Watch as all your PS3 dreams come true in this 2.40 video
See the guy in the video above? That's Eric Lempel and he's about to show off the number one requested feature for the PlayStation 3; in-game XMB. This feature is only half of what we can expect in firmware 2.40, which is due out "soon." Watch as Eric effortlessly receives and responds to messages whilst playing a game, swaps immediately from GT5:P to PixelJunk Monsters, switches in some background music from the PS3's HDD and ... searches on google.
There's more to come in another video later today, which will show off the trophy system. Not only that, but keep your eyes peeled right here for more detailed, exclusive info on what's to come.
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6-30-2008 @ 3:12AM
Shaun said...
Stayed up at GT.com all night for this. Time for bed.
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6-30-2008 @ 4:10AM
bboston7 said...
haha, I stayed up at the playstation blog!
6-30-2008 @ 7:24AM
Hashbrown Hunter said...
haha that's sad!
6-30-2008 @ 3:13AM
Calvin said...
Woo. I posted a heads up about this before in your "Contact us" section, glad i woke up earlier for school today haha.
Calvin
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6-30-2008 @ 3:13AM
DankandSticky said...
"later today"...doubt it...
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6-30-2008 @ 3:16AM
Mike said...
Wonder what the Sony haters will complain about now???
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6-30-2008 @ 3:26AM
Martez said...
No cross-game voice chat.
6-30-2008 @ 4:01AM
deusmecha said...
If you look closely during when they guy is in the XMB during GT5:P, you can see the little symbol used for video chatting.
So, I'm assuming that you can also access that during gameplay.
6-30-2008 @ 4:30AM
Rowdehaj said...
Well, the voice/video chat feature is another full-screen application, so it's likely that they'll ask you to quit the game to access it. Also, if it did work like you say, wouldn't they demonstrate the hell out of it? I think this would be a good feature for 2.50. When that comes out in like 2050.
;) I kid... I kid... But we're already complaining about features missing in a much-clamoured for UNRELEASED update!
8-15-2008 @ 7:09PM
ChiefBroady said...
Well, I am no Sony hater, i love my PS3. But Stutterfree mp4 playback over wireless again would be nice. This worked grate some Updates ago. No it's just no good any more.
6-30-2008 @ 3:16AM
Dustin said...
what a birthday present from Sony to me! yea! cant wait. In the leaked Bioshock version, when the ps button was press, the game auto paused. now it doesn't, but that's ok.
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6-30-2008 @ 3:49AM
sibbor said...
"In the leaked Bioshock version, when the ps button was press, the game auto paused"
It's up to the game developers to choose whether to pause or not pause the game when the Home button is pushed. For example, GTA IV is paused, but many other games is not. Although GTA IV in this particulary case doesn't un-pause the game when you push the Home button to get back to the game. That's a feature I would love to see in more games.
Now let's just hope we see a lot of small game patches in the very near future to take full advantage of 2.40+:
* Allowing support for pause functionality (no doubt Sony could implement this themselves though)
* Options to automatically turn off game music once XMB music starts playing
* Removal of already existing friends list in the game (for example, Burnout Paradise - no need for friends list integrated now when it's an XMB feature.
* Support for trophies... there's always these rumors that games already got support for it, so just hope that's true. We'll see more trophies in the feature - also no doubt.
Only time will tell. Good work Sony, this is an awesome update!!
6-30-2008 @ 6:45AM
benny boy said...
Notice at 5:09 he says it only "supports the majority of games on the PS3".
Does that mean that some games don't support in-game XMB, or just certain features of it. That really would suck. Let's hope it's only a small minority of games that don't support it.
6-30-2008 @ 3:25AM
Solid_Snake said...
this is fantastatic. Pretty much everything I wanted shown in one video. Hmmm, that guy who released the photos of the trophies said that unless no other delay, to expect the firmware update July 1st or 2nd. I think i'm going to have to believe him. :-)
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6-30-2008 @ 3:28AM
NotSafe4Work said...
Looking good. Can't wait for this.
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6-30-2008 @ 3:40AM
PirateKitty said...
What's with Sony and The Go Team? First they're in LittleBigPlanet and now this.
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7-02-2008 @ 9:37PM
Asher said...
haha yea i cough that too. It seems they are getting more and more exposure.
6-30-2008 @ 3:45AM
TriFF51 said...
do you have some inside info that part 2 is later today? Cause he said in the next few days right.
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6-30-2008 @ 3:46AM
Rowdehaj said...
Absolutely awesome! I was totally not expecting this! :D
*Scurries over to the PS blog for praise and worship*
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6-30-2008 @ 3:51AM
Alex said...
i wanna be able to talk to just my friends in game, like in warhawk, do you think this will happen?
or would that be only a feature built into games, or not
Id hope you could set up a chat room and continue the chat in the back while you played a game. This could also technically work between two different games.
*crosses fingers*
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