$1 Million Goods Sold in PlayStation Home

The gaming GOD - 365 days 4 hours ago

Also, I'm glad they are starting to add new stuff a bit faster now. I can only imagine what kind of Money sony and EA are going to make when that EA Home Sports Complex comes out.

Slowly Home is coming together despite whatever negative things people had to say. By the way, has anyone tried out that Red Bull thing yet?

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Cajun Chicken - 365 days 4 hours ago

I contributed with getting myself a full buisness suit and bowler.
Perfect for my British eccentricity when in Home.

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Pennywise - 365 days 4 hours ago

beauty of it is that all of this stuff was optional to buy and had no bearing on anyone's experience with HOME.

I dont care what they charge for as long as I have a choice to buy it. Once they start selling things that negatively affect me if I dont buy them, then it gets annoying.

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The gaming GOD - 365 days 4 hours ago

That's the one thing people need to keep in mind. Buying stuff is OPTIONAL. It's not forced on you and you aren't penalized for NOT buying stuff.

And yes I myself snagged a couple of things to make my HOME space look a little less bland

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Milky Joe - 365 days 2 hours ago

I don't see what people's problem is with this. If people are paying money for it then there is obviously an audience for it. I pretty big one if this $1,000,000 is anything to go by.

And heck, if it keeps PSN free, how can anyone complain???

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ericnellie - 365 days 1 hour ago

They made a lot of money...and they made it fast.

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ultimolu - 365 days 1 hour ago

I hope so as well. I like the idea of PSN being free. Wouldn't want it any other way.

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Scar 360WA - 364 days 22 hours ago

I think the prices they ask for this stuff is outrageous I normally wouldn't complain about pricing, but I was shocked when I seen some of the prices. A $1.50 for a chair is robbery. And people complained about themes and gamer pics.

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f789790 - 364 days 19 hours ago

If people are that crazy to pay those prices then I guess I will never see a price drop.

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Baliw - 364 days 23 hours ago

this coming:
'But our avatars clothes are free; so PSN sucks.'

Was it like $1 million in one month?

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ChilliDemon - 365 days 2 hours ago

..."its all software based so it probably cost next to nothing to make."

Software development is far from cheap. Ask the NHS in Britain.

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jidery - 365 days ago

Here is why its cheap.

They spend about a day making a chair for your homespace, they texture it, design it, etc. Then they sell it to you. now that chair took one day to make now you can make unlimited copys of that chair for free, and sell it to the public.

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donator - 364 days 23 hours ago

Yeah... it's true that they can probably design a chair and a t-shirt in mere hours, but you're neglecting the amount of money it took to invent the rest of the game, which is the entire game.

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ChilliDemon - 364 days 14 hours ago

Yeah, I agree it most likely takes next to no time at all to 'build' new passive objects to 'sell' within Home. And once made, each item can be sold over and over again with zero overhead.

However, the OP seemed to be referring to the development of Home itself, which will have taken a large amount of development time. Developing Home and the tools used to populate it is a very costly undertaking, whereas using these tools to make the things in it is probably much less so.

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liquidsnake - 365 days 3 hours ago

Like you said. And I bet that other companies like Capcom, Ubisoft and so on pays Sony quite a bit of cash to get their own spaces in Home.

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f789790 - 364 days 19 hours ago

I'm going to go sit with my money and the corner and stare at it.

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LeShin - 365 days 2 hours ago

Would you rather they charged everyone who wants to play online?

I definitely prefer this way.

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Milky Joe - 365 days 1 hour ago

Exactly LeShin, this way PSN stays free.

I would much rather pay a quid or 2 every now and then for some virtual sofas than be paying a subscription charge.

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Close_Second - 365 days ago

...multiplayer for free to distinguish itself from Xbox Live. To suggest that HOME subsidizes PSN on-line multiplayer is an assumption. Basically you're saying that if HOME fails that Sony will start charging for on-line play. I doubt they'd do that with the current PS3 install.

To be honest I'd rather pay a small yearly fee for on-line play than buy virtual furniture and clothing that can only be used in HOME. To make such purchases viable for me personally, Sony would need to strike up deals with the manufacturers so that if you purchased their sofa in Home you get a 20% discount or something to that effect off the real deal.

As a final note I wonder how far this virtual shopping thing can be taken. Perhaps your avartar in HOME could log into its own virtual HOME and buy its own virtual clothing, furniture. Wow. You fund your own virtual self to shop for what it wants. You just log in and check out its progress from time to time.

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f789790 - 364 days 19 hours ago

Its not your money and Sony has more money to spend.

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Bigrhyno - 365 days 1 hour ago

These microtransactions aren't the only way Sony will make money in home.

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Pennywise - 365 days 1 hour ago

Pretty sad to think about how much 360 users pay to play per year. I cant blame MS for keeping a charge as long as people keep paying.

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Captain Tuttle - 365 days 1 hour ago

I forgot about all of the advertising.

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heyheyhey - 365 days 1 hour ago

yeah i bet Red Bull, Diesel, Ligne Roset and all the others coughed serious dough for this Home advertising... and this is only the beggining with only 3.4mil users

imagine when Home hits 15mil users... it will reel in Google-style numbers

EDIT:

maybe, still the prospect is quite huge for Sony i imagine

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Captain Tuttle - 365 days 1 hour ago

It actually wouldn't surprise me if Sony let them advertise for deeply discounted rates or even for nothing for a couple of months considering how this is something completely new.

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deeznuts - 364 days 23 hours ago

Unless your name is Mr. Microsoft I'm not sure how talking about MS ripping off it's customers (paying to play online) is a good thing so show off.

"Bleh, Sony has to keep it up to screw us like MS does! Muahahahahah"

Oh, and these transactions are optional ...

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LeShin - 365 days 2 hours ago

Exactly!

You don't like, don't buy. Hey, have you tried racing those red bull planes? I gotta admit it's pretty fun.....especially when I found out how to accelerate lol

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UltimateIdiot911 - 365 days 1 hour ago

To accelerate is R3.

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heyheyhey - 365 days 1 hour ago

to accelerate you just push up on the right stick

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Steven Colbert - 365 days 2 hours ago

LMAO you naive soul

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Pennywise - 365 days 2 hours ago

Do you guys all live under the same rock? Really... $50 a year to play online is not a choice.

All the money spent in HOME was a choice by the users to make themselves happier. They werent forced. They didnt have to buy anything. BIG DIFFERENCE.

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Action Bastard - 365 days 2 hours ago

Anyone know where I can buy some Gamer Pics? Or a virtual fireplace?

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Steven Colbert - 365 days 2 hours ago

Pennywise,I'm glad you can see logic and reasoning.

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Pennywise - 365 days 1 hour ago

I not only see it Stephen, I eat, drink and piss it. LOL

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Wiimaniac - 365 days 1 hour ago

nevermind, 6 user already responded you.

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guiltyspark - 365 days 1 hour ago

Im not sure i understand what you are saying

Xbox owners are forced to pay for xbox live?

Like as in they have no choice not to pay for it ?

Is somone putting a gun to their head and forcing them to sign up?

Yet its a playstation's owners "choice" to buy a useless fuking virtual couch for their pedophile palace?

lol , playstation fans SPIN SPIN SPIN!

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Steven Colbert - 365 days 1 hour ago

@GS

Of course you don't understand,GuiltySpark.You are a wanna-be troll and trolls are not known to understand logic.Maybe if you ask nicely I could explain what Pennywise means.If you don't then I suggest you do your homework on your "trolling"

I am 343 Guilty Spark,monitor of Installation O4

@Pennywise

Hahaha you recycle logic then? XD

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heyheyhey - 365 days 1 hour ago

@guilty

let me paint a picture for you:

i don't buy anything in Home, but i can still play COD4 online for free

you pay

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ReTarDedFisHy - 365 days 1 hour ago

Are you SERIOUSLY that ignorant that you think that PS fans are the ones that are spinning this?

You DO realize how stupid you sound right now, right?

"Xbox owners are forced to pay for xbox live?

Like as in they have no choice not to pay for it ?

Is somone putting a gun to their head and forcing them to sign up? "

You see, we can play multiplayer for free. You guys can't.
The people that are buying this stuff CHOOSE to. Xbox live subscribers have no choice but to pay if they want to play online.
There. Simple. Enough for a two year old to understand.

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Pennywise - 365 days 1 hour ago

You are forced to pay for LIVE if you want to play online. How can you not understand this?? Blows my mind that was your best attempt to troll me!

@ Stephen - LOL yeah its all recycled.

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Magic_The_Celt - 365 days 1 hour ago

Guiltyspark

if you dont pay you dont get an online experience so your not even in the picture to begin with are you lmfao

oh and i could say, virtual fire place? a small little picture next to your name? a nice new hat for your avatar?.. the list goes on

As someone said, if we choose to buy something in Home we still get an online gaming experience, as in playing with others for FREE, but with xbox you still have to pay

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Elvfam511 - 365 days ago

You got Owned by everybody lmao

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heyheyhey - 365 days ago

is it me or has every one of your comments tonight been about peadophilia?

are you ok?

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Jenzo - 364 days 15 hours ago

It's hard not to mention paedophilia when speaking of Sony related stuff. Everything from Home to Howard Stranger reeks of it.

Everything is fine with me, I'm not on Home.

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apena89 - 364 days 18 hours ago

and it's the 50GB games we get to play.

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