Last night at GDC 2010, Jack Buser discussed some new statistics to promote PlayStation Home. Jack Buser is the American Director of PlayStation Home and is often seen appearing in video interviews and promoting PlayStation Home in the states.

Even though PlayStation Home has only been available for 15 months, 12 million users have logged in to create their own avatar. 85% of them returning again. According to the presentation, Sodium One had 1.3 “engagements” in it’s first six weeks alone, with a massive 25% of those users who checked out the free Salt Shooter game. purchasing the full version.

…the usual team creating these Home titles is between four and seven members and the development cycle is between five and 12 months depending on what type of game it is. There are more than 3,000 items in Home, and players are buying them…

Some very impressive statistics from the last year in Home. PlayStation Home is certainly showing the world what it’s capable of.

Source: IGN (image: Joystiq)

Wondering why there is so much news at the moment? This week is GDC (Game Developer’s Conference) where everybody is talking about the latest ideas and features of their hardware and platforms.

PlayStation Home has had a number of talks this week, and today, Home have been discussing popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter at one of these events.

IGN was at the conference today and gave us this report:

…the folks behind Sony’s free social platform told a roomful of developers that the tech is now available for them to give gamers the option to update their Facebook and Twitter pages from Home with accomplishments they’ve earned. Basically, you’d finish one of the mini-games in Home, and the title would offer to let you update your page with your score, the victory in general, or whatever the developer has decided to let you celebrate.

The other use for this tech would be or turn-by-turn games that are played over a long period of time, like chess. If a game has turned this option on and the users have enabled it, they could get Facebook messages notifying them when it’s their turn to make a move.

An interesting idea to move PlayStation Home into the wider online world. Would you want social networking features such as this in PlayStation Home?

Source: IGN