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Home
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Playstation 3
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Massively Multiplayer Online Game
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Home is a real-time online 3D, networked community available on the PlayStation Network. It allows PS3 users to interact, communicate, join online games, shop, share private content and even build and show off their own personal spaces to others ...
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08-25-11 Home Boss: Free2Play is the future
07-02-11 Sony: Home users are hardcore gamers
07-02-11 Free welcome back pack for Home
03-16-11 Home coming to NGP?
05-21-09 Big Home patch coming today
12-11-08 Microsoft: Home is outdated
11-28-08 PlayStation Home available this year
11-06-08 Home beta invites due soon
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Home Boss: Free2Play is the future
Posted on Thursday, 25 August 2011 by Speed, source: IndustryGamers
Sony Entertainment's director of Home, Jack Buser, is convinced that free-to-play is the business model of the future. And Home will be capitalizing on that with the relaunch later this year:
“I’m very biased but, in PlayStation Home, you can build a full-on game that looks like a console game – for example, a full-on FPS or racing game – with a team of just 6-10 people and it’ll take 6-9 months to complete,”
“Everything’s done with scripting using [programming language] … so with a very small team you can create a game that’s up and running on PS3 in just six months. And it’s monetizing immediately.”
If you fast forward 10 years, it is my personal belief that games will look a lot more like what’s going on in PlayStation Home than what they typically look like today. If we were to fast forward 10 years and look back at what PlayStation Home is doing right now, I believe it’s going to be viewed as a turning point in the industry where we finally started to see these business models from the web actually take hold on consoles and start to create profitable businesses for console developers, using free-to-play and token-based play and ad-sponsored and all these cool models that really on consoles are only found in PlayStation Home.
“It’s a huge differentiator for the PS3. You could not build these types of games on other consoles because they don’t have a platform like Home.”
“Everything’s done with scripting using [programming language] … so with a very small team you can create a game that’s up and running on PS3 in just six months. And it’s monetizing immediately.”
If you fast forward 10 years, it is my personal belief that games will look a lot more like what’s going on in PlayStation Home than what they typically look like today. If we were to fast forward 10 years and look back at what PlayStation Home is doing right now, I believe it’s going to be viewed as a turning point in the industry where we finally started to see these business models from the web actually take hold on consoles and start to create profitable businesses for console developers, using free-to-play and token-based play and ad-sponsored and all these cool models that really on consoles are only found in PlayStation Home.
“It’s a huge differentiator for the PS3. You could not build these types of games on other consoles because they don’t have a platform like Home.”
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