Actually, I think it's the opposite.

I think this means, "Yeah, this was originally meant to be focused on games, but it ended up working great as a social networking tool, and that is OK."

I agree with RommelTJ. The purpose of Home is to bring players together virtually then go into games as a group. The whole social features are just extras to keep people entertain while gathering everyone in someone's room.

I would think that Home will work both ways: both as a gaming-lobby, and for social networking. But, I'm certain that Sony also needs to allay any fears from the 3rd Party Developers; that Home might become a time-sucker away from the core intent: to sell games.



But, I doubt that they have 'failed' to achieve something and are toning-down expectations. Let's face it: if they get interactions in a game-lobby going right, than how would they get "social networking" wrong? I mean, you'd still have your avatars interacting, just in a "non-game" location of the virtual world.



I think too many people are hoping Sony is going to fail at this. And I really don't know why (unless you're a Wii or 360 -hugger). This has the potential to be one of the most significant & revolutionary features every delivered to a home console.

I'm not an Xbox hugger. I own a PS3 and love it but, I have been waiting for this for a year and the description of this feature has changed drastiacally. This is not at all what they began with. I don't want this to fail at all. But, I am dissapointed with what I'm hearing. :(

why dont you focus on releasing it?

Dudes, Home is coming, Sure it takes a while but they want the release to cover and exceed people expectations. All things that take long have a great outcome. They dont want the release to have glitches or missing features.