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Sony’s Director of PlayStation Network Eric Lempel has said that PlayStation Home’s upcoming open beta is still on schedule for release this fall, assuring consumers that its release will offer a “fully robust service.”
“The Home open beta is still on schedule for release later this fall,” said Lempel, during an interview with Next-Gen.biz
Despite numerous delays, Lempel was keen to point out that the open beta would be worth the wait, offering consumers a “fair” representation of the forthcoming online social networking platform.
Speaking in direct reference to Sony’s Susan Panico, who suggested that Home’s “rollout will be similar to Gmail,” and thus function as an "open, working beta,” Lempel asserted that Home’s public form would not merely function as a “0.5 release.”
“If you think about Gmail and Susan’s reference, Gmail when it launched in beta was a fully functional email service. I personally was using it and it offered everything you’d expect, but was in beta just to say that there’s more to come and maybe it’s not fully polished,” he said.
“The reason we’ve been delaying [Home] is so that we can deliver a high quality service that the users will enjoy. Even though it will be in beta, it will be a fair representation of what the service can be and its potential, so it won’t be a 0.5 release, it will be a fully robust service.”
Elsewhere, he also addressed the subject of Sony’s planned movie download service for PSN, though did not divulge any specific details in regards to a release date or pricing.
“I don’t have any more specifics right now, but like Kaz [Hirai] said, it will go live [in the US] this summer and I think it will offer consumers everything they’re looking for from us. It will offer everything they expect from us and probably a little bit more,” he offered.
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Let's just not open our lips about release dates and windows that we can't even come close to meeting next time please. As good as Home may turn out to be, they should have just waited to go off rambling about announcements for it to be expected, until gamers could actually expect soon. Not at an E3 three years ago with multiple delays in the process.
how do u get into the 'beta'?
Hmm...this sounds familiar :)
Good that it's robusted. :D From what i've heard the closed beta wasn't very good.
so is the US download service gonna just be for the states or will others with a US account be able to access it around the world?
Gmail is still a beta - but it's perfectly stable and useable.
Gmail beta is stable but that's a lot more than I can say for certain elements of Home. My robot statue STILL falls over for no freaking reason! How can we expect multiplayer gamelaunching to work properly if they cant even fix gravity??
who cares anymore, really?
home is just another thing that fanboys use for ammo imo.
Will HOME brick my PS3? That's my only concern, other than that, I want it!
blah, blah, blah. Show me dont tell me.
the BETA? 3 years of delay and we only get a beta this coming FALL :O O MY! cool!
How dumb are some of you people !! 3 YEARS !!?? Yeah how about just round a year and a half !! It was only announced at GDC last January !! lol
Can't wait. Glad to see the movie service too.
actually it was announced last year .. what are you two .. in the future ?
IDK this home thing is taking forever to come out and its suppose to shoulder PSN's ascendence to greatness.
Good news.
It's looking good, but lets not hold our breath!
They should stop making announcements and talking about this until they are actually 100% ready to launch it. I am always in favor of delays as long as they serve the purpose of polishing things up. Haze, though, was delayed so many times and turned out to be nothing special. I hope the same thing doesn't occur with Home.
Boy i have heard this before.........Same old song!!!
Im really looking forward to Home. Mainly so I can show my friends movies or video that I have on my Hard Drive. They come over to my crib, and watch a movie that I have on my Hard Drive. If that works in Home, thats all I will care about. Thats all I really need.
Don't be a Home-oh
i wont be suprised if this falls in the same category as trophies, not many developers supporting it rigth away cus they will be busy with other big games
@West_end_matt: Nice.
Too Dave the rave and staude the home service was first announced in E3 2005. No one made a big deal of it though with games like killzone2 metal gear solid and a line up of other games like littlebigplanet and warhawk. but as far as it getting hyped that was last year but it was 3 years ago if u have been following it like me from the beggining.
Where have I heard this before.....
psn id: gingo.... glad to hear there might finally be a solid time frame to when we will see home but i want to hear news about when the video download service comes to the UK but i wont get my hopes up
lets just hope Sony keep their promise this time. We all know when home was originally supposed to be out. lol.
okay i say this open beta will be real and NOT delayed.
Sony: "Blah blah blah blah. Blah blablablah!"
Glad to hear it. Lets just hope its for real this time. To all the Home haters out there go F*** yourself. Let me make it simple for you. If you dont want it, don't use it.
@25 Companies make promises all the time and break them. It's not right and total BS. But guess what...That's the gaming business so get over it. If you want to make your voice heard then don't support a company with your dollars. If thats not good enough then maybe gaming isn't for you.
so is it coming out in the summer or fall?
Wow. Too bad 2.40 ruined my PS3.
it just need to come out already.
seriously its taking forever
it just need to come out already.
seriously its taking forever
Good things come to those who wait..............and we have been waiting!!!!!
@GODF4TH3R
If you are referring to the open beta scheduled for this fall then,it will be open for anyone to join,but it will be a first come first serve sorta thing,meaning they will have a specific limit on the number of users,but it will be open for anyone to join,unlike the closed beta in which the participants were exclusively invited to join.
do you know how many years i have been waiting for Home??
Do you know how hard i tried to get into the beta??
more delays?!@!?!? i remember being so excited for it being released.. then.. MORE.. and MORE.. and MORE delays... this is rediculous