Stream Your Media in Home – Maybe
Yes Please!
It looks like Sony isn’t content with simply having millions of users signed up to PlayStation Home. A survey has been making its rounds to e-mail accounts across the globe, and the functionality it hints at sounds promising.
As the above screenshot shows, Sony is looking at all kinds of add-ons for Home, ranging from better clubhouses, streaming media of all kinds, and (perhaps mandatory?) game launch support for all games.
But it doesn’t stop there. Themes are mentioned for Home, ranging from Women’s Interest to the always-lovable Vampires. What could a theme mean? A Space that comes bundled with furniture, not unlike the GhostBusters set released not too long ago.
Yet another interesting screen of questions here, obviously geared towards the core gamer. The potential features here range from video interviews with developers to minigames and question-and-answer sessions with or from “PlayStation experts.”
There is plenty of potential here, and it will be interesting to wait and see which of these features go live over the next couple of months.
9 Responses to “Stream Your Media in Home – Maybe”
Home is becoming a lot greater than many people ever expected, and I think it’s funny that it’s already doing well and people don’t realize it’s still in Beta
sweet, although I think game launching is dumb and not necessary, we need more features added to home. Trophy cabinets or something, media streaming from my hdd or my home network would be even better. And yes better club houses, they are pretty bland and boring.
I agree, the clubhouses are boring, turn on the tv sets, and add some music. that would go a long way imho. although then you’d have people dancing all over the place, oh well.
themes sound interesting as well as PS2 museum, bring it!
@Sneeches
how can game launching be dumb. You’re on a game console and if u meet up with other players at home and want to play a game you’re going to have to launch the game and not quit home and then start up the game.
@Sneeches:
Maybe you would be satisfied with game launching from your Sony/Ericsson cell phone. Well Home was developed from a PS2 Multiplayer game lobby when it first started. It was and will always get game launching, that was the original premise to get Sony HQ in Japan to go ahead with this. Unless you prefer your X-Box then sell your PS3 because game launching IS COMING HOME!!!
Eventually I believe it is my opinion that Home will become the new interface for the gaming aspect for Sony, because when they add more functionality to other devices in the lineup especially Bravia TV sets Home’s functionality would fit in nicely with the ability to stream video to the 56″ HDTv sitting in the family/living room. It would connect directly to the internet and then cloud computing would take over the internet like it did in the 60′s when only business applications were in the cloud. Now it is entertainment that will move the cloud to the next generation of internet user…
Hm. I got some surveys recently, but not this one. Thanks for letting us know.
Actually I woulfd visit more but I want to have moe dance moves.
the one guy wasn’t to peticular on more dance moves. I wonder how many people put “I’d visit home less often”
To them I say… You’re probably a closet homosexual. Makes sense why you would be so scared of other people dancing around you
@Paulmichael
i totally agree with your choices in the first section of this survey. it would totally get me to visit Home more than once or twice a month. i do have to go in sometime soon to see if they’ve fixed the picture frame so that it doesn’t freeze my PS3 due to the fact that i have thousands of pictures on my hard drive.