Next Home Beta Coming This Month, Want In?

By Paul Munn | August 7, 2008

Themes on the PlayStation Store have been free, letting end-users advertise games and even make their own using special software, and today’s Store update contains something clever. It’s a PlayStation Home theme that, when downloaded, automatically enters you into consideration for an upcoming expansion of the PlayStation Home beta.

Those in the beta today, such as myself, are automatically going to be included in the beta upgrade coming “at the end of this month”. Those who download this Home Theme will have their PlayStation Network “activity” used along with other criteria to determine if they will be chosen for the new beta. I’m guessing that means that if you never play anything online or don’t stay logged into the PSN most of the time they’ll just pick someone more likely to actually use Home. Or maybe they want to bring in folks who very casually use the online features of the PlayStation Network to see what they think.

Seen on the PlayStation Blog.