Fans are remaking PlayStation Home in Dreams

Dreams Central is aiming to realise Home's ambitions with customisation.

[Rangerman1208]

This is great and all, but I do hope Sony is still interested on bringing back PS Home to the PS5.

[Godmars290]

If they were it would have continued on PS4.

[UltraNova]

PS Home was way ahead of its time. If they were to bring it back today I think it would explode, especially with the pandemic still limiting our outdoor lives.

That said they'd have to find ways to make it accessible to more people, e.g. PC & mobile to make sure it succeeds.

PS: the Dreams adaptation looks awesome!

[Eidolon]

Hardware and network infrastructures are so capable, it's a surprise they haven't attempted to re-introduce something at least similar. It's a missed opportunity. Didn't they shut it down like years after PS4's release? I had a good time with it, It has way more potential now than ever.

[Godmars290]

Thing is Home wasn't only Sony. It was content from many other companies. Companies that gave up and stopped supporting Home when Sony did, and aren't likely to recommit when Home was pretty much struggling in the first place.

[gold_drake]

yeeh thats unlikely i think. pshome just didnt make them any real sort of profit. it was great while it lasted

[Eidolon]

Probably because it stayed on the PS3 and it was really bottlenecked. Now.. less loading times, asset load-in. More and better assets, bigger homes, better integrated media and games (in-PShome and launching), more community/social options and controls. And now PS VR and their line of headsets are more established.

PS3 was the issue, just gonna say it. It could have been a lot better on PS4, and much much more with PS5 and VR.

[Kurisu]

Do you remember the "Xi" PS Home quest? Where you had to solve a mystery with everyone. That was good, and there was definitely potential in Home. I also enjoyed the themed game areas, but having to download individual areas took far too long. My character also had Tekken gloves. I'd definitely be intrigued to see a Home Revamp on PS5, and I'm sure we might get something like it alongside PSVR2. I'm in.

[ocelot07]

Thing is though home was ahead of its times. I think it would do well these days as we are in the times of microtransactions.

[DOMination-]

Sony should have made it part of the dashboard experience but in a way where it was not annoying to access anything. That way, forcing people to actually use it and explore. ie. You turn your Playstation on and you start in your own home, but right next to a digital PS so you're one button away from settings, starting a game etc.

In real life (as in, people who aren't on N4G every day), hardly anyone knew about it and those that did came to the same realisation as me.. a fantastic idea half baked in its implementation. It should have been mandatory for developers to make a room for their game (much like trophies are now mandatory)

If done properly it could have been a nice little earner for Sony whilst also being a cool UI for people who didn't care for it. I'd like to see it come back in the way I envisioned it but I suspect it's doomed in the same way everything else Phil Harrison every touches.

[cammers1995]

Sony just filed a trademark renewal for home, so your wish may end up granted: https://www.pushsquare.com/...

[ocelot07]

They did just renew the trademark for PS Home but that does not mean much. But you never know.

[Spenok]

"Still"?

Have they expressed interest? Source?

[victorMaje]

Dreams & its users are amazing.

[Abnor_Mal]

At the end of the last video by MBG he says that Sony just renewed the trademaek for PS Home, so it's possible that they are looking into bringing it back in some fashion, possibly vr.

https://youtu.be/3PPpkalGzD...

[Goozex]

It ended mostly because of racism and lack of funds

[cammers1995]

There were alot of factors that I'm not entirely sure about but I do remember racism and homophobia was a major problem on playstation home.

[gold_drake]

haha what
i mean ok i was on the european server, so the racism and homophobe bit wasnt as much of an issue, but i dont think thats the reason. every space had atleast 2 mods roaming about.

pshome was shut down because it didnt make sony the money they thought it would bring. home was ahead of its time. it would work pretty well in this day and age.

but racism was not the reason. you couldnt even say most of the words. lol.

[cammers1995]

In the covid times where people are staying home playstation home would have worked well.

[IdeasWithJax]

Probably a costly labor issue to keep it running with updates and all. I think in the future when VR is in full force it would make it back in some form, probably around the PS6 Pro time line

[Father__Merrin]

Ps home trademark has been filed. They need to bring an online social hub back with loads of online activities etc

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Home was boring and pretty much dead. I'm not sure why people are pretending it was so much fun and active. It was a nice concept but not used nearly as much as people claim. Everytime I logged on it was dead. I'd see maybe 5 other people at the most running around. Let Home stay dead and focus on giving me some PS5 ONLY games...

[JBlaze226]

Looks good I might do something like that through unreal engine. Home was a great social hub that should never have closed down