PlayStation Home Updates Core Client to Version 1.4

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Hey everyone!

Great news: On Thursday, November 11th, PlayStation Home will update to version 1.4. This update to the core client will have an enormous impact on users and developers alike, as it is literally jam-packed with new and revised features. A full list of these features will be posted next week, but before the weekend hits I wanted to hop in here and give you all a sneak peek at some of the exciting new features that will be coming with this update.

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Grouping and Voice Chat
That’s right – voice chat is coming back! With version 1.4 you will be able to form a “Group” with up to 8 people and chat with one another in both public and personal spaces. The best part is that these groups will have dedicated voice and text chat channels that allow you to speak to members of your group regardless of where each of you may be located in-world! New voice and chat channels will also be made available for clubs, making communication with other members of your club much easier.

Wardrobe Improvements
Alongside improved voice chat, many of you have asked for additional inventory/wardrobe management features. Our development team has taken your requests very seriously and have instituted sweeping improvements, including:

  • You will now have the ability to mark items as “Favorites” – making commonly-used items much easier to relocate.
  • Newly-acquired items (along with categories that contain new items) will be marked accordingly.
  • Options for filtering and sorting items have been added, giving you greater control over which items you see and how they are displayed.

There is also a new “Storage” section that will be added to your wardrobe so you can store away items that you do not regularly use. For those with a lot of items in their wardrobe, placing items into storage will result in your wardrobe loading faster, and will make it easier for you to browse your main wardrobe. This system is very flexible and allows you to quickly restore items to your main wardrobe when you need them.

While these are some of the most important changes associated with version 1.4, this does not represent the entire scope of the update. Trust me – we have tons of cool stuff in store for you next week ;) Stay tuned to this blog for a more in-depth list of all the awesome features and improvements coming your way next Thursday.

See you in Home!

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  • Sounds intriguing. Any chance this will be pushed through an automatic download?

  • Sweet! Keep up the good work.

  • awesome news

  • Sounds good!!!

  • cross game voice chat please

  • Yall give voice chat to home but no dam cross game chat or party chat.. i swear yall are backwords

  • Sounds good, cant wait to try it out. Home is really comming along nicely. This is my first comment on the blog!

  • Seems Like a step in the right direction. Hopefully we will have these dedicated voice channels across games!

  • Its about time.. geezzzz

  • Sounds like a winner. I just hope you guys figure out away to better incorporate Playstation Home with either PSN or PS3 games to give users more of a reason to come in. But can’t wait for the update!

  • Best news of the week. Can’t wait to try out the new client.

  • Awesome news! Can’t wait!

  • Holy moley, sounds almost too good to be true. I’ll have to wait and see what happens on Veterans’ Day, then.

  • Cross Voice Chat over all games and then I’ll be interested

    And yea I 2nd making Home more integrated into the overall PS3/PSN experience. Cuz currently, Home makes no sense to me and I see no real reason to use it

  • Love it, can’t wait. Why can’t people queue up on the siren space? Love that siren mini game on home

  • that voice chat needs to be for the psn period if you could incorporate voice game chat like it would be awesome no question.

  • Yes Public Voice Chat is back! I guess that means now I’ll go back and see whats happened in HOME. Haven’t been on there in a few months :)

  • You guys do a better job than the entire ps team.. now tell them to work on chat *cough cough* cross game *cough*

  • Once HOME is faster than dial-up, I will think about going on, till then, no thanks!

  • MAN IM DYING TO SEE A PLAYSTATION MOVE SUPORT. IN HOMEEEEE

  • YES! Changing my shirt in Home is such a pain. (I have so many freebie shirts I don’t wear that they are just clogging up my inventory now)So glad you guys organized this. Can’t wait to try it out. I like the voice chat in public spaces feature. Still wish it was more like the closed beta where you could hear anyone within range. But I guess the grouping option is probably better. Great to hear Home is getting updated and you guys are still listening and working on these features. Sounds like a great update LS.

    • For what its worth, I strongly prefer the new version of voice chat over the one that was tested in closed beta. It makes managing your conversations with others much, much easier. But try it for yourself come Thursday and then let us know your thoughts over at the official PlayStation Home forums.

  • This is gonna be one of my favorites for
    PS3 updates cuz i Use home alot..to visit with My Pals and such…so They will be thrilled to hear about this
    Thank you for Such Awsome news

  • When will we see a trophy room?

  • Everytime I try to update Home, my ps3 just shuts off. It’s been a while now so I can never get on there. Where can I re-download Home?

  • Took long enough Home sucked without voice chat in open areas except for one on one calls..glad to hear it’s back with group chat..it might even bring me back on it.

  • decorating our Personal Space with NO LIMIT. :)

  • this is gonna be sweet

  • Is there any hope for the trophy room?

  • Perfect. Thank you for the wonderful news.

  • ***HERES PRAYING FOR THE HALL OF FAME ROOM (AKA TROPHY ROOM) FROM 2007***

  • and more interactive things like, cars, motorcycles, bikes, skateboard, scuba-diving, to be more entertaining. I’m tired of walking around. lol. I’m serious. :), i know you can do this SONY. :) and more freebies. ;)

  • Group Party Chat in Home…..Does that mean we are One Step Closer to getting PS3 PARTY CHAT?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?

    Please, say it is so.

  • Voice chat, Is this for use only with users on your friends list or can you invite people in public areas to voice chat together if you so wish???

  • You know — I don’t find Home terrible or anything — but I don’t use it very often. Every now and then I’ll go into the application and check out whatever’s new. If there’s one thing that bugs me, though, it’s that it feels very… slow, I guess?

    Maybe it’s the speed that the character moves or other users’ avatars being crystal-clear for so long (loading, constantly) that makes it feel that way, but is there anyway to make Home feel less… well, laggy?

    Hope you take my feedback. Only trying to help out with any potential improvement possible.

  • I posted an idea a while back about a party chat feature but was never aproved, Its a huge WIN to see it out regardless! this is a perfect public gathering tool for all the clangroups on Home!!!

  • WoW phone a friend on steroids. But that is the better way to do it. I like the wardrobe changes now if we could get closets in Personal Spaces to put them. But I would like to see then ID’d so that you can find your shirts quicker. I know that would take time to create but maybe in 2025.

  • How about using Move with Home?

  • MotorStorm 1 Trophy Patch!

  • Awesome update can’t wait to see if there has been any changes to the overall environment like more wallpaper for my free apartment XD

  • trading and selling stuff that you don’t want in Home. :) lol.

  • Oh my!

    I hope Sony adds some kind of way to boot up Home right after you turn on your PS3. Since they removed Linux as an “Other OS”, they should add the feature back, but instead of Linux, use Home as another OS.

    I know I’ll live in Home now. I won’t get out of there starting Thursday, and I’ll try to convince my friends to do the same.

  • HAHA PlayStation Home gets party chat before PS3 itself. Figures.

  • Could your team work with team that should be delivering cross game chat to the community to help them get their act together and get us that feature.

  • I see that the wardrobe will let us “store” items to speed up loading… but will the wardrobe itself load faster? What I mean is loading up my wardrobe today and loading it post patch update, will I see speed improvements even if I don’t manage my wardrobe by storing items? It used to load up a lot faster before and it’s now one of the reasons why I avoid Home as changing clothing can take up to 15-20 minutes, depending on how many articles of clothing I want to change and where they are located in my list :/

  • I’m going to be honest..HOME right now its OK.. This new means you guys are heading in the right direction..

    I have a feeling that HOME will one day replace the XMB..I don’t mean completely replace but the XMB as we not will be running in the back ground of HOME or better integrated.

  • This is great… I’m really looking forward to it. Will the volume depend on proximity or will all of your group be the same volume? I hope it’s surround sound… ie, if the guy is to the left then the sound comes from the left… that’d make it much easier to hear the separate voices.

    I really hope 1.4 lets us play our own music to ourselves. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time, as Home is so quiet at times. You could even add a “Now listening to…” display under the ID of the people that you meet, that way it’d be easy to find new friends who have the same taste in music as you.

    What do you think?

  • AWESOME!!! The storage & voice/text chat groups are really needed. Thank you for making this happen. Now if you can somehow infiltrate and then influence the fine folks that manage the PS Store to give us a sortable download list, then most of the world’s problems would be solved. :D

  • sounds good man. thanks

  • YEAH IT’S KINDA BACK!

    Do I now have to open up the menu, go thru different headings until i find it, or is it a easy 2 click process?
    1. ADD Brian to Group Chat?
    2. Remove Brian from group chat?

    Most conversations are with 1 or 2 people as your checking out the mall, the playgorund, theater etc.. But this is much better then no chat at all. It’s 1 area, you kinda control, but in the end the same crap is gonna happen.

    Soon you will hear some girl was talking in a group, they added someone to it, then that new person starts cursing, making sexual overtones etc

    .Which brings me to this question?
    In the Group Chat settings, will there still be an option to REPORT members, based on their behavior etc? Will it start recirding, so to speak when you click on Report?

    I hope this works, but there is always going to be that 1 person who finds a loophole, or finds his way in, then turns evil and we’ll be hearing about someone getting harrassed an hour into 1.4

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