I didn't bother reading you wall of text after your personal attacks. We know you don't like the PS3, we get the message.

I don't think it will stop millions of people enjoying PS3 exclusives or Home. The 'laptop' you're talking about have none of the great PS3 exclusives, it has 360 'half-exclusives' on it though, and you still pay for that online gaming on 360, so you just gave an excellent reason not to buy a 360.

Your childish hate posts won't make Home less successful either...

So much hate towards a gaming console ? You surely look a lot more mature than I am.

@TheSteve

Wi-fi....laptop?...exclusives sale as much as the console it self?....why use some thing free?

...........okay am backing up now, am so sorry ur 101% right have a nice life....

That return rate seems okay to me. Something like Home will not appeal to a majority, perhaps ever. Those who do like it will more than make up for those who don't come back. I'd frankly be amazed if those figures were higher.

The last financial feedback from Sony indicated Home was more than paying for itself, and until I hear otherwise I'm going to be of the view it is financially successful and will grow in user base with PS3.

Personally it's not for me, I've maybe logged into it 3 times briefly just to see what it's like, but that doesn't stop me understanding that others will like it and happily micro-transaction it to success.

I think it still needs improvement in some ways. Chess in Home Square, poker rooms and online quiz with 40+ people were great ideas, it needs more ideas like that. Maybe online tournaments with rewards.

It needs more 'two-way paths' between the games and Home too. Launching games is a first step. 3D trophies and trophy rooms would be another one.

I agree it's still a bit slow too, but the speed keeps on improving.

I think on the whole, it's much too early to judge Home today, it's improving every week...

We'll see in 1 or 2 years if they managed to reach new goals (bigger online games for example).

It's too bad. Home was really building up to be a tremendous service, but then it's released and sort of disappeared.

I agree it's lame

Personal attacks?

As to your second paragraph, that's my point!!  Free online is NOT "the" major benefit of the PS3.  It's the games, the features, the Sony name, what have you...  I was saying that if "free online" was "the" benefit (meaning the only one) there'd be no point...  But with 22mil consoles sold, and only 5mil people having bought MGS4, or 2mil buying LBP or KZ2, and only 6mil people logging onto Home (and only 1.5mil returning), Sony fanboys (like yourself) are not putting your money where your mouth is and showing the love.  I wasn't hating on the PS3, I'm making a point about how nothing seems to "hit" with the owners of the system.

Did you take offense to me saying Second Life users were social retards?  I didn't intend it as an insult to you...  I hadn't inferred that you were a Second Life user.  That said, your violent reaction to my making a point here may be indivcative of a deeper issue than anything you may have lifted from my comments.

@nen-suer: Not sure what you're getting at, but I think we had a conversation before about  language barrier, so I apologize if that's at fault here.

My point to you is that you said "home is not a benefit of PS3; free online is the benefit".  I was challenging that there should be a LIST of benefits:

-Free online (only pay your ISP)

-MGS4, LBP, KZ2

-Blu-Ray

-SixAxis

-Home

The benefitS (plural) should be everything unique to the system...  If there's only ONE benefit, and it's just "free internet", you can get that even easier and cheaper (you don't even have to pay to use the internet on your laptop at a cafe or whatever).  There HAS to be more to it than that.

But, your question (sarcasm removed) "why not use something that's free?" is at the crux of this...  Only .5% of PS3 owners are using the Home service regularly.  It's not like previous issues where people were like "ha ha, 33% of PS3 owners don't use the Blu-Ray player!!"  Those things are expensive, that makes sense that people give it a pass.  Home is free, and the vast majority of PS3 owners can't be bothered.

So 1/4 of 1/4 = 1/16 users on the PS3 download it and run it twice. So what percentage of those people return at least once a month? 1/3rd?

So 1/4 of 1/4 of 1/3 = 1/48? users log onto a free service on PSN?

the fact people are actually buying the digital clothes and such already show that Home is NOT a failure, this was Sony's goal to begin with.

I my self go in every week to check out the home theatre, the one movie I want to watch is 2012, and it was because I actually saw the trailer for the 1st time while I was in Home, so just from my own experience the advertisement is working.

I also notice one thing about home, there doesn't seem to be allot of 'actual' gamers, I've seen many profiles and their is a shit load who don't have any trophies at all, this to me at least suggest that gamers like my self either don't bother with home, or pop in once in a blue moon, while non gamers just go on it to either socialise with people they don't know, or people they do, something like chat rooms but with an avatar.

As they say, different strokes for different fokes.

All I can say is that 30% of 22.5 Million is 6.75 Million users, which in it's self is quite good, now if these people on average bought something for like a $1 every day then that's already 6.75 Million bucks a day, and that's just on actual content, the other side is income from adds, now my numbers are NOT 100% spot on, but they do illustrate my point, and that is despite what people think home it's self isn't a failure but quite successful when you look at the revenue sony could/is potential getting from this project.

this thread is lame, confirmed.

Of course it's a noob OP. Let me fill you in. Sony has made a lot of money with home selling digital goods and services. Population is expanding and so are the features.

It's basically like second life, except specific to PSN. Second life makes a boatload of money FYI. You can think it's lame if you want. Not everybody shares your opinion.