PlayStation Home Director Wants "Mini-MMOs" On The Service [PS3]

Having been presented for its first year of public existence as a social platform,PlayStation Home is about to be pushed in a new way: As a social gaming platform.

"We have developed a forum for developers to come in and develop 3D social games," Buser told Kotaku during a Sony Playstation 3 showcase in New York. The goal is to spawn the development in Home of what Buser calls "mini-MMOs."

PlayStation Home has primarily been shaped as a social space up until now, enabling online-connected PS3 users to interact with each other in virtual movie theaters, courtyards, malls, houses and game-themed spaces. Users in Home chat together, dance together and flirt together — any quick visit to Home will verify that that last activity is quite popular.

Some of the spaces in Home have allowed PS3 users to play. There is a hedge maze in one space, a poker table in another. Ratchet & Clank's Home space includes a scavenger hunt and shooting game (pictured above); Uncharted 2's has a multiplayer modification of Risk. Those latter spaces, Buser said, are hints of where this could be going.

You would go to Home not just to hang out, but to play 3D "casual" games.

Buser had no mini-MMOs quite ready to announce yet, but was confident that the gaming expansion of Home is underway. The service turns one year old tomorrow, but Buser was cagey about how, if at all, that anniversary would be celebrated. Time, if not to launch mini-MMOs, to drop the "beta" tag from the project's status? Not something he could talk about now, he said.

soo wat do u think?? i heard some people in some threads saying they wanted an mmo like thing on playstation home soo wat do u think of this in ur opinion??Source: http://kotaku.com/5423761/playstation-home-director-wants-mini+mmos-on-the-service?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+kotaku/full+(Kotaku)

that would be great.

ooh, i like the sound of that

the avatars themselves are the main reason everything is stopping, they're not fantasy based, they are not cartoony , they are not sims like , they are lifeless.
i don't see how MMO will work on them . they should change the avatars , or just give them more... life. by adding animations , noises, unnormal faces.
they are very uncanny.

ahh dno bout that but maybe they might make smthing like u create a special character only for the mini MMO or ur avatar transforms haha lol :P

thats a great idea actually.

They need to give the avatars more personallity and change the art-style instead of its weird GTA/realistic showing.

+ 30k for you

LBP avatar would have been so amazing !

There's a Risk game in the U2 space? I'll have to check that out.

I think part of Sony's problem with Home is that they don't advertise it very much. Nobody really knows what it offers. Including me.