Sunday Star-Times

Audi Space

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Back in 2009 Sony’s PlayStatio­n Home online community for the PS3 was definitely going to be the next big thing. Most definitely. It was gonna be huge. PlayStatio­n users could have a virtual apartment in a virtual town and interact with other users in a variety of town squares, shops and community spaces. It was destined to be massive. At the same time Audi was launching its e-tron brand for EVs, and decided to get in on the guaranteed hugeness of PlayStatio­n Home by releasing an Audi-dedicated space, becoming the first carmaker to do so. It was going to be huge. Except it wasn’t. PlayStatio­n Home never made it out of Beta and was quietly shuttered in 2015…

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