No big for me. If I want to chat with my friends while playing a game we'll usually have Skype up. If I'm just playing fighters with them we text each other in between matches.
Sony: Cross-Game Chat Never Coming to PS3
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That's sort of annoying, but then again, I haven't turned on my PS3 for more than a few hours in the past 3 years.
Still, this seems like a feature that would be SO easy to implement.
Still, this seems like a feature that would be SO easy to implement.
My graphics card alone has twice the RAM of the PS3, sitting on 8 GB on the main board. That, kids, is why you go PC.
I guess I'm in the "get off my lawn" mode but why would I want to chat with people who are playing a different game? Can't you just set your mobile phone down in speaker mode if you want to do that?
I'm not fond of Cross Game chat, I really don't want to talk to someone playing another, it'll probably mess with my Modjo.
The Wii clearly has the best vitality sensor.Mike Kayatta said:
Oh, you got the creepy heavy mouthbreather too, right? And the other guy who won't blow his nose, just keeps snorting up whatever it is that's plugging him up? Or the real winner, who has the stereo on full-blast and everything's echoing, including himself in some distorted moebius-like unreality that Cthulhu would be proud of?Unhappy Crow said:
And between all these weird noises, they're ranting and swearing and blaming their teammates as to why the team is losing. Yeah, talking - OFF.
Not surprising... this just re-affirms my belief that PS3 is primarily for solitary game play... Sony thought it could handle the online networking side of things on it's own and compete with Microsoft... a company who for YEARS worked in the online space before Sony did.
We are just seeing the fallout from that.... badly implemented security paradigms, sub par online service and now, standard online features being unavailable due to design flaws.
So yeah, you want a powerful system to play games on BY YOURSELF.... PS3 is the way to go
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We are just seeing the fallout from that.... badly implemented security paradigms, sub par online service and now, standard online features being unavailable due to design flaws.
So yeah, you want a powerful system to play games on BY YOURSELF.... PS3 is the way to go
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I, too, don't care about the lack of cross-game chatting.
I bought my PS3 first and foremost because I love the selection of games. The online gaming and chatting was just a nice bonus for me.
And honestly, I always found it annoying to be chatting with someone else while I'm playing a different game. For once, we have cellphones for that. Second, if we're not playing the same game, then what's the point in having a conversation that goes like:
Player 1: "Oh, crap! This guy just shot me in the head!"
Player 2: "What was that? Sorry, I was watching this Dragon Age cutscene..."
Player 1: "I said t-- THERE HE IS AGAIN!"
Player 2: "Aw, man! I couldn't hear what this guy said! Dude!"
Player 1: "Sorry! it's just that this guy is pissing me off. He went..."
Player 2: "He went...?"
Player 1: "Hold on. I'm chasing the--"
Player 2: "RANDOM DRAGON! RUN!"
You get the idea. I just think it's not necessary.
On the other hand, it's kinda sad to see Sony not being able to tackle that while the 360 can. You know Xbox HXC fans are just gonna keep bringing that up in every PS vs 360 arguments.
(Nothing against 360 fans. It just annoys me when people fail to admit there's pros and cons for every system in a mature way.)
I bought my PS3 first and foremost because I love the selection of games. The online gaming and chatting was just a nice bonus for me.
And honestly, I always found it annoying to be chatting with someone else while I'm playing a different game. For once, we have cellphones for that. Second, if we're not playing the same game, then what's the point in having a conversation that goes like:
Player 1: "Oh, crap! This guy just shot me in the head!"
Player 2: "What was that? Sorry, I was watching this Dragon Age cutscene..."
Player 1: "I said t-- THERE HE IS AGAIN!"
Player 2: "Aw, man! I couldn't hear what this guy said! Dude!"
Player 1: "Sorry! it's just that this guy is pissing me off. He went..."
Player 2: "He went...?"
Player 1: "Hold on. I'm chasing the--"
Player 2: "RANDOM DRAGON! RUN!"
You get the idea. I just think it's not necessary.
On the other hand, it's kinda sad to see Sony not being able to tackle that while the 360 can. You know Xbox HXC fans are just gonna keep bringing that up in every PS vs 360 arguments.
(Nothing against 360 fans. It just annoys me when people fail to admit there's pros and cons for every system in a mature way.)
THIS! Oh, god. I lol'd.gCrusher said:
I got a free Bluetooth set from a friend of mine and I tried it once. I couldn't understand other clearly and vice versa. I sat and listened: Cussing, people yelling, rude people, background music, other distant convos...
Yeah, I'm the kind of person who mutes everyone who has a mic on.
Aaannd? We've gone what? 4-5 years without it, I think we'll be fine for the next 4-5 years or whenever the next console comes out.
This is less of an issue than people are making it out to be. Xbox 360's now starting to be discontinued in Japan? That's a bigger issue, though also not really a big one.
This is less of an issue than people are making it out to be. Xbox 360's now starting to be discontinued in Japan? That's a bigger issue, though also not really a big one.
While funny, I really hope that not what you would do while playing a game. I don't sit playing a game talking to myself about everything that it happening to me that I can see already.Beautiful End said:
Do you play Call of Duty, in a chat with no-one yelling "look out" "he's right over there" "I'm out of ammo!"? I don't, I sit silently playing my game, with an occasional "wow" or the like. I have no problem playing a game and carrying on a conversation about something else.
Like in my earlier example, me playing a wrestling game, with him in a racing game. Neither of us spent our time giving accidental play-by-play commentary.
That's pretty much how I treat mine, and it's awesome.TPiddy said:Not surprising... this just re-affirms my belief that PS3 is primarily for solitary game play... Sony thought it could handle the online networking side of things on it's own and compete with Microsoft... a company who for YEARS worked in the online space before Sony did.
We are just seeing the fallout from that.... badly implemented security paradigms, sub par online service and now, standard online features being unavailable due to design flaws.
So yeah, you want a powerful system to play games on BY YOURSELF.... PS3 is the way to go
I'm getting the feeling that the people reacting to this news saying "So what, who cares?" either:
a) Don't play multiplayer games,
b) Don't have online friends,
c) Are being slightly... stubborn. Yeah, that's what we'll call it.
It's like if someone criticized the Xbox for not being able to hold games on one disk (BluRay > DVD), and the response was "So what? I LOVE getting up and switching disks every few hours. I mean, I have LEGS, don't I? Pfft. Unnecessary."
I don't really care to be honest, and even if the PS3 had cross game chat I'd never use it. I really don't want to be talking to people while I'm playing a game and hearing my friends play theirs.
But if I really wanted to talk to someone I'd probably use Skype, and call it a day, problem solved.
But if I really wanted to talk to someone I'd probably use Skype, and call it a day, problem solved.
It's entirely possible that I don't know what I'm talking about, but the article states that PS Vita has enough RAM for cross-game chat, and I've read that the PS Vita will theoretically be able to operate with the PS3 the same way that the ipad look-alike will work with the Wii U. So then couldn't cross-game chat be achieved on the PS3 through the PS Vita (assuming someone wanted cross-game chat enough to spend that much money)?