Sony Wants Home To Become An Eventual System Seller
See Full ImageWith everyone talking about PlayStation Home these days, Sony should be encouraged at this kind of enthusiastic response. But of course, they have bigger and better things planned for their ambitious online community, and they certainly expect it to push PS3 sales.
As most of you know by now, it costs money - real money - to purchase items in Home; everything from threads for your avatar to decorations for your current space and new Estates costs something. These prices currently only range from $0.49 to $4.99 (for the new Summer Home Estate), with most items averaging about $1. This, along with advertising space, will certainly generate revenue flow, but Sony wants Home to be an eventual system seller. Said Dan Hill, Home service manager for SCEE:
"... In time I would say that Home will definitely become a reason to purchase [PS3]. Today, we are at the beginning of a long journey - now is the time to start its evolution." (source- CVG)
At its core, Home remains a free service, and quite capable of providing users with an amazing and singular experience. It certainly will help the Network catch up to Live in terms of prominence, and Sony wants people to buy a PS3 and watch as "Home evolves." It's like nothing else you've seen, and nothing else you can experience on another platform, and that's going to be the primary factor that should influence PS3 sales. Obviously, they've got a few kinks to work out and they need to feature more of just about everything in Home, but don't worry...it's coming. And the more that comes, the happier everyone will be, including prospective PS3 owners.
12/15/2008 Ben Dutka
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Skwidd
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 11:13:12 AM
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Qubex
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 11:15:19 AM
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BTW, it seems Home has been hacked/modded by users already. Apparently people are uploading there own poster images that are displayable directly in Home. You can also add/stream your video/music files by duping Home to... will leave it up to the intrepid internet surfer to find out more... seems that early reports by people already messing about with the back end architecture of Home have revealed that Home is very insecure and very porous... YouTube should have some vids up if you are willing to search for them...
On one of the sites there was also a link that permitted users to click on and download the 70mb Home package file (installer) directly from the SCEA servers without having to go through the usual XMB route....
Q!
"i aM hOMe"
Last edited by Qubex on 12/15/2008 11:16:24 AM
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hald
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 1:23:41 PM
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hald
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 1:43:22 PM
Those hackers really have to stop it.. Or sony has to get their game on and get home secured! (or something)
Im tired of seeing those hackers do such stuff.. It kind of ruins the overall experience in some way.. ; S
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kreate
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 11:42:20 AM
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coverton341
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 11:46:40 AM
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noshownogo
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 12:06:01 PM
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I mean it would encourage software sales and therefore make developers more interested in creating games for the platform...in this the virtual world of HOME we should never have to use real world currency to make purchases...
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VinTheDean
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 12:13:37 PM
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coverton341
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 @ 11:45:50 AM
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Fabi
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 12:10:13 PM
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pavlovic
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 12:23:44 PM
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I have little time to play videogames, so I have 2 choices go Home or actually play games, with the likes of LBP, R2, CODW@W, EndWar, GeoW2, Fifa, Madden... the choice is clear for me, forget home, play games.
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whooka
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 12:38:37 PM
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N a S a H
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 1:25:30 PM
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tlpn99
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 12:38:04 PM
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aaronisbla
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 12:58:44 PM
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Or just make it so the damn trophies are used as some type of currency. Until the work out some kinks and do something about the way they would nickle and dime us, it wont be a system seller.
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Fane1024
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 8:20:00 PM
micro = 1/1,000,000th
If $60 is a standard transaction, a "microtransaction" should be AT MOST a few pennies.
Please start nickle-and-diming us, literally; expecting $0.99 for a shirt is ridiculous.
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s360s
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 1:02:57 PM
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Arvis
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 1:11:09 PM
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-Arvis
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noshownogo
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 1:19:41 PM
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coldbore
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 1:59:41 PM
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karneli lll
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 2:15:43 PM
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Ultimadesires
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 2:51:58 PM
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pavlovic
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 3:14:18 PM
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K ASH
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 3:50:26 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 4:08:59 PM
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Joe_III
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 4:46:37 PM
You definitely get what you pay for with home...
I would rather see Sony put more efforts into other cooler stuff, like taking screenshots of games on the fly or something...
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karneli lll
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 5:52:24 PM
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LightShow
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 5:59:15 PM
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if the core remains free, i guess i don't care. What I'd rather see is an MMO for the PS3. THAT would be a system seller for me, depending on the quality of the game of course.
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AntDC
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 8:00:18 PM
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Jove
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 8:44:35 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 10:27:22 PM
http://playstation.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/playstation.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=261&p_sid=QQ4NKtlj&p_lva=977
Basic wireless connection:
http://playstation.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/playstation.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=238&p_sid=QQ4NKtlj&p_lva=977
Good luck dude.
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FallenClyro
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 10:35:56 PM
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I think this is good news to hear from Sony because all that means is that they want to develop it even more.
Personally I think it's a great idea for a way to attract girls to the PS3 (I'm not saying that in a sexual way...) because they will obviously be attracted to the social appeal.
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Dingodial
Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 10:41:15 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 @ 1:03:55 AM
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Alienange
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 @ 6:34:14 AM
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Fallout 3 FTW !
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dveisalive
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 @ 9:11:46 AM
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tramp
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Monday, December 15, 2008 @ 11:04:51 AM