PS3's Home not "a priority" for Sony any more

Posted by Gary Cutlack on Fri 30 Oct 2009

It looks like Sony's about to call time on its experiment in creating a 3D virtual world for PS3 gamers

PlayStation Home, Sony's forever-in-the-making social user-interface thing for PS3 that never really took off, could be about to get the chop - or at least given less resources from now on.

Home's development boss Peter Edward told attendees at the London Games Conference earlier this week the 3D fun palace is "Not a priority right now" for the gaming giant, which sounds like the big cheeses are finally giving up on the dream of Home taking off in a significant way.

"We've proved there is a market out there and we’ve got a lot of people that spend a lot of time in [Home]," he bravely pointed out, making it seem like Home wasn't all just one huge, massively expensive nightmare for Sony after all.

It'll be a bit of a shame if it does disappear. While Home always looked like it was going to be little more than a way for game publishers to flog extremely unnecessary digital tat to gamers, the potential to bring PS3 owners together - something it's not managed with anything like the same degree of success as Microsoft's Xbox Live - was there.

And even though most people's main memories of Home will be of wandering around empty rooms asking girl avatars if they are really girls then logging off when they said "no", you can't argue with the brilliance of being able to run around a nightclub wearing a Dizzee Rascal face mask.

Link: PlayStation Blog (via Edge)

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By freebieconsoles

30|10|2009 17:29

I never quite understood all the hate Home got. I think it is a good way to advertise gaming content in an interesting way on the PS3. Much better than the spotlight on the Xbox 360 NXE. Some of the game places are good and I still feel there is alot of potential, but I agree there will be other prioroties to spread investment.

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30|10|2009 16:42

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By St0rmBr1nger

30|10|2009 16:32

http://www.videogamer.com/news/sony_home_is_still_a_top_priority.html

Turns out Edge are misquoting and twisting words, which is quite normal for them, when it's their regular PS3 Hate spin. What I don't understand is why there is ANYONE left on this planet they buys their tat magazine or believes anything they report.

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