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Playstation Home support grows with third-party backing

by Steven Williamson on 10 February 2009, 10:27

Tags: Sony Computers Entertainment Europe (NYSE:SNE), PS3

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The Playsation 3's community-based service, Playstation Home, which is currently in its beta phase, will be getting further support from a number of high profile third party publishers and developers.

Sony Japan has confirmed that 24 companies have been granted licenses to produce content for Playstation Home, including Activision, Konami and Ubisoft.

Here's the full list of companies who can now produce content for Home:

* Acquire
* Activision
* AQ Interactive
* Atlus
* Capcom
* D3 Publisher
* Disney Interactive
* EA
* Game Republic
* Genki
* Gungho
* Hudson
* Irem
* Koei
* Konami
* Namco Bandai
* Nippon Ichi
* Paon
* Q Entertainment
* Sega
* SNK Playmore
* Spike
* Tecmo
* Ubisoft

Although obtaining a license doesn't necassirly mean that any of these companies will produce content, it's likely that we'll see areas of Home dedicated specifically to games produced by them, similar to the EA Sport's arena, which is currently in development.


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Posted by Ferral - Tue 10 Feb 2009 10:31
Must admit that Home is pretty cool even though it is in beta.The cinema is pretty cool (seeing HEXUS in there was quite awesome.

Even if the publishers just use it for advertising and upcoming events it will still be pretty good must admit. Things like Ubisoft for example using it for when they do the Ubidays so you can watch the content on PS3 rather than on the PC. Brings everything to your main room in the house instead of sitting in front of a PC.
Posted by Jiff Lemon - Tue 10 Feb 2009 12:23
I'm the opposite - I just don't get it.

Lets say I want to watch the Hexus content on my PS3. I could either
a) Fire up a browser, find the content and stream or
b) Fire up home (wait for it to load), wander out of my house to the square (wait for it to load), enter the hexus cinema (wait for it to load) then have to watch the ALL the content, even if it was only the last one I wanted to see.

You can harp on about the “social aspect” of it all till the cows come home; I've yet to see a single decent feature in it!
Posted by j.o.s.h.1408 - Tue 10 Feb 2009 14:06
Jiff Lemon;1632297
I'm the opposite - I just don't get it.

Lets say I want to watch the Hexus content on my PS3. I could either
a) Fire up a browser, find the content and stream or
b) Fire up home (wait for it to load), wander out of my house to the square (wait for it to load), enter the hexus cinema (wait for it to load) then have to watch the ALL the content, even if it was only the last one I wanted to see.

You can harp on about the “social aspect” of it all till the cows come home; I've yet to see a single decent feature in it!

all i have to do:

  1. launch home
  2. bring up my PDA and go to locations and then Cinema.Theatre

at least try and explain the most easiest and quickest steps on launching the hexus channel instead of explaining the long way round it:O_o1: you dont need to mess around in your appartment and walk manualy into the cinema!!
Posted by Ferral - Tue 10 Feb 2009 14:16
No you just bring up the map and jump about to the area you want. Granted the loading at the min can be a bit of a pain from area but I hope that they will streamline that in future releases when walking about.