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[64bitmodels]

The metaverse has been this big thing recently with corporations trying (and failing) to be the first to this brand new concept. Sony tried this over a decade ago with playstation home in 2008, which was basically a virtual social space for PS3 users to talk and interact with each other. Things didn't work out and it got shut down in 2015 sadly, but with the new metaverse trend, I think sony can capitalize on this and reintroduce the platform for PS5, with improved visuals and more features (specifically with a focus on social aspects). With how much more stable online infastructure has gotten since 2008, it's bound to be more stable too. Plus, when PSVR2 comes out, they can try a VRchat type deal where players can become their avatars and talk with other players with their headsets on. What do you think though? I think it can fill a void Nintendo's left wide open after shutting down miiverse and a lot of their social services in 2017.

 

[Hendrick's]

Please no. Unless you are a pedophile, why would you want this back?

 

[Jonnie_Darko]

It was fun when they created special rooms with freebies like shirts for your avatar and stuff. However I doubt I can invest more than 30 minutes on that kind of "games" these days.

 

[skit_data]

Please no. Unless you are a pedophile, why would you want this back?

 

[Lunarorbit]

No. I had no idea what it was when I first booted up my ps3 years ago.

Sony doesn't need to do this.

 

[64bitmodels]

Please no. Unless you are a pedophile, why would you want this back?

Well i'm not one, i just like the idea of bringing back a cool 3d social space to interact with other gamers- it's a thing that even nintendo hasn't tried yet

 

[RoboFu]

Nah it would just turn into a vr sex chat service.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Please no. Unless you are a pedophile, why would you want this back?

you ok?

 

[Pejo]

Home was the most unintentional fun I've ever had with a non-game on a gaming system.

It was as simple as starting out as a female avatar, waiting for a bunch of simps to walk up and hit on you, then quick swap to a male character. Hilarious every time.

On a side note, I think if they actually completed their vision for Home, it would have been big. It's essentially what "Metaverse" stuff is trying to replicate now.

 

[I Master l]

Please no. Unless you are a pedophile, why would you want this back?

 

[dd492941]

I'd like if it was a bit more involved,expanding on the apartment thing and making it a playstation world type situation, with quick access to other games while in the world in case you want to jump to a new game or tv/movie. I did like how ps home had all the mini games and stuff, but it was just too slow and leggy to have too much fun in at that time. Now would be a great time, on psvr 2 it would be great

 

[MHubert]

I think they should, or at least make something equivelant with psvr2. A kind of social meta space with the Dreams tools integrated would be awesome.

Please no. Unless you are a pedophile, why would you want this back?

wat

 

[ReBurn]

10 male avatars dancing in front of one female avatar. Just 11 dudes hanging out.

PlayStation Home needed to die.

 

[Susurrus]

Nah I already got all the trophies, I'm good.

 

[Drew1440]

Yes if they bring back folding@home too.

 

[nikos]

Bring it back with the casino and more minigames/activities. Integrate some kind of trophy room that displays your trophies. Use it as a way to deliver State of Play, demos, etc. Have unlockable cosmetics based on completing activities in games. Pretty sure a few of these were done in the original.

There's so much potential, especially when PSVR2 releases.

 

[TLZ]

No. It's stupid.

 

[ManaByte]

Next OP will want it back...but with NFT clothing to buy.

 

[64bitmodels]

Next OP will want it back...but with NFT clothing to buy.

i hate nfts lol
im just saying rn its the perfect opportunity to bring in an actually good decent "metaverse"

 

[01011001]

not in the form it was originally.

what I don't get is why noone ever tried to make a console user interface in the style of something like PS Home. imaging if the dashboard of the Series X or PS5 was just one big MMO, and you start in your apartment which you can customize, you can just open a menu to use the console like any other system, but close that menu and you are instantly in this enviroment... if you join a party you automatically are transported into the apartment of the party leader... stuff like that.

walk out of your apartment and you are in a PS Home like environment with minigames, places to chat etc.

with the fast SSDs of the current consoles they would have been more achieveable than ever imo

 

[ManaByte]

i hate nfts lol
im just saying rn its the perfect opportunity to bring in an actually good decent "metaverse"

You're remembering it wrong. It wasn't a metaverse. It was a 3D billboard for Sony to advertise shoes and clothing brands to you.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

I am honestly surprised with the poll, what people actually liked about that shit? As said above, it was pretty much very limited The Sims made to advertise stuff for you.

 

[nush]

You had to stand in a virtual queue to play a virtual arcade game. Stupid dumb shit.

 

[dotnotbot]

Yes, in VR

 

[Amiga]

PSHome was ahead of it's time. Sony had a lack of vision in dumping it instead of evolving it gradually and learning from it. They are crazy if they are not readying a Home for PSVR2.

 

[AJUMP23]

It is a dumb thing.

 

[Deerock71]

It became a cesspool of a sinkhole.

 

[Portugeezer]

It was a product of it's time. The Internet in the 00's was wild and janky, we'll see less and less weird experimentations from big companies as time goes.

 

[Deerock71]

It was a product of it's time. The Internet in the 00's was wild and janky, we'll see less and less weird experimentations from big companies as time goes.

You might look at Twitter for those weird experimentations in the near future.

 

[The Pleasure]

Necessary music for Metaverse.

 

[Larxia]

I really liked the PS Home when I was younger, I was around 14 - 15 when it came out, and I spent quite some time in it even though I hated how slow and not ergonomic it was.

I didn't have money for a lot of games back then so I was trying almost everything that was free on the ps store. It might sound weird today but back then, each thursday evening was a little hype moment for me, it was the day of the PS Store update, so I was always excited for new demos and stuff.
All of this to say that the ps home being regularly updated free content played a huge part in my interest in it, I was always interested in seeing the new maps / environments, the little events etc. It's also important to remember that there weren't free to play games like today before, I don't even know if there was any F2P at all on ps3 outside of PS Home, I don't think so.

I don't know how it would be today, everything is different, I probably wouldn't have been as interested in it, I can't really tell, but I know for sure that despite its flaws, I had some great moments on PS Home, I met some PS friends there, it was nice to chat with new people, I also didn't have a PC so I couldn't play MMOs etc, so another reason for my interest in this special virtual social experience.

I also spent TON, but really, ton of time doing out of bounds glitches, it was my main activity on the ps home for a long time I always liked seeing out of bounds in video games, getting out of maps etc, and the PS home had ton of environment and various mechanics to trigger various out of bounds exploration. I had many friends on the psn with who I played on the PS Home just to do out of bounds stuff together, always checking what could be done in the new environments, and you could see everyone in the server trying to do it at the same time, it was really fun, even if it might sound weird to some people I guess.

Anyway, it was a good experience and I have a lot of very good memories from it, but like many have said, it's a product of its time, and like I described a lot of various elements in my life made me appreciate more that I would have in a different context I think.
It could be remade but I'm not sure if I would like it in this modern time of social medias etc, it wouldn't be the same atmosphere.

 

[anothertech]

Please no. Unless you are a pedophile, why would you want this back?

Why are you even in this thread? We all know you don't give a fuck lol

 

[Beechos]

Yeah why not with everyone trying to get a foot into tbe metaverse thing.

 

[Lognor]

Playstation home was terrible. No way should they bring it back. For what purpose?! No one cared about it then, no one cares about it now.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

NO !!!!!!

I had guys hit on me running around that place. Fuck PS Home. The weirdest, sickest mofo's hung out there.

 

[-MD-]

God no lol, that shit was terrible.

 

[jaysius]

Playstation Home, if it were done right it would have been amazing, but they really didn't give a fuck about the aesthetic or anything optimized so it looked like shit and worked fairly janky.

 

[itsjustJEFF]

Yea, why not? I feel like the tech just wasn't there back then and that was the major issue with it.

I can't even imagine how a "Home" would have popped off during lock down... gahh it would have been a hot bed for conspiracy theorist, flat earthers, and self taught Epidemiologist lol

 

[BigBooper]

I can see them doing a VR space like that, partnered with Meta. PS Home left a bad taste though. Best to memory hole it.

 

[Thanati]

Shortly thereafter

 

[SpongebobSquaredance]

Sony should revive Japan Studio and let them do Ape Escape 4.

 

[The Pleasure]

Sony should revive Japan Studio and let them do Ape Escape 4.

50 Hz or bust

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

Yes, I like them metaversey social spaces. I know everyone hates them now, but god dammit I want one with the og vision of 2nd life. PS Home would be cool.

 

[Kdad]

Absolutely, it should never have been dropped and as PS goes multiplatform it would be a differentiator to stay within the PS world. With fast loading SSD and larger HDD much of the loading time issues could be eliminated.

I just want to dance with my neon shoes again.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

He said pedophile not reptilian

 

[CamHostage]

not in the form it was originally.

what I don't get is why noone ever tried to make a console user interface in the style of something like PS Home. imaging if the dashboard of the Series X or PS5 was just one big MMO, and you start in your apartment which you can customize, you can just open a menu to use the console like any other system, but close that menu and you are instantly in this enviroment... if you join a party you automatically are transported into the apartment of the party leader... stuff like that.

Sounds a bit like what the original pitch of PlayStation Home was, where one feature was you would be in the PS Home for Warhawk as a hub, and you would talk strategies or move pieces around on a map like a general, and then that would connect you into the game. They did eventually launch a Warhawk Command Center that pulled that off, but it was an external app rather than Home being something running OS level all the time, and loading from Home into Warhawk was a minute-long process of dumping the one app and loading the other (though it did take advantage of a straight-to-server connection so you didn't have to log in and choose your game; Home acted as an alt version of a lobby.)



I do find it surprising how far away we've gotten from a social console interface, when Sony and MS and Xbox were all trying to bring gamers together 10 years ago and now gaming is so solitary. (There was a lot of bad in that era, but I made lasting friends over mics in SOCOM or Ghost Recon 3; now, even with my own friends, it's hard to get friends to talk online, and they don't even need to worry about charging up the headset anymore, the danged controller has a mic.)

Wii U had maybe the most promising implementation of recent platforms with the Miiverse, since it was an asynchronous social experience that you could browse through at leisure rather than it only existing while you were online (it was more like a social messaging service than a avatar chat system.) It was OS-level, so every game could be made to hook into it, there was some moderation and reporting tools to try and stop the dick pics and pedo behavior, and making a Mii that represented you was way easier than making a PS Home character or an Xbox Avatar. Despite Miiverse and WaraWara Plaza being as safe and purposeful as a Nintendo product can be, it still was a social disaster and didn't last long.



Oculus launched a metaverse / Home-like app called Horizon Worlds, where you are a virtual avatar in a space and meet people and wander around doing whatnot. There's also indie Home clones like Nebula Realms on consoles. Without the game community and possibly frontend access points, though, these types of apps are very fringe and don't go far. So it's sad, sort of, the technology to pull this off mostly-seamlessly has arrived at the lowest point ever in interest of socializing with fellow gamers.

 

[Chronicle]

Sausage fest

 

[kevm3]

Yes. Technology wasn't there yet when Sony tried to initially do it. They can make it so much better now.

 

[MrA]

Bring it back with the casino and more minigames/activities. Integrate some kind of trophy room that displays your trophies. Use it as a way to deliver State of Play, demos, etc. Have unlockable cosmetics based on completing activities in games. Pretty sure a few of these were done in the original.

There's so much potential, especially when PSVR2 releases.

It would be neat if they worked out deals with arcade archives, classic arcade collections, and pinball to allow you to build your own proper arcade

 

[TheGodfather07]

I remember being hooked on that pool game in ps home.