TheSteve

Do u actually read what u write, u said home was a MAJOR benifet and i showed u thats its not

but now u say i said its not a benifit at all,

plus.....how many copies did GeOW, Mass Effect..aahh forget it..

Just leave me alone I said u were right didnt I?

I haven't logged back in since the first time when it released. I loathe what it would take to update and load and whatnot.
I'll eventually check it out again but I haven't even played a PS3 game in several weeks.

Red bull space came out last year, and there have been updated in HOME that make is a faster experienece.

You dont wait in lines for the new spaces anyway which are very good and offer a great community experience.

edit: To me HOME is what makes PSN different from XBL, and at first it wsant a good thing, but I was not expecting it to grow in the way it has. Its a great experience, and I personally love it. Then again its just my opinion and like they say first impressions tend to end up being the last impression if something isnt as good as expected.

@Steve : no offense, but the one who needs a psychiatrist is more likely the guy who spends hours on a forum hating on a game console.

Of course not everybody likes Home, that's pretty obvious. The fact it's free doesn't mean everybody will go there on a regular basis, it's another weak argument... Some people will think it's too slow, other people simply don't like mini games or social interaction. To each his own.

On exclusive sales, of course not everybody buys the same exclusives on PS3. Tons of genres are on PS3, some will buy KZ2, some will prefer MGS4, some will buy both...

Another thing is the average PS3 is older, it means several things :
- they have real lifes to deal with, and less times for games, hence less sales. They have more money though
- they like more mature games, shooters don't appeal to them as much as they appeal to the 360 crowd.
- mostly, PS3 gamers are slightly more 'casual' than on 360. On 360, the core consumer is mostly a shooter fan, so of course nearly every 360 fan buys Halo...

No need to be Einstein to figure that out, really...

I think you guys are missing the point... SONY is concerned about the lack of interest. They were trying to make a Second Life for gamers, and the gamers don't care... It doesn't matter if I think it's lame, or if you think it's a success because the million users that DO use it spent a dollar each, Sony has brought up now the low number of actual console owners that bothered to download Home, and now how few return visitors they have. Sony is concerned about why it's not catching on.

You are REALLY touchy with the constant insults, huh?  Relax: you said you're 34.  That's way too old to be so thin skinned.  We're just talking here.  You spend a lot of time attacking people that don't love the PS3.

@leo-j: Sounds like Sony should probably advertise the updates to Home?  Even just on the mediabar, a "New to Home!  No more lines!!  Quicker loading!!"  I think it's another area PSN is trailing behind Live, in that the Dashboard is its own advertisement service...  Even the free Silver version is constantly updated with streaming content and downloads (the pay account just brings online play, Netflix, XBOX Community programs, streaming media, and early access to downloads and demos) and TELLS you so once you power up.  My last visit to Home took so long to load, it's not really worth it to pop in just to see if it was ever updated.

That's Sony's biggest failure this gen, hands down: its inability to self-promote.

That thing you didn't understand in the OP...whether Sony was boasting or not....

they were boasting. You are spinning this whole thing and you don't even realize it. Sacrilige!

@Thesteve

I agree with you

Psst: That wasn't me confused in the OP...  That was the writer of the article I quoted taking a potshot at Sony, asking why they were releasing negative info about their own service (whether or not they were going to try to "spin it" into "1-in-4 people come to Home TWICE!!"

I shoudl have expected that confusion... I've been a victim of it in other threads.  My own posts start after the link to the article.  My bad.

Doesn't seem like a failure to me.