Reeves on Home: "I can look you in the eyes and tell you everything is on track"

VG247: Despite a complete no-show for Home in the Sony press conference at Games Convention last week, SCEE president David Reeves has moved to assure punters that the social app's development is completely on track, and that its open beta will begin this autumn as planned.

[MaximusPrime]

yep, as a beta trialist, it looks promising and yep seems to be rite on track.

(most of it are confidential ;) )

[Euphrate]

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[whoelse]

The extra time they have had via the delays appears to have improve Home a lot, especially the visuals. I can't wait to play with HOME!

[solidsnakus]

@ 1.1 true.
on track for what? home open beta still has no release date other than FALL 08. and this was suppost to be out august 07 just so you know, this craap has been delayed over a year now.

[kwicksandz]

Reeves needs to go to the shane kim STFU academy

[TheHater]

If home isn't release this year, we start a riot until he is fired.

[MaximusPrime]

nobody's perfect, we all make mistake. Finger-crossed home is not like that.

[solidsnakus]

its already is. august 07 release date says hi.

[themyk]

yeah we know. we get it. we hear you. whats your point?

i seriously doubt that this many people would be saying it's gonna come out this fall if it wasn't. and a full blown home before the end of the year if it wasn't so don't sit around being a stormy cloud man. your raining on our parade.

[solidsnakus]

well come on people. am i the only one thats hard on slackers here? you guys act like nothing ever happened and this game hasnt been delayed over 4 times spanning across a year.

[Cajun Chicken]

More seriously, hearing the statements that if we don't have a free accessible DL movie service in the EU...we can use Bittorent or the other statement about having Europe wait until things are ironed out properly makes me just not believe words coming out this guy over anyone else involved in SCE.

EDIT:
Why the disagree? I just don't like the attitude and stupid quotes from this guy in SCE...I seriously DO believe Home is coming out soon and least of all, since the Home team has mentioned its almost ready; I just don't trust a word out of David Reeves from the press mouth in recent times, he's a truly horrible rep for PR for SCE in the EU.

[blackbeld]

My friend have a little faith in PS3 ok. u already know the quotes.... DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF PLAYSTATION. PS3 HOME will arrive soon this year with or before christmas. enjoy you're new virtual home and for free.

[Brixxer600]

It's not that he's losing faith in PS3, it's more than likely that as a European he's used to being treated pretty poorly by them. (Sony Europe)

[juuken]

I understand where Chicken's coming from. Sony Europe needs to get their freakin' act together.

[Cajun Chicken]

I live in the UK, adore my PS3 more than my 360 and the quotes that Mr Reeves has come out with in the recent past are words of an true idiot.
Anyone else SCE yes. but David Reeves has no idea how to talk responsibly to the press without causing pointless controversy.

Things are getting much better relating to simultaneous game releases and PSN games and features.
So I guess he must be doing his job but he has NO idea how to keep his mouth shut to the press about certain things and gives people dumb answers back to things that people never even originally asked about.

Bubbles to Brixxer600 and juuken!

[TheColbertinator]

I hope SEGA gets a HOME space for us.IF not,we are going to be HOMEless yet again.

[Surfman]

youre getting on our nerves

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

So, despite the fact that SEGA no longer knows how to make a good game...you're supporting them? They're creativity died with Sonic. Even Sonic Adventure isn't that great. The writing in old Super Nintendo games was better than that thing. SEGA is dead. That's like people supporting Rare...even though they SUCK now.

[Drekken]

I think Surfman speaks for all of us.

[MaximusPrime]

i like Super monkey ball

[pwnsause]

Sonic Died when the Dreamcast died. and yes, i believe sega is listed to make a Home space when home launches.

[unrealgamer58]

@steven colbert no i dont want sonic and tails as my neighbors

[TheColbertinator]

Why not?Would you prefer Master Chief?

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

He's a Resistance fan. Obviously, he prefers quality shooters.

I think having Nathan Hale, Kratos, Dante, or Sackboy as my neighbor would be AMAZING!

[XXXCouture]

i wouldn't be neighbor, to someone who kill innocents to get health orbs

[kazuma]

sonic at least saved the imprisioned animals everywhere he went

[themyk]

don't forget he was really fast as well.

[Blackcanary]

Theres no need to rush Home.

Also as a beta Tester it is on track.

but its better to wait than to have something rushed and buggy.

[kingme71]

It's strange that they really say very little about it and it is coming out within months. I know he is saying there isn't really much to report, but toss the press a bone now and then. If they are 100% it will arrive in '08, why not say that at E3 or GC?

[Surfman]

because they already gaves a release date the last year, saying it was coming Fall 07... and look at your calendar right now. Summer 08 and not even an open beta. They don't want to do the same mistake, giving a date and make pressure on the devs and get excitation from the gamers. So saying "its on track" and will come in 2008 for sure is already a good news. We'll probably see an open beta before christmas.

[Brixxer600]

If they're definitely going to see it this year then the open beta needs to be long before christmas, I don't know how long these things take but i would think that it's getting fairly late in the year for beta testing a product that's due for release this calender year.

[kingme71]

Right, the point of a beta is to shake out more bugs, so having a beta right at release time gives you no time to fix the bugs.

Like an MMO though, they can patch this thing as often as they want while it is live. Just don't want a ton of bugs showing up early on.

[mfwahwah]

I can nearly guarantee you that Home will be in a constant beta. They are basically releasing Home. Look at Gmail. It's still in beta, because it's constantly evolving. Home should be very similar, so it's not like it matters when the beta comes out because it's *basically* the full deal.

At least that's how I see it.

[themyk]

hell n4g is a goddamn beta

[Microsoft_Spokesman]

It doesn't really bother me that it was delayed. As long as it comes out fully working and usable, I'll be happy. Because we've seen what happens when some things is rushed, yes, I'm talking about you, Xbox 360.

[orakga]

Is whether or not it will provide the functinality that the PS3 needs. If voice-chatting with your friends and setting up games to play together (read: play on the same team in Resistance 2 through Home) become easy for the average user, Home will indeed become the new hub for online gaming.

But if it becomes a MMO socializing client to meet/chat with people and show off trophies, but doesn't help at all toward playing the latest games together (and I'm not talking about those lame pool games), then this will become the biggest flop in recent gaming history.

Forget Haze, Lair, Too Human and GTA4. The word "overhyped" will be tagged with images of HOME for future gaming generations to laugh at.

And Sony's brand-image as a gaming company will be tarnished for the next two generations. They'll basically become the Nintendo of the 90s. Co(ky, clueless and disgraced...

I hope it doesn't happen. For the sake of the future of this industry... I pray that they'll prove themselves once again. But it's a very long shot.

[mfwahwah]

Of course it'll help with getting games together. They have spaces dedicated to games just so people can go there and talk specifics / group up. Also, the way it works (iirc) is that you group up, then launch the game straight from Home. There's no way gamers won't use that feature if they're using Home at all.

[VMAN_01]

Reeves I can look you in the eye and finally say thank you!!!

[MaximusPrime]

im from London and i dont care if Sony Europe aint doing their job.

I have life outside PS3 to enjoy too.

I say let them do what they feel is right, whether you like it or not.

[Meus Renaissance]

I lost interest 6 months ago

[whoelse]

I'm sure Sony will hype this up again in the run-up to the release/open beta.

[Zerodin]

HA! I wouldn't believe him if he looked me in the anus!

[Draperc]

Is it just me or does Zerodin over here lose more and more braincells with each passing day? I swear, that was one of the dumbest comments I have ever read.

[Cajun Chicken]

"We are a PAL market and we are going to do it in PAL and we are going to do it properly. You can wait for it and you can have it in good quality. You know, you can get the stuff from BitTorrent if you want to and download PSP games, it's up to you."

Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

Why I don't really like the guy at the moment. I mean the guy just sarcastically suggested piracy as an alternative for something that's being worked on and currently unavailable.

[TheHater]

weather you like that comment or not, it is 100% true. There is more Piracy in Europe than all the other region. Why more Piracy in Europe? Simple, because a lot more game get banned in Europe than any other places. And the only way to play those games is to mod your system, and download the game.

[RedVsBlue]

I will believe it when I see it

[Cyb3r]

What date in Autum Mr Reevs? damit be more specific

[kazuma]

david reeves also said that mirror's edge would be ps3 time-exclusive, so...

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

This is awesome.

As a friend of a BETA tester, I can assure you all that it's well worth the wait. HOME is freakin' awesome!

[orakga]

Can you set up voicechat with people and enter games together through HOME? How does it work?

I don't care about how beautiful it is (and it is beautiful). I just want to to know if it has any value to gamers besides being an eye-candy.

[pwnsause]

Home is on track, i have been beta testing it since last year.

[whoelse]

I wish I could beta test. I guess not long now!

[PimpHandStrong]

"I can look you in the eyes and tell you everything is on track"

i hope i get to play chess in HOME soon

[MrNegativity]

well well well....he looked you in the face... AND LIED.