Playstation Home Goes Live

[stoobie]

Only slightly late.

Home

[DANGERMAN]

I could just read the article i guess, but is it the whole thing or just the open beta, because they said the beta was coming first.

Also, any idea what the point of Home is, I honestly have no idea

[Dunkster]

I could just read the article i guess, but is it the whole thing or just the open beta, because they said the beta was coming first.

Also, any idea what the point of Home is, I honestly have no idea

Home, Ben? Its where the heart is!

[stoobie]

From what I can tell it is the open beta which will slowly get turned into the live release - the official release date is tomorrow but they will keep fixing it up and plugging the gaps as they go along.

[Hendo]

Also, any idea what the point of Home is, I honestly have no idea

Advertising space. That's about it, really.

I was gonna leave it at that but I'm sure someone would think that was a fanboy-esque dig, what I mean is that in much the same way that NXE is also about advertising space and selling you virtual items. And riding the Second Life / World of Warcraft gravy train.

The Friends tab in NXE bugs me enough that I couldn't see the point in meeting up with your friends in Home.

[retroed]

It's region locked isn't it? That's what I heard when listening to the latest Uncle Gamer yesterday. That's bollocks.

[Dunkster]

If anyone's online with their PS3, do tell us what its like.

[stoobie]

If anyone's online with their PS3, do tell us what its like.

Ill be downloading it just to see what the fuss is about - plus I need something to fill that big old hard drive I installed.

[RivaOni]

Does the PS3 perform background downloading? based on what I've heard of its download speeds you could be waiting till the new year for it to download, install, not work, download again...

[stoobie]

Does the PS3 perform background downloading?

It does as long as whatever else you are doing in no way uses the network connection.

So no - not really. Its only around 70MB tho isnt it - shouldnt take too long

[DANGERMAN]

It takes a chunk of your harddrive too doesnt it (not a problem for fancy pants stoobie and his enourmo drive), i've heard 1.5 gig.

but yeah, best not trying to download it whilst playing LBP

[retroed]

I heard on another Podcast (I think it was Gamer Dork) that it reserves 3GB of your HDD for Home.

[Sly Reflex]

It does reserve just over 3GB, but the downloads and patches DL really fast. It is nothing to worry about, its just as fast as DL'ding a XBLA game.

[Dunkster]

PSM3's take on Home so far..

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=203699

[DANGERMAN]

From what I heard this isn't out yet, and may not make it out today. However I can't sign in on my ps3, so somethings going on or everyones got back from school/work and is trying to get on to check

[Oliath]

Am curious to see why Sony pumped so much of their time and resources into Home as i do not see the point of it at all.

It can't compete with something like second life... because second life thrives on the user created content. It sounds like Home is just a platform for Sony to generate some advertising revenue. They will have to keep piling resources into it too which is clearly taking cuts out of them patching up important things on the actual console.

[stoobie]

Yeah - I have just tried and I cant even get onto the store.

[stoobie]

Seems there is a problem

Home shut down

I will just wait for it to appear on my XMB I think

[stoobie]

Triple post

Downloading it now - 77MB and you cant background download it - Still its coming down pretty quick

[DANGERMAN]

Got it downloaded but cant run it. I can load it up but I keep getting errors when it tries to log me into the server.

Oh well I might try it tomorrow, cant help thinking I should have better things to be doing though