Edge writes: "PlayStation Home, the much-anticipated hub of the PlayStation community, isn't so much a new build as a renovation. It wasn't just conceived at SCEE's internal Team Soho (now simply London Studio), during production of mockney crime caper The Getaway – it was The Getaway.
What if, it was asked, rather than shoot and smash your way out of this picture-perfect capital, you could move in? What if you could rent an apartment and find your own entertainment, not within the confines of script and console but online, together?
"Those days," recalls producer Martijn Van Der Meulen, "when the PS2 broadband adaptor had just been released, there was just this interest in experimentation." It was a surreal proposition, for sure, back when broadband cost the Earth for those lucky enough to live near a telephone exchange, and even then flowed like cement."
Benjamin Rivers has suggested that it is “totally possible” for two of his titles — Alone With You and Home — to be ported to Nintendo Switch.
I recently published an article about beating my Steam backlog by getting organised and the first game I’ve completed with this new approach is Home.
I chose Home not because of its production values or reviews, but because, well, it’s short. I needed a game to start my new approach on the right foot and read that Home takes less than two hours to beat.
Whatever my reasons for finally installing Home, I found it to be an enjoyable yet flawed title.
Handheld Players takes a look at the PS Vita new releases in February 2018.
