Comments on: The Next PlayStation Home

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:55:22 +0000

Great article Godz,
It will be an interesting ride on the PS3 should your visions come into being. Keep a tally and see what happens next. I think it is possible to see your idea in a console. Nice!

By: ted2112

ted2112 — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:22:48 +0000

Great article, and I hope you are write about this.

“personally I think the PS3 is on the brink of gaming genius and history.” Great quote! Wish I thought of this!!

By: Jamesiow

Jamesiow — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:08:32 +0000

I oh so hope that this Home service does continue in some form over onto the next Playstation console… and if the ‘Beta’ gets scrubbed off, which at some point it must, I’d gladly dip into my coinage.
Every console needs its start up screen, I can’t for the life of me remember what the PS2s was like, the PS3s is functional, and with the PS4 on the horizon the idea of something brand spanking new like a Home interface does sound intriguing and fresh… dynamic themes of yesteryear, replaced with themes of Aurora, Gothic Cathedral or the Casino etc. Most likely something of an initial, personal space, to select what you want to do, or jump to your actual Personal space in Home. It’s a novel idea, that could be integrated. I hope your ideas get filtered through to the design benches Bill. Great thoughts and a smooth read, thanks for this.

By: Gary160974

Gary160974 — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 03:37:32 +0000

The rumor was that Sony wanted home to be the next xmb, but its far too unstable and load times are too much for that to be practical, along with maintenance/update down time issue. But in the perfect world it could work. Id personally like home to be set up more socially, instead of action, adventure, sports district etc etc have spaces set up to music genres so have a old west setting that plays country, have a nightclub setting that plays dance, have a Jazz club, have a concert setting playing rock, have a street setting playing r n b and soul, you tend to find music genres sort like minded people into the same spaces. Plus make it multi region, every other social application is, they get round region issues by if its not been released in that region all you see is a default piece of clothing, same again if its been deemed the item needs an age limit if your too young all you see is default clothing.

By: jellia

jellia — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:33:44 +0000

Great read Bill, your ideas are insightful. I would love to see HOME continue on the PS4 and would gladly pay for that service next go round. It’s been an amazing free ride with amazing friends since 2009. I for one welcome change cause that is growth. Thank you Sony and ty Bill for future HOME ideas

By: RiverCreek

RiverCreek — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:40:15 +0000

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Wow Bill, very interesting. We are all unsure of what is next for the PlayStation 4. But some of your ideas, (after I had thought about them), make sense. Whatever happens I am sure it will improve the online gaming industry. I just hope we all can still have our social network avalible in one form or another. For instance; how can “NEW” PS4 players make friends online in order to play the online games? We would all be sad to lose our Home Network (if that was to happen), but either way I have faith that Sony will take that into concideration and figure that our social network is a neccessity for the new gaming platform. Great article!

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:36:34 +0000

Interesting ideas Godz. I think making Home the place that you start from when turning on your PS4 is a good way to help gamers see it is a cool place to be in. Some “hardcore” gamers will whine of course at first, but I think once they got into it and understood all the choices it gives, Sony would end up with many more Home users. There are new users coming into Home each week, I know a couple myself that are new to Home in just the past week or so. Great read as always.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:42:34 +0000

Nice ideas Godz. Ive been fascinated with the idea of having a Home space as an immediate menu when you first switch on the system. But its complexities are a hard push for the PS3, maybe not so for the PS4 though. They could simplify it further though; instead of a room you can walk around how about when the machine is switched on, you get your avatar standing in a kind of interface box ( think old Skool VR cage/podium) from which he/she can navigate a menu ( like Minority Report -- add PSEye functionality to make the avatar mimic your own gestures!) and from there you can access all functions and features of the system on or off line. If you wanna visit Home, just step out of the confinement/podium and bam! You’re there!

The trophy system on PS3 has always seemed like a missed opportunity to me too. We need more developers to give us Home rewards for meeting certain requirements in-game, like RDR did with the hidden treasure chests in its world. Giving people more than just a check list to tick off boxes, actual things you can show off within Home y’know…

“Wow! Cool Marty McFly outfit buddy!”

“Thanks, I got it for completing the Back to the Future game, and got a Pit-Bull for doing scene 10 with no mistakes!”

Y’know, that kinda thing should be standard in Home by now…