Consumer Feedback Finds Home
Now that PlayStation Home has been out for close to a year now, many have found reason not to like the application. However, there is no doubting that the majority of PlayStation 3 owners have tried out PlayStation home, and tens of thousands use the application regularly. PlayStation Home has managed to increase in size greatly with the addition of over 3 dozen Home spaces, and hundreds of community events have been hosted.
PlayStation Home is always looking to grow, and feedback has been a key to the development of Home. Director of Home Jack Buser recently gave an address for Home, and mentioned that if consumers are interesting in seeing something added or changed, they should say so. During the address Jack Buser stated the following:
“Potential is what drives Home’s expansion. The potential is there for developers to build spaces that connect with the fans. The potential is there for fans to demand things from developers. To that end, if you want to see something in Home… ask for it.”
Sony has really shown that PlayStation Home has a plethora of capabilities, and as it grows, more demographics will be satisfied with the experience provided. Buser also emphasized that Home is still currently in beta, so the complete vision of exactly what Sony has intended for Home is yet to be finalized. With that said, if anyone has an idea for Home that seems like it might work, they shouldn’t hesitate to submit feedback.
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October 12th, 2009 at 6:46 AM
I made a post on the Home forums about a graphical redesign to something similar to Everybody’s Golf World Tour. The Home avatars look terrible and even a guy responded on the forums commenting that they look like zombies, they look lifeless as a friend says.
Something more casual would appeal more to home, and Everybody’s Golf similar style has potential, but that is my main concern for Home is the visuals mainly concerning Home. Yes I know ‘Only Possible on PS3′ is a good marketing thing but the Xbox avatars can be rendered even on the Wii I bet but it works with Xbox 360 not by technical advances but general acceptance.
In the Fat Princess room, I would want the rendering style changes to Cel-Shaded which is the style used in the game. Uncharted: Among Thieves unlocks different rendering styles when you complete the game and changes within seconds so it’s entirely possible and would be a good addition to the event space making it stand out from other rooms just focused on room layout to the game.
Give us the Trophy Room’s you showed, giving us an incentive to get more trophies. Give us the TV’s, Hi-Fi Systems and Picture frames that was shown. I don’t see why they’re not in the home client already.
XMB/Home integration similar to the Dynamic Backgrounds. Having you and your friends on the dynamic background when the PS3 boots up, then you press the PS button which takes you to the room and then you can load Home from inside that room (it would be a seperate room from home so only you can see it with your friends in )
I had some others but they slip my mind at the moment..
October 12th, 2009 at 7:14 AM
I’ve seen lots of comments about the avatars supposedly looking like zombies; but I don’t understand it quite frankly. I like ‘em just fine the way they are, I prefer our realistic style to the Saturday morning cartoon rejects on the other box. I doubt a redesign to the extent you describe would be viable. People have already spent money buying stuff for their avatars and they’d be pissed if Sony up and changed their avatars to something they’d rather not have paid for.
The Fat Princess space was a limited time event space and was removed quite some time ago…
Picture frames are in, unless they previously showed different ones that you’re referring to? As for the trophy room; I like the idea but I’m not sure how it could be practically implemented. The most viable would likely be plaques with the trophy icons on them. Definitely agree on the tv’s and radios; these seem like they’d be simple to implement. Perhaps they’re tied up for legal reasons at the moment?
Don’t think I understand what you’re getting at with that last one. Why login your PS3 then enter ‘the room’ then launch Home? Why not just launch Home directly from the XMB. What’s the point of ‘the room’?
October 12th, 2009 at 7:32 AM
The XMB/Home integration would be a room that is your apartment but only viewable by you, it has your friends avatars there either sitting down or just standing there, same furniture and everything but it wouldn’t be Home per se but a dynamic background that can have a limited access where you would have to launch home, and would help slightly loading times as you loaded your character and the apartment it would then launch properly into Home alot faster than the current way then you are actually in PS Home in your apartment as if you are in now. I hope that makes more sense
Shows how long since I’ve been in Home if there is no Fat Princess space :S
I haven’t seen any picture frames at least not since I’ve been in, (im in the UK if that is the reason i havent seen any) – The idea for practically implementing them would be that the image whatever resolution scaled down to the picture frame aspect ratio and then would be hosted on your PS3 and people would visit your room and download the image from your PS3 which since scaled down wouldnt be a huge size, maybe 60kb or more, depending on the frame.
I really think something needs sorting with the Home avatars, they don’t look as really good as everything else. The graphics benefit the areas such as Home Square and the Shopping Centre as the realism suits it but the avatars look a bit dull, many websites agree aswell. I like realism over anything but only if it works and I don’t think its working too well with Home, maybe its the lighting, the design…dunno
October 12th, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Millions of people have asked for the TV and Photo frames and music players yet it still not in home…
the community has been giving alot of feedback but Sony just suck at putting it in.
Sony Failed PS Home is a failure
i know its a beta, so it shouldn’t be marketed as a full product
its a failure and if it finally moves out from the beta phase, i dont see it becoming a killer app for sony.
i use to support home like crazy and use it all the time – i gave up coz theres more bad things than good.
*photo frames needs to be available outside USA
PS Home was over-hyped, and where’s the home trophies?
it was suppose to have trophies for pool, bowling and stuff.
(GDC 2007 presentation of Home)
October 18th, 2009 at 6:01 AM
nice read! I just got my new PS slim last week, it’s pretty good
Sincerly,
Sodagod @ Modern Warfare 2 Forums