Derision, Anger Over No PS3 In-Game XMB

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Poor old Eric...
Poor old Eric...
When Sony's Network Operations Director, Eric Lempel, got out of bed yesterday he was probably bubbling away with that sense of a job well done. PlayStation 3 update 2.0 is ready to roll and Eric's the one to introduce it to a captive audience.

Off goes Eric to work and posts a preview of the update - you can see it right here.

The first response from eksMan is positively 'awesome', eksMan can't wait. The next comment - and one that sparks an inferno that Eric must step into - is less effusive: a user called 'lagerblad' simply states, "no in game xmb...".

After more shouting about the fact that, in order to message friends from within a game, well... you can't, you have to leave the game because there is no in-game Cross Media Bar (XMB) - Eric steps back in with the following:

"Wow – a lot of comments, and very quickly. Let me address a few things:

"About the firmware version number – In general, we don’t wait to release new features based on a particular firmware update number. The 1.80 update, for example, was pretty substantial, including important features like DVD upscaling.

"That said, this update does include valuable features that consumers have been asking for – such as the Remote Start functionality. Personally, I’m looking forward to using this feature as I’m frequently on the road – and I know a lot of you are too.

"As far as other features many of you are calling for (such as in-game XMB) – SCE continues to evaluate opportunities to provide new functionality to PS3 on an ongoing basis. New features and functionality have continually been added to the system since it debuted, and we will continue to update you with new developments.

"We do read your comments, and they have helped shaped previous updates – including this one."


So, still no news on the in-game XMB then?

You can read the entire debate over here.



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Comments

SuperSaiyan4 8 Nov 2007 13:38
1/15
LMFAO this is what I am hating on Sony they do NOT listen to anyone, infact hardly any company ever listens to what people want they listen to what their shareholders want.

XMB has been asked for since day one so if Sony had been listening then it would be here and where on gods earth has everyone been asking for remote play?? WTF?? When I go on the PS3 forums I have been seing for ages people asking for XMB in games.

Overall the PSN is one big pile of s**t in comparison to Xbox Live you get what you pay for I guess.
Bentley 8 Nov 2007 13:51
2/15
Off he goes again, blah blah blah XBox so great blah blah blah. If only they'd release a half decent DBZ game, maybe we'd not have to be subjected to this continual SuperSaiyan4 boring fanboy ranting. Mind you, I learned to ignore any child who uses idiot terms like "LMFAO" ages ago. All that says to me is "I am a smug teenager who thinks that other people care that I am smugly laughing in my smug little world at something pointless, yet in my twisted desire to tell the world about how smug I am feeling, I cannot even be bothered to type actual words because I am an imbecile".

Lack of in-game XMB is not really a major issue. If it comes in time, great. If not, it's not an issue. Work around it. Some people just loooove to make a mountain out of a molehill, especially where PS3 is concerned.
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SuperSaiyan4 8 Nov 2007 14:00
3/15
I am no 'kid' I will whatever words I wish.

Me a fanboy? Well there is nothing wrong in being a fan of a product that delivers, in Sony's case they are all stupid - they have the hardware but no software.

And XMB IS important, get out of your hole, whilst playing online if you get a message on the 360 you can press the guide button and access, pic messages, text messages, voice messages, your profile, your reputation, your achivemants, your friends list, rencently played list as well.

Also you can instantly join another game and even do cross game chat.

you can do soo much more on the 360 and the PS3 desperatly needs XMB in the games.
stupid_fanboyz 8 Nov 2007 15:44
4/15
M$ 3sh!tty fanboys are hilarious. They crawl from forum to forum looking for some Sony bashing. I guess you have to find something to do while you're waiting on your broken "gaming console" to get back from repairs. Why would you be reading about the PS3 if you don't have one? Want one? Looooooosssseeerrrr...
deleted 8 Nov 2007 16:36
5/15
SuperSaiyan4 wrote:
LMFAO this is what I am hating on Sony they do NOT listen to anyone, infact hardly any company ever listens to what people want they listen to what their shareholders want.

XMB has been asked for since day one so if Sony had been listening then it would be here and where on gods earth has everyone been asking for remote play?? WTF?? When I go on the PS3 forums I have been seing for ages people asking for XMB in games.

Overall the PSN is one big pile of s**t in comparison to Xbox Live you get what you pay for I guess.


Maybe its just a difficult thing to implement corrcetly, and before you go well MS can do on 360 well they had in there from day one really and built the 360 around the Live expereince. Sony took a more laid back apporached to the Online part (which was stupid really) but as it wasnt there from day one it may be very difficult to insert now, and unless you can programme firmware for PS3 you cant argue that!
Spanky2090 8 Nov 2007 16:48
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stupid_fanboyz wrote:
M$ 3sh!tty fanboys are hilarious. They crawl from forum to forum looking for some Sony bashing. I guess you have to find something to do while you're waiting on your broken "gaming console" to get back from repairs. Why would you be reading about the PS3 if you don't have one? Want one? Looooooosssseeerrrr...


excuse me but i have not seen anything in this forum to state that anyone is a fanboy as PS3 online does suck. Its a fact. It does not mean that i fully support the 360 as it does have its problems to start with, i am yet to see a problem now for ages. I have both a PS3 and 360.

To be fair you sound like ur defending the PS3 so i think that makes you a fanboy, hmmm?
stupid_fanboyz 8 Nov 2007 17:14
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Nicholas Hyett wrote:
"To be fair you sound like ur defending the PS3 so i think that makes you a fanboy, hmmm? "

What about my post made it sound like I was defending PS3? I own all three consoles and love them all. I am a gamer first. I dislike stupid people, not Game companies that give me hours of joy.
Have you read any of the posts on here. Let me help you.
You say :
"i have not seen anything in this forum to state that anyone is a fanboy " and right above your comment you can read;
SuperSaiyan4 (fanboy) wrote:
"Overall the PSN is one big pile of s**t"
Pull your head out of your a$$, buddy.
Plasmoid 8 Nov 2007 17:28
8/15
This is a big thing, dont ever think its not.

The Ps3 uses 96mb reserved for the OS right... the 360 reserves less and does a whole lot more. No kids care about that though... they just want to be able to chat in game.

Its not hard to do, Steam did it and they had to work around punkbuster and everything.

It just odd... this is the kind of thing that should be priority number one for the PS3 team, and its still not here. That whole friends chatting to each other while playing different games, inviting to games and all that (given the non unified game scheme and all) is the kind of thing that makes people buy consoles.
realvictory 8 Nov 2007 20:35
9/15
Plasmoid wrote:
This is a big thing, dont ever think its not.

The Ps3 uses 96mb reserved for the OS right... the 360 reserves less and does a whole lot more. No kids care about that though... they just want to be able to chat in game.

Its not hard to do, Steam did it and they had to work around punkbuster and everything.

It just odd... this is the kind of thing that should be priority number one for the PS3 team, and its still not here. That whole friends chatting to each other while playing different games, inviting to games and all that (given the non unified game scheme and all) is the kind of thing that makes people buy consoles.


See, computer games are going down the toilet these days. People don't care about games, and this is the result of making them mainstream.

It makes me sick that fanboys who know nothing govern the industry. It's not about which console is better, it's about the games. NOT about chatting, neither about online. I can go online on my PC and do whatever I like. Who cares about consoles trying to be a PC? It's major to XBox fanboys, because that's the only thing that the XBox has over any other console. And Microsoft aren't geniuses, everyone knows what would and wouldn't be cool ideas, but some people care about certain ideas rather than others.

How about the Red Ring of Death? Wasn't that quite a s**t idea? HD-DVD: a knee-jerk reaction to Blu-Ray, then they say they planned it that way all along because of the fact they were "focusing on games." It's all crap, nobody's perfect, and I already know, so stop trying to preach about it to me, and stop trying to convince me that companies I know are are far from perfect are perfect.

At least have some slight respect and wait for a company to do something good + unique before trying to persuade me that every other company is nothing compared to them. Compared to what exactly?

And by the way, I already know about Live - stop pretending to remind me, when in fact I struggle to get it out of my head. If I had a penny every time someone mentioned it to me, I'd be as rich as Microsoft and Sony put together.
Lanny Fisher 8 Nov 2007 22:28
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If you read the Sony forums you'll also notice that the "REMOTE START" feature has a major bug! The remote start feature works, and lets you turn on your PS3 remotely using your PSP, however when you tell your PS3 to shut down when you're done, it turns itself back on after a few minutes, then back off after a few minutes, then on, then off, then on, and so on.

In other words, once you turn on your PS3 remotely, it basically stays on.
PreciousRoi 9 Nov 2007 08:29
11/15
you, Sir, are a fool and your kung fu is weak.

[9 Nov 2007, 09:51: Message edited by 'TimSpong']
deranger 9 Nov 2007 09:21
12/15
Lanny Fisher wrote:
If you read the Sony forums you'll also notice that the "REMOTE START" feature has a major bug! The remote start feature works, and lets you turn on your PS3 remotely using your PSP, however when you tell your PS3 to shut down when you're done, it turns itself back on after a few minutes, then back off after a few minutes, then on, then off, then on, and so on.

In other words, once you turn on your PS3 remotely, it basically stays on.

well it is called "remote start", not "remote stop" hahahaha
crazyeighty8 9 Nov 2007 09:46
13/15
Never mind in-game XMB have you seen the s**t storm about sony "region locking" the Demo of Uncharted.
SuperSaiyan4 9 Nov 2007 12:12
14/15
crazyeighty8 wrote:
Never mind in-game XMB have you seen the s**t storm about sony "region locking" the Demo of Uncharted.


Yeah after having dowloaded it asked me to 'Insert disc' I was like 'eh?? its a demo' and laughed so checked on the net and was shocked to see the damn thing is region locked!

But according to Sony its not region locked but a bug - but hang on how comes USA and CAN can play it? Sony are the worst liers ever.
TimSpong 9 Nov 2007 12:15
15/15
crazyeighty8 wrote:
Never mind in-game XMB have you seen the s**t storm about sony "region locking" the Demo of Uncharted.


Certainly have - which is why are review of the Demo is up this afternoon... don't forget to check back.
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