When it was announced back in 2007 PlayStation Home was welcomed as Sony’s response to Second Life. After the launch of the beta in 2008 the limits of the platforms became evident, and while quite a lot of users embraced its virtual society, it never really saw overwhelming success.
Today Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Asia announced that, at least for the regions under its umbrella, the adventure has come to an end, and the service is scheduled to close at the end of March 2015.
Other "game-type metaverse" projects in the works
Would love PlayStation Home 2 on PS5 with seamless transitions between different areas.
There's still IMVU and Second Life but they're not quite like PS Home. Btw folks the Home restoration project is still going and they have brought Home back online through the PS3 emulator. So if y'all interested in goin back HOME there's that.
As good as it was It missed the opportunity of becoming huge... Imagine if just eat or similar and you could order food from within checking out menus of local restaurants, Or items direct from Amazon etc whilst in shop in game checking out the items in real time, or even clothes from your favourite shops. The thing could have been Enormous ! I realise it could be dangerous in over spending but hell kids max out parents cards on fortnite, just need to keep control of them.
The new loyalty program PlayStation Stars boasts an array of rewards, many of which would be perfect for a display in a reboot of PlayStation Home.
Thanks to the Destination Home Team working in tandem with the PSOne Emulation Team, PlayStation Home is back online this 2021 on the PS3.
Ah yes good times. I remember bowling, making psn friends, dance parties, flirting with girls, and pretending to be a girl with hoards of dudes following me lol. I even created eu and jp accounts because they had their own unique hub area and game spaces. It was just dumb fun.
I still think the ps5 is getting it with London studio making an "online game" they keep posting. They also have experience making VR games so who knows. It would be amazing as a free game packed with the psvr2.
HOME was a broken mess last time, and it still makes no sense now. This whole META verse hype - i just dont see it. VR or not makes no difference. We are far off!
Cool. Next step US and Europe I hope. I want Sony to keep focusing on making games and working on cool features rather than struggling with things that don't work.
lol wow i completely forgot this existed. I actually thought this had some cool potential as a way to increase playstation social networks. But i don't think sony has any idea what direction they planned with this.
I remember seeing home for the first time, looked like such an interesting concept...
Then it turned into a shopping mall full of adverts and crappy little side games, smh.
I'm probably part of the minority who would want this but I really think they need to bring this to PS4 and improve on it. PS Home provided me with a good amount of laughs on PS3 so I wouldn't mind seeing it return to PS4.
Sony always shut down servers prematurely. Resistance servers for example, what the hell?! Loads of people played it.
Now this? Home is absolutely packed whenever I go on it, and they must make a bomb from it with all the microtransactions...I personally think its crap, but the fact its so busy speaks for itself.