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Jim Ryan (FTC Leaks): "PlayStation Home Was 10-15 Years Ahead of Its Time", hints at a possible new Metaverse type experience?
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PlayStation Home was a lot of fun to spend time in. Mainly just talking to people at the bowling alley.
I'd definitely get a psvr2 to have the same dumb experience again.
I'd definitely get a psvr2 to have the same dumb experience again.
Good times and PlayStation Home was something I'd hop on when I didn't have anything to do. Would hang out for hours at Edo Japan talking to folks and playing the mini-games there. If I wasn't doing that then I was hanging out in my Uncharted 2 apartment with a friend watching anime movies on my virtual TV via Crackle.
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Jim's not wrong.
The damn thing was pretty popular.
Also, I'm kind of surprised we don't have a current version of "Folding@Home", unless it's pretty pointless today due to AI?
The damn thing was pretty popular.
Also, I'm kind of surprised we don't have a current version of "Folding@Home", unless it's pretty pointless today due to AI?
A big problem with PS Home was the load times. Same with other things Sony did like Modnation Racers. If those things were on PS5 the load times wouldn't have been an issue and they would've done much better.
Oh man, PS Home was wild and incredible fun. One of my friends and I spent a lot of time in the pool table and bowling.
Shame some of the ideas were stripped down for the final release. And yes, those loading times were brutal
Shame some of the ideas were stripped down for the final release. And yes, those loading times were brutal
Why did they close PlayStation Home again? I thought it was making money with all those cosmetics.
Nothing that doesn't allow modding to use avatars of custom commissioned characters or existing characters from peoples favourite properties will ever be able to maintain relevancy. It's why VR chat has 25K daily players on Steam alone, while Horizon Worlds from Facebook has under 1k
PS Home with VR experience and watch party would be dope. Like imagine a watch party in virtual theater of a live event or something. Like Sony could do an exclusive Madame Web screening inside PS Home virtual theater and it would explode in popularity for sure.
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I really liked the concept of Home but it never really panned out.
I'd love to see them try again, but I hope they don't give up on it after 2 days.
I'd love to see them try again, but I hope they don't give up on it after 2 days.
I was actually a little surprised they shut it down when they did, I only checked in maybe a few times a year but I thought it was somewhat popular. Maybe it had just a very active niche audience.
All they had to do was take Dreams and turn it into Home 2.0 instead of shutting it down. It was sort of ready-made for a PS Home-like experience.
Never got to experience PlayStation Home, but it's something I'd love to see come back as an option for all parties (Sony, Xbox, Nintendo). Give people the option of course to keep the basic UI's they have now, but have something like Home that is a living, breathing world to show off your prizes, get into parties, play your games, etc. would be amazing.
I think Street Fighter 6's Battle Hub is the closest we have to it right now?
I think Street Fighter 6's Battle Hub is the closest we have to it right now?
Meanwhile, Meta's Metaverse has 38 daily users generating a whopping $470 in revenue. Maybe people simply don't want this that much, at least in a closed ecosystem.
Something moddable like VR Chat or Second Life thrives, but if you're locked into a system where you have to wait for developed resourced, I don't think it will do amazing.
Something moddable like VR Chat or Second Life thrives, but if you're locked into a system where you have to wait for developed resourced, I don't think it will do amazing.
Home was amazing,
Especially when it started getting dedicated games in itself like the Uncharted 3 cover shooter, Siren haunted hospital or the RedBull flying thing.
Modern connections and connectivity would make it amazing. The theater was such a fun idea but that shit buffered so bad
Especially when it started getting dedicated games in itself like the Uncharted 3 cover shooter, Siren haunted hospital or the RedBull flying thing.
Modern connections and connectivity would make it amazing. The theater was such a fun idea but that shit buffered so bad
I really enjoyed PS Home and it was great way to meet other PS3 players to add to your friend list (I used to care about multiplayer gaming back then because it was free on PS3).
I think a majority of Sony's ambitious PS3 projects would have fared much better even on the PS4. Without even touching upon the internal upgrades, the mandated full install for games was already a major step to addressing the slow access speeds of the Blu-Ray drive.
I look back on the initial HD consoles similarly to the first successful 3D systems—Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Saturn—beloved at the time, but did not age gracefully as time progressed. The leap in visual fluidity and quality presented by the sixth-generation systems was apparent before even loading a disc. Likewise, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were an unmistakable improvement over their predecessors in all facets of the modern gaming experience. Beyond the workaround for load times, I believe going from just 512 MB of RAM to 8 GB allowed Microsoft and Sony to really demonstrate the all-in-one vision that was planned for their former platforms.
It was ahead of its time because it was thriving with an audience however the technology let it down of its potential and use the average person would get out of it.
Way more people would have been interested if it didn't take like 10 minutes to load from 1 location to another.
or to take multiple years to figures out incorporating fleshed out game mechanics directly into it.
It was just cool you could earn trophies and shit in a random video game and now you have costumes and trophies to show off in home.
Or you could hang out in a themed location and once all you friends are on launch directly into a multiplayer match of Socom,Resistance, etc
Or the cool advertisement locations and rewards they did.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIpH5Pc-iWk
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFpFiTxeps
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I think it'd be cool if game trophies were physical things you can put in a case in a customizable PS Home. Or better yet, every trophy represented a collectible item themed after that game. Or both!
Also, maybe have a bunch of arcade machines in your house representing your installed games and interacting with one lets you hop into the game, and if you have a friend and it's a multiplayer game, it automatically parties you up.
Also, maybe have a bunch of arcade machines in your house representing your installed games and interacting with one lets you hop into the game, and if you have a friend and it's a multiplayer game, it automatically parties you up.
I remember going to a E3 event and actually watching Sony's conference live. This was before Youtube, so getting to see that first hand was pretty epic.
Aside from that, I just remember the shitty little dockside apartment you got, filled with random IP crap.
I think the main issue is populating something like this with enough cool stuff to actually make it exciting. There's two problems - spending all that time to build all the assets, and spending so much lawyer money making deals to show that stuff (and not have it randomly removed two years later).
Aside from that, I just remember the shitty little dockside apartment you got, filled with random IP crap.
I think the main issue is populating something like this with enough cool stuff to actually make it exciting. There's two problems - spending all that time to build all the assets, and spending so much lawyer money making deals to show that stuff (and not have it randomly removed two years later).
Ah, come on, that's some bullshit.
It was also 10-15 years behind the times (Active Worlds).
In any case, with all the games we don't have time to play, I'm not sure how many have an actual interest in something like this.
It's not like Metaverse is taking off anywhere else at the moment, besides mainstays like Second Life and VR Chat which both predate the "new and exciting" Metaverse "craze".
It was also 10-15 years behind the times (Active Worlds).
In any case, with all the games we don't have time to play, I'm not sure how many have an actual interest in something like this.
It's not like Metaverse is taking off anywhere else at the moment, besides mainstays like Second Life and VR Chat which both predate the "new and exciting" Metaverse "craze".
PS3 era was Sony at their most experimental.
Kinda miss it ngl.
Some games already did that and it was awesome
For example in Resident Evil 5, if you got the trophy for finding every treasure in the game in PS Home it unlocked a huge treasure chest you could display in any of your personal places
Also arcade machines that would launch you into a game directly and you'd exit back to that location.
You got character statue/figures for beating specific difficulty as well,