hi guys... i just got started with school (as I'm sure a lot of other people just did too), so I haven't been able to post all that much.

anyway... like my title said, I think PlayStation Home will not be here for a while.

Why do I think this? Well, some of the things that have happened relating to Home surprise me. First of all, www.homebetatrial.com, the official Home Beta website, was risen early this year, and updated only ONE TIME (which was merely adding bilingual stuff). It still reads "Keep checking back to register an interest in an exclusive CLOSED beta trial of Home." Closed? The Closed beta has been underway since April, and the website still hasn't been appropriately updated.

Second, They announced an open beta multiple times, and pretty confidently too. And it doesn't seem like they'd ditch the idea. However, if they didn't delay the launch, Open beta testers would have a mere approx 30 days before the release of home to find bugs and inconveniences, and sony would have to implement any needed changes and rush the final build of Home out just in time for the beginnning-of-october launch (launch date from: IGN.com). I seriously doubt that they would ditch the Open Beta idea.

Third, they have just about no first-party official info about home out. All of us have pretty much a very vague picture of home in our minds, because Sony so far has failed to release an official website, or even a descent information page about Home. The only sources we have is the closed beta vids on YouTube and the third party Press sites (like GameSpot and IGN).

It will truly be interesting to see if Sony will release Home on time, or if they will yet again manage to take one of their most highly-anticipated new products, and turn it into a launch failure, similar to that of the PlayStation 3 itself.