lol...too cute...

(sorry for the duplicate, initially posted in the wrong thread)

I downloaded it, promptly made an overweight 70's serial killer and wondered around. I have to say, Home managed to deliver less than I expected, and my expectations were already low. It reminded me of a junior high school dance where everyone just sort of uncomfortably walks around, don't talk a lot, and sometimes do some random dance. The exception comes when someone dares make a female avatar. Then it becomes a creepy equally pubescent chat room where kid's who's balls just dropped drool over the prospect of talking to a real live girl online. Sadly, I realized that many of these kids are not 13 year olds, but 16 to 20 year olds that just have incredibly pathetic, hopefully imminently self-ended, lives.

The expectedly unimpressive social aspects aside, the environment looks pretty, but it is small and only seems to serve as a place to view advertisements. Maybe Home will grow into something more, but after all the hype, the long wait, and extremely long beta, I could think of nothing more to say than, "What the fuck have you guys been doing for the past couple years? Was half the budget for Home allocated to hookers and blow?" Home is underwelming. The custom locations made for particular games amount to nothing more than just another place for people to stand around and do nothing. They are themed amusement park loading zones for a ride that never comes.

Home may have a future, but it needs more direction, right now it's a cute toy that takes up way to much space on the HD for what it delivers (seriously 3+GB?). There doesn't appear to be a clear focus in it's design. It looks like a holdover from the Kutaragi era of the PS3 but considerably castrated and released only because they made the mistake of hyping it so much in the first place.

I expect online sales of items to outfit avatars and Home spaces to slow and stall as people spend less time in Home because of the lack of content.

With Sony's current problems, I expect Home to expand at a snail's pace (by expand I mean adding new features, not opening up new areas for people to stand around in) and maybe become something respectable by around 2011, right now it's a waste of space.

I give this thread a 9.2.

home it less a 100mb even wit hall the dowload its barely over 200mb,  3gb are allocated but not used fully.

I understand the 3GB is allocated.  If 3GB had to be downloaded to install Home it would take more than 20 minutes, even on my connection.  What does matter is there is 3GB that can't be used on the PS3 for a lackluster program that weighs in at maybe under 300mb after you download all the other areas.  Sounds pretty silly to me.

I give that post a 9.4.

It's final, thanks to home, ps3 is finally profitable in 2009.

Hey as long as those funny guys sponsor free online gaming for rest of us let them spend that cash on funny virtual hats :)

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/12/23/home-items-selling-like-hotcakes/

We're not sure why, but it seems that quite a few of you out there are buying Home pay-for content. In an interview with Silicon Alley Insider, Susan Panico (Senior Director of the PlayStation Network) says that content in the social networking service is selling tremendously. In fact, in the first four days of the open beta Home produced more money for Sony than the video download service did in its first week.

We're disheartened to hear that one of the biggest sellers is the ridiculously priced Santa outfit. So if you went ahead and bought a £5 Santa suit: congratulations. You've just told Sony that it's okay to charge 79p for a pair of virtual gloves.

Panico says it's "a classic 80/20 model, where 20 percent of your customers create 80 percent of your income." Makes sense to us. There's already a very vocal pro-Home community. We'll be happy to join in next month when some of that promised content starts to drop.

[Thanks Nav]



yes its final.

I forget about the pointless 3GB reserve

Charging for items in moderation is a good idea.. people are more likely to buy multiple $2 items than one $5 or $10 item.

I dont know if this is a win for customers though. SONY isnt bailing out of the videogame industry regardless of the losses it has to bear.And HOME is probably generating enough money to cover its own maintenance costs. I wouldnt spend on virtual jeans or santa outfits, but im sure many would.

You know that bell sound that sounds like a cash register in the PS HOME mall, I heard that every time it rings someone made a purchase.

You see.. for me it rings every 6 or 7 secounds...