Sony: PS Home launch has technical problems

Posting over on the PlayStation Home forum, a Home community manager by the name TedTheDog has announced that the roll out of the Open Beta has run into technical problems.

[InMyOpinion]

Surprise surprise.

[thereapersson]

NXE says hello...

;)

[Kill Crow]

the final product will be bug free when it's finally released ... in 2014

[ravinshield]

dont worry they been doing that since who knows how long.

WAIT B3YOND

[Amp]

That your only ignored by 115 people?

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

NXE works

[Kamikaze135]

This was very expected. Just like 360 owners expect a dead console, PS3 owners have to expect delay. Sony obviously isn't as organized as they should be.

[I_LOVE_MYSELF]

awesome comment...
suprises me that a service that was set for release over a year ago is still not released and only being made available in beta form lmao... The fact that its not even running perfect a year after sony's original release date says something about sony this gen period... when they said Oct 07 Playstation Home they must of obviously knew it wouldnt be ready if its taken this long...

The fact NXE was released before this is even more epic LOL and pure fail for Sony... And NXE is out unlike Home which will still be in beta phase rofl

[Kain81]

n4g runs on Beta2.0 see above in the corner my friend...

[thereapersson]

Yeah, lol, and it still has its own fair share of problems.

[Cajun Chicken]

But NXE isn't an actual online social world, its just a new OS based on the previously used interface of Windows Media Centre, basically, so I'm not at all impressed that MS released it before Home, or the fact MS had hardly no problems.

[SWORDF1SH]

wasnt the nxe killin 360 consoles?? also anything thats online to this scale takes a lot of testin by beta users. thats why when home does launch it will run smoothly. nxe doesnt even come close to home on a technical level so do not compare them

[thereapersson]

NXE caused the RRoD to flare up again for many people

Just google it.

http://www.engadget.com/200...

http://www.absolutegadget.c...

http://www.reghardware.co.u...

http://www.destructoid.com/...

[Jeff222]

You xbox fanboys have to realize that home is coming whether you like it or not and its going to really screw u guys...

This of course was expected... if you didn't see it coming then well your not the brightest light on the "holiday tree"

Don't anyone forget ROME was not built in a day so why should HOME?

[B-Rein]

nxe caused my 360 to freeze and resulted in data loss (lost all my save files)

[gw4k]

This doesn't surprise anyone. We are used to this. Anyone remember Socom?

[ultimolu]

Yes, because heaven forbid this was the final product.
This is nothing to have a massive heartattack over.

[chaosatom]

US too?

[candystop]

And you PS3 fanboys need to realize that 360 is here to stay and will continue to dominate this generation over PS3 in software and services. Now it's great home is finally seeing the light day but ashame it's going to be playing catch up for awhile.

[ultimolu]

You know you 360 fans should do?

Stop bragging about how ya'll are in the lead and play your many, many games you brag about on the daily basis.

[SWORDF1SH]

you do realise nobody but 360 fanboys takes you serious. you have made yourself a clear fanboy so now nobody will even respect anything you say even if it has some truth. nothin wrong of havin a favourite console but jus keep the fanboy sh*t to yourself.

[SiLeNt KNighT]

yeah it's hilarious and im mad at sony because i pay good money for the PSN... oh wait thats right...no, i dont... its free. whats more epic is the fact that live costs money and its gonna be the one playing catch up.

lives on par with nintendo wifi now. gotta love those mii's!

[Anon1974]

You can't just take a beta, throw it out for 14 million subscribers to "have at er" and not expect there to be some bumps. Hell, XBL, a service you have to pay for and is already established was down for a month and a half last year for some people because they couldn't handle the Christmas traffic (thanks for the diving game, by the way. It sucked.)

And I seem to remembers delays in NXE's launch as well. It wasn't that long ago, I still remember that far back. By the way, my 360 Mii doesn't do anything. Is it supposed to?

[The Killer]

it doesnt bother at all, i mean the they killed the hype due to continues delays, am just looking forward when ever they release it, i am expecting HOME to come sometime before ps3 price cut!

[Jeff222]

I never said you guys were going to go anywhere i am just letting you guys know that this is new and that its gonna affect xbox sales... I USED to own a 360 but decided that paying for something that i can get for free is not worth it so I sold that White LOUD thing so a nice sleek playstation 3

[Anon1974]

For a free title that never actually had a official launch to start with, countless delay's is quite the exaggeration and I don't think it will hurt sales of the title. Oh wait...it's not being sold so it doesn't matter.

Did the numerous Halo 3 delays kill the anticipation? Gears 2's delays? Bioshock? GTA4? NXE's delays? Mass Effect? How about when Forza 2 was delayed or games we're still waiting for like Halo Wars, Alan Wake, or Duke Nukem? Or how about the delays of every single game Nintendo has ever released (I swear it's every one)?

Face it, if delays killed anticipation for games there wouldn't be a gaming industry because no one would buy anything.

[original seed]

SUCKS! Unless you like dancing with a bunch of Co@ks. I'll wait for the game specific areas to appear to see what they have to offer. I think i'll just stick with the sorry XMb instead.

[TheFreak]

Home has arrived :) FINALLY!

[NowGen]

i've had the beta for 3 weeks, and no one is missing anything. except alot of weird stalking and gay dancing.

[ravinash]

Home is what you make it.
If you create the environment and you are the one who interacts with the people in there and you think it suck?
Then what does that say about you?
That you don't have any imagination to create an environment and your too antisocial to hang out in public because you keep going round calling everyone c0cks.
I'm glad you hate it, it means I won't see you in there.

[Rhoic]

Is this shouldn't be happening at all.. the crap that is going down for HOME should be considered the Alpha stage.. not Beta stage.. and how long has it been in development? It's just a freaking 3D social application. It really isn't that difficult to do for big companies.

[prunchess]

A bit of downloading involved. I'm looking forward to playing about with this for a while. Different console experience this. Sony could be onto a winner here.

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

It's a beta what do you expect in a beta, they did an open beta to work out the kinks for the real release? In a beta you release it so you can resolve any problems that the developers over looked. For those who think it's an easy task think again, this is design in my opinion very different than your typical persistent online games.

First of all whatever is in your HDD can be pushed into the 3D space, something not seen in online RPGs would be one example. In the end it's just a beta as Halo 3, Crysis, or Resistance 2 had, just in a larger scale. There is no other online service delivering anything close to PlayStation Home and yes NXE was released before Home. At the same time XNE is a menu system with added features this is a whole new application made specifically for social networking. Yes, you can compare the two in features, but not in a technical stand point.

Plus, I'm in it right now with no problems so this must be a region thing.

[militant07]

SOFTWARE could NEVER cuze HARDWARE FAILUR.

your samrt enought to say that.

[jaysquared]

If you didnt expect anything released on the PS3 to not have problems then you have been living under a rock! Anthing released on the PS3 and uses PSN has problems! Warhawk, COD, LBP, Socom, MGO, Resistance, Motorstorm etc etc... But hey at least its free so no need to complain when your getting it for free..

[rockleex]

Right... because Gears of War 2 has NO problems whatsoever with matchmaking.

And Halo 3 DOESN'T take 2 minutes for each matchmaking and just when its about to be done, it suddenly restarts the whole process all over again for another two minutes.

Well at least Xbox Live is free to play online.

/major sarcasm

[Tarasque]

Please Sony have problems at launch, i don't believe it.

[M3 Superhero]

"This was very expected. Just like 360 owners expect a dead console,"
- Kamikaze135

the thing is Home is just having technical problems n errors which is normal on a launch with like 15 millions ppl tryin a get in. lol n we ps3 owners dont expect home to be dead. *sigh*

[Cajun Chicken]

Hopefully still put up by tonight.

[Jack Meahoffer]

Expected.

[Raz]

I'm shocked. No, really, I am. <yawns>

I see the majority of comments on here are from people who probably haven't seen more than screenshots or articles. They're the ones being all apologetic for Sony and saying Home will be the best thing since the Playstation was first invented.

It's also easy to tell who actually has the closed beta - they're the ones basically saying "I'm underwhelmed; what is this crap?".

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it should have been LBP-oriented (design your own Home space); not Simmish (decorate your own Home space).

Maybe I'm completely out to lunch. Maybe in another year or two, when Sony FINALLY decides to unveil a completed product, it'll have changed so radically from the beta that I'll have no choice but to fall on my knees in utter awe of how wrong I was. ..But I wouldn't bet money on it, and Sony shouldn't either.

[thereapersson]

The point of BETAS are to find bugs like this. Looks like they found a few before the general public did. No big deal - Sony will just continue to delay this until they get it right.

Personally, I expected as much. Their release date *did* seem a bit overly-ambitious. Here's hoping this issue doesn't take long to rectify.

[Mikelarry]

Surprise. but this was expected hopefully they get it fixed asap as loads of ppl are gonna be pretty pissed

[she00win99]

what are they doing for 2 years, are they sleeping? technical problems is not an excuse when they delayed home for more than 2 years..

[zo6_lover27]

1 year actually

It was announced to be released fall of 07
It is winter of 08

[ultimolu]

...

[Yoma]

i hope yyou know it's now open beta, and before was closed one? I think you don't get how hard it is

[mightydog01]

there will always be problems at first be xbox or ps.......So stop tryin to spread fudge.......So grow up.....

[trophy raider]

NXE?

[thereapersson]

Jenzo was taking a jab at HOME's technical issues.

NXE bricked and RRoDed many 360 systems.

Both online communities were met with problems. This is for those who would like to excuse one or the other from their faults.

[mesh1]

proof ? show me a solid website that ran that story it was made up by n4g fanboys

[NewZealander]

NXE did not brick systems, ok grasping at straws it MAY have bricked modded consoles but theres absolutly no proof of that either, if there had been an issue with NXE there would still be articles about it on N4G, it was nothing more then unfounded rumour, dont try useing that excuse as a fact.

as for home having problems, well thats life folks, with the technical nature of home theres always going to be issues that need to be ironed out, give it time, it is still in beta form.

[sajj316]

relax folks ... it will be sorted out shortly. You will be HOME soon enough flying Red Bull planes and picking up guys dressed up as chicks :) OK, I kid ... I kid!

[Information Minister]

This is why it's an OPEN BETA and not the final release build.

[jay2]

You've got to laugh!

[Craig David]

Face mother fcuking palm.

[she00win99]

that's why you have one bubble because your face looks like a palm..

[Mr PS3]

Look What Happened when MicroSucka's Rushed the 360 Just to Beat the Competition
It was out of Date 2 Days later
And Every Single Xbox Blew up a Day later
So take your time

[strotee]

Gee, letting open the flood-gates for millions of users and they're having technical issues? No one here (who isn't a fanboy) thinks Sony walks on water. It'll get fixed soon and we'll all be socializing and chasing fake girls.

[Enterprise-E]

THAT IT IS STILL AN BETA!!!! It is called a Public or Open Beta. NOT THE ACTUAL Service. So calm down people. jeez

[thereapersson]

You forget, people don't understand what the word "beta" means this generation. They think, "OOH, BETA = FINISHED PRODUCT DEMO".

[Marquis_de_Sade]

Wow, I'm really surprised... Not. It seemed like a sudden decision in my opinion. Doesn't make it any less annoying however, get it sorted, and quick.

[Killa Aaron]

i can't even sign into PSN Network

[ottoenie]

same to me

[INehalemEXI]

Same I could earlier but they must of brought log in servers down.

[ultimolu]

Lol, wow.

I can see the headlines now 'HOME crashes on the first day. Can Sony save Home from certain doom and destruction?'

It's a beta. It's not the final product so there will be some issues.

[Hercules]

they need to hurry up, i wanted to play pool before i want to work..and some more ice breaker..but this is just a beta and we really cant complain, i want to try out the red bull thing though..

[ReBurn]

Good luck with that. My experience has been that you can sometimes wait for hours to be able to play some of the games in the bowling alley.

[ClockworkSatan]

Aye, this was expected - I'm not surprised in the least.

And as someone else pointed out - this is an open beta and NOT the finished product. I'm sure there's not long to wait now though.

[Yomiro]

I thought Home was supposed to be available this evening?

[Marquis_de_Sade]

It was planned to coincide with the weekly PSN store update, or so I believe. However, they have run into some technical hitches whilst performing testing, so back to the waiting game I'm afraid.

[LethalToxins]

Looks like PSN is crashing. First I could no longer access the store. Then I got booted off PSN. Now I can't even log back on PSN.

*Grabs Match*
*Grabs Gasoline*

I'm sure flaming will ensue soon if this isn't quickly fixed.

[Knightofelemia]

I hope home is better than the Xbox experience, i have the experience on my xbox and I want it to go back to the old way. For home to have problems thats nothing new its still in the beta stage, people have the misconception of this and think home has problems its the end of the world. And if it turns out I cannot get into Home well who cares Prince of Persia 3 sits in my Ps3 that will keep me busy.

[no-spin]

With my Sony PS3 i expect delays,PSN crashes, HOME technical issues, and other software issues,nothing that a few days wont solve.

With my Microsoft Xbox 360, 2nd unit after the lovely RROD, i expect to get my second RROD within the year.

with that said, you can see that there are different ways of unsatisfying the costumer

[Raz]

@ no-spin:

..And I am unsatisfied with Sony in a number of different ways, though I still have love for my PS3. I waggle my bunny ears in protest (I'm wearing a pink bunny costume today - tomorrow I'll be a pirate).

^_^

[dorron]

Well, let's wait another full year to see the release....

Just joking.

[AngryHippo]

....hopefully it will sorted and ready to go soon. I wish i didnt have so long to wait to get my PS3 back from repair. Getting it back on 17th December. I had a launch 60GB model. They are replacing it with an 80GB model so i can get it back sooner. Did i make the right decision?I hope so.

[hetz15]

beta....

[blazebolt]

Agreed. Why is everyone expecting this open beta version to work like the final release? Sony is having an open BETA so that these issues can be discovered and fixed so they do not show up when they finally roll out the official version. The whole point of a beta is to find bugs!!!!

http://www.wisegeek.com/wha...

[krauley]

about a game you guys freak out and whine about it. when they finally do say something about the possible release you belly ache about how you cant wait and when it doesn't come when you want you claim its the end of whatever company or software house. JUST WHAT DO YOU WANT?

[Vip3r]

Considering that they'll be millions of people wanting this I'd say it'll be worth the wait for them go get everything working before the servers are brought to their knees.

[Cyber Gamer]

Guys i don't really need home if i can't sign online and play wtf
just got 2 games 2day plus waiting for hours need a drink now sony u did it again

[pp]

Hahahahha F*ckin disgrace nothing ever runs smoothly on ps3 bring in the f*ckin PATCHES and FIRMWARE'S.My friends ps3 just froze he told me on the phone like as if i give a Sh*t.

[Tee7soo]

sony did it again , now where is home !!

[Mitch_Cumstein]

It isn't ready, but Sony didn't have the choice. Microsoft forced their hand with the highly successful NXE launch and PS3 sales getting pounded by the competition. Sony used to dictate what and when their next move is, now the competition is telling them when. That isn't good for Sony

[THELANDOFSAND]

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR

LOL

ps3 is garbage, from launch till finish.

[gumgum99]

keep on talking.

no one hears you.

[cesc5000]

Home will offically be released in 2009 with the release of Half Life: Episode 3 and infamous, believe me I just got leaked some info from the UK branch of Sony.

[PimplePopperMD]

that is hilarious. i have the closed beta but man, sony sucks

[Kinetix]

Whew... At least it was just Home that ran into some technical problems and not my conso...ohhh umm nevermind.

[MADPIRAHNA]

HOME IS OUT.. Go get it.

[Bennosaur]

I am downloading now, stop reading this and go get it!

[Radiodread]

no I'm sorry those words just don't go together in the same sentence. Your a solitary pathetic creature pp, everyone knows you have no friends, that why you're so pissed off at the world.

[Phaqutomb]

i was thinking the same thing about PP and having friends

[biggsftw]

Well, I am sure it is something minor (meaning it should only take a couple days to fix; or months) but no really, we waited this long so its no big deal to wait a few more days if need be. I think what is even more sad then this technical delay is the xbox fanboys running their mouths. I mean really, go enjoy YOUR console! Nobody cares what you think or about what you have to say. PS3 owners are happy with their consoles and thats all that matters, not your immature opinion that you should keep to yourselves. I am wiling to bet these are all idiots who got bullied or picked on and can only feel good about themselves by trying to talk crap to others. Do us a favor and do not have offspring, the world is screwed up enough as it is! You don't like PS3 then fine, but to go online and just start flame wars is flat out immature. I bet none of the fanboys ever get laid, they are too busy talkin crap on the internet. Sad, I am so glad I am not a 360 owner anymore. Of course you wont hear them comment when you talk about how great R2 plays online compared to GoW2 which still has problems but thats ok. I think it just gives them reason to talk that much more. For the PS3 owners, I look forward to seeing you guys in Home! When it gets here of course...

[air1]

well duh, what did you all think? that their would be no patches? lol, home will be getting patches through all of 09. im sure after a bunch of patches they will get it right, i say after about the 300th patch you will see results

[moujahed]

I finally got this on my ps3...the servers are down though.

[bigman2u08]

is out it has been for an hour

all people have to do is turn off there console then back on.

then they will see the playstation home icon below the psn store

im downloading it now as we speak

39% and counting!!!!

[smurfie4]

This is to be expected with a worldwide release. I can only imagine the how much of a load it is on the servers.

[moodymofo]

yea i loaded it but it freezez on the hdd screen i hope this is just due to unstable server issues rather than a more serious problem.

[Tainted Gene]

Good call...stop reading and go download it now!!!

....at 65% :)

[Lord Xire]

for the useless to feed and flame on...

quite frankly if your not using Home why care??

Let the Home users handle there own sh!t...and if they try to bash anything 360 related in there argument...who cares??

Ps3 is still in 3rd and quite frankly I don't see Home as a selling point for a gaming system.....

XBL as a whole is already a devastating force...for all those 360 fanboys out there don't you have bigger fish to fry?

[ShAkKa]

so far so good for me there are a lot of people in right now at central park lol

[unitalfredo]

wont let me sign in

[Magic_The_Celt]

Yeah... its a beta *sigh*

And NXE, the full version, got released with crap loads of bugs

[bouncybullet]

The worst bug is the Netflix streaming app.

78 movies and 18 TV seasons ready to watch whenever I want to.

Heroes season 3 in HD runs just as smooth as the standard def video.

With Home you get to watch the Twilight trailer as much as you want.
Thats freakin' sweet.

[sak500]

Hahahahah bouncy pwned ali_the_D!ck

This guy has 700gamer score and calls himself onwer of all 3 consoles. He doesn't even own a ps2 let alone 3 next gen consoles. All he does is that he goes around people's houses trying out the consoles.

[OSIRUSSS]

HAHA!!! Movie Steaming? F'dat. The RRoDbox Can keep that GimpFlix Bull'ish. I watch Bluray. Bots watch Upscale.

[cloudkev]

keep trying i got on its so funny havnt laughed so much in ages.

[RealtorMDandDC]

and its OK..I can see the potential once HOME is realized just by 10% it will be a great feature right now from the Beta its OK..nothing really spectacular but sh*t its FREE....and it s great FREE way to meet people and kill time, I could not wait to get HOME tonight and see what they have added to the open beta last night a few stores where open and the was FREE stuff to get... I give Sony credit for trying something different in the console wars..HOME has potential some people may balk at it now but as it grow so will the LOVE....

[Sonydrone4life]

5 years in development and the system crashes. No wonder Sony doesn't charge money(except Qore). Also, after I installed Homeo it bricked my system. I'm selling this PoS3 and getting a 360. I already have 2nd life on the PC anyway. Have fun in your broken down home playin w/your sacks boyz.

[aiphanes]

You are just a troll...a hater...go play with your kiddie NXE avatars...this is a PS HOME acticle....PS HOME maybe having server issues but this is to be expected...it is a beta...sony will increase servers once they figure out the load...

[cloudkev]

its good fun

[iggypop123]

so far all i see is initializing followed by error. thanks sony. at least its free. they got 1 thing right

[Wile]

I expected that the network would be buggy. Everyone and their uncle is trying to log on. Be patient everyone...Sony and time will sort it out.

[NiteWarrior]

Good cuz otherwise i wouldnt be studyin for my tests tommorow.

[aulray]

unless you guys play Second Life all the time, you'll realize that it'll be a cool feature that you'll be bored with pretty quickly, and then get back to the games you actually purchased.

i'm no 360/wii fanboy. i'm just saying it as it is. the nxe isn't cool. it's just whatever. does it change my perception of the overall 360? no.

[Lykon]

everything is on schedule and working perfectly, they are just talking about minor tweaks to perfection (unobtainable by xbox live standards) It is a fact that Home is the best online community interface ever and will make Xboxlive seem like a buggy broken spectrum 48k developed freeware demo made by homosexuals on party drug comedowns.

[bouncybullet]

Ha.
you wish.

I just added another 3 movies to my 98 strong instant netflix queue.

It's much more entertaining than anything the PS3 does.

Its a fact.

I only watch cable television for 3 shows that I dvr because of the app.

Enjoy moving your furniture.

[Lykon]

i was only joking I love XBL and I love you but I also love fanboy frenzy , it is fun and makes bullets shoot from my tits

[felidae]

the most important thing is to communicate with other gamers to build a community. without a party system or private chat function i don't know what's so special about Home.

.. and there's nobody out there with a headset on PSN - very strange.

[Arknight]

lol at the moron trying to make people think his system was bricked, you have to actually own a PS3 for that to happen ;).....anyway, I got in more than an hour ago with no problem and it seems pretty cool. I can definitely see its a great way to find people with the same interests to add to your friends list instead of just running into them in some random online match.

[SixAmpFuze]

"TedTheDog added: "And please remember, this is a beta and today is our first step into the Open Beta environment and what we're doing today is part of the beta process itself"

Home is going to stay a beta until its either shutdown or sone drops it. Its just another ongoing beta like so many before it on the net so the excuse its only a beta and you need to expect these things are going to be a recurring EXCUSE.

[PS3Freak]

i played this today... ITS SOOOO BORING!

[badkolo]

oh so as long as its sony with the issue its ok, but when live goes down its the biggest issue in the world, but sony has problems with home and once again its about the potential of home instead of delivering a finished home.

priority kiddies.

[BannedForNineYears]

So 360 fanboys stop your fanboyism :P

[anubis12]

home 2007
home 2008
home 2009

[FrankenLife]

Strangest thing happened to me today. I downloaded and installed Home. I jumped right in and set everything up, no problem. What was even weirder is that I was able to use and explore problem free.

Weird, I know.

[SprayandPreycom]

the have they been saying that the official release would be dec 15 or something wth. why not just say were not ready with home and this is just a test version... waiting for the official home release is like waiting in line at disneyland for 2 months...

the only cool thing about nxe for me is the netflix stream other than that not real impressed...

[anubis12]

Just tried out Home - three letters, P.O.S...

only took about 5 mins before those with mics were dropping F bombs and the N word and I had no idea who was sayign what, imagine those people you couldn't stand on Live but having no idea who they were since you have no idea who says what...

i also waited 9 minutes for a Twilight movie trailer to stream (I had no idea what was going to start showing) - it was painful and awful...

[OSIRUSSS]

Holy Sh!t. F-bombs? Man, this thing is gonna be better than I thought. I was gonna wait til Fri to DL, but hell I'm jumping in Now.

[pete2711]

Was on all night last night and heard no 1 but my own friends, Which led me to believe you need to be on each others friends list to talk openly otherwise home would be too noisy.

Could be wrong but i still didn't hear anybody else talking,

Also theres a big picture of a mic above there head so it's not that hard to spot!

And 9 minutes!!! How crap is your connection lol!

[YouNoob]

even a simple chat room is too difficult for them, LOL!

[NoiseBringer]

Well... i had all the consoles from sony, but ps3 is still waiting because of this type of problems... hell maybe sony needs to change name from playstation to delaystation :D

[t_tocs]

Hmm, and MS doesn't have it's problems? RRoD anyone? It's called technology. It's ever changing. Maybe you should go back to the N64 bud.

[rbrtchng]

He fails to say that the service was not launched yet. The service is not delayed (it's still launching/launched today).

Typical Xbot fanboy article, extremely biased.

[Keele]

...ee...eee...eee...eee...ummm m....eeeee.....IS A BETA! YEA IS A BETA! so dey r excuzed!!

[Skywalker333]

i cant even sign in... Damn you sony and your servers!!!

[Enigma_2099]

These are done to weed out problems!!! You're suprised that a beta has issues?!?!?!

[biggsftw]

I got in with little to no problem and was on there pretty much all day. While it being the beta, there isn't much going on and some of hte stuff they charge for in the stores and whatever is questionable but other than that, I can see this experience being way better then NXE. Why? more to do and greater interaction. It is like being in a virtual community where you can meet others and do a ton of stuff. Is it going to be something people are on all the time, maybe some but it is something nice to have in some downtime, rather than looking at a ripped off apple interface and ripped off mii's

[androctonvs]

I could finally sign in @ 8h50 GMT.

Seemed to be fine.

[t_tocs]

technical problems should be the least of their worries. They need to worry about content problems. Gamers will play in a broken world...but a boring broken world? Home is doomed.

[jmiscavish]

i agree.

Once I got into home, I realized my apartment kind of sucked so I went to the mall where half the stores were closed and everything cost real money...I guess my apartment will remain boring.

Then I went to the bowling alley. Played pool for about 5 mins, then got over that. Never got to try bowling or the arcade because everything was always taken.

Nobody had mics, so I was just wondering around, holding down R2, hoping to find someone to talk to. I found two other people with mics...

I'll try it again, but probably not much after that.

BTW, why would uncharted need it's own room? It's a single player game...

[hektop]

It seems you are too interested in what sony are doing, is ok you can go and check it out and see what PS3 owners get for free while you are paying for a mediocre mii avatar in yours.

[ClockworkSatan]

Sheesh, people - it's STILL A BETA.

As the original article states, these difficulties, the lack of content, and any potential niggles are still being looked into.

I managed to finally connect to it for about 20 minutes earlier and thought it looked very promising. This is something completely new and revolutionary in terms of an online hub for a console, and to get these things right takes time.

[jmiscavish]

You mean like the two years they've had in development. Isn't that enough time to get it right?

I agree it looks promising. In fact, last November when I bought my ps3, I pretty much got it because my buddy showed me the home trailer and I thought it looked awesome.

After i got in and around last night, not so much.

What was the point of the closed beta if it's going to take even longer now to get content up there?

[SixAmpFuze]

you cant use its a beta as an excuse. If it was a beta it wouldnt be released to the open public. I hate when Devs say its beta its supposed to have problems . The fact is its always going to be a "beta" and thats always going to be the excuse for its short comings. Its just a pretty ripoff of 2003 virtual world online game "secondlife" There should be no Beta attached to it.

[jmiscavish]

Except in second life, I can type "hello" to people without it showing up "****o".

[Anon1974]

Come on. If you see a good idea that works, you copy it, modify it, make it your own. That's how industry works and everyone does it. Do you think Second Life was the first program to let people create avatars and digitally interact? Want to take a guess how many decades that idea has been kicking around? If they're going to make this idea work they have to start somewhere, and let's face it...launching a new piece of software to potentially 14 million PSN subscribers you're bound to have hiccups. Just ask Microsoft, who I'm sure didn't plan for 30%-50% of their launch consoles to be defective.
Personally, I'm quite excited to see what Home has to offer and to see what it will evolve into. I certainly don't feel that level of excitement with the 360. My Avatar just stands there - I don't see where that's supposed to go and I'm through paying for XBL after years of racist abuse from hardly coherent 12 year olds. Microsoft may be the online king of the consoles but having switched over from XBL to the PSN over a year ago...I certainly don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. It's certainly nice to have that money back in my pocket, and I actually find I'm gaming online more than ever now. It's just a different, more mature community.

[BigKev45]

Tried Home. Really cool concept in theory, however I found it to be pretty boring. Fells like the Sims, sort of. I know it's a beta. I'll check back in 6 months or so. For now, I rather be Home-less.

[SixAmpFuze]

Second life probably wasnt the first to do what it is doing but Home is a blatant ripoff. Its one thing to take something and make it some what different but home is an exact copy . Avatars are retarded and they do nothing for the nxe.As for pay for xbl thats up 2 you but anyone who says theres no douches on psn cursing and being racist is a tard also. Welcome to online gaming. its been happening for 20 years in the online gaming world. Theres jerks everywhere you go.