MacDonald: Sony "madly working" to hit Home open beta date
- Posted October 27th, 2008 at 12:50 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 36 Comments
Sony Worldwide Studios Vice President Jamie MacDonald has said that the platform holder is ‘madly working’ in order to meet it’s projected release date for the PlayStation Home open beta.
"At Tokyo Game Show it was announced that PlayStation Home will be hitting what we're calling an open beta by the end of the year, which means it will be available to everybody,” said MacDonald, during the Game 3.0 conference in London today.
"And the latest is, it's going very well. The guys are madly working to make sure that date is hit, and it's going very well."
MacDonald also revealed that PlayStation Home was originally created in response to the frustrations gamers have with the hardcore online gaming environment, which he described as “geeky, tedious and short.”
“The reason why we even started developing that (PS3 Home) was really a frustration a few years ago that the online experience for most games players was geeky, tedious and short. Certainly in my experience, I got into a first person shooter online and I lasted about 15 seconds. It's not much fun,” he said.
“So that was really our driving force with Home, to provide an environment where it's fun to go, you can hang out with like-minded people and talk about games, play games, have a look at the leaderboards, but in an environment that was game centred but not just for these teenage boys, who are fine, but they enjoy very much shooting people, which is fine."
Sony is now saying that the Home open beta will launch at the end of the year, as opposed to a late October date as recent rumours have suggested.
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pizzamonkio
- 9:08am EDT - October 27th, 2008
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this mcdonald guy is funny. i hate playing online games with geeks and losers too! they only know 5 or 6 words epic and fail are the most popular loser words at the moment but QQ and noob are still going strong. lol so this means home open beta summer 09?
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Staticneuron
- 10:56am EDT - October 27th, 2008
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I thought 1.0 was open beta? Qore is suggesting that Home 1.0 will be closed.
But like everything else in qore this probably means that we will all have acces to it at least two weeks later.
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ryanmormon
- 11:13am EDT - October 27th, 2008
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i love how they said it will be avialable to everyone by the end of the year, but they meant open beta...
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Odium_Generis_Humani
- 11:13am EDT - October 27th, 2008
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Well, let this serve as an explaination as to why Home seems like such a boring concept to those who complain. It's not for hardcore people. You are the type that just want to get online and ADD yourselves to death in COD4. Home is for the casual gamer that Sony left behind. Which is why they are last.
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jake_hammers
- 11:23am EDT - October 27th, 2008
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this is sony's way of telling us "release date pushed back from november to possibly december."
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Prayer350z
- 11:33am EDT - October 27th, 2008
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madly working? on what? finding more reasons to delay?
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