I think Playstation Home was underrated and underutilized. To have a community-building tool available right from the get go, and actually centered around video games and not some social media shit, was amazing. Developers could showcase upcoming games with their own space, and give out virtual hats and t-shirts for completing some sort of related minigame to generate interest. I remember one time they had a whole E3 showcase area. Not to mention a quick way to find people with similar interests. It could be an easy place to bother people too–a lot of young kids pretending they're tough by being in some sort of game clan get very upset when you interrupt their conversations.
Sadly they closed the entire thing because I suppose Sony wasn't making 8 billion dollars a second. I'm hoping they bring it back somehow. If money's what they're so concerned about, all they need to do tie some of the inconsequential minigame rewards to some shit mobile grind/pay to circumvent grind system. In fact, that's what many spaces were doing, albeit to a lesser extent. Also the graphics kinda stunk–if they stylized it instead of trying to go for realism, enough of the casual audience would eat it up.
I miss it. I miss it a lot.