Sony quietly kills off Playstation Home

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Sony's Playstation Home was an experiment of sorts, meant to be a free community hub for owners of a Playstation 3 to build a personal space and show it off to other PS3 players. That experiment is now over as Sony has killed off the Playstation Home service.

Many Playstation owners may be more focused on the recent update to the PS4, but an automatic update to the PS3 that went out yesterday has removed Playstation Home from existence. Seen more as an experiment introduced by Phil Harrison back in 2008, PS Home brought forth free and paid content for PS3 owners to use to build personal spaces online.

PS Home was shunned by many, but it generated at least some profit through micro-transactions and helped push Microsoft to build the Xbox Game Room for the Xbox 360, which served as a classic arcade room that also carried both free and paid content to access with your avatar.

As of the publishing of this article, Sony has yet to issue any kind of statement regarding the sudden removal of Playstation Home from the PS3.
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The idea at the time was neat, but I don't think the infrastructure or power/performance was there (locally on console and on serer). I honestly don't believe even today's consoles and servers could handle what was the original idea behind this. I think they should look at it again in 10 years.
 
They actually announced this a couple months back and all 3 PS Home users cried.
 
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lol PS Home, I remember there was a time when my buddy had a female character and would try and hit on dudes and talk to them on the text chat and s*** and then get them to come back to his space and then talk into the mic for the first time and reveal he was a guy. Mega trollin' some guys' reactions were priceless.
 
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lol PS Home, I remember there was a time when my buddy had a female character and would try and hit on dudes and talk to them on the text chat and s*** and then get them to come back to his space and then talk into the mic for the first time and reveal he was a guy. Mega trollin' some guys' reactions were priceless.
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I never realized that PS Home could be that entertaining.
 
I liked some of the game they had in the world. I liked the bowling game and they did some uncharted games that were pretty fun too. think I used it like hmm a few times art most. I did not get it.
 
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