Was Playstation Home Profitable?

[DaRev]

o_O.Q said:

DaRev said:

o_O.Q said:

DaRev said:

o_O.Q said:

DaRev said:
Home is one of Sony's biggest failures, and is comparable to what the Vitual Boy was to Nintendo. Not that either is bad, just that both were over-ambitious.

lol do you care to elaborate on that?

Well if Home was any form of a success, Sony being who they are would be promoting it widely, like at E3 or with tv commercials, but I have seen any such promotion of Home.  The PS Move, the failure that it is, gets more promotion than Home. Going back to the OP, I can't see how Home has made Sony any money considering how it's almost never talked about, now lets all do the running man and chase virtual girls around while we watch the next Sony movie trailer lol

you aren't really elaborating on what was said at all, you said that home was over ambitious and that it ranks as high in terms of failure as the virtual boy

how was/is home over ambitious?

how does home compare to the virtual boy?

etc

secondly home not being advertised automatically means it doeesn't make money? how have you drawn that conclusion?

1) It's over ambitious because it attemps to create a whole social world outside of regular gaming. You have your own home/appartment, you go to the movies, to the arcade, and whole lot of other stuff, all outside of regular gaming. Sony it seems expected people to stop gaming and go socialize in Home, that sounds over ambitious to me. Plus if Home was suppose to be the equivalent of Xbox live, then it does seem over ambitious as Live presents a much simpler means of gamer interaction with each other.

2) Both Home and Vitual boy failed to apeal to mainstream gamers, I don't know anyone of my friends that use home (or a Virtual Boy). Even the Sony fans I know never use it. Maybe you know a lots of Xbox and Wii fabs that do, but I don't

3) Automatically, no, but it's an indication.

"Sony it seems expected people to stop gaming and go socialize in Home, that sounds over ambitious to me"

lol so sony the manufacturer of the GAMES console which runs home wanted people to stop playing games?

 

"if Home was suppose to be the equivalent of Xbox live"

doesn't it seem a bit nonsensical to you to compare home to live?... wouldn't it make more sense to compare psn to live?

 

"Both Home and Vitual boy failed to apeal to mainstream gamers"

when was it said that home was targetted at mainstream gamers?

Exactly, Home was a silly idea because it proposed to take up way too much of a gamers often very limited time for playing games and propse that they instead do the running man and wait in line to play virtual games at a virtual arcade - serious, what a silly and over ambitious idea lol.

Home can be compared to Live as there are both propose to provide gamers with gaming and non-gaming experiances outside of stand-alone games.

Ha ha, you telling me that Home was not meant for mainstream gamers? Well no wonder it didn't make any money. No wonder it is a failure and fit for a small minority that think it's better to do the virtual running man and watch Sony movie trailers all day than play actaul games! lol What a silly and over ambitious idea.