Destination Home preservation projectĭestination Home is a group of PlayStation fans aiming to revive and preserve the PlayStation Home experience. Users could use won items to further customise their avatar or apartments. Home also featured many single and multiplayer mini-games, and hosted a variety of special events, some of which provided prizes to players. Home’s primary forms of advertising included spaces themselves, video screens, posters, and mini-games. Public spaces were made for display, entertainment, advertising, and networking. Users could travel throughout the Home world, which was frequently updated by Sony and its partners. Each avatar was given a personal apartment that users could decorate with free, bought, or won items. Home allowed users to create a custom avatar, which could be groomed realistically. Home remained as a perpetual beta until its closure on 31 March 2015.

Upon installation, users could choose how much hard disk space they wished to reserve for Home.ĭevelopment of the service began in early 2005 and it launched as an open beta on 11 December 2008. Membership was free but required a PSN account.

It was accessible from the PS3’s XrossMediaBar (XMB). PlayStation Home was a virtual 3D social gaming platform developed by Sony Computer Entertainment’s London Studio for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) on the PlayStation Network (PSN). Yesterday, PS3 scene member (and Destination Home developer) Nagato’s Revenge published a video showcasing PlayStation Home running on the latest PS3 Firmware 4.88 (video below) What is PlayStation Home However, fans behind the Destination Home project are bringing it back to life. Although it was mildly successful, the service was closed in 2015, roughly 5 years after its launch. PlayStation Home was a 3D Gaming platform and social Network running on the PS3.

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