Sony lays out upcoming plans for Home

[Queasy]

Link - Give Sony credit, the Home launched to a giant 'meh' but they are determined to keep updating it to make it more interesting. Sony's Home community manager has laid out what's coming in the next couple of months:

This week

Patch 1.11
This is a minor bug fix release and addresses a problem with Game Launching. If you opened the list of game sessions available at the same time one of the sessions launched it could cause a crash.

WATCHMEN
Two complete outfits for male characters and black & white t-shirts for male and female characters are now available for free from the Threads store. Some of the items are not quite ready and will follow on as soon as they are.

Clothing
Various items of free and purchasable clothing have been added


Whats coming soon

Street Fighter IV
The unlockable items are already available in Home and are rewarded for winning online matches in the game.
Purchasable outfits will be available within a few weeks.

Home Square
A slightly updated Home Square will arrive in early March, possibly as early as the 5th.

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Space
This is currently being worked on and we hope to release this for you within a few weeks

SOCOM: CONFRONTATION Space
This Space is also nearly ready but a specific date for its release is not yet available, but we are expecting it within a few weeks.

Siren: Blood Curse & Resident Evil 5, Warhawk
Content for all of these have arrived here and are being prepared for SCEE's audience now. We will bring you more information on these as it becomes available.

Game Launching
Many titles are preparing support for Game Launching but this often requires a patch to their title. It is not our intention to be announcing new releases and patches to other titles here in the Home community but hope to bring you news in the coming weeks.

Music within Home
Playing your own music to others within Home is an extremely complex licensing issue that will take time to solve, if it is at all possible.
In the meantime we are investigating various ways of allowing you to play your own music to yourself. We are also talking to other 3rd parties about making their music available to you in various ways.

 

[oznerol]

"Make it more interesting." Possibly.

Make it more profitable. Definitely.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: ducci
"Make it more interesting." Possibly.

Make it more profitable. Definitely.

Well, to make it more profitable, they are going to have to make it more interesting to get people in there. Otherwise, you're going to get a bunch of people going in for 5 minutes and never going back which is what happened at launch.

This isn't Second Life where user-generated content rules. All the content for Home comes from Sony and its partners so they have to find ways to get people to visit their areas and make it not only interesting but useful as well.

 

[R Nilla]

They can throw all the bells & whistles they want into it, but that will not make the basic premise behind Home any less "MEH".

 

[purbeast0]

home was deleted after my first run through with it, and it looks like i still will not be downloading it again heh.

 

[biggestmuff]

I would think Sony's #1 upcoming plan would be to 'go gold' with Home.

 

[tatteredpotato]

The best thing Sony could do to get me to buy PS3 software would simply be to convince all my friends to buy one. Currently they're all on the Xbox 360, so I can play with them on my 360, or I can play alone on my PS3.

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: ObscureCaucasian
The best thing Sony could do to get me to buy PS3 software would simply be to convince all my friends to buy one. Currently they're all on the Xbox 360, so I can play with them on my 360, or I can play alone on my PS3.

If it was $199 and a few of my friends had one, I might buy one.

 

[sonambulo]

I want more unlockable items and more 50 cent furniture. I will gladly cough up a buck to buy some shelving and put all my trophies on it.

I still play home about an hour a night and really enjoy it. The Diesel clothes for 2 bucks are way too expensive.

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: sonambulo
I want more unlockable items and more 50 cent furniture. I will gladly cough up a buck to buy some shelving and put all my trophies on it.

I still play home about an hour a night and really enjoy it. The Diesel clothes for 2 bucks are way too expensive.

I'll sell you some virtual diesel jeans for $1.

 

[sonambulo]

.50 or no dice

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: sonambulo
.50 or no dice

Deal.

I take paypal

 

[sonambulo]

That's just a picture of virtual diesel jeans. No deal.