As you all know, Playstation Home will be closing it's doors on the 31st of March. Does anybody remember back when PS Home was first revealed and how much of a game changer it looked to be? We were given a new way to interact with fellow gamers via a gaming hub OUTSIDE of the actual games. Home looked to be a BIG deal but the real question now that the 7th gen is wrapping up, was it a success or failure?
I personally think Playstation Home was a failure. Like i said in a previous thread of mine, I feel like PSHome was GRAND idea executed by a mind unfit for the task of bringing this GRAND idea to life as it should have been. So basically, Home is just a big ass pile of potential that Sony just sat on. They didn't know what the fuck they needed to do to bring that ambitious project to life as it was supposed to be. I'm not sure if it's more of the fact that Home was simply just too ambitious for it's time or the fact that Sony didn't have the right mastermind behind the project.
For the sake of comparing, let's look at Sony's Playstation Home vs Nintendo's Mii Verse. Playstation Home was a hell of a lot more ambitious than Miiverse. Looking at them both on paper, you would've thought that Playstation Home would blow Miiverse out of the water. To be honest, during my time of owning a Playstation 3 and Wii U, I have to admit that I've visited Mii Verse WAAAAAAYYYY more times than I've visited Playstation Home. That's not to say that i visit Miiverse everytime i turn the Wii U on or anything. I've also had the PS3 a lot longer than the Wii U. I've only visited PS Home like twice or maybe 3 times tops. Miiverse is like a simplified PS Home but it's not perfect.
In Playstation Home, you were able to purchase things but you had to do it with real money.. AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT! The perfect solution for Playstation Home to have succeeded was to use TROPHIES! Make trophies the main currency in PS Home, that way people would actually have a reason to visit and do something in Home more often. That would've been the PERFECT reward for gaining trophies. What do trophies do right now? Not a damn thing! They're nice and add a bit of replay value to games but they still dont do anything. This would've been the PERFECT opportunity to give Trophies more of a purpose while bringing more relevance to PS Home. This alone would've EASILY made me visit Home a lot more than I did. PS Home will be gone for good soon so It's too late. I would still love for a Playstation-verse on PS4 like Miiverse(which is basically a simplified Nintendo-Home like Playstation Home) though.
It would be nice to get on Playstation Underground(or whatever the hell it would be called) and be able to visit and discuss various things among other Playstation users in the differing communities. Like I said in a previous thread, if PS3 had a Miiverse, I would STILL visit the Uncharted 2 community TO THIS DAY( and no I'm not trying to overhype Uncharted 2. So you "Uncharted-is-mediocre-and-overrated" police can gtfo!)
So do you think Home was a success or failure? Do you agree with my opinion of the matter or disagree?
Also, for my fellow Playstation fans, how often did you visit Home? DON'T LIE!
