Comments on: Home Consumers: Getting What They Want, Not What They Need

By: Milereb

Milereb — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:41:48 +0000

Surprising how similar our conclusions get with different arguments.

By: McJorneil

McJorneil — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:33:43 +0000

I think it would help if Sony spent maybe 10 minutes during their next E3 presentation talking about how Home has evolved and grown, showing the latest games and some of the new stuff they’re releasing for it down the line. A lot of people haven’t given Home a second glance since it first released, so if Sony was to give it some better spotlight, then those same people and many more could end up being impressed.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:49:23 +0000

Home users are homes worst enemy sometimes, as we sit there behind our ps3’s, praising and even advertising the very articles and items the that are destroying homes social experience, blindly sticking up for items and experiences that are poor. It feels like supporting your favorite sports team some times, you cant say a bad word against them even if they did play poorly. On the other side of that others go completely the opposite saying they are leaving home and giving away they playstations to the local charity shop when home has a small hiccup. Why would big developers want to get involved with that rubbish . plus the product isnt that stable with crashes maintenance lag etc. I go shopping for food, no other shopper in there tells me i should buy this or screams at me dont buy it, if they did i would think freak lol sometimes back to basics are needed so perhaps a ps4 revamp is needed

By: Jin Lovelace

Jin Lovelace — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:11:14 +0000

I had this in mind, no doubt to talk about Home’s current state. I personally feel this:

Home has sunk into this stoop hole to obsecurity. More items, more locomotions, all of this has weaken the structure of Playstation Home’s number one experience: socializing.

Everything has become a popularity contest, all content is loosely based on gaming commodity, nothing to deepen the experience for any Home User that desires something different. While I think it’s almost too early to provide a sense of realm on where Home would be at this stage, the fact of a matter is we all miss the social structure presented in Home.

I think I will touch upon this a bit more. Thanks Norse for sharing your thoughts on this.

By: Dr_Do-Little

Dr_Do-Little — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:50:39 +0000

Sometime home reminds me of the early version of MsWindows. A graphic interface running on top of a basic operating system. It was akward, buggy and used up a lot of our old PC limited ressources. But today no one would go back to the black screen of a basic DOS with typed commands.
Sony failed to draw a significant number of users in home. Maybe due to the lack of content on release day. Gamers are not necessarly chatters, especially the older one. If I had not hooked my PS3 on the net 2 days into the outage. I spent a month reading the official blog and forums looking for info as to when the PSN would be back online. Thats where the enthusiam from home user lured me into giving a shot at this virtual environnement thing.
I don’t think any console will use a 2D, blank screen menu system in 2025. But sadly, I’m affraid we will skip at least 1 console generation.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:43:39 +0000

ok, Norse. Thank you. And good luck to us all.

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:26:38 +0000

There isn’t a whole lot of hard data to work with, beyond Sony’s top-ten sales lists (by number of units sold) — and even there, the data is vague.

Consider, though: SCEA-developed commodities don’t even show up on the sales lists any more. Yes, SCEA as the platform provider gets a *percentage* of third-party sales, but unless the sales numbers are truly astronomical for gaming consumables, that’s a hell of a deficit to make up.

Also consider that investment from large developers — LucasArts, for instance — is non-existent. Home’s new development houses are smaller, not larger, than years past. This isn’t a knock against Home’s developers; to the contrary, it’s *amazing* to see what they’re doing with core architecture that was originally designed for the PS2. But if Home isn’t pulling *large* developers the way it used to, that’s a contextual clue as to the overall financial performance of the platform.

My personal hope is that the PS4 will have a clean-sheet redesign of Home, built on today’s architecture — a new Home which is fully integrated with the console experience itself, so that a 3D avatar interface is simply the norm for every console user. Otherwise, a newer version of Home would simply be a scaled-up version of the same formula the current Home employs. And that formula can be so much more.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:08:53 +0000

Ah yes… whether it appears on the PS4 which could be next year or the year after. Or perhaps Sony’s game consoles will fail. Nintendo did but made a comeback.

Small developers perhaps have more imagination and derring do. But I don’t know if Granzella is large small or medium.

Think what one will of Xi2 and I think it stinks, it seems to have captured the imagination of some. I don’t know how many but I do play.

What data?

What’s the next big thing? Perhaps Home itself?

The world economy may have a lot to do with what happens with Home or anything video.

I know what I’m talking about but I just don’t understand it which is why I’m not a writer of fact or fiction articles.