In and Interview, president of SCEE admitted that Home was a little ambitouse. And he felt that he deserted gamers because they where trying to hard to get companies to put their products in Home. On the good side, he said that the Open beta will be a definite Fall release.
Sony was being too ambitious with the non-gaming applications of Home and delayed the project to focus on gaming, SCEE president David Reeves has told CVG.
In a brief interview at the recent PlayStation Day event in London, Reeves admitted that Sony wants to make sure the gaming parts of the service, like trophies and Home-to-game launching, are ready before it goes public.
"It is definitely coming out in autumn," assured Reeves. "Whether that's October or November, I don't precisely know, but it is an open beta."
"We've realised that maybe we were too ambitious with the non-gaming applications within Home, getting sponsors and stuff like that," he went on to confess.
"In that sense we were deserting gamers. So, we're concentrating on the gaming by launching games in Home, and attracting people who are into gaming in first - instead of the Nike people, or Adidas people who are into fashion and not necessarily into gaming."
Reeves also spoke of the diminishing importance of platform exclusives from third parties, as first-party games become more prominent. "We did Buzz, we're doing LittleBigPlanet, Killzone, and there are obviously others that we're developing. We're becoming less dependent on third parties."
But, he added, Sony will seize exclusivity opportunities for games that attract new customers.
"It's got to be something that catches our eye and we think will bring new consumers into the industry. We can't keep recycling consumers from one iteration of PlayStation or Wii to another. We've got to gather up new people as we go through the years," he said.
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I mean they're trying so hard to get it good the first time, and yet everyone is complaining.
They are trying to get it right and make it the best right out of the box like Gamesta stated below.
I read the article but your complaining for no reason like the people in the PS3 general forums.
The thing has bugs and they're are fixing it. You should be glad Sony didn't give us a shitty thing for us to download for FREE.
And I don't see how Home is abandoning gamers? The in-game advertising is meant to allow them to release it free rather than charge for it, so in the end it is for the gamers
"they where trying to hard to get companies..." Should become "They were trying so hard to get companies..."