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EU & US in joint Home Beta this autumn

Posted on July 17th, 2008 at 11:13 EDT

The Home Beta will be made available to Europe and the US simultaneously, it was revealed last night.

During a press conference in Santa Monica, SCEE President, David Reeves, said the online 3D community service would arrive "with the same specs, same support and at the same time in Autumn 2008." He went on to say that an exact date would be announced by SCEI "very shortly" for Home's initial release.

Home has been delayed by almost a year from its original launch date. The service creates a virtual social environment to interact with other PS3 users, launch online games such as Warhawk, play mini-games such as bowling and pool, share private content and show off your personal space customised with furniture, wallpaper and other items.

Jack Tretton insisted that "your patience will be more than rewarded" during Sony's E3 press conference on Tuesday.

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What are your thoughts?
posted 11:25am EDT - July 17th, 2008
1
Now isn't that some good S***? Hopefully in August, I say mid August... Finally can play some Home....Bow wow -You know how that goes (PSN ID - Y-Dawg)
posted 11:26am EDT - July 17th, 2008
2

good lets go sony

posted 11:31am EDT - July 17th, 2008
3

August =/= Autumn...

posted 11:32am EDT - July 17th, 2008
4

Cool !  I'd like to say I can't wait, but with Sony's reputation I won't because I'll probably have to! :)

posted 11:35am EDT - July 17th, 2008
5

This is good news, hopefully alot of people will join this HOME.

posted 11:36am EDT - July 17th, 2008
6

Nice one.

Finally the EU can get involved!

posted 12:07pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
7

2 points. 

  • My guess is that it will go in to BETA around late November.
  • It makes sense that Europe goes the same time as the U.S. now because there are more PS3's over in Europe than the U.S.  Given the economy in the U.S. now I hope and pray Sony lowers the price here (U.S.A.) down to around $300 at the same time. 
posted 12:11pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
8

Bring it.  I'm ready and will keep Home on 24/7.  I will be a fixture in Home.

posted 12:13pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
9

Wow! Please Sony! Please fall through with this and you'd make plenty of PS3 users happy!

posted 12:18pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
10

left behind in japan again

 

posted 12:22pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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psn id: gingo... well finally europe is not getting something after america it is an extremely rare occasion and hopefully home is worthy

posted 12:45pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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I bet it is delayed again.

 

But i will live in Home. Forget virtual flat, that will be my house. I'll never leave it O_O

posted 12:46pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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Woaw! They are releasing stuff in EU now as well? :P

posted 12:47pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
14
Wooooo!!! but the question is will everyone be in the beta because they should be considering that it is for everyone.
posted 12:51pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
15

watch out for my space kitted out with nonsense wallpapers, cant wait to mess about in the warhawk war room woth my clan

posted 1:15pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
16

"your patience will be more than rewarded"

Exactly, before the years end, we´ll in our hands, resistance 2, motorstorm 2, litlebigplanet, PSN cards (i hope), Socom, trophies for a lot of games, and HOME.

posted 2:13pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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Anyone have an idea how this is going to work? Is it just going to be one BIG world? Or like at the RFOM house, will there be hundreds and hundreds of people in there at the same time? Or can we only see people that are on our list?

posted 2:18pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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Where have I heard of a fall release date before? oh yeah, LAST YEAR AND THEY DELAYED IT!!! Sony, despite everything you have done to me and the rest of the Playstation gaming community,  I have faith in you, if you delay it at the last second I WILL BE DONE WITH THIS GARBAGE!

posted 2:36pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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seee??? i told you
posted 2:54pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
20

GREAT NEWS ! Cant wait for home.

posted 3:00pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
21

Digital Bliss. Hey mate!.

posted 3:23pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
22

Hey the home page of PSU has another VIRUS!!!! how do I contact the webhosters of this site to let them know? This isnt the first time this has happend. It might be some crazy Xbox fan boys doing this.

posted 3:48pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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yeah psu does have a virus. But this home news is GREAT!! And why don't you say North America instead of the U.S. Canada will probably get it at the same time.

posted 3:59pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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cant wait to kit out my pad and invite my closet ps3 owner freind over and listen to some music whilst other freinds join before going fof for a game of warhawk or gtaiv or socom confrontation. woopwoop wish all the great  titles and home had come sooner tho as ive had a 11 weeks holiday which im in middle of but it all comes out when i go back $(

                                                 

posted 4:25pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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I want my Home space to be filthy, so much so that "crawlers" from Resistance run rampant amongst virtual pizza boxes. Home needs to be slobbed up a bit

posted 5:42pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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what about austraila and south africa?

posted 8:16pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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 This was cool back in January, but now I don't give a flying F**k about home. It's cool and all but this has just been ridiculous

posted 9:11pm EDT - July 17th, 2008
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Wasnt this supposed to come out exactly a year ago ? lol

posted 12:27am EDT - July 18th, 2008
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prove it.......please prove it!! I want home so muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want home more than anything!!! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase give it to us!!!!!!!!!!
posted 1:18am EDT - July 18th, 2008
30

good news i hope it's not ip locked xD

because video store is unavailable to me :(

posted 3:23am EDT - July 18th, 2008
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Still have no idea what im going to use it for... maybe I will understand it in time.

posted 4:03am EDT - July 18th, 2008
32

At last this is really good news just need to know the date now

posted 8:17am EDT - July 18th, 2008
33

Thanks for the virus alert guys. I've informed the admins.

posted 2:50pm EDT - July 18th, 2008
34

hummmmmmmm... Home Beta to be made available in both Europe and the US at the same time??? ...... If only Sony would do the same with items being released on the PS3 Store!!!!!

posted 4:35pm EDT - July 19th, 2008
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ya its cool home is finally coming out "for real" but WTF is with all these viruses on this site??? durpa doo durp durpity durp!!! this site is Mickey Mouse.
posted 11:19am EDT - July 20th, 2008
36

Can someone remind me why we are supposed to care anymore.lol...just kidding, but seriously....RELEASE IT ALREADY!!!!

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