Does PS Home have potential?

[Captain_Caveman]

So I saw this article
http://www.vg247.com/2009/11/16/eades-home-is-realising-its-potential/

I'm thinking to myself while reading it. This guy is contradicting himself. It's living up to it's potential but it has a long way to go? um..

It seems to me like they've gotten so exhausted w/ trying to make everybody drink the kool-aid that they've given up even trying.

What do you all think?
Is Home all sony hyped it up to be?
Is it broken & it can be fixed?
Or was the whole idea doomed for failure since the beginning & it was just a cheap money grab marketing trick?

 

[killgannon]

I've never even bothered with it to be honest, I accidentally loaded it up once instead of selecting the store. That's the closest I've gotten.

 

[sms_117b]

It has potential........bad potential zoom, zoom, zoom!

Yeah, erm, home just isn't my thing, used it once and that was it, I left.

 

[Stocky37]

No! Tried it out once and it was possibly one of the most boring things I have ever done with my time. Now I'll never get that 5 minutes of my life back.....

 

[MrMisfit]

I log on to Home frequently and I believe has a lot of potential, if Sony gets its act together. If they fix the problems (and there are plenty) and keep Home from getting stale, it would be fantastic.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Hard to believe Sony is making money off of it, but as long as the are it has potential.

 

[Numb1lp]

I only used it for the bowling and to talk with my cousin when I didn't have any games.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

I used it for like, 3 days last winter. It wasn't BAD, it just wasn't my style.

And I don't want to pay money for virtual clothes.

 

[DesertHawk]

I tried Home when it was first available, but I can't say the experience was very pleasant. The options for customizing your 'avatar' and 'apartment' were fairly limited out of the box. If you wanted more options, you needed to purchase little 'content packs' with real money. That alone turned me off to it. I don't like being nickel and dimed for something as silly as a 3d chat room.

I'd also like to note that If I'm on my ps3, I'm either watching movies or playing games. If I want to chat with strangers and fellow gamers, there are plenty of other (more effective) outlets than what PS3 Home provides. As for chatting with friends, the PS3 already had a fairly decent implementation of messaging/chat system prior to Home.

I guess I could see the appeal in Home. Although, I feel that it is ultimately an extremely gimped/limited clone of something resembling Second Life.

Plus, the crowds of male avatars surround a single female avatar showed me that this wasn't the sort of community I would enjoy being a part of.

 

[Axeli]

Haven't been remotely intrested in, to be honest.

Sony pays too much attention to trivial bullcrap like this when they should be working out exclusive deals and bringing games that matter to the PSN library. They should just accept that they are trying to sell gaming console, not an iPhone.

 

[Tartarga]

I think it has potential but they need to make it more user friendly. Seriously, it is very confusing.

 

[tk1989]

I remember when it was first announced and every PS3 owner was announcing it as the death knell for Xbox.... By god they were wrong. I see that I am not the only one here who was severely disappointed in it (not that i ever really had high expectations for it).

 

[Captain_Caveman]

No! Tried it out once and it was possibly one of the most boring things I have ever done with my time. Now I'll never get that 5 minutes of my life back.....

that's how i felt. i DLed it to try that "free apartment" they were offering (which by the way is just a tree).

i mean it was interesting for about 5 mins till i realized the only thing i wanted to really try was bowling & pool and i couldnt do either because there weren't enough games for the ppl. i mean it was already boring enough w/o having to virtually wait to play a virtual game of pool or bowling which is already extremely mediocre at best.

 

[PrimeSynergy]

Yeah it has potential. My view is Sony has SO much on it's plate right now that instead of focusing on one thing at a time it's constantly jumping from new idea to new idea without ever fully committing to one thing.

 

[Joseph_Joestar]

The only thing I think it could be useful for is for kids to hang out and chat. But they don't have money to spend on fake furniture. And adults who are into that kinda thing are already spending their time in Second Life commissioning people to make them nine penised fox-man-girl avatars.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Nope. No potential whatsoever. I loaded it up, got to the "Apartment tutorial" and turned it off. Couldn't be bothered with wasting my time on it. I'm either on my ps3 to watch movies, or play games.

 

[squid5580]

Home should be bad. Home should be a failure. Sony should want Home to go unused everytime a PS3 owner turns it on. If gamers are spending hours on end in Home that is hours they are spending not playing games. Not playing = not buying. It should be serviceable enough to make you want to go there for a minute or 2 to check a couple things but not attractive enough to entice gamers to stay.

You mean as a theoretical 'launch all your games from one point with no need to have the disk in so long as you've installed it into home once and allow for better match making'? yes it has that potential to reach.

Sure and that means no used PS3 games and no renting PS3 games. They would be treated the same as PC games.