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[xero273]

That's a late 10 thing. Contractual stuff with MS apparently is holding that back until then.

ok, thanks for the info.

 

[arstal]

Really, the only area I want Sony to feature match MS in the present is matchmaking servers. The netcodes don't seem different switching from MS to Sony, but the matchmaking is definitely slower.

Cross-game chat is a minor plus, but it's not something I'd use much.

 

[DMeisterJ]

So, well, yeah...
http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2009/10/30-62
Don't usually pimp my own links, but I know other sites are going to grab it w/o a source

Not gonna happen in 2009 as planned.

Bah.

 

[expy]

So ND leak was a bad leak? lol

 

[gofreak]

So ND leak was a bad leak? lol

Sony is not unknown for changing their mind on fw features at the last minute, or more specifically their timetable for it.

I doubt this is the first time x-game chat has been pushed back.

I'm sure when the ND guy said that, it was the best info available at the time.

 

[Jim]

So ND leak was a bad leak? lol

It was definitely scheduled to be released "before the end of 2009".
That's all ND knew. This was a very recent update.

 

[Lagspike_exe]

Well, I hope that Sony will make a 2010 Q1 update with a nice list of upgrades...

 

[Norml]

I thought Sony said no more big updates after FW 3.0 this year because people were complaining.

 

[Totobeni]

So, well, yeah...
http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2009/10/30-62
Don't usually pimp my own links, but I know other sites are going to grab it w/o a source

Not gonna happen in 2009 as planned.

EA: (laughs)



on serious note ,well they need to take their time and test it well before releasing it so it don't break games ( 3.0 and Uncharted for example ) , so I hope the delay give us better results next year.

 

[Dead Prince]

So are we going to shit up the Playstation forum or ND? :lol

soo stupid with the delay.

 

[Oni Jazar]

That really sucks, with all the good news the PS3 is getting with $299, Slim, Demon's Souls, Uncharted 2, Ratchet, Netflix... having cross game chat would've just been the perfect icing on the cake.

Ah well, the good news is at least it's comming! Hopefully sooner rather then later.

 

[androvsky]

Funny thing is the only reason I'm interested in cross-game chat is for the other features the firmware team can concentrate on once that's out of the way. There's been too much teasing lately about PS2 emulation for that to be just a pipe-dream, and there's always the hope that the cross-game chat work will make universal in-game custom soundtracks more likely.

 

[thuway]

FUCK . IT will only do everything in 2010 than.

 

[badcrumble]

Funny thing is the only reason I'm interested in cross-game chat is for the other features the firmware team can concentrate on once that's out of the way. There's been too much teasing lately about PS2 emulation for that to be just a pipe-dream, and there's always the hope that the cross-game chat work will make universal in-game custom soundtracks more likely.

They've been able to concentrate on other stuff for a while, I assume, because cross-game chat has been available for devkits since 2.80. Likewise with universal in-game custom soundtracks. These things are more of a debugging issue, I believe, and that's not all on the SCEW firmware team.

 

[Norml]

That really sucks, with all the good news the PS3 is getting with $299, Slim, Demon's Souls, Uncharted 2, Ratchet, Netflix... having cross game chat would've just been the perfect icing on the cake.

Ah well, the good news is at least it's comming! Hopefully sooner rather then later.

I wonder if that would work because you can't access the XMB with a BD movie disc

 

[AndyD]

Le sigh. Guess they were for real when they said 3.0 would be the last this year. Thanks for the update though, Jim.

I am guessing this too. They probably dont want to mess with anything around the holidays as the sales pick up and newbies start coming on board.

That and if anything goes wrong, you dont want people having issues Xmas morning with no one in the office to fix it until after the holidays.

 

[see5harp]

...Xi doesn't necessarily take resources away from firmware/API development.

You could have fooled me.

 

[AndyD]

You could have fooled me.

I thought it was a different team/division/department/developer group that works on that stuff. One team does just firmware/API (I think in Japan), and all the content is done elsewhere (in Europe I think).

 

[androvsky]

I thought it was a different team/division/department/developer group that works on that stuff. One team does just firmware/API (I think in Japan), and all the content is done elsewhere (in Europe I think).

Xi wasn't even made by a Sony studio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDreams