As intriguing to dedicated PlayStation 3 gamers as the PlayStation Home virtual social network might be, even the higher-ups at Sony are willing to admit it has experienced certain issues. To address these problems, the PlayStation Home is being redesigned and revamped to improve the service’s overall experience, according to IGN.
In the previous version of Home, the news source reports that players gathered their virtual avatars in a shared meeting place called the Central Plaza to communicate. The new iteration of Home will replace that with the Hub, a similar but significantly expanded feature that will offer a number of exclusive games and challenges, while retaining the original purpose of the Plaza.
Jake Buser, director of the Home feature for Sony, explains the driving motivation behind the retooling of the social network.
“If you take a bunch of gamers and stick them in a room together and tell them to meet one another and talk, they don’t necessarily do that,” Buser told IGN. “You got to give them something to do. And specifically, you got to give them games to play.”
Recently, Sony announced it was expanding another aspect of PlayStation social networking, the forthcoming PS Vita, adding Facebook, Twitter, Skype and foursquare applications to the service.
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