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Only yesterday, Sony began pushing out the new Playstation Home Beta to PS3 owners across the globe. Unfortunately today, rather than gleeful gurgles of happiness, the company is hearing voices raised in complaint as many users find themselves at the mercy of connection problems, inability to access the PSN and premature disconnections.
The official announcement thread is already up to 866 comments, a significant proportion of which are users complaining that all they see are network errors and are unable to connect. A smaller subset of users have found they are able to get into Home, but only for around five seconds before being disconnected.
Users are also experiencing problems registering their sub-accounts, too, and some PS3 owners are yet to even see the Home icon appear on their console. Presumably the problems stem from Sony’s servers being overworked; have you managed to get onto Home?
[via Kotaku]
24 Responses to “Sony PS3 Home beta plagued with connection issues”
chris s December 12, 2008
i was raring to go when i heard home was released i tried it and it had some stupid connection problem i hope they sort it before christmas i cant wait any longer!
Neutralmustafa December 12, 2008
i waked up in morning like 8.15am then that time i access Home it was working fine. it lead me straight to profile but i had college so i turn it off. i came back home at 5.00pm then access to Home than it gives me error wtf is going and now I’m really pissed. people saying the server is overloading what the hell doesn’t Sony know that there’s billion people around the world, they need to act quickly before people hate ps3.
-2demographic December 12, 2008
I was not able to connect to Playstation Home at all last night. I tried 15 – 20 times throughout the night. Hopefully I’ll be able to connect sometime soon. I’m interested to see what can be done within the new software.
NeutralBish December 12, 2008
Well lets start by saying,
Mustafa, I hope your enrolled in English, cause last time I checked “waked up” is incorrect grammar. Any who, I’m only going to ask one question.
Can anyone give me an example of a extremely anticipated IP that launched that didn’t have connection issues…
Ex.
GTAIV
COD4
etc.etc.
And if you can’t, I have to state this. if Mustafa is correct in using his “there’s billion people around the world” then if all those “billion” (s) of people are trying to connect to a long awaited service, then I can only assume that you’re going to have, well…… connection issues.
-7VinTheDean December 12, 2008
BISH, you are absolutely right.
Every highly anticipated game (even HALO and GOW) had network issues. No one can truely anticipate openning.
I was able to get in last night 11pm EST and this morning 6:30AM EST.
I am sure that as more people try, the more issues you will have trying to get in. But once the buzz has subsided, you should be able to connect at any time with any issues.
I do have to say that once I was in there was NO LAG. They way that sony dealt with LAG in HOME was to load clear imagery of the other avatars and then slowly present you with their skins. It works quite nicely.
Neutraltangos December 12, 2008
where is i can test new Playstation Home Beta to PS3?
-1vice roy December 12, 2008
Homes network issues aren’t that big are you forgetting XBL crashed last Xmas and and GTA4 online didn’t work at launch Gears had the same problem this is why home is runing beta DUUHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
NeutralKris December 12, 2008
Bish,
“Mustafa, I hope your enrolled in English, cause last time I checked “waked up” is incorrect grammar. Any who, I’m only going to ask one question.”
Just to let you know. If you are going to correct Mustafa on his use of the English language, you should probably use the contraction “you’re” (you are) rather than saying “your”.
+3Timothy Musgrave December 12, 2008
if you had the connection problem uninstall it then install again. Because this happened to me today but it worked after i installed again
Neutralmustafa December 12, 2008
Bish i was really pissed so i don’t have time to prove read. So sorry for spelling or grammar mistake.
NeutralBubba December 12, 2008
@ mustafa
No need to apologize. I understood what you were saying and that’s all that matters IMHO
@ Bish
You know “an” before vowels is proper grammar? English is my 3rd tongue and even I knew that! :p
+1down December 12, 2008
Well the dance parties are really gay…sorry , they just are. It’s entertaining for a while but in reality, it’s just ” You Got Served: Online ” .
Waiting in a line to play pool or go bowling is really lame but when you play it’s alright.
Having to find a party for gaming takes a long time in HOME.
+2Thomas December 12, 2008
its still in BETA. give it a rest. in a month or two Im sure things will be running better and more options of things todo. In the gaming world things rarely work properly right out of the gate. thats why its “BETA” this means it is not the finale product. No need to get all bent out of shape.
So far I think its a very well put together social network and graphics are better than any social network I have seen. Well done Sony. Cant wait for the finished product.
+1wordpuddles December 12, 2008
There were no problems at all for me to get on to Home at all. I don’t know why people are experiencing this other than if they have low HDD memory on the PS3 console.
-1mustafa December 12, 2008
Just one issue, is ps3 Home going to be region locked?
NeutralJames December 12, 2008
ITS STILL IN THE TEST STAGE, for goodness sakes, the most the servers have ever taken before is like 1000 what do you expect when up to 13,000,000 start logging on at the same time.
+1THe whole point of a beta test is to test the fricken game if your so bothered wait till the final version and stop slagging it off.
yzzlthtz December 12, 2008
got in fine. worked fine.
Neutralwishbone December 13, 2008
First attempt last night I lost the connection. Second attempt it worked fine. Can’t really complain yet since this is the beta and it’s only been live to the general public for 2 days. I believe once Sony can gauge the actual volume of current users they can optimize the servers. It should be working fine in a few weeks.
+1Sid December 13, 2008
Bish, you pish of shish, english isn’t everyone’s first language, so get off your high horse. It appears it is your first language and you are the one who needs to take some grammar classes.
+1ozzy December 13, 2008
i got into home today for about 40mins then i quit to play a game and now its not letting me back on that stupid errorr thingy i had before
Neutraljubug3 December 14, 2008
@mustafa
Sony certainly doesn’t have 1 billion PS3 owners trying to access “Home” — if they did they would most certainly be laughing all the way to the bank. The whole Wii vs. 360 vs PS3 fanboy console argument would be totally moot with a figure like that and would mean absolute PS3 domination.
Sorry to harp on your numbers.
With that said I agree with the majority of the posters that as with any beta release you have to expect problems.
NeutralDavid December 17, 2008
Bish:
Stop ragging on Mustafa, your English is not much better. The last time I checked, questions ended with a question mark and not an ellipses; your is not the contraction for you are (your enrolled in English); “cause” is improper English, the correct word is because; words that begin with a vowel are preceded by an and not a (”a extremely”); transitional words and phrases that begin a sentence are set off by a comma; an ellipses only contains three periods and not six; and, the first word in a sentence should begin with an uppercase letter.
David
[quote comment="56583"]Well lets start by saying,
Mustafa, I hope your enrolled in English, cause last time I checked “waked up” is incorrect grammar. Any who, I’m only going to ask one question.
Can anyone give me an example of a extremely anticipated IP that launched that didn’t have connection issues…
Ex.
GTAIV
COD4
etc.etc.
And if you can’t, I have to state this. if Mustafa is correct in using his “there’s billion people around the world” then if all those “billion” (s) of people are trying to connect to a long awaited service, then I can only assume that you’re going to have, well…… connection issues.[/quote]
Neutraleanr December 28, 2008
Instead of posting comments on “Home”, that piece of beta crap that Sony dumped on PS3 users, people are correcting other peoples spelling and grammar mistakes. Sony makes great hardware, their software is crap. Before anyone starts beating up on me, either on my views or spelling/grammar mistakes, think about the PS3 browser. It’s also a piece of crap. DIVX playback; crap (why only v5 and above). Yes that’s only two concerns (of a long list) but hey I just spelt spelled wrong. Let the abuse begin.
Neutralandy January 2, 2009
Nice tactics eanr tell everyone they are going to abuse you to try and prevent them from doing so. and we are the only console with an internet browser if im correct so why complain about it, it works okay. Home is fun, cant wait to play the final product.
Neutral