PlayStation Home Boasts Impressive Figures
After many delays and extensive beta testing, PlayStation Home is finally coming into its own. In one of the last panel meetings of this year’s Games Developer Conference, PlayStation Home director Jack Buser gave some impressive figures that should easily impress even the most severe Home naysayers. Numbers across the board are up, and the community is finally creating a niche within the PS3 fanbase.
Buser said that 12 million PS3 owners have connected to the PlayStation Home service. That’s two million more than what was reported last December. Not only do users log on, but they stay on. Roughly 85% users return to Home, and each visit averages about an hour. And while the presentation was geared more towards developers, Buser did say something of interest:
“You’re going to see us really embrace this idea of total game integration [to] really extend out the experience of your games.”
Do you still go onto PlayStation Home? Now that the service has seen this much success, Sony can’t just dump it now. What are your thoughts? Post your reponses in the comments section below.
8 Responses to “PlayStation Home Boasts Impressive Figures”
“You’re going to see us really embrace this idea of total game integration [to] really extend out the experience of your games.”
Haven’t they been saying similar PR statements since HOME was announce.
where is the predator & alien costume? l’m interested in that
I think Home is great. I don’t go on that much because only 1 or 2 of my friends is on it a month. It’s great for when you are bored with your games or have no games.
There are major drawbacks though.
-Loading times are unbearably long.
-Game launching needs to be improved and better implemented.
-There are many problems when connecting on start-up.
-More interactive spaces! The “Buzz!” space was GREAT.
-Strange men with female avatars asking me to add them as friends and to join them in video chat. When I decline, they send me a message saying “All you men are the same! Perv!”.
There are many others. I just can’t think of them right now.
Well there is some improvement from a year ago but there are still some missing things like Hovercraft and shrinking potions promised last Sept with the previous core update. People are still waiting on those but they did fix lost items from CB and other venues.
It is going good and will go forward and get better over time…
@Brent
the load times are very quick now
Depends on what you define as ‘success.’ Home didn’t turn out to what I expected or wanted it to be, and it doesn’t seem like it ever will. They can add all the spaces and content they want, but it just feels like the same thing again and again, so I don’t feel I have a reason to be there, especially after PS3′s software catalog really blew up. The feature-side of Home has been what’s missing, and although it was addressed recently, the disconnect between the users and the Home managers has been unacceptable. They say that 85% of people who logon are return customers? Well, 85% of the people I have run into, spend hundreds of dollars on avatar junk, while they have 50 trophies at best. It ends up feeling like a cosplay show, or some kind of interactive otaku facebook. These aren’t the type of ‘gamers’ that I care to mingle with, and it kind of explains why blockbuster PS3 games don’t sell the numbers they should, when so many PS3 owners are spending their time elsewhere. I’m not knocking anyone for what they do, I’m just saying it ain’t for me.
hello ..
i rarely visit HOME now, like 1/month, i don’t have many friends on there & i go ONLY for the mini games & for SODIUM 1
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i must update it to beneficiate the new feats & faster load. I think it’s not a bad concept, some would just not like it, while others would. If it was more like second life (i never visited the site till now but saw a lot of doc-vids), it would appeal to more for some reasons we ‘know’ LOL.
i like it as a gaming platform & the mini games with virtual rewards are what make us go back to it, for now i have other priorities (like finishng AC1 & re-start UC1) so sorry for other options…
cheers!
The new update is a vast improvement in Download times and loading times. It so much easier to navigate through it as well. Home is going to be big this year.