The PlayStation 3’s virtual online space, Home, will this year finally come out of ‘Open Beta’ phase. The information was leaked at Dundee’s Game In Scotland event by Kirk Ewing from software developer Veemee. He let slip that “Home is due to come out of its beta-testing phase in December of this year.” As Veemee has made the London Pub and the Audi space on Home, as well as a number of costumes, the source seem very reliable; even more so as no conflicting rushed twitter posts have been made by Sony.
Ewing was at the event to promoting the work Veemee does on PlayStation Home. Defending Home he stated “Most people think that Home is sh*t. I’m here to say that it’s not. One in three PS3 owners use Home. There are 1.7 million repeat users each using Home for around 53 minutes on average.” Since Home was launched in 2008 the beta has been downloaded 6.5 million times which shows Sony’s belief “that if you make the community happy, and get good content on to the platform, if you get a platform that people want to keep coming back to, then the monetisation aspect of it will almost take care of itself” to be thoroughly true.
Recently the addition of a photo frame for your apartment wall brought photo sharing to PlayStation Home, while being a paid-for feature, does it mean we will see more of the originally promised features coming to Home before it’s release in December?
For you ‘Homies’ you’ll have to wait and see.
