the death of playstation home

[darkknightkryta]

Norris2k said:

darkknightkryta said:

Yeah, but there's too much disconnect within Sony.  Home needs to be integrated into the OS and I doubt that'll ever happen.  I think the best devs can do, is make "home" portals into their games.  Like with Street Fighter X Tekken for isntance; there's a Home area for it.  But why can't you access it from the game?  Why can't people hosting their matches automatically be sent to that area, should people agree to it (Or be auto if Home was integrated properly).  That way people can go into the Home area looking for groups who are playing.  Like with the recent Street Fighter 4 update I'd love to walk into a Home room and look for people to chat up with and play against.  Hell I remember I found a person in Home willing to play some Street Fighter 2 with, he beat my ass mind you, but still.  So much potential.

Yes, even a bunch of tricks would be good enough, like game loading from home in the background, home-like waiting room easy to create for games. I think also graphically speaking Home was too ambitious, the point is to be able to have an OS like light background application that can show anytime. I don't understand why they create such a rich 3D, I would have prefered a wow like graphics with an excellent integration.

Home's graphics are pretty weak.  The only thing spiffy I found is the lighting which shouldn't affect loading or anything.  Thinking about it some more, I think Sony needs to take the Home idea and integrate it the same way Nintendo does with Miis and the way Microsoft does with Avatars.  That way you can load your Home person into each game.  This will also allow devs to put Home rooms into their games in place of lobbies.