I think the potential is incredible. I am waiting to see how well it’s implemented first.
As for a way to find people to play games with, it’s not that great, unless as soon as you go into Home, you are presented a menu that quickly allows you to find your friends or games you wish to play.
Where I think it holds the most value, is for things like achievements, and the ability to have virtual conferences. As for achievements, XBL, and MMO’s prove how valuable this is to gamers. WoW for example, is nothing more than a big achievement system. You get new armor, a higher level, better weapons, all based on what you have done. It’s, at it’s most basic level, just an achievement system. The better you can make one (and WoW is a great one), the longer people are going to care about it. If completing GT allowed you to have a Poll Position Stand-Up arcade game in your house, that’s a lot cooler than a badge that XBL gives you. This is where Home can shine.
Another place is remote play. If I could put a game never designed to be played multiplayer over the network, and split screen it with a buddy half way across the world, that would be huge. Home will allow this.
Lastly, with Remote Play, they can put on a CES type conference virtually in home. Imagine walking into a conference hall, and seeing all the venders setup (along with a thousand other people), and waling up to a booth showing off FFXIII, and getting to play the Demo, just like you walked up to the booth at a real show. Or getting to talk with the developer about the game. Remote play and Home allows for these kinds of events.
How well they implement the above features is what will determine what I think about Home.
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