Comments on: Rumour: “£40 million spent on Home so far,” says man on train

By: OrphanageExplosion

OrphanageExplosion — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:02:39 +0000

I listened in on the conversations of Penny Arcade staffers on the Shuttle Bus to E3 a couple of years ago. It confirmed everything I knew to be true about how completely unfunny and wrong about gaming that site is.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:44:17 +0000

He could have been bulding a detached hoem with a PS2 based media system, until the PS3 came out, and ruined it.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:41:41 +0000

Did they happen to mention what the point of it all was?

By: Truk

Truk — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:36:50 +0000

Well I’m fairly certain the PS2 side of things has been reported before, which would explain the five years point and go some way towards explaining the 50 million price. In other words, doesn’t sound unlikely to me.

By: Quiiick

Quiiick — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:33:39 +0000

@ pjmaybe
Anyone’s OWN home wouldn’t have a closed or even public beta …

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:11:56 +0000

How does Pat actually know he was talking about HOME and not his own home…?

Oh the PS2 bit

By: Syrok

Syrok — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:55:20 +0000

His name is Garratt. Patrick Garratt.

By: SticKboy

SticKboy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:54:26 +0000

Good reporting, nice work.

By: prodygee

prodygee — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:49:34 +0000

5 years. Wow, then.. Home should be really deep.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:42:32 +0000

They shoudl Scrap the human side of it, and make the avatars in Home, sackboys/girls.

Much better.

By: JamieSI

JamieSI — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:39:24 +0000

The man on the train didn’t happen to work at Game did he?

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:37:38 +0000

Five years, £40m?!? :O

I thought Home was originally built on the bones of a cancelled MMO? Maybe they’re counting the dev costs from that.