There wasn’t a very strong showing from Sony’s gaming division at CES 2008. Of course, this was expected; however, this didn’t stop Paul Purdy from announcing a much awaited confirmation for PS3 users world-wide.
Paul has gone on record stating that the PlayStation 3’s Xcross Media Bar will have in-game access sometime this year. When asked if he had a more specific time frame, Paul decided that information was enough.
Sony fans have watched their counterparts enjoy custom soundtracks and messaging in-game for a couple of years now. It’s only a matter of time until the leveler is set and the scale starts tilting in the opposite direction.

SWEET! i have been waiting for this forever.
I seem to remember hearing this before, Do we believe it now ?
cool
I hope in game messaging and music arnt the only things that come with it.
I also want to record gameplay and other things.
cool i guess. i'm buying a router pretty soon. i think so i can go online and enjoy my ps3 fully. i already have broadband just going to get it and see if i can hook it up.
Ill believe it when I see it.
np dave
@Dark_Halo34 you are too funny... XBL has no chance? HA! You get what you pay for! I'll glady pay for a years worth of XBL for the bargain basement price of 50.
12/31/08 that the time will be out
hahah DAMN!!! someone took my Dec 31st 08 joke.....but seriously, they to make with the ingame xmb POST HASTE!
This year? omg.. that could be in 12 mounths ! god dammit.. "this year" is so vague.. probably wont come soon
This year? omg.. that could be in 12 mounths ! god dammit.. "this year" is so vague.. probably wont come soon
XB2B1 everytime you show up it cracks me up. Your comments are too funny bro.
We've known this for ages. What's new? I want a date or at least a version number thanks.
davew your a funny guy main. hahaha.
Anyways ive known for awhile that they been working on it but now we have an expected timeframe. So it could be now to December 31st (i got that from joystiq).
I don't care about the in-game stuff music, pictures and all that. The only thing I truly care about in-game is messenging. Sucks having to quit a game just to tell a fellow PSN'er
"kthxbye'
About freakin time...
Why do people keep putting In Game XMB and Home together??? they're TWO SEPERATE THINGS Ingame XMB has nothing to do with Home! Just because home has a version of it dosent mean anything. Eye of Judgment, Rockband and a few others already do the same thing that Home does right now which is ingame messaging. It's software enabled XMB it's not the hardware version that people want that gives us access to things like the MP3 player.
They won't release it with home, Why would they?
we will hear the progress in march during gdc along with what sony plans on doing with the network upgrades. e3 sony will announce igxmb will be released mid july followed by home in august. (my predictions)
im willing to wait and let them take there time and implimit it well. but it seems you guys just want some kinda crappy XMB... well i for one want them to make it good.
Anyone else think PSN should utilize a XMB based interface? That would be sweet.
@DaveW
Get some writers who doesn't have lives, so they can just write news for PSU all day long. Then we wouldn't have to deal with these delays all the time.
hope sooner than later
thank you sony :)
psn id: gingo.... well i should hope it is coming in 2008 i would hate to think it would take another year to give us this, btw DaveW its cool we dont expect you to be on this every second of your life
Well atleast its confirmed now. I never heard of this 'Paul Burdy' chap...
That news made my day,i just hope they release Home before summer.
great...even though we were meant to have in game XMB sometime in 2007...and before that it would be live in 2006 when the console launched...wait until they give us a date (october 2009 anyone?) until then i'll stick to the 360 for chatting to my mates...
This and Home?, who wont want to buy a ps3?
IngameXMB +HOME+LittleBP+MGS = deathspiral for Crapbox360
Finally it in game XMB is on its way. Thanks to the mighty ps3 which has no limits, features just keep coming as Sony fans want them, infact ps3 is here to last for a very long time. See ya Wii and 360.
These guys are taking too dam long!!! What's wrong with them?
yeah i agree with the above post, Sony is taking entirely too long on getting this launched as opposed to it being launched almost a6 months ago
SWEET! Late this year though.
I hope this comes fast. Maybe people will stop complaining. I'm getting tired of hearing compiants about the lack of in game XMB...
You won't have to wait long. This is a feature already in place in HOME. I don't see it taking much longer.
well we all knew it had to come sometime this year anyway.....
psn id: BIGROB904.... about time we have been waiting and asking for this a long time we should have gotten this last year but at least they're letting us know its coming this year
Meh better late then never, I surprised it took them this long.