PlayStation Home launching globally tomorrow, December 11th
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Dec 10th 2008 3:14AM
posted Dec 10th 2008 3:14AM
Update: Added video of Red Bull's PlayStation Home Air Race game after the break. It's also worth noting that the US is positioning this as an "open beta" whereas the Japanese announcement seems to position this as full production launch.
TOMORROW!? HOLY SH*T!
YES HOLY SHIT!!!
why isn't this all over the Engadget front page with countless stories some of them not even that relevant just with a pic of it?..
oh that's only for Apple products.
I think if the PS3 does well this gen (which we all sort of know it will, eventually) Home could potentially be the biggest 'second life' sort of game and Sony could be racking in some serious cash... maybe so popular that they will even port it over to PC or something.
Finally....
@ Dave Chapelle
"I think if the PS3 does well this gen (which we all sort of know it will, eventually)"
No.
"Home could potentially be the biggest 'second life' sort of game and Sony could be racking in some serious cash"
No.
"maybe so popular that they will even port it over to PC or something."
And...no.
Don't get too excited. The beta hasn't been much fun. There's nothing to do besides stand in line waiting to play a handful of crappy arcade games or bowling. Yes. Stand in line just like real life. There's the odd "running man" line dance in the glitchy areas (search YouTube) ... but that wears off quickly. It's easy to see the whole thing is just a way to get you to spend real cash on virtual stuff. Or you could run around and be trolled/spammed by every 12-year-old with a PS3.
Eventually there's supposed to be video/audio sharing, and you can launch online games with friends. Which will be fun. But PAYING for a club? Ridiculous. Just like paying for virtual shoes.
@ fenix
I guess us Playstation owners can only hope that Home will someday reach the superior level to that of NXE...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/nxe-hitting-360s-with-red-ring-freezing-and-sorta-sexy-avatar-i/
Interesting, wonder what this will mean for current beta testers like myself.
Nothing?
There was a HOME sale a few days back where everything was free, a gift for beta testing I think...
You're probably being kicked Home (haha)
Wait... It's ACTUALLY coming out? Weird
OMGOMGOMG.......
I just hope I won't be disappointed like with LBP.
Care to explain why you were disappointed with LittleBigPlanet?
You probably will be... because it seems you have impossibly high expectations-- LBP is AWESOME.
How could you possibly be disappointed with LBP? Sure the servers were crazy for a few days, and likely Home will be slammed utterly for a week as well, but hey. All's well that ends well.
Granted, it's a good game, it's just that I expected it to keep my attention for a bit longer than a couple of weeks. I guess it's just a preference thing, but I just can't spend hours playing other users' levels. The concept is great, it just didn't meet my expectations (possibly because of the 2 year wait time and excess of hype).
LBP definitely lived up to its (my) expectations. On the other hand, Spore did not.
I want to get a virtual minimalist loft too.
Tomorrow!, Globally!!!
That's ALL hope it lives up to the wait
who says it will be down again by the weekend?
LOL
does anyone else find this whole idea creepy?
Yes. Other human beings are downright frightening.
Errm do you find facebook creepy? If not, then this is no different, just a 3D version of it, with much more media based social interaction.
I'm in the closed beta, and frankly I think Home is awesome, it's going to revolutionise social networking for consoles. It's not a agme per-se, infact it's very tricky to clarify what home is, like trying to explain what the internet was to someone back in 1990.
Yes, a 3D version of Facebook... with a lot more dudes.
Yeah. They might as well call it "Home: Sausagefest Edition" or "Home: Loyal Order of The No Girls Allowed Club" for all the actual females I've seen in the Beta.
Sure, I've got a cool apartment in Home, but I'm not into inviting the guys I see ALL OVER THE PLACE to visit my home in Home. Savvy?
They need to do more to bring in the chicks!
It's sure to be a real sausage fest.
facebook is like email, this is like tron
In the press release it said something about paying to be a clubhouse owner. What is a clubhouse?!
Think Clans but they have a physical meeting place that they have access to. I read somewhere that there is a limit to the size of clubs and you can only be apart of 4 at a time and be the head of 1 at a time.
"they have a physical meeting place that they have access to"
...uh...physical? As is an actual building?
it's a virtual-physical meeting place...
Rootkits? Come on grow up. Is this blog written by schoolkids? If you want to be taken as a credible source you need to sort your act out. Until then, anything I read here is just laughable nonsense.
I was under the impression the Engadget was meant to be a humorous website, so their immature (but funny) comment is fine.
Agree with both of you. Engadget is becoming more like Gizmodo, while I like both sites, I think Engadget should keep the "serious" blog-style, and let Gizmodo keep their way. No harm with an interposed sentence once in a while, but to me it seems like Engadget keeps doing it with pretty much every post.
I thought gizmodo was the boring one
"...is like Second Life, only with the risk of rootkit."
Sony already has root on your PS3.
I think you missed something... Sony is ALL ABOUT Rookits !!, long time now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal
I know it's a scandal turned popular joke but I think we should give it a rest already and move along. Besides, what does Sony BMG has anything to do with SCE? Some 'tards at Sony BMG fucked up but that doesn't mean everyone working for Sony are assholes.
I believe this will be an epic failure, i think second life is a failure as well. Its pointless , i can't personally see this ever becoming the future of our internets. I am very open minded but its pointless, you walk around and do what? talk to people , and get rigged into buying things with real money to have in the "fake" world. Fail
Did you say the same thing about the internet back in '93?
You may think SecondLife is pointless, and I might agree, but millions of people disagree with us, so that doesn't make it a failure...
its better is it?
even though it could not even get over 100kb/s when loading when I momentarily went on the site, looking for a flaw that I could swear at you for. But I could not even get that far, so plain and simple I hope you die in a fire.
wtf? i just got off the phone with a piece of shit nagging telemarketer from India and now you post this?
"Yaa . Its Great news .
I will Siting on my sheet"
fucking predictable complete lack of grammar trying to con people into going onto his site.
merry christmas.
Thanks! Same to you!
I am in the beta, and this is a cool free gift for all the ps3 owners out there. I will see you there( yes all of you), inquiring about your ownership of a 360, which for some reason is blasphemy among the people I have talked with on home, and also trying to think about something to talk about that won't end in awkward silences. lol
Finally, you can play yourself sitting at home watching television, in your home on your PS3 connected to your television. Amazing!
Reminds me of that Xzibit pic
http://bum.net/pics/xzibit.jpg
Epic, lol
More like WoWoW (World of World of Warcraft)
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play
I know the psp has it's limited resources but anybody know about how the psp is going to get in on this action?
Please say it's released in Europe tomorrow aswell. I'll die if we get left behind again lol. Hate living in the UK sometimes you know =] Well, even if I can't download it tomorrow.. Hope you all have a fun time!!! =]
you underestimate the word GLOBALLY ?
It does say it will be released in Europe. Besides, it was made in London, so it definitely should be available to the UK.
Is Europe out of this world or what?
Amazing, I paid for the crappy Qore Subscription hoping to get some early betas. So far the only one I got was Motorstorm and SOCOM (which I was never able to connect to), now those weasels finally send me a beta invite to Home - yesterday, only to have it be open tomorrow and this month's Qore is FREE. Way to treat your customers Sony. If it wasn't for the Blu-ray, I would gladly sell my PS3. Just a piece of junk.
Well at least you got to watch some sweet Qore episodes right? *snicker*
Only 1% of PS3 owners agree with you. 99% of us are busy enjoying sonys treat this month.
lol @ girls and video games
Poor Michelle. You hate the PS3 because you weren't invited to the party. Sucks to be you.
I got the beta of Home the day before Thanksgiving and while it was fun for the first couple hours I tried it out, I quickly lost interest in walking around a mall, bowling, playing arcade games (demos of psn store content), and pool. The most enjoyable part was walking up to random people and right in front of them. I'm sure Sony will make great improvements in the future, but Home is not for me.
Face feature customization is cool.
I don't like the way random little kids in your general vicinity can start screeching obnoxiously. At times it can be difficult to pinpoint who to mute.
Anyword on what's Xbox to do about this? We already got the new avatars, now we want to do something with them, and this certainly makes me want to sell all my Xbox games, and get rid of the monthly subscription and finally make the sacrifice ($$$) and buy the PS3
I personally haven't seen that many 360 owners wanting "something to do" with their avatars. MS will be adding some public game/trivia events (1 vs 100 for starters) that will probably make use of the avatars but I don't think many 360 users are exactly dying for a virtual playground to run around aimlessly in.
I hate my avatar personally. Maybe that says a lot about myself. Hmm... deep.
I bypass the avatar creation. So instead of the dorky avatar, there is a black outline where the avatar should be.
@ phobic99 "I don't think many 360 users are exactly dying for a virtual playground to run around aimlessly in."
Of course not! They've got Halo ;)
I don't think many Xbox 360 users care a whole lot about Avatars right now. Ya 1 Vs. 100 and other Prime time gaming with real prizes and whatnot would be cool, especially seeing so many different ones on screen at once, it's still early yet, so there's not a lot of use for them. As for Paying for Xbox LIVE, only if you want to be a Gold User, and if you can't afford just under $3 a month for LIVE access, maybe you shouldn't be gaming. That's right, Buy a LIVE 12+1 month subscription card from newegg.com for under $39 with free shipping. Works out to under $3 a month. That also works out to around 10 cents a day you cheap a**. Poor baby has to pay 10 cents a day to use LIVE. It's th cheapest Subscription you'd be paying to anyone in your life. Get over it already.
As for HOME, it doesn't get me wanting to buy a PS3 any more now then before. I could care less about it. To me it looks dumb and a complete waste of time. Time better spent doing more important things, like I don't know, PLAYING GAMES!!! Maybe WATCHING A MOVIE, be it DVD, Blu-Ray, Netflix, whatever. I just don't get it. If other people like it, great, I just think it would get old pretty quick.
I think Sony should have just continued working on it and had it ready for a PS4 release on Launch Day.
I am in beta but I dont see anything interesting there, yet.
All the areas may not be live yet.
Here is a video (disclaimer - I am working with Paramount) showing some of Watchmen content we have in there from launch if interested
http://vimeo.com/2486101?pg=embed&sec=2486101
after 2 years of development time it is finally released as....an open beta....ok...
and it will probably stay in beta for another year so they dont have to support it. sony f***ing sucks at software. epic fail.
wrong, almost all 360 owners want to GAME with their 360, and get rid of the damn avatar. its only the non gamer clowns like you who come on game sites posting about how cool stuff is that you will never buy. 90% of all ps3 posts:
zomg the new resistance 2 is going to be awesome cnat wait to buy it!!! - sells 200k copies. idiots are all talk because you know the games suck and just try to promote sony products. get off sony's japanese d!ck and buy american to support our economy!!!
"zomg the new resistance 2 is going to be awesome cnat wait to buy it!!! - sells 200k copies. idiots are all talk because you know the games suck and just try to promote sony products. get off sony's japanese d!ck and buy american to support our economy!!!"
Just like 360 posts: "Teh 360 my mom got me for my 14th birthday RR'd, but it's cool, M$ is replacing it with a refurb." As if a refurbed unit and 1 month of Live is an even trade.
It's called fanboyism, get over it.
Nice. Guys will try and be funny and make girl characters. Probably pleasure themselves off of their characters. Get Xbox, stop wasting your time!!!
Yes, let the virtual sausage fest commence.
This virtual world will be mostly full of men, have fun chasing them attractive girl gamers guys...
*boggles at some of the comments*
[Mungie3] Disliking LBP because you don't like playing other people's levels is like being disappointed that ice is so cold. The only reason they didn't name the game "LittleBigPlanet of Levels Created By Other Users Who Utilized The Vast Resources Provided To Them Because That's The Entire Purpose Of The Game" was because it wouldn't fit on the box.
[digitallysick/haters] Not knocking the hate. Everyone is definitely entitled to theirs. I think people are looking at this from the wrong perspective. It's a lobby. Online multiplayer games have been doing it for ages. Some have even attempted sprucing things up a little, to make things a little more intereactive/personal/interesting, though not very well. As well, people have been trying to come up with a viable 3D OS front end for PCs for a long time, too. Things like walking into your "office", opening the file cabinet, and seeing all your Word docs hanging there, able to choose one and work on it. In some of the pics, I'd guess you can play those classic arcade cabinets you see in people's lofts. And, I have no idea, but it would be cool if a person sitting on a couch reading was actually reading PS Store updates or something. Certainly wouldn't be difficult to pull off. You go into a game and run around as an avatar as it is, after you've gotten there through the PS3's menu system. It would seem natural to move that menu system into a 3D "physical" representation, where you interact with the commands, instead of just clicking on them. Add in the live social aspect (which I have to believe will be much more effective than emails for maintaining and interacting with PS friends), toss in some fun stuff to do while you're figuring out what game to play and it could really be an awesome thing. Not sure if everyone is familiar with the game "scenes" or "zones" or whatever they're calling them (sections that are themed after the the worlds of specific games - like the Drakes Fortune bar), but the second I find one for Pain, where I can sit and laugh till I pass out with other Pain players, I'm buying PS Home pompoms.
U fools... Resistance 2 is an amazing game! i would say competing with if not better than Halo, obviously for cooperative players it is 1000x better... as far as girls on the ps3... who the hell looks for girls on a console anyways... consoles will be generating hot women before hot women use a console.
This technology is nothing compared to what the future truly has in store for us... here's some interesting developments to get your mind excited...
Jetpacks - http://www.martinjetpack.com/
3d Morphable micro bots (Claytronics) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcaqzOUv2Ao
Super Human Strength suits - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSP46lWvxJ4&feature=related
That's just the tip of the iceberg... wait till u see what they come out with next in the video gaming world!!!... forget sitting on your couch... your gonna be "there".
I have absolutely no interest in home so I would like to know if it is a mandatory install like a new firmware or can I keep using my current dashboard and still be able to update to the newest firmware? Thanks
I believe it will be an optional download. Just a day or two ago, Sony said they have no plans to get rid of the XMB interface.
Thank you for the Birthday present sony!
awesome, i can start my second second life, lol
When they add more arcade games and more bowling lanes Home will be pretty sweet. The pool game is actually very good. Bowling is OK, not great. The movie theater actually works well, but everything is a little sparse.
You also really need a headset or keyboard. I haven't really taken the time to have any meaningful conversations in the beta, just kind of walked around and played a few games. I also made sure to get all of my free stuff including the really cool house, instead of just the lame studio.
My problem with home will be all the pay to play features. If they use trophies or gameplay credits for a few things that would make me happy. I will never spend real money on a pair of virtual shoes though. I also won't pay money to play galaga or pacman.
Wow, I can hardly wait, should be quite interesting.
I can never figure out why take a 2D interface that takes a few seconds to navigate and do something and actually make it a 'chore' by making it 3D and increasing the time it takes to do what you want?
So instead of clicking on a single line of text to get what you want in 3 seconds, you can log in with an avatar, leave your house, go to the office, open the filing cabinet and pull out the file you want - its awesome!!
Everyone should know because the PS3 is free to play online this is their chance to collect some free money from all the people who will buy pointless stuff to make there online house look cool...
It's just there way to collect money unlike how Microsoft does it where you just pay a set amount. I guess the plus is for the PS3 you don't HAVE to pay to play online!
Just tried logging in - I was in the private beta so after an update to v1.03.0 I was ready to go: NETWORK ERROR...
As they say: Epic fail Sony!
Well, Where's HOME? Don't tell me I wiped the dust on top of my PS3 for nothing...
HEY IM STILL WAITING IT IS DEC 11TH STILL NOTHING IN THE PLAYSTATION FOR HOME COME ON!!!!!!!! ITS 9 AM ANYONE ELSE HAS ANYTHING
Chill guys, I'm assuming it's launching around 5pm when the PS Store updates. They rarely release stuff in the morning.
Ok, today is Dec 11th...when in hell are they going to launch this thing !?! It looks like your source was a sham!
Umm.... no you buttfart, it's out. Try powering down your stinky PS3 and starting it back up. Then look what's on top of your Playstation Store icon poobutt.