[Official] Playstation Home

[FiB3R]

Just loaded HOME from my Hong Kong Account and it has a few different spaces. Videos take a ****ing age to load.

Home Square (looks completely different)

Game Space (Neon lit arcade with huge screen playing Bionic commando trailer + Same arcade machines + Namco Machines + Darts

Home Theatre

Home Cafe

Mall

I won't spoil the rest of it for you, go see it for yourself :p

[Corris Veteran]

Honestly, I downloaded the update all the extra content is gone, and I had to re download all the spaces again.

A bit lame if you ask me.

[Coldgunner]

Honestly, I downloaded the update all the extra content is gone, and I had to re download all the spaces again.

A bit lame if you ask me.

Yeah, can't see why you need to re-download each area again. They best not do it again!

[Pheee]

I guess they make changes to the areas, so they require downloads again, I did it today and it only took like 5 minutes to download them all again.

[Reimroc]

I guess they make changes to the areas, so they require downloads again, I did it today and it only took like 5 minutes to download them all again.

Yeah, it's surprisingly fast.

[Corris Veteran]

I guess they make changes to the areas, so they require downloads again, I did it today and it only took like 5 minutes to download them all again.

I have no problem with it generally, but I don't want to have to download every area again once a patch comes out, its just going to get annoying..

[Master Ryu]

Good

[crazzyyfool]

Can anyone get on Home today? I get a message saying 'Problem downloading content' just after the initialising screen at launch.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Can anyone get on Home today? I get a message saying 'Problem downloading content' just after the initialising screen at launch.

Yes the official forums have a topic on this.

Looks like they're changing/updating something.

[crazzyyfool]

Yes the official forums have a topic on this.

Looks like they're changing/updating something.

Ahh. OK. :unsure:

[matthewmarley]

Got in to home for the first time today and i dont like it. It all seems very boring and very repetitive.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Well, At Least Microsoft Are Using Home

After the first few days, how many of you are still using Home? Hands up? Yeah. That's what I thought. Ah well. Hey, Sony, look on the bright side; at least Microsoft are using it!

A program instituted by Portsmouth University in the UK - aimed at cutting the cost of travel and communications for meetings - has so far convinced three major companies to trial meeting via the social networking...thing. One is financial powerhouse Ernst & Young. Another is former financial powerhouse Merrill Lynch. The third?

Microsoft.

Source: http://kotaku.com/5121957/well-at-least-mi...-are-using-home

:rofl:

[Sethos]

Exactly, at least someone is using it.

Imagine if it's still having voice issues when they are having the meeting, boy that's got to be embarrassing.

[AbandonedTrolley]

Exactly, at least someone is using it.

Imagine if it's still having voice issues when they are having the meeting, boy that's got to be embarrassing.

What voice issues are those?

Is there poor quality or something? I've got the PS3 mic but never actually used it on there. As for using it to hold meetings, quite weird really other than novelty value I would have thought there are better options out there like Skype etc.

[Jeremy Kyle]

They turned the voice off for some reason. It was working fine for me and my bro.

[Sethos]

What voice issues are those?

Is there poor quality or something? I've got the PS3 mic but never actually used it on there. As for using it to hold meetings, quite weird really other than novelty value I would have thought there are better options out there like Skype etc.

At the time me and Munky tried it, it would cut out, work at times and then not work at all - Really was a huge box of fail.

[AbandonedTrolley]

They turned the voice off for some reason. It was working fine for me and my bro.

I know they turned it off globally, but I believe you can still party chat etc....

At the time me and Munky tried it, it would cut out, work at times and then not work at all - Really was a huge box of fail.

Ouch that's a pretty bad issue, not a bad connection or just too frequent?

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Chat works in apartments and club houses right now, not in public spaces.

I believe it's working better now, but at the start it was probably a combination of server issues and letting everyone run around spamming the main areas.

[AbandonedTrolley]

Chat works in apartments and club houses right now, not in public spaces.

Yeah that was pretty much my understanding of it now due to the fact it can't be moderated/censored.

I noticed the other day I still have the Beach House thingy from the BETA so that saved me ?4. I really cannot see why people would pay for things on there though, there is no gain from it to be had, not like games etc. It's just another representation of a character, as for Diesel having a shop there:||

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Yeah that was pretty much my understanding of it now due to the fact it can't be moderated/censored.

I noticed the other day I still have the Beach House thingy from the BETA so that saved me ?4. I really cannot see why people would pay for things on there though, there is no gain from it to be had, not like games etc. It's just another representation of a character, as for Diesel having a shop there:||

Yeah beta folk get to keep things.

As for no point in the paid stuff...

Home Virtual Items 'Selling Like Hotcakes'[/b]>

Virtual items in online community PlayStation Home are "selling like hotcakes," according to new comments by Susan Panico, senior director of the PlayStation Network at Sony.

Speaking to the Silicon Valley Insider, Panico failed to provide any specific figures, but stated thatthe sale of virtual items in the first four days of Home?s launch had generated more revenue for Sony than movies and videos had in their first week./b>

Items such as clothing and furniture are available on Home from between $0.49 to $4.99, while movies and videos from the PlayStation Network can cost up to $14.99. The most popular item at present is a Santa Claus outfit.

"It's a classic 80/20 model, where 20 percent of your customers create 80 percent of your income," said Panico.

Panico also says that the long-term goal for the PlayStation Network is to make the PlayStation 3 a replacement for cable boxes, with Sony Pictures providing exclusive content.

"We look aspirationally at HBO, the way they have 'Sex and the City' and other shows," she says.

Source: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21660

[AbandonedTrolley]

That's just crazy and sad all rolled into one. :(

I can understand why it's there, but I don't understand why people would buy the stuff.

Okay the club house I can understand for clans etc or groups of friends, but virtual clothes? please.....

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

That's just crazy and sad all rolled into one. :(

I can understand why it's there, but I don't understand why people would buy the stuff.

Okay the club house I can understand for clans etc or groups of friends, but virtual clothes? please.....

It's just because not everyone who owns the console = the mentality we have.

A lot of the behaviour rolled into this is "ohh it's only 79 cents, why not?" or "I want to look different than everyone else". Times that buy a couple hundred or couple thousand purchases and it equals decent revenue for Sony.

There's also more of a relationship involved with these avatars as they represent YOU, as opposed to people paying 79 cents for a skin for a Dead Space character. That's bound to cause more people to buy things, as they wear diesel clothing in real life, ect, ect..

The women said it herself

"It's a classic 80/20 model, where 20 percent of your customers create 80 percent of your income," said Panico.

The majority won't buy, but those that do are going to uncapped limits, some probably clean sweep a store update every time and spend $5-10, others maybe just 79 cents here and there.

[AbandonedTrolley]

A lot of the behaviour rolled into this is "ohh it's only 79 cents, why not?" or "I want to look different than everyone else".

Indeed, that's the only reason for it and the reason I downloaded the Namco collection to get the items from that :D

Edit: which I just decided to go back and complete, now have all 4 arcade cabinets unlocked and the table one with all 4 included.

Edited January 2, 2009 by Abandoned-Trolley

[Jeremy Kyle]

People are suckers for cheap DLC. Look at iTunes/App store - loads of apps for 59p! They sell by the bucket load.

[AbandonedTrolley]

4 Arcade Cabinets and the Tabletop one :)

Anyone else know of anything that can be unlocked on home through other games?