Lol, Dizzy Rascal gets a Home space to promote his new album:
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/09/17/home-dizzee-rascal-vip-room/
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/09/17/home-dizzee-rascal-vip-room/
Sony Home - The official thread*
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They should have more music tie-ins! It'd be a great draw for all demographics. Kind of like the Watchmen initiative.
Despite all the great recent content Dizzee is gonna be the one to draw me back in (he's from my neck of the woods).
ShadowRunner
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Home does finaly seem to be generating a decent amount of support, it must be proving itself as a viable buisness opportunity. In the next few years i can certainly see it becoming a huge success.
Do any of the personal home spaces have garages? So that way if more car companies get involved, then maybe vehicles can become unlockables that can be displayed in ones personal home garage. Would finally make it possible for me to get that Jay Leno garage I always wanted
I *think* there were some published numbers for the Red Bull Air Race, but I am not sure any more. The other figure is the launch week costume sales, which I feel may not be representative.
Do any of the personal home spaces have garages? So that way if more car companies get involved, then maybe vehicles can become unlockables that can be displayed in ones personal home garage. Would finally make it possible for me to get that Jay Leno garage I always wanted
Phil Harrison spoke about it briefly in one of the interviews. He also mentioned pets, which is a tech demo for Home developers now.
No Home v1.3 news.
Another round of content update:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009...tes-and-katamari-forever-in-playstation-home/
* SingStar Home Space (with Dizee Rascal VIP lounge)
* New Far Cry 2 mini-game in the existing home space
* Katamari Forever items and other costumes
Another round of content update:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009...tes-and-katamari-forever-in-playstation-home/
* SingStar Home Space (with Dizee Rascal VIP lounge)
* New Far Cry 2 mini-game in the existing home space
* Katamari Forever items and other costumes
Sony announces another community service for PSP called R∞M:http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/090924k_e.pdf
Doesn't sounds like it's linked to PS Home. >_<
I supposed there are enough Japanese PSP users to support this given that they have Adhoc Party and Monster Hunter to rally the crowd ?
TGS Space is for Japan Home me think.
Cyd posted a quick update on Home v1.3:
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3home&message.id=779037#M779037
Cyd posted a quick update on Home v1.3:
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3home&message.id=779037#M779037
Home is down today. The reason is now clear: Home v1.3 is coming tomorrow.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009...day-new-central-plaza-neptune-suite-and-more/
New videos and more changes in the link above.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009...day-new-central-plaza-neptune-suite-and-more/
New videos and more changes in the link above.
Was just coming here to post that.
Also PixelJunk home space coming tomorrow apparently. Nice.
Universal launching is good. Basically now you can go hang out in a club space or apartment, and launch your games from there, and then automatically return to that space/clubhouse when you leave the game again. That really helps Home become more central, if you want it to anyway.
Now that I'm thinking about it, it would be really clever if they somehow could make the ad-hoc party feature for PSP in Japan in Home. At least, would be great for me (for GT PSP).
Also really look forward to the new storefront system - that really needed an upgrade and I'm curious if they managed to make it work.
Interesting screenshot by the way of the Audi racing game that's planned for December - it looks rather slick, wonder if it plays anything like it.
And while I'm rambling off Home thoughts, I really hope they do a good Home integration of PSMC on day one, as that could add a great deal of character and possibilities to Home.
Also PixelJunk home space coming tomorrow apparently. Nice.
Universal launching is good. Basically now you can go hang out in a club space or apartment, and launch your games from there, and then automatically return to that space/clubhouse when you leave the game again. That really helps Home become more central, if you want it to anyway.
Now that I'm thinking about it, it would be really clever if they somehow could make the ad-hoc party feature for PSP in Japan in Home. At least, would be great for me (for GT PSP)
. Also really look forward to the new storefront system - that really needed an upgrade and I'm curious if they managed to make it work.
Interesting screenshot by the way of the Audi racing game that's planned for December - it looks rather slick, wonder if it plays anything like it.
And while I'm rambling off Home thoughts, I really hope they do a good Home integration of PSMC on day one, as that could add a great deal of character and possibilities to Home.
A question re: cache size.
It's my understanding that current PlayStation HOME holds about 3GB in HDD.
Now, if you connect to different regions of HOME (logging in with different PSN account under different Users in a single PS3 unit.. eg. US, Asia, Japan and Europe), would HOME take 3GB x 4 = 12GB of cache in total?
It's my understanding that current PlayStation HOME holds about 3GB in HDD.
Now, if you connect to different regions of HOME (logging in with different PSN account under different Users in a single PS3 unit.. eg. US, Asia, Japan and Europe), would HOME take 3GB x 4 = 12GB of cache in total?
Found this list of changes:
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3home&thread.id=782589
PlayStation Home v1.3 Client Update Notes
New features
Universal Game Launching
You can now Game Launch any title from Home.
There are two categories of titles you can launch from Home – simplified and full.
Titles with full Game Launching support are now listed in separate sections of the Menu Pad, and are represented by separate icons to make the difference clear.
With simplified game launching, you will be limited in terms of multiplayer options that you can specify in Home. However, you can still select these options from the front end of the game that you launch into.
You can attach comments to your Game Launching session that other players can read before joining.
Comments can be a maximum of 16 characters at the moment.
Because so many more games will now trigger Game Launching we’ve changed it so that the Game Launching alert will only appear if you insert the disc while in Home, not if you just have the disc in when starting Home.
In-Store Item Previews
You can now preview items of clothing on your character in 3D.
This includes the ability to preview multiple items of clothing at the same time and see what different combinations look like.
The items you are previewing can be reset back to normal by pressing [SQUARE].
You can also preview items of furniture in 3D.
The preview is available when viewing the details of a particular item; after a short pause it will automatically replace the thumbnail image.
You can rotate and zoom your view once the preview is active.
Item Options
Rentable items can be rented from the store for a set period of time.
You can see the start and end date for a rentable item in the “About” section for that item.
You will be warned with an alert message 24 hours before the period of use on a rentable item expires.
Rentable items can be renewed from the original store in which you got them or directly from the Menu Pad.
Limited use items are purchased with “uses” from the store (like tokens) which are consumed when the item is activated.
You can see how many uses of a limited use item are left in the “About” section for that item.
You can acquire more uses of an item from the original store in Home or directly from the Menu Pad.
Portable items are objects that you carry around with you, like the Bubble Machine, Camera, and Shrink Potion. Dates and details regarding these items will be announced shortly.
Portable items have a label above them displaying the name of the item and the name of the owner. There is a toggle in the Menu Pad under “Settings > Personal > Portable Items” where portable item labels can be turned on or off.
There are additional options to control the display of portable items:
Portable items can be hidden individually by selecting “Hide” from the action menu of each item. There is also a hide option in the Menu Pad under “Settings > Personal > Portable Items.”
The Home Safe Screen (accessible by pressing [SELECT]) has an option to hide all portable items in that space.
Ignoring someone in Home will hide any portable items they have active and stop you from seeing any other ones they might put out while you’re both in the same space.
Adding someone to your PSN block list will permanently hide all portable items owned by that person.
To help organise your purchases there is a new section of the Menu Pad under “Personal > My Purchases” that lists and categorizes all of the items you have bought.
There is also a new system for managing your portable items in the Menu Pad under “Personal > Inventory”. You can find more information about an item, as well as deactivate it, via this menu.
New Emotes
We have added new Emotes that will expand your ability to express yourself in Home. These include:
Action emotes. These are available under the “Action” section of the emote menu. There are currently two examples:
Flip a coin and report whether you got heads or tails in local text chat.
Thinks of a number between 1 – 100 and report the result in local text chat.
Poses. These are emotes that your character will perform and hold until you move or select another emote. These are available under the “Pose” section of the emote menu. Note: Male and female characters have different poses available.
New seating options. There are two additional male emotes for sitting on the floor available under the “Sit down” section of the emote menu.
Revised emotes for “Shy” and “Giggle”.
General Improvements
Cache Size
There is now an option to change how much disc space is used to cache data in the Menu Pad under “Settings > Change Cache Size”.
Currently you can choose between 3, 5, 8 and 12 GB.
The more disc space you allocate the less need there is to re-download data once the cache fills up.
When running Home for the first time you now have the option to specify how much disc space Home may use to cache data.
Advanced Targeting System
Different types of target are now ‘weighted’ so you can more easily target the things you want to interact with (such as games or screens).
The system now takes much greater account of what the camera is looking at when deciding what you are trying to target.
If you are having trouble targeting something you can more easily re-target to it using left and right on the d-pad or left stick.
Pool Improvements
When lining up a shot you can now raise or lower the cue by moving up or down on the left stick.
You can also put spin on the cue ball by pressing [CIRCLE] when lining up a shot and then moving the striking position around with the left stick.
Strike lower on the cue ball for back spin, higher for top spin and to the left or right for side spin.
Queuing
You can now queue up to play any occupied game that supports queuing.
You can only queue for one game at a time. If you join the queue for another game you will leave your current queue.
When the game becomes free people waiting to play will be given the chance to play in the order they queued. If you miss your turn to join the game or leave the instance, you will be removed from the queue.
While queuing for one game, you can still play other games in the space if they are available.
You can check which game you are queued for and your position in the queue under the “Queues” section of the Menu Pad. You can also choose to leave the queue from here as well.
You can check which game you are queued for and your position in the queue under the “Queues” section of the Menu Pad. You can also choose to leave the queue from here as well.
Clothing Options
We have added a Composite clothing items category.
These are items of clothing that fill more than one ‘slot’ at the same time (for example a jumpsuit might cover your torso and legs).
They are accessible from the menus for any of the slots that they fill (for example the jumpsuit would be accessible from both the torso and legs menus).
When you put on a composite clothing item it replaces the clothing items in all of the slots it affects.
When you take off a composite clothing item your clothes will revert to what you previously had on in all of those slots.
We have added a category for Outfits.
Outfits are collections of two or more clothing items that are put on and taken off together.
There is a new “Outfits” menu in the “Clothing” section of the wardrobe where you can access any outfits you own.
Depending on how an outfit is set up you may be able to put on the individual pieces of it or you may need to put the whole outfit on at the same time
When changing clothes or customising your character pressing [CROSS] will now confirm a change whereas pressing [CIRCLE] will cancel the change and return you to the previous menu.
Miscellaneous Improvements
There is a new background image on the front end.
We have improved when and how we check for items that you own. As a result the speed with which you log in to Home or move between stores has been improved.
Relocation between areas is quicker.
The collision on bowling pins has been improved.
The menu available in the Menu Pad has been rearranged to make options easier to find. In particular the “Settings” menu has been broken into several categories to accommodate all of the new options.
There are two new options in the Menu Pad for changing how Home is displayed on your television.
Screen size and position can be changed under “Settings > Adjust Screen Position and Size”.
The brightness of the screen can be changed under “Settings > Adjust Gamma”.
The leader of a club may now blacklist people from being able to join their club, via the admin menu. Anyone who is blacklisted and attempts to join the club will see a message explaining that they cannot join and why.
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3home&thread.id=782589
PlayStation Home v1.3 Client Update Notes
New features
Universal Game Launching
You can now Game Launch any title from Home.
There are two categories of titles you can launch from Home – simplified and full.
Titles with full Game Launching support are now listed in separate sections of the Menu Pad, and are represented by separate icons to make the difference clear.
With simplified game launching, you will be limited in terms of multiplayer options that you can specify in Home. However, you can still select these options from the front end of the game that you launch into.
You can attach comments to your Game Launching session that other players can read before joining.
Comments can be a maximum of 16 characters at the moment.
Because so many more games will now trigger Game Launching we’ve changed it so that the Game Launching alert will only appear if you insert the disc while in Home, not if you just have the disc in when starting Home.
In-Store Item Previews
You can now preview items of clothing on your character in 3D.
This includes the ability to preview multiple items of clothing at the same time and see what different combinations look like.
The items you are previewing can be reset back to normal by pressing [SQUARE].
You can also preview items of furniture in 3D.
The preview is available when viewing the details of a particular item; after a short pause it will automatically replace the thumbnail image.
You can rotate and zoom your view once the preview is active.
Item Options
Rentable items can be rented from the store for a set period of time.
You can see the start and end date for a rentable item in the “About” section for that item.
You will be warned with an alert message 24 hours before the period of use on a rentable item expires.
Rentable items can be renewed from the original store in which you got them or directly from the Menu Pad.
Limited use items are purchased with “uses” from the store (like tokens) which are consumed when the item is activated.
You can see how many uses of a limited use item are left in the “About” section for that item.
You can acquire more uses of an item from the original store in Home or directly from the Menu Pad.
Portable items are objects that you carry around with you, like the Bubble Machine, Camera, and Shrink Potion. Dates and details regarding these items will be announced shortly.
Portable items have a label above them displaying the name of the item and the name of the owner. There is a toggle in the Menu Pad under “Settings > Personal > Portable Items” where portable item labels can be turned on or off.
There are additional options to control the display of portable items:
Portable items can be hidden individually by selecting “Hide” from the action menu of each item. There is also a hide option in the Menu Pad under “Settings > Personal > Portable Items.”
The Home Safe Screen (accessible by pressing [SELECT]) has an option to hide all portable items in that space.
Ignoring someone in Home will hide any portable items they have active and stop you from seeing any other ones they might put out while you’re both in the same space.
Adding someone to your PSN block list will permanently hide all portable items owned by that person.
To help organise your purchases there is a new section of the Menu Pad under “Personal > My Purchases” that lists and categorizes all of the items you have bought.
There is also a new system for managing your portable items in the Menu Pad under “Personal > Inventory”. You can find more information about an item, as well as deactivate it, via this menu.
New Emotes
We have added new Emotes that will expand your ability to express yourself in Home. These include:
Action emotes. These are available under the “Action” section of the emote menu. There are currently two examples:
Flip a coin and report whether you got heads or tails in local text chat.
Thinks of a number between 1 – 100 and report the result in local text chat.
Poses. These are emotes that your character will perform and hold until you move or select another emote. These are available under the “Pose” section of the emote menu. Note: Male and female characters have different poses available.
New seating options. There are two additional male emotes for sitting on the floor available under the “Sit down” section of the emote menu.
Revised emotes for “Shy” and “Giggle”.
General Improvements
Cache Size
There is now an option to change how much disc space is used to cache data in the Menu Pad under “Settings > Change Cache Size”.
Currently you can choose between 3, 5, 8 and 12 GB.
The more disc space you allocate the less need there is to re-download data once the cache fills up.
When running Home for the first time you now have the option to specify how much disc space Home may use to cache data.
Advanced Targeting System
Different types of target are now ‘weighted’ so you can more easily target the things you want to interact with (such as games or screens).
The system now takes much greater account of what the camera is looking at when deciding what you are trying to target.
If you are having trouble targeting something you can more easily re-target to it using left and right on the d-pad or left stick.
Pool Improvements
When lining up a shot you can now raise or lower the cue by moving up or down on the left stick.
You can also put spin on the cue ball by pressing [CIRCLE] when lining up a shot and then moving the striking position around with the left stick.
Strike lower on the cue ball for back spin, higher for top spin and to the left or right for side spin.
Queuing
You can now queue up to play any occupied game that supports queuing.
You can only queue for one game at a time. If you join the queue for another game you will leave your current queue.
When the game becomes free people waiting to play will be given the chance to play in the order they queued. If you miss your turn to join the game or leave the instance, you will be removed from the queue.
While queuing for one game, you can still play other games in the space if they are available.
You can check which game you are queued for and your position in the queue under the “Queues” section of the Menu Pad. You can also choose to leave the queue from here as well.
You can check which game you are queued for and your position in the queue under the “Queues” section of the Menu Pad. You can also choose to leave the queue from here as well.
Clothing Options
We have added a Composite clothing items category.
These are items of clothing that fill more than one ‘slot’ at the same time (for example a jumpsuit might cover your torso and legs).
They are accessible from the menus for any of the slots that they fill (for example the jumpsuit would be accessible from both the torso and legs menus).
When you put on a composite clothing item it replaces the clothing items in all of the slots it affects.
When you take off a composite clothing item your clothes will revert to what you previously had on in all of those slots.
We have added a category for Outfits.
Outfits are collections of two or more clothing items that are put on and taken off together.
There is a new “Outfits” menu in the “Clothing” section of the wardrobe where you can access any outfits you own.
Depending on how an outfit is set up you may be able to put on the individual pieces of it or you may need to put the whole outfit on at the same time
When changing clothes or customising your character pressing [CROSS] will now confirm a change whereas pressing [CIRCLE] will cancel the change and return you to the previous menu.
Miscellaneous Improvements
There is a new background image on the front end.
We have improved when and how we check for items that you own. As a result the speed with which you log in to Home or move between stores has been improved.
Relocation between areas is quicker.
The collision on bowling pins has been improved.
The menu available in the Menu Pad has been rearranged to make options easier to find. In particular the “Settings” menu has been broken into several categories to accommodate all of the new options.
There are two new options in the Menu Pad for changing how Home is displayed on your television.
Screen size and position can be changed under “Settings > Adjust Screen Position and Size”.
The brightness of the screen can be changed under “Settings > Adjust Gamma”.
The leader of a club may now blacklist people from being able to join their club, via the admin menu. Anyone who is blacklisted and attempts to join the club will see a message explaining that they cannot join and why.
Lucid_Dreamer
Veteran
Am I missing something? Isn't the XMB already universal game launching (put in a game and launch it) capable?
Maybe it's a joke. However what I think people completely fail to realise is that using the XMB to launch a game doesn't put you back in your Home instance afterwards, but quits to the XMB instead. I can perfectly imagine now that I would go into say the Beyond3D clubhouse and launch my games from there, and use the clubhouse as a sort of lobby, which then increasingly supports launching directly into a party or co-op (think Street Fighter 4, Resident Evil 5, Resistance 2, Motorstorm 2, Warhawk, Far Cry 2, as examples of games that support game launching natively with additional setup options before going in)
Will be interesting to see if your avatar stays where it is with an icon over its head showing that you're playing a certain game.
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