During the Sony Presser yesterday it was announced that the PS Vita would feature cross game chat a la Xbox Live, but nothing was said on whether or not the PS3 would recieve the long awaited service. Nevertheless this could be a sign that cross game chat will appear on PS3 soon.
The service will come to the PS Vita along with things like trophy support and “Near” which is similar to Street Pass on the 3DS. The cross game chat will allow users to communicate ”no matter where they are” and “no matter what game they are playing”.
Apart from that we saw one single screen of the party system, showing six PSN IDs playing multiple games in a “party room”. Next to them is speaker icon which we can assume allows the player to adjust the volume of each individual or mute them entirely, and on the right of the screen is a chat and add friend icon for additional functionality.
Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation in the Netherlands has filed a class action against Sony for inflating PlayStation Store prices.
My personal opinion:
Manufacturers and publishers have indeed inflated the industry.
From $700 million development costs for games like Call of Duty, to digital (store) prices for games and DLCs, online multiplayer fees on consoles (why can you play Helldivers 2 online for free on PC but not consoles?) or still preventing sell/lend digitally purchased games.
Sometime in the future, this bubble will collapse.
They should know better, but they just can't help themselves and suck even the last penny out of our wallets.
They should be suing the individual publishers increasing the prices to $80 instead of suing the store. There are plenty of publishers still selling game for like $50 with much success (like E33). But this proves that the publishers are the ones setting the prices.... so again nothing changes because they aren't even going after the main offender. How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD? Sony being the number one store in the market doesn't mean that publisher have to charge us an arm and a leg. Again the industry is laughing at us because consumers never get real representation. Just these fake platitudes that are meaningless.
About time. There is zero fair reason why digitally distributed products that you cannot recoup any value when you want to dispose of them, should be priced higher than that of physical copies that entail all of the costs and the benefits of owning.
Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki and CFO Lin Tao talked about the state of the PlayStation business and the strategy and targets going forward, including how they're responding to the tariffs.
Sony announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2024, and things are certainly looking up, despite a decline in PS5 sales.
If their profits fall next quarter, we'll probably see more price hikes. I can't imagine having to pay £20 a month for PlayStation Plus.
Decline in hardware sales.
Behind on lifetime sales and decline in first party sales.
Third party content and PSN came through to save the day.
Things will improve starting with the next Ghost game.
Hopefully a steady flow of first party content by end of '25
lets hope
A system has to be built with cross chat in mind. You can't retro fit it.
That's why Xbox 360, Vita and every console after will have it, and why the PS3 will not EVER.
Sorry, I'd like it as much as anyone else, but it just isn't going to happen with the PS3.
Let's just hope!
Ohhh! I hope this is true. Man, the PSVita is looking really really good. This is just helping sell it even more.