PlayStation Home Gets Hit with Massive Update
What you are about to witness is the biggest update ever seen for PlayStation Home. Due to the huge success of this online community app, Sony is releasing a ton of new features and content for all of the Home users out there.
Due to popular demand, Sony has decided to bring over the Siren: Blood Curse space from Japan to North America, and will make it available to Europe at a later date. The Siren space is broken up into three different zones, including the Ward of Despair, which is based on the Saiga Hospital stage from the full PSN game. This zombie mini-game supports up to five players, and includes rewards for those who successfully complete all objectives.
A special event will be thrown this weekend for those who manage to successfully complete the Ward of Despari mini-game. The event will take place on Tuesday, May 12th from 6~9 pm EST. The full game has been discounted to $29.99 on the PlayStation Store. Titan Studios is also nabbing some Home attention, with the limited-time release of the Fat Princess “developer diary” in the Home Theater.
The biggest addition, however, is the Living Room Stage Set, one of two premium apartments being released. The Living Room Stage Set is a true-to-life studio production environment, complete with cameras, backdrops, interactive lights, and movie-related equipment. The lighting and camera systems allow for plenty of artistic freedom, such as control over angles, movements, transitions, cuts, and lens set-ups. And with twelve different props included, many people will want to try out this awesome new addition to PlayStation Home.
Oh, almost forgot to mention. The Stage Set does NOT come with the ability to capture, edit, or record your footage. For that, you’re on your own. So how much does video capture equipment cost? Anywhere from $30 for basic SD quality, to $200 for HD. Not to mention the fact that you’ll need a video splitter (an extra $50~200). Yeah, not quite the machinima tool we were expecting.
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23 Responses to “PlayStation Home Gets Hit with Massive Update”
This update is going to be fairly nice all around. Home is getting content, the PS3 is getting content, the PSP is getting Patapon 2…..good times!
This is the article that got me kicked from Kotaku..haha. couldn’t be happier….i sent you an email with a gaming question 2 days ago John Draisey..(in regrades to a Sony question) since your knowledgeable ..
im guessing this is like a SIMS2 movie stage type thing
@DeAno Jackson
hell yeah THE PS3 getting better and better……..
Kicked from Kotaku? How? What happened?
@Shadowjin
Really? Sorry, I haven’t gotten anything. Could you resend that email?
@DeAno Jackson’s
Kotaku’s article was bad no where near as detailed as this one and a different video…
some random guy was being a troll that turned out to be part of there staff ranting about the PS3 he said this:
*facepalm* So much money being wasted…no wonder Sony can’t keep anything exclusive this gen. Bleh.
his reference was to this new home space.. a lot of people commented on his statement and so did I. he mentioned that Sony has always bought 3rd party including last generation. from my understanding that’s never been Sony’s tactic ..publishing and straight buying out are 2 different things . If i cant get my game to Japan and Sony publishes for me with there income is came to me because i couldn’t afford to publish it on my own..different than approaching the game maker and drop 50million. Than i got banned because i made him look like an idiot without using rude remarks like everyone else..yet EVERYONE had nothing to say besides ***k you etc.. not at me.. at him yet i got booted..along with a nice little “your so gone forever”.. haha.. magically the comment he dropped me before being kicked was ‘erased’ along with any conversation we had on the article…whatever. i like Playstation lifestyle better anyways…….
@John Draisey
will do after lunch.. i have in my saved files
Then you’ll like my editorial that’ll be going live in the next 90 minutes or so. Check it out when it comes up, and tell me what you think.
And don’t even get me started on Kotaku….they’ve been showing their bias ever since the Home/GDC incident, and it’s been pissing me off.
@DeAno Jackson
will do after some lunch.. lol
So u cant export clips?
@KnaveX
what they will probably do is have bits and pieces to buy totaling $200 for there complete HD package. in that sense, ill buy it slowly only adding on what i need.. might turn out fun?
and u have to pay for this room? hmm I moght actually consider it, but im confused, it says u can export, but on others it says u cant export your OWN clips, what does that mean?
@KnaveX
its your own room.. like a living space that you can interact with beyond the regular adding chairs, tables etc. what they mean is export to your hard drive most likely ..but not export to people..(im guessing) because if you cant export to yourself…your basically buying a HD type sims movie creator with no way to show it off. i dont think Sony retarded to have you spend 200$ and lock you in home.
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@shadowjin
I think where the article said $200 for HD recording was actually talking about capture cards, not the home room.
@KnaveX
i think they will sell you whats need as you go..like props, capture card etc.. lighting that kinda stuff.. because 200$ for a room or card is extreme.. separate i can see it becoming accessible to curious people.
The studio set costs 4.99 from PSN, it includes props and furniture that you can use in your other apartments/houses, lighting is built in as well as a camera that you can cut to and pan/tilt.
To capture the video you need a video capture device. You don’t need a video splitter btw.
Why you would need HD is beyond me, 720 x 480 resolution and MPG 1,2, or 4 would do the trick.
A laptop and a USB 2.0 interface would be ideal, then you would want something like Premiere or After Effects to edit, or composite with the green screen capabilities. Titles and fades are added in post. I went to film school and worked in a video production house so I can answer questions if there are any.
btw, Kotaku is biased and usually puts a negative spin on PS3 stories, imho.
Huge update
yeah i just saw how it goes at the playstation blog, kinda sucks that the main feature of making a machinima was left to the users. If anyone is looking for one I found on that looks ok the other day:
http://www.blitzcast.com/
YOUR WELCOME
I like in the video from PS.Blog it said, “now would be a good time to mention it doesn’t come with video recording or capture [capability]“
COOL
Cool program, but I don’t get it… are we expected to pay between $30 to $200? Someone please break it down for me, please