Jack Buser, PlayStation Home director, has a promise that Home will be open to everyone by the end of 2008.

“Like we’ve said, we’re excited about moving PlayStation Home into its open beta stage this year. Once we make the move to open beta, everyone will have access to PlayStation Home.PlayStation Home is nearing the final stages of our closed beta. Last week we successfully moved to our 1.0 client, which places us on schedule for the launch of open beta this year.”

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