Sure, 2.00 might sound like a magical milestone, but in reality there's not a whole lot here that's going to revolutionize your gaming experience, and sadly nothing yet to bring online communication and play to parity with Xbox Live and Xbox's handy dandy dashboard. That said, Sony is strengthening some of the PS3's unique features, like the new Remote Start function that lets you fire up your PS3 remotely when you're
accessing it with your PSP, and playlists for music and photos. One of the biggest "additions" is DualShock 3 support, but that's so laughably last-gen that it's hardly worth noting. Sony is also packing in the ability to create and share your own Themes for XMB, and a news ticker that will eventually make way for the importing of your own RSS feeds. Sony also added a new XMB group to the main menu to pave the way for Home and other internets-friendly features, and -- oddly enough -- Canon printer support to really round out the package. The update will be available in the States tomorrow, November 8th.
Update: PS3 Fanboy has some
exclusive screenshots of the new interface.
[Via
Joystiq]
posted November 7th 2007 10:57AM
And chatting during games? WHO CARES?! Beyond lets join up and lets kill something. I wont be swapping recipes.
If you had any games that required communication...let me rephrase... if you had any games for your system you'd understand why chatting is a must
How old are you?
wow. this entire thread is like a mish mash of angry 15 year olds.
it's a video game console. I'm gonna go turn on my commodore 128, it shits on both systems
The 360 does (should) have better games right now. It's been out for nearly 2 years. If the PS3 games suck by the end of '08, then you can declare the 360 the winner. I'm personally waiting for BioShock PS3 (which will be a huge blow to the 360's arsenal), FFXIII, GoW2, GTHD, and most of all MGS4. 08 will be Sony's year!!!
Ya sorry to sound overwhelmingly like a fanboy as you people seem to call it. I do like the ps3 and use it everyday. Hell my tv is on 24/7 and Sony ties it all together. Previously i couldnt stand Sony garbage. Ive owned 3 A/V recievers of theirs to only have them burnout so to speak. And everything else that they offered although innovative just never seemed to matchup with other brands on the market. Their gaming systems seem to be what they are best at. I did consider buying a Xbox and a 360 but it seemed mostly bent on selling me Halo which coming from a PC gaming background...well...its been done and killed a billion times over. New vehicles and such...i just dont care. Gears of War got me excited until i played it. Maybe im just getting old? or my tastes are changing? But what really sunk it...and i do still consider it to be a system i might one day buy...was that damn Dashboard. I keep reading online about how its so awesome and the online experience was second to none. And frankly i honestly just didnt see it. And i find that typical of Microsoft. Ya i dont know. The PS3 is a good solid system and just now are the real games coming out that werent the result of quick ports. When i read about 2gig single levels and thought about the constraints on the DVD? Plus HDMI for my 50" plasma ...bluetooth rechargeable controllers ..yada yada yada... Then bring in the fact it runs linux and how that allows downloadable FREE user levels and mods from the pc world when playing Unreal Tournament? Microsoft is gonna find a way to charge the 360 owners for that shit. Does that not piss you off? In the slightest?
So i guess if all of that makes me a fanboy then so be it. Theres some heavy weight features there that are a home run in my books. Maybe i'll consider a 360 when they finally add in the HD drive for the real next gen games. It'll probably cost $599 lol
Cheers guys,
Rob
Who's job is it to make my Guitar Hero 3 guitar work with the PS2 Guitar Hero 1,2 and 80s? Because they should get on that. I finally bought my first Playstation game (ever) and am willing to buy 3 more. The sixaxis works, but no guitar. It's unbelievably annoying. Seriously.
Anyone know if this will let me sort my videos alphabetically instead of just how I upload them? You can already do it with music. That would rock!
It already does that a while ago.
Triangle > Sort By... > Title Name
Simple
No i know all about chatting in games. And most people do it when they have a keyboard while using a PC or a microphone when using a PC or a console. Tell me how exactly you communicate while playing games on a console right as of this moment? Do you type it out on a screens virtual keyboard(frustrating and slow and certainly rarely during gameplay)? Or do you just have 10 quick lines that you select to say...i slaughtered ya!~ or your mom is a lawnmower? Cause right now unless you own a mic or purchased one of those add-on (again more money) thumb keyboards for your controller. That is all about you are doing at this point in time. Honestly most people use Mics. Well atleast everyone i know. And that does exist on Sony. So im not being an ass in this reply...just a straight up honest response.
As to your reply to no games? If i consider the 10 games that i have already bought...still havent finished...and rarely have time to play. I would say there are alot of games. Since every game (practically) coming out is on both systems. And Truthfully no anticipated games solely for the 360 coming out. I mean cmon they had Halo which is the same old same old...and they had BIOshock. Which is an incredible game. But beyond that their eggs have pretty much hatched. Not a whole lot coming this way. Lots of decent alright games that are nothing to write home about. So speaking the truth once again. Look at whats coming out for Sony and ONLY for Sony. And its pretty damn impressive.
Rob
I have been playing Bioshock for the last 2 days and I can see why it is so popular. Only I don't own an Xbox 360 OR a PS3; I play on the Dell XPS720. Now $3500 - #4500 (depending on the configuration) is slightly more than either game platform, but I really don't want to spend money on the Xbox because I like the Blue Ray technology better. I'll be waiting for the PS3 to come down in price after Christmas. Don't figure the Xbox is gone though, try and order one online or from your Best Buy store, out of stock over most of the USA. So I guess somebody is bying them. :-)
I would really like to some day be blasting away in a game like Call of duty 4 on my Ps3 and flick on my psp and have the COD4 map up on the screen. Imagine chopping away in Oblivion and your psp can display your inventory screen.
And the war continues... It seems this console war won't end. The amount of money these companies gain is our unfortunate loss. I own both systems ps3 and xbox 360. Both systems differ from each other in various ways, most notably price. I guess some say why would sony make a system so expensive that most can't buy it and I would agree they put too much technology too soon. In my opinion the ps3 is 100% next generation, meanwhile the xbox 360 has yet arrived. My reasoning would be the amount of graphic and chip power the system has.
I beat halo 3 (in legendary), but I found that it was just too easy. The graphics for this game looked like halo v2.5 for the original xbox, almost a kickback game for the 360 unit, I personally think thats embarrassing. Meanwhile, playing a ps3 game I was amazed of the difference in gameplay.
I think overall microsoft has enough of my money, so I can't support their endeavor for world domination. PS3 Gamers lock and load the world is about to get rocked!