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Loading ...If you were waiting for the 2.4 Firmware update for the PS3 to cure your in-game communication woes with the “in game XMB support”, then you are probably pissed off right now.
Either apply the 2.4 update bricked your PS3 as a good handful of people are reporting online or you noticed that trying to do anything other than text-message from inside a game requires you to exit the game.
Awesome
So this feature that has been in PC gaming for more than 10 years now, Sony still can’t figure out how to do.
To clarify, voice chat has always been supported in multiplayer-games that provide it, but on the Xbox 360 you can invite individual friends to private chat channels regardless of what either of you is doing. This is sort of like being on the phone with a friend while you both do something else. This also helps when you just want to talk with a close friend and play a multiplayer game together, but don’t want to sit in the game’s chat channel and listen to all the other multi-tards and angry 9-year-olds scream at each other.
Sony maybe have the tech lead over Microsoft, but their complete inability to understand their market is really surprising to me. It’s like Sony Japan (folks that develop the firmware) don’t listen to any of the screaming feedback coming out of Sony America.
Ahh well… it’s still an awesome Blu-ray player and Media Device… and the games sure look pretty, so I’ll forgive it.
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July 8th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Yea, Private Chat Would Be Awesome
July 9th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
i so freaking know! damn, ever since i got my PS3 in 06 i’ve wanted in game chat! every single update that comes out i check to see if they add it. this article says it all, why the fudge can everyone else seem to figure this out except Sony?
July 9th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
setotitan,
We have some hookups at Sony and we asked them this, and essentially the problem boils down to this:
* American’s love multiplayer/multi-chat/online-tools/etc.
* Japanese don’t care about it all
And unfortunately, the Firmware/PS3 platform development team is entirely done at the Japanese headquarters.
So while Sony-America can bitch and scream all day for online support, Sony Japan just doesn’t see the importance of it because in *Their* reality, “no one cares”.
I don’t understand this personally… I mean jesus, you only need to say 1 thing to prove that it’s important: “World of Warcraft”
Ummmm… biggest game ever anywhere… I think that proves that people like online support for stuff
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:26 am
well now in all their worldly godness they have released the 2.70 patch for the ps3 oh and guess what? yup you have got it, no in game private chat, but to keep us, the American market, quiet they gave us private in game texting, yay, i am sorry but who has time in the middle of a heated firefight to say “wo wo wo hang on guys, stop firing at me, cant you see i am texting a friend here” i mean come on sony, listen to one of your largest markets here, give us something back, and please dont make me regret selling my previous console to replace it with one that the has nothing to offer me beyond its launch date specs!!!
October 15th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
i have got to say that i am extremely disapointed.I had a friend who has been nagging me and nagging me to make the jump over from xbox 360 to ps3 so i finally did.Now i find out that they are so behind the times that they dont even support online private chat.WOW!Im considering going back to xbox.That to me is one of the most important things especially when playing co-op games online such as the call of duty games.Oh man im just so disapointed right now.
October 16th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Mark,
Sorry you made the jump over and had the disappointing experience — if you play online a lot and want a solid online experience, Xbox 360 hands-down wins.
If you need the Blu-ray and do a lot of solo gaming, PS3 is a great choice.
And if you always have a ton of friends over and throw parties a lot, the Wii is great.
They really do service different areas of gaming… and FWIW, I think the Xbox 360 controller is a hell of a lot more comfortable than the PS3 one.