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| Kotaku wrote: | Sony have announced that Home, the Playstation 3's long-awaited online fashion show and wandering-around simulator, will be coming to Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan in "Fall 2008". Doesn't sound like idle speculation, either, as that's coming straight from a Sony press release. To help ensure everything's ready to go ahead of the launch, there'll be a closed beta held in September for residents of the region. If that's you, keep an eye on this site, details on how to get in will be going up on August 29.
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT HONG KONG LIMITED ANNOUNCES 3D ONLINE-USER COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR PLAYSTATION®3– 「PLAYSTATION®HOME」 COMING TO HONG KONG, SINGAPORE AND TAIWAN IN FALL 2008
CLOSED BETA TESTING FOR 「PLAYSTATION®HOME」WILL START FROM MID-SEPTEMBER 2008
Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong Limited (SCEH) today announced that the unveiling of a first-of-its-kind 3D online community service for the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system would be available for Hong Kong , Singapore and Taiwan region PLAYSTATION®Network users.
PlayStation®Home is the online community service on PLAYSTATION®Network. It is an evolving online social gaming service built for PS3™ users to meet and share gaming experiences. With an avatar uniquely customized according to each user’s preference, users can explore the 3D community which includes custom spaces dedicated to specific games, press releases on kotaku, event spaces or personal apartments. Each user is assigned an apartment in PlayStation®Home where they can invite others to join them as they show off their own style in an area they can personalize themselves with furniture and other items. Very rich interactive communication with others is achieved through built in text, audio chat, along with sophisticated emotional animations for each character.
PlayStation®Home official website for Asia is now available at The Closed Beta testing for PlayStation®Home will be starting from Mid-September 2008. SCEH would like to invite Hong Kong and Singapore users to participate in the Closed Beta testing. The details will be available on the official website from August 29, 2008.
SCEH will continue to further expand PS3 users’ gaming experience and create a new world of computer entertainment by offering the high quality of the world of PlayStation®Home towards the Open Beta Service in this fall along with more and more attractive PS3 software titles which will be available le in the market |
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read this just before, hopefully this is a good sign that we'll be getting it soon as well. the faster they get it out, the faster we can all move on
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I've been playing around with the Home Beta for about a week now and it's pretty smooth now, it just takes ages for any videos to stream or download and the first time you go to a new area, it takes ages to download the new scene even thought the files are generally pretty small. If anyone's got any questions about Home I'll see if I can answer but I'm no expert.
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Errrrm, was it worth the wait? lol.
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Probably not.
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Never thought it would change the way PS3 users would interact, but I hoped it would.
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Gah..i dont know if i could bare going through this beta key again, LBP beta key madness has worn me out..
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Trust me, it wouldn't be worth going to all that effort for.
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I'm still looking forward to this one.
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home would be good if there was minimal loading, the fact you have to load it to meet them to play a game when a simple msg would've been better might be opted, but some people are seeing this more as a game than a simple program to interact and gather for games.
still looking forward to it. depending how far customisation in terms of clothing and apartments can go.
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| Felonioustub wrote: | | I've been playing around with the Home Beta for about a week now and it's pretty smooth now, it just takes ages for any videos to stream or download and the first time you go to a new area, it takes ages to download the new scene even thought the files are generally pretty small. If anyone's got any questions about Home I'll see if I can answer but I'm no expert. |
can you nab me a code 
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Sorry, when you get a code, it's locked to a specific account and only that account can access Home, I can't even get on using any other account on my PS3, of course I could just do Sambo110's trick and start a comp for the code and change my mind halfway through.
I'm still looking forward to it too but not so much now, it seems to me like the 3D web browser, sort of a cool sounding idea that might be fun to play around with but for actually accomplishing anything, it's a pretty slow and cumbersome way to go about it.
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well it seems its we will see home late october/early november according to sony japan, and plenty of support coming from some companies.
| Quote: | According to the official Japanese SCEJ site, the current closed Home Beta is due to end in a matter of weeks, presumably then opening up the final 1.0 version to a wider public. Additionally, here’s a list of companies that have signed up as partners for Home, providing content, spaces etc:
IREM
Activision
Acquire
Atlus
Walt Disney Japan
SNK
EA
Capcom
Q Entertainment
Game Republic
Genki
Koei
Konami
Spike
Sega
D3 Publisher
Tecmo
Nippon Ichi Software
Hudson
Bandai Namco Games
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http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2008/10/09/home-beta-ends-soon/
i tried going to the japanese site they have linked and translate it with google translate, and it did say october november, but the rest really didnt make any sence haha.
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Oooooooooooooooooooo.
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So, wait, is Qore available to us 'Europeans'? or is it US only? I've been interested in signing up but i couldnt find it anywhere..
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:15 am Post subject: |
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US only at the moment.
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Does that mean it's guaranteed?
US PSN accounts at the ready! Ten-hut!
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| Gtpod wrote: | Does that mean it's guaranteed?
US PSN accounts at the ready! Ten-hut! |
I guess so, if not alot of people are gonna be upset.
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Well people are gonna be upset.
| PS Underground Email wrote: | As an update to the PLAYSTATION(R)3 News email sent on Friday,
October 24th, the special invitation to PlayStation(R)Home's closed
beta is available only to Qore annual subscribers who purchased
subscriptions by 10/29. Qore Episode 06 purchasers will not be
eligible for the special PlayStation(R)Home beta invitation at
this time. We apologize for the miscommunication.
Participation in PlayStation(R)Home's closed beta is limited to
those 18 years and older and requires agreement with the
PlayStation(R)Home Beta Trial. |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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meh it's not that tragic with all the games that are coming out one less distraction is a good thing.
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well it will be for those who went out and got qore just for this, for those who didnt yeh its a meh issue.
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^yeah thats what i initally was concerned about, but can you buy an issue before it's released? i'm hoping everyone would've read that and have put the money towards better things like a can of coke or a cup of coffee.
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Isn't the full version of HOME suppose to come out this month. For some reason i thought they promised a November release. I wonder if they will release it day or so before 360 release there update with the avatars and such to try and spoil there parade.
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I suppose you guys were planning to buy Qore with a PSN card? You can't buy stuff any other way from the U.S store these days. 
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My debit Mastercard works fine on the US PSN. I have no idea why.
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