"Speaking to Develop, core members of the Home development team have admitted that the PS3s social community service was probably announced too early.
In part one of our interview, published online today, game director Peter Edwards explains how plans for the service were less than concrete at the time of reveal at GDC 2007. At that time, there were so many ideas of what it could be everyone was very excited about the possibilities for it. Our angle for it at the time was that it coul..."
"Will Home be supported not just throughout PS3's lifespan, but also when potential successors to the console are released?
Hill: Yes, Home is a platform service, and its potential is almost limitless in terms of where it could go. We see it as having a very long and fruitful life."
"During the interview, speaking about Playstation Home, the director of Home programming said:
Playstation home makes online gaming a lot more like what multiplayer gaming used to be; it will fundamentally change the way people play games or think about games. A friend's list in the past was a list of people you met in the real world or in the context of a particular game, what Playstation Home aims to do is abstract this out so that the friend's list has meaning. That's the core value of ..."
In an interview with a Kotaku, Aaron Greenberg the group product manager for the XBOX360 has said "It feels like 2005 tech in 2008. I'm not sure thats what people want" in regards to Playstation Home, and I'd hate to admit it, but being a PS3 gamer, I agree... I haven't gone onto Home for longer than a few minutes...

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