice when in public. No trophies,no party system, no game launching, nothing to buy, limited private chat, so just run around dance.

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Hunter2458 - 379 days 1 hour ago

12 - Arcade

Good, now If they just allowed more than one person at a time to play pool, arcade machines, or bowling then there'd be something to actually do.

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Enate - 378 days 17 hours ago

13 - yo DERKADER

I'm down with that in the worse way I need cross game chatting like crazy an right behind that custom music for every game.

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