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[oldmario]

PlayStation Home has been serving the PS3 community since December 2008. During that time, tens of millions of users around the world have grown the social gaming platform into a thriving community of creative and enthusiastic gamers.


Due to a shifting landscape, PlayStation Home will cease publishing new content on the 12th of November, 2014. Gamers in Europe will be able to download content until the 3rd of December, 2014. As a token of our tremendous gratitude to the community, we will also be releasing a series of free content prior to the platforms closure on the 31st of March, 2015.


We would like to thank all of our fans for their support of the PlayStation Home platform over the years.

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No idea if it's closing in NA also


Edit: looks like NA is also getting shut down, pretty much the same message but with US/Canada in the place or europe
http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Home/PlayStation-Home-Update-September-26-2014/td-p/44552202

 

[NateDrake]

Home was still open? I deleted it from my PS3 years ago to free up some HDD space.

 

[SniperHunter]

Another failure by Sony.

 

[Ouren]

Still in Beta.

 

[Andrefpvs]

Need to get that "visit a friend" trophy before that, then

 

[Renzoku]

And nothing of value was lost.

I tried multiple times to get into it, but it was the most boring virtual world I've ever stepped foot in.

 

[PerezDeCorcho]

goodnight, sweet prince.

 

[Chesskid1]

thank you for the free ps1 games!

 

[fatigues_gasolini]

Another failure by Sony.

Not a failure to their bottom line

 

[Nephtis]

Home was REALLY nice in idea, but failed terribly in execution.

 

[V_Ben]

condolences to those developers still making content for it.

 

[SerTapTap]

Such a weird idea. I guess they thought it'd be like second life, but second life is nothing without user created content and furries. And user created furry content.

 

[legacyzero]

Home was REALLY nice in idea, but failed terribly in execution.

Yep.

 

[BruiserBear]

Mark your calendars folks.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

But what about my house?

Spoiler

I didn't buy one, but some did

 

[mreddie]

I think it not being on PS4 was proof Home was on its last legs.

Also, all the sponsors are gone and the ads no longer play on the TVs.

Vaya con Dios Home.

 

[Cheddahz]

Time to find myself another home

 

[a Master Ninja]

But what about my house?

HOMEless

 

[kadotsu]

Can't believe it was up for 7 years.

 

[BadHand]

Glad I didn't buy any virtual items

 

[goonergaz]

I guess some will be upset by this (those who spent money).

I will miss the E3 things they used to do - I used to enjoy certain aspects of Home

 

[sublimit]

Another failure by Sony.

It was profitable for Sony.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I hope it gets a second life on PS4

 

[Exile20]

I wonder how much money was lost to this venture.

It was profitable for Sony.

Oh it was?

 

[thewhitehawk]

So much for my PSVita pre-order virtual clothes.

 

[WhoaIsThatMars]

I guess you can say PS Home is being...forCLOSED

 

[Hip Hop]

No SaluteGoodbye pic?

 

[goonergaz]

I hope it gets a second life on PS4

I see what u did there

 

[Trevelyon]

I'm very sadly pop locking in tribute.

 

[TimeEffect]

Do we know exactly how profitable it was? It would be interesting to see the numbers vs. the cost of the thing.

 

[MDSLKTR]

Another failure by Sony.

Being profitable over it`s lifetime is a failure now?

 

[Zombie James]

Another failure by Sony.

IIRC, it made them money.

 

[Megadragon15]

Home was such a waste. Good riddance.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Thought it was meh myself , I remember being disappointed they had not used that money for Home to spend on a better PSN service instead

 

[dallow_bg]

I wonder how much money was lost to this venture.



Oh it was?

Very much so apparently.

They were/are still releasing regular content for it and anytime i'd randomly log in in the past year it'd is full of people with premium items.

 

[cakely]

Did it ever get out of Beta?

The last time I was there was to pick up some free PS1 games.

 

[Theecliff]

End of an era. Nothing will ever be the same again, truly.

Spoiler

Home was such a disappointment

 

[Devilgunman]

What a failure. Good on a paper but very bad execution. Loading screens literally killed it.

 

[oni_saru]

I wonder how much money was lost to this venture.

They got it back with all the stuff they sold on it i imagine. Some people bought a shit ton of things there :0

I do wonder what happens to the bought stuff? :0 like will people be able to access Home and just take random screens of their crap.

Btw camera feature was the best feature Home added. I remember taking soooo many screens. Good times.

 

[Loudninja]

Do we know exactly how profitable it was? It would be interesting to see the numbers vs. the cost of the thing.

I see updates still posted for it on the PS blog.

 

[SerTapTap]

Thought it was meh myself , I remember being disappointed they had not used that money for Home to spend on a better PSN service instead

It was profitable, and it's not like making Home made it impossible to improve the PSN service. Quite the opposite, being able to support Home would require a certain level of network infrastructure.

 

[bananafactory]

Damn, I spent a lot of money in there. Guess it's all gone

 

[dark_chris]

Home was definitely an amazing concept and I love the idea of it but the execution was definitely bad. It coulda made other stuff look like crap but nope

 

[Kacho]

Good riddance. What they were trying to do was kind of neat, but I thought it was massively flawed. There were a few times when I'd accidentally click on Home in the XMB menu and it would take forever to load before I could exit out. Memories haha

 

[Jb]

Next up: PSN store for PS3. It'd be nice if game journos could harass Sony about it.

 

[SuperSonic1305]

Another failure by Sony.

If by failure you mean a lot of people used it and it made them tons of money then sure.

 

[Loudninja]

Home been up almost the entire PS3 generation its ending as the PS3 is fading.

 

[TheCowboyPoet]

Does this mean we'll never get Room for PSP?!

Spoiler

 

[sublimit]

Next up: PSN store for PS3. It'd be nice if game journos could harass Sony about it.

What about it?

 

[statham]

I see it relaunching with morpheus.