**this shud put a dampner on the rumour that Home is coming soon, we none beta testers though shudn't be expect.....

Sony: Hey I got an idea! Instead of releasing an open beta lets delay it a little further so we can update the closed beta that nobody uses. This way all 5 out of 15,000 closed beta testers can play with our bubble machine!



Looks like we can expect to play Duke Nukem Forever before Sony can ever deliver on a release date.

I must be the ONLY gamer in the world that rejoices went a developer delays a game (or in this case a service) in order to add more features or fix broken ones. I know to some it means they can't get their dose of instant gratification right when they want it but to me it says that the devs actually care about the quality of their product more than a bottom line or impatient clamoring fans.



Beside when you get down to it once its released, no one really care how long a game was delayed as long as it turns out to produce whats advertised (I.E. Halo 2).



Long story short:

Sony take you time with home,

Free radical take you time with HAZE,

Developers take you time with your games

because some of us out there still appreciate a well written game even with a few delays.

the current 0.7.7 update was released in November. That means in 4 months they've only gotten 0.0.6 places closer to release. And I think the update before that was 0.6.8 back in September right before the Tokyo Game Show and everyone thought that meant Home was going to be released soon, but as we all know the news at the TGS was less than happy.

damm they havnt even intergrated tvs into the apartments yet !? on the beta!? damm i seriously dont think this game is coming out this spring i reckon its gonna get pushed back beyond summer i mean look how long it took just to put picture frames into the beta!? we might get the open beta in spring but i doubt well get the full home any time soon

I jus want an open beta or a release date... :'(

How is it a cash cow with an unknown amount of users and $zero revenue streams. This service is liable to hurt Sony in many ways.

No, genius there's no such thing as instant huge ad revenues (and because ad dollars are dependent upon the people who actually will see them, and there's no way a company will be able predict how many people will participate in home ad dollars from the early adopters will be slim to nil) and from what I understand the premium "stuff" for home won't be available at release.



So from the start, Home could be a real liability, i.e. the cost of thousands of people logging into your servers.



Lastly, yes, Sony is aware of what might hurt them, this is why the average PS3 owner isn't involved with Home.



I'd appreciate you thinking through your comments before you make them.



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just froget about it. can you imagine if they kept it secret till a week before release? nobody would care when it got delayed. so just imagine you don't know of it yet

that even if the info gets out they were going to tell everyone anyways. They put more weather we find out or not. Its a beta so I'm pretty sure they really dont care too much if it gets leaked.

Actually, a Beta spokesman said they do care.