Home is lame, confirmed?

[TheSteve]

mario64 said:
@Steve : if you think it should appeal to younger people, then 360 fans should really love Home.

Joke aside, it's a nice service in my opinion, I have a lot of fun in it, and I'm 34.

I love going to the theatre to watch new videos about upcoming games, or devs interview. E3 videos were there too (in a special dedicated space actually).

You know 'second life' was mostly played by adults, yeah ?

Well, here I suspect it's a bit the same, just with games and game features...

It's definitely a success for Sony since they already sold 1 million $ goods in last january (and a lot more by now...)

I think it's the same folks as Live and Home...  Like I said, on one you have the "F-U you f'n f@g!!" every four seconds while playing a game.  In home, it's "A/S/L? im tochin ur @ss!!11!" while someone's av has a seizure behind you.Second Life doesn't exactly have best reputation for the kinds of people that played it...  Those "adults" regularly appeared to be emotionally and socially stunted.  Home (allegedly) isn't meant for social misfits exercising escapism, it's supposed to be a social experience for gamers.

Also: You'd rather go through all the loading and walking around ot watch the trailers, rather than just grab them from the PS store?

nen-suer said:

TheSteve said:

nen-suer said:
Looks like u actually made people want to check home again XD

Maybe they should...  It's often cited as a major benefit of having a PS3, but much like the much-touted exclusives, numbers aren't reflecting any follow-through on the fanboy buzz around these things.

If only 1 in four PS3 owners can be bothered to look at Home twice, or to buy Killzone 2, or to buy this or that...

Actually the major benifit for having a PS3 other than "much-outed exclusices" is the free online, Home is just a nice bounes

That's "the" major benefit for the PS3?  You know what else has "free" online?  A wi-fi laptop in a coffee shop.  The added bonus there is caffeine and laws limiting the ammount of stupidity one can engage in.

You make a point there (I think) in that PS3 owners aren't opening their wallet to show that they see other things as "major benefits" to owning their system.  The exclusives sell to only a fraction of the console's install base, people rarely return to home, but over a million dollars have been spent on virtual clothes and plants for the handful of folks that have invested time in Home.