Sounds great!!

This all sounds really good but no doubt we will not be seeing it for quite a while. But was it just me or did he say it was only North America who would be able to download the full length TV and movies?

Sounds cool, in the mean time I guess I'll just be waiting...

We know there bringing this stuff, just waiting for a date.

nice

That sounds very promising

Like I said ont he US Blog, atleast we know HOME is coming in 2008.

Great, I don't want it (i'll take them for free thanks...) but great nonetheless.

I am sure SCEE will find someway to screw us Europeans out of new tv programmes every week anyway.

i love that i stay in america

" Sony is hard at work on both these features" means, they're dream of getting around to it. " As for in-game XMB? Well what can be said? We are all waiting diligently for this feature to finally surface"!!!!!!!! wow this one means, I'm a senior VP at Sony and i don't even know when that damm in-game XMB will be available!  lol lol man Sony you really suck right now. why have your senior VP  speak  on thing he does have a clue about.

This is good news. I don't blame Sony for the in-game XMB delay because they always deliver. I think they really did great on the new store. Home should come soon in May cuz Warhawk already has Home integration with the new patch. Seriously, how can u integrate Home in if it wasn't finished? I think it is nearly complete and just being tested.

What the is XMB anyways.

I just hope they implement the accomplishments as like not during the gameplay of the game but more like you go into pshome in order to view a list of the accomplishments.

Since it's annoying as %#(*%#$ to see things pop up in a game when u wanna enjoy em, without any distractions.

The XMB is the Corss media bar, That would be thing you see when you start your ps3 and look for a vid or pic, game, music, and more.

Come on how may times do they hav to say this, I understand that they are trying there best to get the legal issues for xmb from 360. So just keep on doing what you doing sony but bring it soon.

yh thts probz the main reason for the delay @Chrisbosh all the legal issues but i mean cmon sony its been 1 half years since ps3 came out... and weve been screaming for in game xmb the most!!!!(home 2nd) u have to bring it out in FW 2.40 no xcuse if u dnt put it in coz i am getting tired of bein patient wid sony anymore always tried sounding positive with wat thy do and tht and i still do but u really got to listen to your core fans SONY!!!!!

this always good news to hear 8D

You know why they stalled in-game XMB?  Home.  In-game XMB is a tool to bring online communities together (I learned that from having an Xbox 360).  Could you imagine if we'd had XMB access for the last 8-12 months?  No one would feel like they'd "needed" Home.  Home would just be a fleshed out representation of what we are already capable of and they want us to come to "depend" on Home.  That's what I think.  All I have to say is, I hope their vision of Home's usage comes true for them after all this waiting and planning.

The XMB and home are two completely seperate things. One has nothing to do with the other, already. It's really retarded, like saying the reason we dont have flying cars yet is because of the price of air conditioners. Seriously, stop it.

As for why he spoke about ingame Xross Media Bar, it's because he (by his own words) KNOWS PEOPLE WANT IT. The problem is everytime there's an update and it's not there people get pissed and act like Sony isnt working on it, so his goal here was to assure people that it's coming because if he didn't you'd still get a hundred people an hour moaning about how it's not out yet.

And the reason for that is that it's HARD TO IMPLEMENT. Sony didnt think people would demand they copy the 36* and thus didnt make the PS3 to do exactly the same things. Ingame chat was ment to beimplemented in each game seperately by the developers but all of them have been cuddled b the M$ model of having it built into the hardware that many developers just plain refused to put it in. So now coding this ability in after the fact is harder to do because of ram constraints.

by "near future" he means about six months doesn't he?

PLAY TV PLAY TV PLAY TV.  It's going to do what tivo does u can download and record with it straight to mp4 hd on your ps3...............

seems like it will all be centered around HOME's release. Please tell me im not the only one thinking this

Yes... in the not so distance future, the PS3 might actually have some of the features that the 360 has had for... YEARS!!! Ha. Of course by that time the 360 will have added much more features. Way to keep up Sony!

lol @xb2

youre right... web browsing, blu-ray playing, hdmi output from day 1, memory card readers, standard HDD, integrated WiFi, motion controls, all happened on the 360 years before the PS3... tell me again what the 360 can do that the PS3 cant? in game messaging? wow way to hang on to your fanboyism by a thread.

Just got goosebumps reading this, but I should know not to get all exited until its confirmed and dated.

this sounds great,

@alpha2, i totally agree the whole way through.......................

There are gonna be some awesome things coming up in the future and I can't wait. I especially love the fact that there is going to be an accomplishment system! Go Sony!

For some reason I think Sony is going to wait until E3 to announce all this stuff.  The Blu-Ray victory and a pipeline of great game is giving sony a much needed break.  When E3 comes i don't want to hear hard at work or imminent release i want to hear Thursday it will be up or by the time i'm finished speaking this will be available or we just released an update that. 

Not a bad deal. I cant wait for these new features to materialise. Its sort of stale to have to quit a game then go to messages just to see what someone has sent you, or even when I wanna chat with someone. Most of the time there isnt even anyone online because all my friends have 360s as well and its better when it comes to users communicating, what with messenger built in and the ability to audio chat with others when youre playing a game

Sony devs just have to rewrite the XMB code to take up less memory.  The XMB takes up 3/8 (96MB) of the PS3's memory (256MB).  The XMB gets dumped when you start a game and vice versa.  To be able to access the XMB during games would require a much smaller XMB memory consumption or Sony would have to start using a hard drive swap file.

I believe when I see it Sony

Yeh... I thought so...

"Many of you have been hearing rumblings about a video service that will allow you to download full-length TV shows and movies via PLAYSTATION Network for North America."

So I am going to assume the downloading media is just for North America :(.

@Aplha2

I didn't say XMB was DEPENDENT of Home (like you interpreted that). I know they are two separate things.  What I'M saying is that Sony underestimaed the usefulness of the XMB for message traffic, thinking that everyone who wants to be social can just do it FROM HOME.  Watch, when we have both (Home AND XMB) and the Home buzz wears off, watch how many people will just choose to use their XMB for the "social thing" instead of loading Home...and Sony knows it.  XMB for social gaming is the "Xbox way".  Home is the "Sony way", and that's why they've been developing this for years.  THEY DIDN'T SPEND ALL THAT TIME AND RESOURCES JUST SO WHINY COMPLAINING EMO BRATS CAN JUST END UP USING THE XMB FOR WHAT THEY DESIGNED HOME FOR!  Think about it kids.  That's what I mean.  I know there two different things Mr. Reading Comprehention.

I don't care about video down loading services, I don't even care about achievements or gamerscore type systems. What I want is a next gen console with next gen network features. Its scandalous that even right now that we don't have in game XMB. Quite frankly I don't think Sony will ever put this out. Its been over a year now that we've been asking for this, I don't think they can do it without a complete overhaul of the PS3's operating system, and that's the stumbling block. I also think Home is a big White elephant, if its so great and wonderful and they've been working on it since the early days of the PS2, then can I ask why its not ready? No until I see action I'm not going to believe any Sony spin.

is this stuff all going to be free becasue it is too good to be true

hmm sounds good but sony really need to pull there finger out, they are second best to most of these online services at the moment. Xbxo already has it  so they really do need to hurry it up or they will always be second best.(in terms of time frame not quality of course" ;-)

My thoughts exactly Zippie151. Its no use playing catchup on everything. Sony needs to get ahead of the game for once. Everything from games to Home is lagging and now Sony has been caught a sleep again with video downloads.

hmmmmm "via PLAYSTATION Network for North America" hmmmmm america so predicable..........................

how about listening to music while u play a game i want to hear my damm cool music 2 get motivated!!!!!

i want anime episodes :)

So I'm still... Well waiting for release dates.  I know they know we know thats kinda all this article said.   IT'S coming!  Well guess what we know that.  WHEN is it coming is what we don't know.

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I love how they  make it sound so "special" but when said project is delivered it's a disappointment. Who cares if there's clutter in media. The more options/choices the better right? Seriously, in game XMB should have been figured out by now.