PlayStation Home Will Be Available This Year

Author Hugo Jobling
Published 1st Dec 2008
PlayStation Home Will Be Available This Year
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Sony has really taken its time getting Home out to PS3 owners. Bearing in mind it demoed the social networking environment at the consoles launch, having so far only allowed access via a closed beta seems a bit much, frankly. Thankfully for those of us still actually interested (I, for one, am becoming less so by the day), word is everyone will be able to access Home by the end of the year.


In an interview with IGN, PlayStation Home Director, Jack Buster, was pushed for a definite release date which he wouldn't give. However, Buster did confirm that home will hit an Open Beta by the end of the year, saying: "Like we've said, we're excited about moving PlayStation Home into its Open Beta stage this year. Once we make the move to Open Beta, everyone will have access to PlayStation Home."

If you ask me, it seems likely that Home won't ever actually see a 'proper' release, but instead will probably live in a perpetual beta state, in much the same style as just about every Google product - say, Chrome. Not that such a launch methodology is particularly bad if it gets Home onto consoles sooner than would otherwise happen.

The cynics among us, though, will no doubt take this opportunity to muse upon the idea that Home may never actually be launched, after all.

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Comment Jag said on 1st December 2008

@ahlanalo I understand it's only a beta but you can't tell me that after two solid years of work that it doesn't seem slightly lacking given that you can build a rea... more

Comment DrDread said on 1st December 2008

Home is brilliant...I hope they do release it for everyone soon though..Fret not, Hugo!

Comment Wilfried said on 1st December 2008

Home? Before the end of the year? Heard THAT one before. Hope Sony delivers on yet another promise.
From the comments above, it sounds like there will be more downloading i... more

Comment smc8788 said on 1st December 2008

@ Jag. I also was a little disappointed with the lack of content etc., but can see the potential there (possibly movie rentals from theatre in future?), but come on it is Sony, so ... more

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