Want into the PlayStation Home Closed Beta Test? Here’s How to Apply

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Today we’re announcing the expansion of our closed beta test for PlayStation Home to begin at the end of the month.

Home Theme

Later today, the PLAYSTATION Store will be updated with a PlayStation Home theme. By downloading the theme, users are submitting an application to join the PlayStation Home Beta test community. We will be using a variety of criteria including activity on the PLAYSTATION Network to determine eligibility for the Beta community. Existing beta testers have automatically qualified to be part of the expanded beta.

We’re really excited about this milestone and want our most loyal fans to be a part of the evolution of PlayStation Home.

In Europe, SCEE is also beginning their expanded closed beta, directly targeting consumers who have been most active on PLAYSTATION Network and PLAYSTATION Store. SCEE will be in email contact with their PSN audience very shortly.

Let us know what you think.

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  • Mabye Home Crashed Or Was Disintegrated Blown Up With Dynamite Or Just Was Cancelled

    ArgON_MaN age14

    Mabye We Should Just Turn of the PS3 For one Day And Wait 1 More Day To See And Then Check Tommorrow The Beta Might just Be Out Tommorrow………i Guess SONY might Just Say.

  • Maybe they lost the keys….

  • The forums are an uproar (seems usual on the HOME forums) I don’t think there was enough clarification in the “download the theme for your chance to get into the HOME expanded beta” post here. We can see this in the comments already posted above. Any clarification on perhaps when expanded beta invites go out in NA (other than the previous testers getting theirs) would be awesome. I’m thinking it’s been started, but only for the existing beta testers, and y’all are just waiting to figure out the numbers before inviting any of us “regular” people from the mentioned application process. I always seemed to be last picked for anything these days, but would just like some info. Anything at all, I want to go home…..

  • mabye a burglar robbing it so tey need the police to say its safe to go in

  • Anyone Gotten Any E-Mail At All

  • Mabye the judging started at the end of the month august was just to apply to it and this month is judging

  • Home Beta (Delayed till October)
    Socom Confrontation (Delayed till Sept 5)
    Life with Home (Delayed till October)

  • @ArgON_MaN
    No, they even said “Playstation Home to *BEGIN* at the end of the month” and they also said that this will be their last beta till they bring out Home officially, which is late October. So everyone can relax, I found out the new release home beta date. We still got to wait to the end of this month.

  • Thats Ashame By the way my PSN ID is a bunch of jibberish

  • CanadianWolf
    Where did you Find Out The new Release date

  • Looks like the N.A. Invites have gone out…over on PSU.com tons of people are talking about how they got in….however…very sadly I am not one of them.

  • I’m guessing Thursday, Since PSN seems to update only on Thursdays.

  • I’m in The Playstation Underground and Network And Have Not Been Chosen

  • I received the invite today… via E-mail

    WELCOME TO HOME BETA
    Dear PLAYSTATION®Network User,

    Thank you for downloading the PLAYSTATION®Home Theme! You have been selected to help beta test the next phase of PlayStation®Home’s evolution.

    As a Beta Tester, you will be expected to help shape the PLAYSTATION®Home experience by providing feedback and submitting to us any issues you may find. We appreciate your help in making the PLAYSTATION®Home experience the best it can be!

    In addition, you can now access the PLAYSTATION®Home Beta feedback website. Here you can access the forums and communicate with other Beta testers, or fill out a problem report form. In the problem report, you can outline any problems you experienced with the Beta, and let us know of any great ideas you have for new features.

    To get access to these great beta tools, simply sign in using your PlayStation.com account email address* and password and create a Message Board Handle (if you don’t already have one). If you do not yet have a PlayStation.com account, just follow the prompts to register and create your Message Board Handle.

    How to download
    After you have signed in with your PLAYSTATION®Network Account, select [Account Management] on the XMB™ (XrossMediaBar) interface located under the “PLAYSTATION®Network” tab, then select [Transaction Management] and click on the option [Redeem PLAYSTATION®Network Card or Promotion Code]. Enter the following unique code to start the download of PLAYSTATION®Home Closed Beta Client:

    XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

    Please note: The unique code is case sensitive and must be entered exactly as displayed. Only the PSN Online ID associated with this email address will be able to access the PLAYSTATION®Home Closed Beta. Please review and accept the terms and conditions associated with the PLAYSTATION®Home Closed Beta.

    Thank you for your continued support of the PLAYSTATION®Network, and we look forward to seeing you in PLAYSTATION®Home.

    Yours truly,

    The PLAYSTATION®Network
    Sony Computer Entertainment America

  • congrats MrCamo…you lucky guy you….I cant wait to get my hands on it!

  • Well, so much for my Thursday Theory, heh..

    I didn’t get picked either. :(

    Trying really really hard not to say ‘them grapes is sour!!’ LOL…

    Oops.. Guess I just did.. Heh..

    Still, a bummer, but it’s supposed to be open to all before the end of the year, so.. ….Ohmmmmmmmm…..

    Ciao, my fellow homeless peeps!

  • hey jack come on give us some info i want home bad the wait is killing me

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  • wow, no invite… i haven’t been this disappointed since the Christmas when i was 7 (i’m 25 now) and my mom got me Raphael instead of Leonardo… i told her it was the blue one… but i got leo eventually, maybe i’ll get home one of these days too. thanks for the let down.

    (the last time i get so excited for something like that again)

  • I didn’t get an invite yet and I got the theme the day it came out. Also I had the home beta when it was originally available in may of 07 and I thought those people automatically got into the the closed beta.

  • I am Sony fanboy #1 with a ps2 ps3 and psp Home is going to be sooo great can’t wait to get my hands on it and i must say jack you are looking very handsome theses days. In all seriousness home will be the next step the other platfroms won’t be able to touch. thank you SOOO MUCH Sony you rock:)

  • sony yet disapoints alot of ppl, good job sony realy nice, but yet we get it rubbed in our face how “amazing” home is, but yet left out

  • So now we have it good work guys really a happy fan. Unfortunatly I didn’t get in so please please on the next batch please =X

  • Aww come on Sony let 1 more in, me smashpapaya. ive been waiting forever!

  • I received the invitation today and will be weekly so just calm down…

  • DEAR SONY,

    I HAVE REALLY BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SO CALLED “HOME” EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT, AND YES I KNOW “SPACE IS LIMITED,” BUT THATS NOT THE THING THAT IS DISAPOINTING EVERYONE….THE PROBLEM WITH THIS WHOLE SITUATION IS THAT WE AS CUSTOMERS ARE NOT BEING INFORMED AND ARE BEING LED ON WILD GOOSE CHASES “Today we’re announcing the expansion of our closed beta test for PlayStation Home to begin at the end of the month**********************.” I’M NO BRAINIAC BUT I THINK SEPTEMBER THE 2ND IS PAST THE END OF AUGUST!!!!!……I AM NOT ASKING TO BE INVITED INTO THE BETA, ALL I WANT IS (AT THE LEAST) INFORMATION, DATES, ETC. ABOUT THIS SO CALLED HOME. O AND BY THE WAY WHO SAYS THAT THIS GUY WHO CLAIMS HE WAS INVITED INTO THE BETA IS NOT JUST PULLING YOUR LEG……

    YOUR #1 FAN,
    PSN. KRP_THE_L3G3ND

  • dude this pisses me off… i download the theme on day 1 and no beta invites sent out in the us yet? for cryin out loud give us some info cuz im tired of running through 1000 emails of spam to find out if im gonna get an invite!

  • Hi SONY! Please send me an invite thanks.

  • ok invites went out. other places r reporting more comming weekly. For thos of us to not get in how about something offical from u about it? We have been hangin on every word,At least write something about whats going on. r invites over? Should we stop chking email every 5 minutes? Enough with the secricity already we deserve to know if we still have any chance to get in.

  • Ditto to the above statement. I just want to know if I should stop checking my e-mail. If you are done sending out invites (or even if you’re not), it’s not fair to leave the rest of us in the dark, possibly hanging on to a false hope that we still might get in.

  • Day Sept 3rd, still no home for me. I guess ill be homeless for awhile…

  • Hey Has Everyone Gotten Invites Yet??
    Are They All Out?? How Many Will There Be???
    Will There Be A List???

  • I didn’t get in yet, either. Maybe next week.

  • I got an invite!!!!

    THANK YOU SONY!!!

  • Lucky scorpio Did The Invite Come To PSN E-Mail Or Computer E-Mail??

  • SEnd me a invite sony thanks

  • SONY I Have Been Waiting Please Send me Invite

  • I think everyone who posted here should get beta invites. Clearly, we are the hardcore, and that’s exactly who you need to beta test this thing to get it ready for the public.

    My PSN is, of course, EvoAnubis. You already know my e-mail. I’m waiting.

  • Swear i saw you mrcamo in the theater

  • I agree with EvoAnubis, everyone that has posted a comment onto this blog are the ones that are clearly dying for home beta the most, because they are seeking information on the net every single day to be in home. But SONY probably gives it to people that hardly care, please send us ALL INVITES PLEASE SONY! Thanks*

  • PSN: CanadianWolf

  • PSN:jybb48olkjjhgaz3

  • No invite for me either :( I agree that the dedicated ppl here on the forum should have all gotten them, but…oh well. I guess the only betas that I’ll be playing are the ones I had to pay for i.e. Socom, Resistance 2..

  • Not sure if I did or didn’t. I forgot to change my email address from when I switched from DSL to Cable. I didn’t even think about it till last night. :( More than likely I didn’t get in.

  • Well you guys are actually lucky, you have SCEA that actually tries to inform you, here in SCEE country you don’t get any inormation at all, still haven’t heard of any danes that got in this time, a few swedes and norvegians but thats all.

    I didn’t get any invite or at least haven’t got any yet, still checking my mail several times a day hoping.

    This reminds me of the days i school – noone liked me there and always got picked last for soccer, think SCEA is doing the same – they don’t like their customers. It can’t be that I haven’t used PSN, bought for a LOT of money on the store and have been playing both Burnout, CoD4 and Warhawk – not a lot due to bandwith but that has changed, when I heard of the new HOME beta I upgraded the line so I got rid of the limit, so now I don’ have that problem anymore.

    I am really envious on you guys, you have a SONY division that actually listens and take care of you.

    //WhiteWolfDK

  • Don’t Think I Got In Either No Email
    and i switched email adresses so i dont think so

  • $ony loves to disappoint us they do it all the time im tired of it they just dont follow this notice how jack stop replying on the frist 2 pages even he lost intrest but i bett u hes on all the time im on my 2nd ps3 and it took a mounth to get mine back they sent the wrong sticker and box the resone i bought ps3 is remote play and home i bet you even bill gates from M$ got a invite and laughing it up im sad how could you do this to loyale people you wanna be the best but you just promise and fail so im not gonna say please give me a invite but i will say thank you for a lovey system and thanks for frimware 2.40 you didnt even test to put it out and messed alot of systems up $ony you are a FAILURE i use the ps3 maybe more than the next person i got the motorstorm 80gb $550 prople probly got home with the 40gb $399 and thats not fair my ps3 is on all day and no invite this is BS $ony life with playstation thats deleyed to so can u say $ony everythings fine grow up $ony its 2008 not ps2 era anymore people are smarter now they want specs info lanuch dates ect. all im gonna say is i got 360 and it sucks like ps3 with no home open your eyes $ony you wanna be better then M$ but well act like it give the people what they want dont come out asumming i want stupid stuff like the voice changer on voice chat what the hell are you thinking. hope you liked what i wrote cuz im pissed i want my $550 back without home its not worth that much to me i had it for a year thinking home would already be here but i forgot its a $ony thing they do hey lets **** this guy up

  • As I Said Earlier in comments we need a list of some sort we should find out how many were to be admitted and then peop;e who got admitted should post it so we know how many people are lest to be invited then we would all know if we made it yet or not. my PSN is jyb48oikjjhgazx3 send me if you have been admitted and i will post it then we will have our list

  • Just in case sony is considering allowing some bloggers to participate in the home beta my PSN ID is XCLRA8. Hope I get in, keepin my fingers crossed.

  • PSN. KRP_THE_L3G3ND

    I have another account PSN. KRP329

    Cmon give us some info?!?!?!?!?!

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