Comments on: PlayStation Home first impressions

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:48:21 +0000

Ouch, I see and agree with most of your points but why such bile? Playstation Home is for all it’s downfalls an incredible achievement. For my money it’s much more innovative and interactive then anything on the 360 or Wii (I own all three so let’s not play the fan boy card. Nerd card, well sure…), plus it’s free, which kind of limits how much you can hate it. But with innovation come experimentation, Sony are bound to make mistakes but with some work Sony could be close to changing how we use consoles and the internet together.

By: muttykins

muttykins — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:59:05 +0000

Also people are making more fuss about something thats free as if they had paid for it

By: muttykins

muttykins — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:56:30 +0000

To be honest i think the reveiw is very narrow minded , Yes home does a few problems in terms how much is there & avaliable but i see you looking at it the wrong way. AS before home the only real way of socializing on ps3 was through xmb text or voice chat if you want but it is very one to one chat you can’t really include a couple of people in a text. Or you try & chat during a game. I think the amount of content on home is small but rememeber it is beta which means if they they tried & thrown an enitre world out in one the catastrophe would be massive but this way they can add & see how the servers take with the load & adjust as needed.

By: David Macphail

David Macphail — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:50:48 +0000

I find it incredibly sad that Microsoft fanboys have to criticize home to try and distract themselves from the fact that they’re getting ripped off by paying Microsoft for a garbage online service on a garbage console. Xbox (Uh – oh, RROD) LIVE doesn’t offer anything even CAPABLE of competing with Home, so 360 owners are essentially paying good oney for an inferior service. Home is completely free and is a heck of a lot better than the incredibly lame NXE (Which only seemed to manage to increase the outbreak of RROD in some consoles).

I’m guessing the only reason the author even wrote this article was because they have a lot of spare time waiting for their 360 to get back from the repair shop, although they probably have time in general seeing as how the 360 seems to have no exclusive games (Or any announced for 2009).

By: Phantom81x

Phantom81x — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:13:22 +0000

I was invited to be in the closed beta of Home and I have to say that I too was BORED out of my freakin mind. It’s terrible. I was excited to see what Sony was going to do with the open beta. That excitement soon turned to anger and frustration towards Sony and there so called “system seller” Home. Home is everything described in the article above. There is nothing to it, its just a few bits of clothes, a few bits of furniture and some very bad arcade games to play and among many other issues the experience is BORING. Home needs more and deserves more but wont ever get bigger than it is now. Thanks Sony.

By: Slim

Slim — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:10:50 +0000

I have to agree with Electricpig on this. Home is just so boring, another feature I hated was I waited for it to install (like so many PS3 games) and then when I first went to go to the Arcade, or square etc I had to download that content and wait for that to install – I had already downloaded Home – Did Sony really expect me just to stay in my virtual pad with white furnishings? Simply put it is quicker for me to go to the PS Store and download a video then load home, sign in, load my pad, go to the theatre and so on and so on.

Another thing that really wound me up was how many (presumably) kids would be standing in a massive line all doing silly dances and making speech remarks like ‘lol’ and ‘lmao’ etc I get enough of this waffle on the internet and don’t need it invading my gaming space. The video screens showing off game footage that Electricpig refers to where also disappointing, the quality of them is awful on a HD TV, although I agree the sound is impressive but not groundbreaking.

I wont be wasting any more time in home or indeed queuing for rubbish arcade-lite games, I can play any variation of these in the form of flash games in seconds on the internet.

By: James Holland

James Holland — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:32:10 +0000

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the input. I’d be interested to know your own experiences of Home. Have you met anyone interesting there? Used it to arrange games? With half an hour to kill, would you honestly fire it up in preference over a full-blown PS3 game? That’s the ultimate test, and so far it’s failed for us.

As for the design of the site, sorry it’s not your cuppa. Feel free to pitch for the redesign contract.

By: Dan Fry

Dan Fry — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:22:35 +0000

Yet another blinkered and unnecessarily negative review of Home, something again the reviewer clearly doesn’t understand. The shear technical achievement that has been accomplished here is entirely wasted on this muppet (Greg Strachan).

Electricpig!? is certainly a website I can remove from my list of websites that publish reliable & accurate information. It sounds like you already had your mind made up before you even launched the Home system.

Maybe you should just stick to reviewing electronic farm animals as your name implies.

Publishing a blatant PS3 bashing article like this does nothing for the credibility of your cluttered and ugly looking website.