Home - Biggest ever Playstation software cash cow?

[KBG29]

Home is going to be a major cash cow. Sony is trying to work with as many companies as possible to turn the service into the next generation of the Internet. Can you imagine if Sony had ownership of the next Internet? Sony is taking all the best things about the internet and rolling them into one service, and more importantly under one username, and password.

The eventual goal for home for Sony from a consumer standpoint, is to allow people to buy directly from places like Nike, GAP, Warner, and basically any company that wants to joi in on the Home revenue wagon. We will be able to buy a T-shirt from GAP, and recive both a digital version for our avatar, and a physical version for our being. To me and many everyone I have showed Home to this is something they want very badly. It gives you the ease of a single login, and makes purchaseing a breeze due to skipping the regestration proccess everytime you shop somewhere new online. It also allows you to make a space that is personalized right down to the stuff you really own.

Home is like Second Life, Myspace, Facebook, iTunes, World of Warcraft, Xbox Live, and the mass of the consumer side of the internet rolled into one. I think this thing is going to be very big in the news all of next year, and for many years to come afterwards. As the PS3 becomes cheaper, and more mainstream people relize the simplisity of Home, and the convinince of shopping on the service, it will start to snowball. The amount of parteners in Home will grow rapidly, and it will not take long before we have places like Gamestop, Blockbuster, Walmart, and more wanting a piece of the pie. In no time I expect to see sites like IGN, 1up, VGchartz, and more jumping in with their own spaces. Home is going to become a phnomenon.