Sony: PlayStation Home Will 'Stay in Open Beta for Some Time,' Has 'Superseded Expectations'

The PlayStation 3's free "3D social gaming community" service PlayStation Home will retain its "open beta" label for quite a while, according to Home director Jack Buser.

"We quite like the name 'open beta,' so you can expect us to stay in open beta for some time," the Sony employee said in a Kotaku video podcast. "Whether we ever exit out of that into some other phase of our existence, that's [to be determined]."

Buser explained that "open beta" is "sort of synonymous with our idea of launch, in that we really want to emphasize that what you see in Home on any particular day is subject to change. Home is a living, breathing, evolving, growing platform."

"You're gonna see this world rapidly scale with new stuff to do, new spaces, new virtual items, new content, all the time and it's just going to grow rapidly," he vowed.

The director was also extremely optimistic about the service's reception. "We're all so happy," he said. "I think it's even superseded everyone's expectations. People are not only coming in and using the service, but they're coming back."