11th December, the day the PS3 comes Home

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http://www.scee.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=4734&NewsAreaID=2

Highly Anticipated Service Open For All PLAYSTATION 3 Users

Tokyo, Foster City, London, December 10, 2008 – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that its highly anticipated PlayStation®Home Beta service for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) will become available for all PS3 users around the world *1 on December 11, 2008. Following the successful completion of the closed beta service, PlayStation Home’s open beta service will continue to evolve with new features and functionality.

PlayStation Home is a ground-breaking 3D social gaming community available on PS3 that allows users to interact, communicate and share gaming experiences. By leveraging the power of PS3, PlayStation Home delivers overwhelming visual graphics and rich gaming social experiences only possible on the PS3 platform. Within PlayStation Home, users can create and customize their own unique avatars and explore the virtual community in real time where they can communicate freely through text or voice chat. PlayStation Home users will not only be able to enjoy variety of entertainment content such as mini-games, videos and special events along with their friends, but will also be able to create their own community by using the “Club*2” feature to create clubs with other PlayStation Home users who share the same interests. PlayStation Home also allows groups of users to launch directly into their favourite online games together from PlayStation Home.


PlayStation Home, available as a free download*3 starting December 11, will launch directly from the PlayStation Home icon on the PlayStation®Network column of XMB™ (XrossMediaBar) on PS3. Users will be able to experience basic features and services of PlayStation Home, free of charge*4. PlayStation Home will allow open interaction among users, business partners and SCE, and will evolve with additional features including dedicated game spaces, special events and exclusive themed items, to further enrich the entertainment experience on the PS3 platform.


“PlayStation Home is truly a promising network community service on the PlayStation platform, made possible with the powerful combination of PS3's overwhelming computational power and PlayStation Network that covers many countries around the globe,” said Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO, SCE. “We are committed to providing PS3 users with exciting gaming experiences with PlayStation Home and together with our partners and users, expand the new world of interactive entertainment as we move forward.”

For users accessing PlayStation Home in the Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) regions, themed virtual environments will be available to explore. Starting with a themed Far Cry 2 space, PlayStation Home will offer game inspired environments that allow people to discuss the specific games, plan strategies and access content and clues that will enhance the gaming experience. The number of gaming environments such as this will regularly increase, with spaces for Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune™, Warhawk™, Motorstorm and SOCOM following very soon. SCEE is working with leading publishers such as: Electronic Arts, UBISOFT, Midway, Sega and Atari to create engaging environments that will provide users with an on-going gaming experience.

“We are very excited to be bringing PlayStation Home to Europe and the PAL territories, offering users an interactive, social, gaming experience,” said Daniel Hill, Home Service Manager, SCEE. “PlayStation Home is unique to anything else in the gaming world and by partnering with both global and regional gaming and non-gaming brands, we are able to offer exciting and entertaining content that will enhance the PlayStation experience.”

SCEE today also announced the first partnerships with some of the world’s most respected lifestyle brands for the Open Beta. Fashion leader Diesel, contemporary furniture designers Ligne Roset, energy drink Red Bull, film studio Paramount Pictures and video content providers Hexus TV and Eurogamer are the first on board. They will offer resident’s virtual clothing for their avatar, virtual furniture for their PlayStation Home apartments, exclusive video content and a virtual flying challenge: the Red Bull Air Race.

Visitors and residents will be able to explore PlayStation Home with their avatar character and, thanks to Diesel, avatars can look great from the start with Diesel offering the latest men’s and women’s designer avatar clothing, with items ranging from free of charge to €1.50. So for those visiting PlayStation Home, they can dress their avatars in the latest jeans and jacket prior to getting out and about.


On the home front, PlayStation®Home gives everyone their own apartment to spend time in and entertain friends - who will now be able relax on exclusive Ligne Roset furniture. At the virtual store, people will be able to choose from a selection of the most popular Ligne Roset designs, including the iconic Togo and Facett upholstery collections. It will be possible to personalise furniture by selecting from a wide selection of fabrics and leathers allowing a unique and individual look. This is an opportunity to get acquainted with Ligne Roset’s cutting edge designs created by some of Europe’s most talented designers.


As the very first consumer brand space, Red Bull has created the Red Bull Island where visitors to the Island can interact and take part in many of Red Bull’s unique events. Initially there will be the opportunity to get inside the cockpit of a Red Bull Air Race plane and compete against the PlayStation community. The real-world Red Bull Air Race World Championship has become a global phenomenon in just four years, attracting millions of spectators. Now those spectators can leave the stands, become a pilot and tackle the Red Bull Island course themselves. The Red Bull Island will continue to expand, adding new and exciting content in early 2009.

Taking full advantage of the PlayStation Home Theatre, SCEE has partnered with various content providers to enhance the cinematic experience. Offering a wide range of content, the PlayStation Home Theatre will provide lifestyle technology programming from Hexus TV, gaming content from Eurogamer and exclusive film content from Paramount Pictures. Starting with the release of the highly anticipated film, Watchmen, Paramount Pictures International will use PlayStation®Home to promote its latest films. Initially, PlayStation®Home residents will be able to view an exclusive video greeting from Watchmen Director Zack Snyder as well as the latest Watchmen trailer. A selection of virtual Watchmen merchandise e.g. T-Shirts with the smiley face logo, Doomsday clocks and character statues, will also be available in the New Year, ahead of an exclusive Q & A event where cast and filmmakers will meet selected press and competition winners fans within the Watchmen themed environment.

PlayStation Home is exclusive to PS3, free to download and easy to join. It’s the ultimate online community – a place where you can meet friends, try the latest games, hear new music, watch videos, relax in the apartment of your dreams and much, much more. With more and more spaces being created and partners like Diesel, Ligne Roset and Red Bull coming on board, the PlayStation Home experience is just getting started.

SCE will vigorously promote the expansion of the world of PS3 by introducing new services that will open up new possibilities and enjoyment in interactive entertainment.
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It's about time for those that didn't make the closed beta and I'm glad some games spaces are finally appearing, I'm hoping game launching gets more than just Warhawk too.

see ya in there :D
 
Isaacav2 said:
Sooooo its like Xbox live?
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I can't tell whether you are genuinly asking a question or just trolling....

The Red Bull area looks fun, pilotwings style flying game :D By all accounts that and FarCry 2 area open tomorrow....much needed IMO. Then Uncharted, Motorstorm, Socom and Warhawk soon after.

The TGS area was impressive on the Jap beta so have high hopes for the game areas.

 
So umm... is anyone here genuinely excited for Home? I mean, honestly. I didn't even bother with my beta key because it looks boring as hell personally. I'm not trying to flame or anything I just want to know.
 
I logged on one, saw a bunch of whiney ass teens running around and screaming on voice chat, promptly logged back off.
 
phobic said:
So umm... is anyone here genuinely excited for Home? I mean, honestly. I didn't even bother with my beta key because it looks boring as hell personally. I'm not trying to flame or anything I just want to know.
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Will be good for those who game heavily in clans etc, my Fifa league already play pool etc and its a good laugh, the game spaces will just add to that. As a solo experience i doubt it is as good.

It's free tho, so power to those that do enjoy it and more importantly now everyone can get in on it instead of a select few.
 
I am excited to check this "game" or "community" out. However, I saw some recent video footage. The load times going into malls, bowling alley's, etc looked painstakingly long.
 
Nah, the loading is not that long. What you probably saw was someone downloading the area, then loading. Once an area has been downloaded, the loading is comparable to any other game out.

Since I'm in the beta, I'm not hyped for it, but I do use it and looking forward to new additions. Currently I'm a member of a Club, which is where I tend to spend most of my time chillen with people I actually games with, know in real life, and not some random "whiny little kids" that others complain about. When everyone we try to get together is on, it's great to jump into a game from. Our Club owner has already pop'd in a Galaga Arcade machine and some others, full version in a year or so is probably gonna be pretty sweet for a free app... and I hope it stays that way (other than DLC)

I also like how you can unlock dumb shit by playing virtual arcade machines :)
 
Its crazy with loads of people in the same complex, anyone know how many people can be in one section, it feels like 50-60 people, its buzzing! Love the bowling and pool, like tigerblade says, its excellent for clans. Cant wait to see future areas. They sould add an over 18s pkr area Or allow friends to come to your pad to play poker!! That redbull screenshot reminds me of plane crazy lol.
 
I was impressed by the potential of home during my beta time. If they can keep the content coming, it will truly be a fun place to just kill time in, whether you are social or not.

If content is slow, then it will become worthless real quick.
 
Rash said:
Its crazy with loads of people in the same complex, anyone know how many people can be in one section, it feels like 50-60 people, its buzzing! Love the bowling and pool, like tigerblade says, its excellent for clans. Cant wait to see future areas. They sould add an over 18s pkr area Or allow friends to come to your pad to play poker!! That redbull screenshot reminds me of plane crazy lol.
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Each instance holds 64 people before another instance is spawned.

I've been in the closed beta for a while and I have really started to use it once more and more people were being added. I am very happy game spaces are being added back, and that new ones will be added soon. I love unlocking items from the arcades and I think it will be great that when we unlock trophies in games that we unlock items in Home.

Something else I found interesting:

the PlayStation Home Theatre will provide lifestyle technology programming from Hexus TV, gaming content from Eurogamer and exclusive film content from Paramount Pictures. Starting with the release of the highly anticipated film, Watchmen, Paramount Pictures International will use PlayStation®Home to promote its latest films. Initially, PlayStation®Home residents will be able to view an exclusive video greeting from Watchmen Director Zack Snyder as well as the latest Watchmen trailer. A selection of virtual Watchmen merchandise e.g. T-Shirts with the smiley face logo, Doomsday clocks and character statues, will also be available in the New Year,
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Very cool if I may say so. Use those theaters for what they were intended for. Hopefully something even more awesome, CES, E3, GDC, TGS, etc., live streaming.

Overall, I have been having lots of fun lately. If Sony keeps the content coming as well as the community events in Home, it can be great. I look forward to the trend of game spaces launching with the launch of a new game ala SFIV and RE5.
 
just had a quick read at the OP and some nice features there for all of us but will it make people use PSN more than live ? (those who own both consoles)
 
tirminyl said:
Very cool if I may say so. Use those theaters for what they were intended for. Hopefully something even more awesome, CES, E3, GDC, TGS, etc., live streaming.

Overall, I have been having lots of fun lately. If Sony keeps the content coming as well as the community events in Home, it can be great. I look forward to the trend of game spaces launching with the launch of a new game ala SFIV and RE5.
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TGS was recreated to the very inch in an area of Japanese Home, was very cool so I expect all games expos to get the same treatment.

As regards Rash saying 18+ areas, I read they were gonna open a casino....now that is good or bad depending on what your like :D
 
18+ AREA is a good idea for those more mature gamers actually.
 
I'm going to buy a PS3 and open up a virtual adult film theatre :D

The one really cool feature of Home, in my opinion, is the ability to stream HDD content to and from other users by entering their homespace (AKA breaking into their e-House).

Home seems interesting, but I think that I'd rather use its accessibility and communication features via menu systems once the "cool" factor of physically walking around and gesturing to start communication wears off.
 
I think this will be huge in everywhere except America where it will be just ok.
 
I don't know if I'm really looking forward to any of the features of Home, but I'll give it a shot. Might be good to kill some time I suppose.
 
Glad to see the floodgates are finally opening.

Pre-Beta was pretty lame because of how limited it was, but as of late there's been a ton of people on as the invitations opened up... and it's been much better.
I look forward to logging on tomorrow.
 
i still don't believe it.

....annnnd, if ps3 games still don't launch from the homespace, fail.
 
Tigerblade said:
Will be good for those who game heavily in clans etc, my Fifa league already play pool etc and its a good laugh, the game spaces will just add to that. As a solo experience i doubt it is as good.

It's free tho, so power to those that do enjoy it and more importantly now everyone can get in on it instead of a select few.
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qft

can't wait to meet the [H]ard [H]ockey team.... yes all 5 of us... at the EA sports arena.
 
I'm expecting my PS3 any day now. After living under a rock/Xbox360, I was wondering how the Playstation online service works. It's free, right? Does it have friend's capabilities comparable to XBL?

Gracias! :)
 
snaggletooth said:
i still don't believe it.

....annnnd, if ps3 games still don't launch from the homespace, fail.
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Warhawk has been working since Pre-Beta (Alpha?) via the PSP (which is now the... square thing) game launching thing. Even inviting via Home worked.

It's up to other games to implement it, I think. And the XMB works so you can launch other games just like that. :p
 
if current games don't patch for it, that'll suck.

i've played warhawk about 5 times.
 
snaggletooth said:
qft

can't wait to meet the [H]ard [H]ockey team.... yes all 5 of us... at the EA sports arena.
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It would be nice if we could hang posters of our player in our apartment, or stream replay videos through the tv somehow. I don't expect EA to support that for a few years though.

PS. Go Hard Bangers!
 
yeah, i really hope ea jumps onboard with supporting home very quickly, but i doubt that will happen.
 
snaggletooth said:
if current games don't patch for it, that'll suck.

i've played warhawk about 5 times.
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Thats just going to be the reality of the situation. You really can't expect game developers to go back and add support for features that came out months or years after the game was released. Thats one of the reason I find trophies lame, its a little late in the game to try and implement them now. Sure some devs have gone back, but the majority aren't going to waste their time (money) to do so.
 
yeah i understand the economics of it but that doesn't stop me from WANT WANT WANT NOW NOW NOW
 
JohnleMVP said:
Thats just going to be the reality of the situation. You really can't expect game developers to go back and add support for features that came out months or years after the game was released. Thats one of the reason I find trophies lame, its a little late in the game to try and implement them now. Sure some devs have gone back, but the majority aren't going to waste their time (money) to do so.
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AFAIK as of 1st Jan every PS3 game has to have Trophy support, Sony should take a hardline stance with game launching too IMO, I expect all first party titles will support it, I'd guess all multiplayer PSN titles and bigger 3rd party titles will too.

All game launching is tho is the name of the game appearing above your head with the amount of slots available, if anyone nearby wants to play with you they just run over and join in before you launch it, you still have the option of opening in-game xmb and jumping straight into a game yourself from Home.

snaggletooth said:
yeah, i really hope ea jumps onboard with supporting home very quickly, but i doubt that will happen.
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Well you'll be happy with what I just found :
Partners that were confirmed include Sega, Activision, Midway, Atari, Eidos, Ubisoft, EA Sports, Diesel and Audi.
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I'm hoping we see some classic arcades to go with the Namco ones I've got in my pad :D Capcom are doing stuff too.
 
I don't own a ps3, but I could've swore they have talked about Playstation Home since the ps3 went retail. Has it really taken that long, or is this a new version?
 
My buddy has it, its like second life but with game integration. Kinda cool but mainly novelty.
 
So when does this release tomorrow and how do I get it ? PSN download or a system update ?
 
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