Playstation Home lands on PS3 - Everything you need to know

Gamer.Blorge:

"Playstation Home has been in development since 2005, with programmers actively working on it for around 18 months. Home is a community-based virtual world with similarities to Second Life. It's exclusive to Playstation 3 owners, and accessible via the Playstation Network. It's free to use, and always will be. Even with a full public release, Home is still in beta, and could be for the duration of its lifetime.

Home has been a long time coming, and could disappoint a lot of people just the very nature of high expectations. I think there'll be a lot of excitement early on as people discover new things to do and see, which will then wane after a few weeks. The big test then will be how often Home is updated and expanded by Sony. If the demand is there, Home could be huge, but its success is far from assured at this present time."

[Eck0]

How am i suppose to download it.. if there is no icon to start..

[I_am_rushin]

It was said you have to restart your PS3 for it to appear.

[user9422077]

It should come soon (Hopefully)

I bet sony will even delay the public beta.

[jazzking2001]

how do you DL home?

[Eck0]

it says.. the HOME icon should appear in the XMB.. and then it should start the DL.. but i dont have a Home icon.. im waiting on it.. hope sony didnt push it back again

[PotNoodle]

The icon will appear on your XMB, click it and it will ask you to download it like folding@home/life with playstation.

Just keep checking the forums, they ran into some technical problems during the testing but are still saying it should be out today.

[ThatArtGuy]

It will "switch" on under the Network tab when the servers are up. It's the next icon up from the store.

[Kinetix]

How many "how home fails article." will we see within the next 5 days? I'm gonna say 10, bonus points added if you guess correctly where half of them will come from.

[SonySoldiers]

Like Conan says earlier. The idea was originated way back in PS2 days, called HUB:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

It was resurrected in 2005, now it's FREE in 2008.

THE POINT: Your waiting is worth a thousand words!

[Pennywise]

What is your point Sony solider?

[jwatt]

It should be working for some people soon because I had to do in update and download the central square again. It looks alot different now let me try other places. Wow they changed alot of stuff!

[UnwanteDreamz]

Oh you poor bastard jealousy does not become you. My impersonation of you........"My 360 bricked on me 3 times and all I got was this lousy Mii ripoff they call an avatar" get a life.

[Spike47]

I don't know why though. HOME is incredible for what it is but lets remember it is free and just serves as a way to communicate and meet your friends online. If you don't see it that way you will be dissapointed.

[40cal]

Shoot, it took me like 30 mins just to get a pool table last night.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

It was deserted because most of us couldn't get on Home. It told us there was an error. I still can't get on...

[christian hour]

what? I'm not on the HOME beta yet, didnt get in early and still waiting here in europe but... Do you have to wait for a pool table? Seriously? and you waited 30 minutes? just to play virtual pool? I'm sorry but I don't see the logic in this. You could go to yr nearest pool hall and wait less than that to play a REAL game of pool.

Can someone please explain this to me? I... I just don't get it.

[BLuKhaos]

It took 40cal 30 minutes to get a chance to play virtual pool because there were other people who wanted to play too so he had to wait for his turn.How can you not see the logic behind that?

[pp]

Home is infested with Retards that's why i won't be getting ps3.

[Eck0]

OK MR. i dont have enough money to get a PS3 cause i spent it all on my 360 and my xbox live account.. and my wireless adapter.. and im jealous.. and if 360 had HOME i would love to use it everyday.

[cliffbo]

PP for goodness sake fella, you are really making yourself look daft. i'm sure you are a perfectly nice person in the flesh, but for some reason the 360 is bringing the worse out of you. just chill and save up so that you can have Avatars and HOME... come on now, don't make yourself look like this

[ukilnme]

I'll be checking this out as soon as I get home.

[himdeel]

...I'll be logging in to see what has carried over from beta. Still haven't read anything about keeping avatars from beta yet but I'm optimistic at the moment.

[xwabbit]

I want to download it already lol

[lunaticpanda101]

N4G's been in a beta for its lifetime too

[Spike47]

mainly because many biased sources view HOME as some type of game you pay for.LOL

[gabeh1018]

having been in the home beta for the past 3 weeks, i don't understand what took so long to roll out this public beta....

first off there are only about 5 or 6 places that you can actually go... and there isn't much to do.. so what was all that time spent doing exactly???

[jwatt]

That's is the same thing I thought and was a little disappointed with. I think they were fixing most of the bugs and I HOPE a lot of stuff they were doing was behind the scenes like the red bull airplane they're supposed to have. Hopefully they have more things behind the scenes like more arcade games, board games, and live "who wants to be a millionaire" type games.

[cliffbo]

the Beta you have been on was cut back and was only meant to stress test the servers. this open Beta is much more involved with more content, clothing and games. (Red Bull being one major game)

[UnwanteDreamz]

What the guy said above me. The beta version you were given was limited they took alot away for that phase. We (recent testers) missed the bigger better version of the beta.

[predator]

is it up yet? where do you download it from when its ready?

[TheMART]

Uh Home isn't to be found anywhere still in The Netherlands Sony... This is Waiting!

And PS3 fans keep asking if I own a PS3 and want my PSN. You won't get it period. Proof? Check the picture I just made tonight

EDIT

To the one below... Have told it so often already, I only wanted to play LBP for myself. Game is good. PS3 isn't great. My BluRay died within 3 weeks. Hardwarequality my ass.

Might sell it again don't know. Too much money in my pocket I guess.

[Kyur4ThePain]

Why did you buy it then?

[Nineball2112]

That proves you have a controller. You might have borrowed it from a friend for all we know. ;-)

Where's the actual PS3!

[TheMART]

hahaahha OMG you guys are hilarious. Yeah I borrow the Dual Shock 3 controller from a friend, put it on (see the red light) and hang it above a toilet. RIGHT???

Allright then, my mobile takes sh!tty photo's at night but here it is...

[Pika-pie]

^^^ What a LOOOOOOOOOOSER ^^^ *Ignore*

[PS3n360]

lol at that picture. you should get more fiber in your diet. Your sh!t needs to be at least three times that big. I got a PS3 last year and have only played uncharted and a little LBP. All in all I have logged maybe 40-50 hours and that includes movie watching. The thing I like best is the quality on divx playback. I dont know if it upscales it or what but they look fantastic. Anyways don't expect too much from it just enjoy it for what it is , a do everything not too bad media box.

[eXo8]

wow, keep proving that you're a blind fanboy some more. Let's retrace what you had to do to come up with that picture.

1. Drop a pathetic little log into the toilet, hardly fit for a petite woman let alone a real man.
2. Write up a sign, bashing the PS3 while holding a DS3. You probably didn't even wash your hands.
3. Grab your camera/phone and take a picture of it all.

No wonder you're not playing games on your "PS3" if it's even yours. You're too busy taking pictures of your crap and finding ways to stick in some PS3 bashing along with your all so productive activities.

Get a life.

[Gun_Senshi]

Its not in PS Store its an icon ABOVE PS STore

[Nineball2112]

Haha... wow, I actually got you to post a picture of it.

I was JOKING! You'll notice the little winking emoticon I posted ;-)

But I concede the point. You have a PS3.

And no class since you actually post pictures of your feces online.

BUTT, you do have a PS3.

[I_am_rushin]

So when exactly did you take these pictures?

You said your BD drive broke, and yet the PS3 is working fine with a disc obviously inside.

[TheMART]

You haven't read up my recent posts I see.

My BluRay broke down last week. Went back to the shop and because I buy a lot there, they didn't send it in but exchanged it for a new one. So this is my 2nd PS3 in 4 to 5 weeks now.

Pictures are from tonight a reaction on the PS3 fangirls crying I own no PS3... I see still people that question the fact that I own a PS3 hahahaaaaaa. You just can't believe TheMART got one. Guess twice. I can get 10 if I want. And I still won't like Sony and the PS3!

[I_LOVE_MYSELF]

funny how they missed another deadline... its to late to be considered EARLY pm... why fail so bad?

[Nineball2112]

Only two more bubbles to go! Keep it up Gametime!

[Lazlow]

Actually pretty excited for it

[Kinetix]

Hey I think I see a face in there. Nope it was just some reflection.

[LethalToxins]

Sony should implement the option of instances in HOME. It's an element MMOs use to alleviate the problem of having to wait x amount of time to do x event. I'm not saying it would always be better, but at least then you'd have to option to play a mini-game without having to wait.

[Gun_Senshi]

Countries w/o Playstation Store have no Home...I'm homeless!

[LethalToxins]

You get a Lolerpop for that one...oh, and bubbles, too.

[Gun_Senshi]

At least sony lets me play online...

M$ doesn't even let me play online!

And I'm seroius. It tells me "This account doesn't have access to HOME"