Home Delayed, Closed Beta Expanding, Open Beta for Fall
What is essentially a delay announcement, Sony has issued information regarding Home. While not entirely disappointing, it basically confirms that Home will not be ready for public use until early 2009. The good news from all of this is that Sony will be expanding the ongoing closed-beta for Home this Summer 2008, by allowing more registrants to enter. The other good news is that their will be a public beta made available this Fall 2008. We expect the public beta to allow a large amount of people to partake, probably more than the Metal Gear Online beta that's about to begin.  "We understand that we are asking PS3 and prospective PS3 users to wait a bit longer, but we have come to the conclusion that we need more time to refine the service to ensure a more focused gaming entertainment experience than what it is today," said Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "Our overarching objective is to provide users with new gaming experiences that are available only on PLAYSTATION Home. Spending more time on the development and on the Closed Beta testing reaffirms our commitment to bringing a quality service, maintaining the PlayStation(R) tradition."
  Home continues to be one of the PlayStation 3's most ambitious projects in development and has already suffered numerous delays. Coincidentally, LittleBigPlanet, the game revealed side-by-side with Home, has also suffered the same amount of delays. Let's hope that the open beta of Home is large enough to get a whole bunch of us in.
Related Game(s): Home
4/22/2008 Arnold Katayev
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Truestarrr
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 11:07:48 AM
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John Shoemaker
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 11:10:02 AM
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Firehair12000
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 11:12:50 AM
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Fabi
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 11:22:39 AM
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ArnoldK PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 11:55:56 AM
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LegioN
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 12:01:11 PM
Last time i checked, adverts were for products that are for sale, or are so in the NEAR future and is a definate thing. Not for things that will come out a year from then and are still in production.. Im know im ranting, but with good reason i feel.
Tatsujin
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 12:18:16 PM
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ArnoldK PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 12:40:00 PM
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bamf
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 1:48:22 PM
I mean when will we start seeing trophies for our acheivments? at this moment of time I'll just take a gamerscore.
How many 3rd party publishers are ready now for this service with their new released or soon to be released games? Is it true that Uncharted has trophies? If so we have to wait a long time before we see them?
Sony doesn't have to offer us PSN or Home for free but Sony does want to compete with Live.
We Sony fans want to see out system do well to be as big as Live and even be superior to Live, I'm sure Sony wants the same. However to for them to do this Sony has to deliver because if they don't and the keep up with these delays, many of us will just lose interest and find something else. Possibly before Home release in early 2009 we're gonna have MGS online and the Agency and anything else I haven't mentioned. I think with the big line-up of single and big online games, there won't be much of a reason to stay in Home.
Home needs to be release soon.
ArnoldK PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 12:45:01 PM
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LegioN
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 1:12:17 PM
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My problem is not that Home is being delayed at all. It's the advertising and publicity they gave it whilst it was still in production and not even nearly finished. That is what annoys me.
For example: The "hype train" was started by sony when they began advertising Home and sending out leaflets before the game was even finished. THESE are the things that annoy me.
If it were delayed and they hadn't done any of the previous things i mentioned, then thats different. But as they did, i am annoyed.
Zapix
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 1:18:10 PM
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Advent Child
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 2:58:01 PM
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Fabi
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 3:00:54 PM
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It's upseting because they were the ones that were screaming at the top of their lungs about Home! You don't go out of your way to announce something at E3 if it isn't going to come out that same year. The whole presentation was based around Home - going from room to room to show off the PS3's capabilities. Plus they are lying to people who don't know better - by putting Home, Haze, MGS4 and GTP in their TV ads months and months before the games actually release - it's plain lying.
Sony was starting to look like the good-guy of this generation, but now I dunno. They are looking shadier than M$. Okay, I take that back... But still.
@Tatsujin - We don't know that they are creating a great online experience. We really don't. It could flop and be one of the biggest disgraces in videogame history since the 32X. And we know it's free, but it's a feature that Sony talks about when it comes to selling the PS3. It's not like we asked for Home, most people now would just be happy with regular achivements and in-game XMB. And as far as saying that they don't owe us anything - well I think differently. Of course they do, were all extremely loyal Sony customers. Without us, they don't make money. So they better make sure to keep us happy, because if you don't have anyone defending your sytem on the frontlines - then the 360 will come out on top.
I usually don't b*tch about anything being delayed because I have other stuff to do aside from playing games all day - but I just wanted to point out how bad this one looks for Sony.
screw_off
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 3:26:51 PM
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StrategicGnomer
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 3:59:52 PM
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Tatsujin
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 4:00:52 PM
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LegioN
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 4:09:25 PM
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Basically i do not care that it's delayed. I just think you shouldn't shout about something that wasn't anywhere close to an end product. At the time they were ranting and raving and doing adverts for television, they weren't anywhere near finished.
Also Sony need Home more than we do. They are making it to catch up with the other consoles on many levels. You're wrong in saying that they can just pull the plug on it because it's vital to the console battle.
As you said: "SONY DOESNT HAVE TO DO ANY OF THIS." But they do it because they are playing catch up. If you think they do it for us then you are seriously misguided in your judgement.
Tatsujin
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 4:13:59 PM
karneli lll
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 4:41:38 PM
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Fabi
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 4:48:57 PM
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I understand how betas work, and I'm glad they aren't releasing a half-a** product. But just like Sony has the policy of keeping their mouth shut on a lot of things, until they wanna say it, they should learn to do it in situations like this as well.
You simply can't advertise something for the PS3 that is nowhere to be found. The Home commercials have been out since like November of 2007. If it doesn't come until early 2009 - that makes more than a year late since they advertised it. As much as I dislike M$, that's not fair for the consumers or for the competition.
It's like if the 360 had a commercial running showing off Gears of War 2, Ninja Gaiden 2, Too Human, Fable 2 and GTA4 downloadable content. You would think to yourself: What a lie!!! Those games aren't even close to being released.
The Home situation is like this, but worse. Please don't take this as b*tching. To tell you the truth, I have never cared about Home. If it works, it works - it will just be a plus. It's just that Sony is starting to get the reputation of hyping up their products way too much and then not delivering.
Just like the Killzone 2 and Motorstorm videos they realeased. Claiming that they were real-time videos, then people find out that they weren't - and that the Killzone 2 screens were re-touched.
LegioN
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 4:49:55 PM
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If it doesn't work i don't expect them to distribute it to us, they can continue to fix it.
Stick to developing it rather than advertising it and developing it before it's in it's final stages because that, is a bad a idea as things always go wrong and/or take longer than expected.
Key example: GTA:IV went gold last week? GTA:IV adverts have started popping up on my TV this week.
Anyway, goodnight and good debait :D
Tatsujin
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 6:54:09 PM
And agreed, good debating with you... out to work now.
Fabi
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 4:56:15 PM
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Ubisoft has hinted at porting it to the 360 so many times. But they are really good at covering all bases. They say enough to keep Sony fans thinking that they will never port it to the 360 - but not enough to say that it can't be made on the 360. Claiming that it pushes the system. But not praising it enough that 360 owners will say "f*ck Free Radical, they chose Sony" in case they decide to port it.
But that's a whole nother story. I hope it gets great reviews.
LCF
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 6:26:19 PM
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ArnoldK PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 6:29:19 PM
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Tatsujin
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 6:55:09 PM
LegioN
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 2:35:59 AM
It's easy to understand everyones frustration. Besides, no real big games have hit the PS3 since CoD4. Whilst there was GT5p. It's not giving the same kind of buzz as call of duty gave to the PSN.
Tatsujin
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 10:09:39 AM
Reccaman18
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 7:12:16 PM
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Fabi
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 9:36:07 PM
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Do you guys also agree that Home really needs to be something truly special to be successful? With all these delays - they are really gonna have to nail it down when it does get released.
Maybe they should try to add a couple more features to the PSN to keep people happy until Home releases. Once again though - I'm completely happy with the PS3 - it's just that I know what the perception of the PS3's online capabilities is, and I'm tired of Xbots going on word of mouth of how behind the PSN is compared to Live.
PaiNT_kinG
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 12:35:11 AM
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Tatsujin
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 10:12:05 AM
karneli lll
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 12:53:05 AM
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Tatsujin
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 10:13:22 AM
NetheRealm
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 3:12:45 AM
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Fabi
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 10:22:37 PM
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screw_off
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 10:31:51 PM
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