Could PS Home be on PS4 and powered by Gaikai?

GC writes - PlayStation Home has never really lived up to its promise of being an amazing virtual social playground for likeminded gamers. Even though the free social service is tenfold of the original version, it still isn’t exactly what Sony first envisioned.

PlayStation Home initially had many problems and Sony adapted the service to suit us. Home was supposed to be a seamless extension from normal life to virtual life; your apartment was to entertain your friends, you could wander around virtual worlds, talk to other people and you were supposed to be part of a community. What we got was a lonely experience in a sex pest rampant world with nothing to do!

[ZodTheRipper]

Not a fan of home but I'd try it out again if it's coming to PS4.

[abzdine]

if they make it with no real value like PS3 i hope they won't spend ressources on it.
i think PS3 Home has a huge potential but Sony didn't follow up on it to make it more appealing.
now with the social connection and power of Gaikai it could result in something big, let's just hope Sony communicate well with people this time

[Blaze929]

id rather they and we stop acting like we care about HOME and just focus on building a better PSN.

IMO give up on HOME

[XisThatKid]

There's a separated dedicated team for home so no resources lost. I like home it was a fun way for me and my brother to contact each other considering we live in separate states. Plus watching movies and listening to music with my friends that don't have the luxury of visiting me.

I support the service it def isn't what it could be and I hope they keep at it make it better.

[thebudgetgamer]

Yea because you = we.

[Hicken]

I'm certain Sony is hard at work caring about the opinion of hardcore MS fanboys like yourself who don't actually know anything about Home.

[THC CELL]

I have a feeling something new going to come.

[Xsilver]

I want to see PS home on PS4 it should look awesome and this time run more smoothly.

[Lulz_Boat]

when there will be SINGLE HUGE MAP without fu**ing loading times. i'll use it for sure.

[DeadlyFire]

On Gaikai this could happen. Although your bandwidth would have to be up to par, but its the perfect place to put a demanding social game/virtual world. Thing I hated about Home and still do is loading times. If then build the new home I hope they put 99% of the advertisements and stuff that they drop into it as server side things so we never have to redownload the same area 1 million times and so forth. Its just tiring. Its why I quit dealing with Home.

[JuniorCE]

It would save memory and space in the HDD ;-D

[GiggMan]

Ha. It would be cool to access your PS3 library through home.

[theXtReMe1]

The idea of home has been around since the early days of the Internet. Nobody really made it pan out to work as they intended. But the idea is a novel one. I would like to actually see somebody make it work and make it work well. The visuals should be real to life with the PS4 leading the way. I just hope, if it happens, that they allow you to build from scratch your little place in the world. Allow you to design your own business and sell digital items for real money. I think that would attract a lot more people to it, by bringing out the entrepreneur in them. A Virtual mall of sorts.

I think it would be even cooler to allow different time periods for people to be a part of. The 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s up to now, with everything in the world mimicking what it would've been for that period of time in design. Allow people to relive their youth or just experience a time period they werent alive for.

The good thing about something like Home, is the possibilities are endless with it. Give people what they want, and they will continue coming back for more.

[Joe913]

Those are some great ideas the selling of virtual goods was planned but never came. PS home on ps4 should be a mix of GTA mixed with minecraft mixed with sims lol.

[SynestheticRoar]

It would be the sweet icing on the cake.

[MaverickStar7]

There is tons of content always coming out for Home, but its mostly all stuff from companies like Lockwood that just make Home stuff. I miss the days when there were more game themed areas, items, and events that coincide with game releases. I think there is still a lot of upside to Home.

[battlegrog]

Please no ps3 home is a broken design. Ps home should be re made on ps4

[WeAreLegion]

Give us more Second Life type stuff. Don't let people do whatever they want, but I would love to fly and ride a Segway. Just sayin'.

[HakatoX]

things like that are on home. they cost money though.

[WeAreLegion]

Flying and Segways?!? I guess I should play Home. It's been a few months.

[HakatoX]

go karts and such, mobile suits that change an fly. bunches of krap on there. albeit kool, but krap nonetheless if home doesn't move forward to the next gen......

[aquamala]

I don't even know what the title means, so having something run on a server is now "gaikai"?

[Gamingcapacity]

Powered by Gaikai, the game streaming service that is owned by Sony.

[HakatoX]

Kinda, I like to think that GK is going to host most of the digital content. Home runs off the PS3... like 12 gigs. it's purely online... MMO with no purpose.

[BladerunnerZX]

Home was a good idea. It just didnt pan out is all.

Best to let Home go and focus on a solid new online infastructure for PS4.

[XboxFun]

The Powah of teh Gaikai!

Is Home still in Beta? It would be cool if they finally released a upgraded version for the PS4 with all the ideas they originally had for the PS3.

[kingPoS]

Home is an app you download. It's already half way in the cloud on the PS3!

What's saved online.

Character Profiles
Outfits
Settings

Probably more

Even if you start from a fresh hard drive, all your stuff is still there.

[Gamingcapacity]

They did recently change that so all your settings are stored to the cloud. Maybe the first step...

[TechMech2]

So Gakai is like Xbox one cloud power

[thebudgetgamer]

Gaikai is more Sega channel than cloud.

[DigitalRaptor]

I remember when Home let you choose the amount of HDD space you could dedicate to it. I chose 12GB but quickly deleted it. I would use it on PS4 if it was quicker with less loading time, and having it all Streamed via Gaikai would be something amazing.

[kingPoS]

About the only thing you download from Home to HDD are updates and spaces. I could be wrong but the how it seems.

[joeorc]

"About the only thing you download from Home to HDD are updates and spaces. I could be wrong but the how it seems."

Now that's even moved to the cloud, all spaces updates are all cloud stored now, including saves.

only the Application to start is downloaded to the PS3. So all your Playstation Home items, outfit's, saved Avatar layouts..all Playstation Home games save data is stored completely on the cloud.

[turgore]

Home is such a waste of resources. Its not fun. It has long load times. Its like a poor mmo. I would rather have them work on something new.

[kingPoS]

Some people like to waste there resources on something they obviously enjoy, otherwise they wouldn't even bother with Home.

If Home were such a waste why is it still in use since 2008.

If you don't like Home, why are you complaining Just don't bother with it if it bothers you. If People genuinely like Home that's their opinion not yours.