PlayStation Vita - Online Modes Cross-Game Chat
PlayStation Vita's online modes Near, Party, LiveArea and Activity.
Sony Computer Entertainment's Europe's manager of R&D, Phil Rogers, has been detailing the online components in the upcoming PS Vita (aka PSP2). There are four of them: Near, Party, LiveArea and Activity.
According to Mr Rogers speaking at the recent Develop conference.
"What Near does is it allows users to discover each other, leave gifts for each other and essentially find out more about games. You can see where people are in relation to your location, their five most recently played games and also gifts that they've registered. This is fairly cool because it exposes users to games they might not have heard of and you can see how popular those games are and how people are rating them."
However, "unlike another platform" (yup Nintendo's 3DS) these gifts stay with you as you "go about your daily life". You are allowed 100KB gift box per game. "Boxes can contain multiple gifts but can't exceed the 100KB binary data size limit", according to Eurogamer.
Party is "really good for having friends together to discuss games, chat about them and get into them" according to Mr Rogers. It "allows you and three friends to form a party that sticks together regardless of what you do on Vita." It enables "chat across games through text and voice."
Picking up on the ongoing PlayStation community demand, he states: "Cross-game voice chat," he reiterated, "it's there and it's on Vita."
You can also launch Vita games from within Party and your friends there can click a button and quickly join you.
He explained a little further, "You can have different Party groups for different games or genres. Maybe you've got a first-person shooter group that you can all chat and go into.
"The voice chat part you can override. So if in-game you've got your own teams for audio then you can override the Party chat and turn that off."
LiveArea and Activity got less detail, "The LiveArea is essentially where you go to launch your PlayStation Vita day."
It also has three distinct areas: Index, Live and Game.
As for Activity, this is, "a way for players to discuss progress. The system automatically puts a few activities in there.
"That encourages people to then comment similar to Facebook style."
More detail here.
According to Mr Rogers speaking at the recent Develop conference.
"What Near does is it allows users to discover each other, leave gifts for each other and essentially find out more about games. You can see where people are in relation to your location, their five most recently played games and also gifts that they've registered. This is fairly cool because it exposes users to games they might not have heard of and you can see how popular those games are and how people are rating them."
However, "unlike another platform" (yup Nintendo's 3DS) these gifts stay with you as you "go about your daily life". You are allowed 100KB gift box per game. "Boxes can contain multiple gifts but can't exceed the 100KB binary data size limit", according to Eurogamer.
Party is "really good for having friends together to discuss games, chat about them and get into them" according to Mr Rogers. It "allows you and three friends to form a party that sticks together regardless of what you do on Vita." It enables "chat across games through text and voice."
Picking up on the ongoing PlayStation community demand, he states: "Cross-game voice chat," he reiterated, "it's there and it's on Vita."
You can also launch Vita games from within Party and your friends there can click a button and quickly join you.
He explained a little further, "You can have different Party groups for different games or genres. Maybe you've got a first-person shooter group that you can all chat and go into.
"The voice chat part you can override. So if in-game you've got your own teams for audio then you can override the Party chat and turn that off."
LiveArea and Activity got less detail, "The LiveArea is essentially where you go to launch your PlayStation Vita day."
It also has three distinct areas: Index, Live and Game.
As for Activity, this is, "a way for players to discuss progress. The system automatically puts a few activities in there.
"That encourages people to then comment similar to Facebook style."
More detail here.
Companies:
Sony
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