[Rumour] PS3 Cross game chat and why it's currently MIA - EA butthurt?

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I wouldn't expect an official statement to say much. EA certainly isn't going to admit to this and Sony isn't going to want to **** them off, either. I'd expect a typical PR response, you know something along the lines of "We have a great rapport with all of our developers!" or something similar.

Still, you never know, if enough people really do make a fuss about it, it might kick them enough into actually implementing it, even if they never admit this was a problem.

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I wouldn't expect an official statement to say much. EA certainly isn't going to admit to this and Sony isn't going to want to **** them off, either. I'd expect a typical PR response, you know something along the lines of "We have a great rapport with all of our developers!" or something similar.

Still, you never know, if enough people really do make a fuss about it, it might kick them enough into actually implementing it, even if they never admit this was a problem.

People are already torching the EA forums :laugh:

I think it might cause a big enough stir to at least have one of your typical PR responses, maybe even Sony just saying "we're still working on x-game voice chat".

As much as I hate the loyalists and 14 year old PS fanboys, they're the types of mentalists who'll now spend hours every day for the next few weeks writing "**** EA" on every gaming forum possible multiple times... Because if this is true I do second that notion, and hopefully such immature actions prompt a response to cull them.

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Yeah I just seen the EA forums, it's pretty bad there. Poor forum admins/mods are going to be up all night banning people lol.

I actually find this quite hillarious. The only thing that could make this better is if he posted again saying "Ahhhhhh GOT YA'S! HAHAHAHAHAHA!". I think if that happened, I might actually die laughing.

If he does post something like that and I stop posting here, you'll know why.

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Yeah I just seen the EA forums, it's pretty bad there. Poor forum admins/mods are going to be up all night banning people lol.

I actually find this quite hillarious. The only thing that could make this better is if he posted again saying "Ahhhhhh GOT YA'S! HAHAHAHAHAHA!". I think if that happened, I might actually die laughing.

If he does post something like that and I stop posting here, you'll know why.

Oh it'd be one hell of a joke to pull...

But like the PS3 Slim post, it just seems awfully detailed again, especially taking the time to talk about the MS in-game music patent, why bring that up when you could simply just focus on getting to the damage dealer right away (the public pitchforking EA).

In case anyone wants to see the level of detail about Slim

It is real. It is a PS3 that's been cut down as much as physically possible without preventing the loss of playback of any existing PS3 title out there. It still has blu-ray, it still has wireless, it still has bluetooth and it still has gigabit ethernet.

"OtherOS" support has been removed.

You still get 2 USB ports.

Hard drive sizes will be bigger, it will come in 120Gb and 250Gb flavours. It's still replaceable and will actually be slightly easier as it has been relocated to the front of the console.

It will NOT have any "new" features, such as backwards compatibility or enhanced peripheral support. It's just a PS3, but slightly smaller and cheaper.

The power supply is still internal, but a different power cable will be used.

Rear ports are still the same: 1x HDMI, 1x Sony AV port, 1x Optical, 1x Ethernet. And of course a power port.

Release date and official announcement are not final.

Price is undetermined, but make no mistake, this is a "slimmed" PS3 in ever sense of the word. It's as cheap as can possibly be, so expect it to launch with a smaller price tag than what you're paying now in your respective territories.

Internally, several daughter boards have been removed, but all functionality is still there. This is due to a more advanced manufacturing process. It still uses a few extra boards, though, we're not quite at PSTwo levels yet.

A Cheaper Blu-ray drive is being used. It wont be any slower, but expect to see similar issues that another competitor had a while ago.

Touch-sensitive buttons on the front for power/eject are gone in favour of cheaper push buttons.

It has a slightly different startup screen. Only slightly.

It's about 50% smaller than current PS3s.

It wont be called the "PS3 Slim". The PS1 "slim" and the PS2 "slim" were never officially called the "slim", either.

In short: It's a smaller PS3, but that's it. No new features, no special hardware, just smaller and cheaper. And it wont have sex with you.

Cross-game chat is in the works as part of Firmware 3.0. It wont be out during the summer, but assuming all goes well, it will be out well before the holidays. Current timeframe places it around September, but it's still very much a WIP. If there are any major delays, that will slip and if there are very few delays at all, it might even arrive earlier, but don't bank on it as it is a lot more complicated than you might imagine. At this point, it's working quite well in the labs and supports several players at once.

It's targeted to work with all past and future games that support ingame XMB, much like text chat.

I'm not a betting man, but I wouldn't be surprised if the "slim" shipped with this firmware installed (that doesn't mean the slim will come first, remember).

Who said the 3000 wasn't being phased out? It will be and sooner than you realise. However, the PSP Go isn't what's replacing it. The 4000 is. And yes, it will have a UMD drive. And similar to the PS3 "slim", it's nothing to actually get excited about.

Keep a very close eye on the hard drives shipped with newer PS3's. In a few months (or possibly sooner), something strange is going to start happening.

There you have it, folks. That's it, I'm done, I'm outta here. If you have any more questions, you'll just have to wait like everyone else. This account is gone, never to be logged into again. You might see me in a few months time when I've got something even more awesome to tell you, but it wont be from this account and it probably wont even be on this site. Adios!

Keep in mind that was posted in June.

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Hahaha, the EA forums are killing me. So much passion and hatred, he should tell them the darfur genocide is the real reason behind it. :laugh:

OMG LOL @ the EA forums just now.... I feel sorry for the admins/mods :pinch:

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Hahaha, the EA forums are killing me. So much passion and hatred, he should tell them the darfur genocide is the real reason behind it. :laugh:

I must SEE! Link to the hatred and passion threads. :D

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Audioboxer!

http://community.eu.playstation.com/playst...read.id=1548233

Look at you, stirring up the pot! Tut tut! Don't tell me you're in on all of this, too :p

Of course! I couldn't wait to get on the official forums, I knew those guys would go through the roof!

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