should make for an interesting summer then :)

wicked cool

i hope this includes custom soundtracks or the ability to mod things

when are 2.20 and 2.30 coming?

Dude, Summer is pretty far away.   It's still officially winter.  I thought we would see it way before then...

...damn.

summer is far far away whats taking so long

thanks sony this will be my best update

Great... Now everyone going to start asking when's 2.4 coming out and a bunch of 2.4 rumors.. I really look forward for this feature to already come out for all this to die out..

Bout time

THIS SUMMER IS GONNA DOMINATE ALL CONSOLES FOR PS3...FROM THE VARIETY OF GAMES TO THE WIDE VARIETY OF PSN FUNCTIONS SUCH AS HOME AND INGAME XMB...W00t w00t cant wait!!

i dont think it wil come at all i reckon home will be the application that can take You and others into games i dont think that xmb in game will come ....IMO

X5_Hundred may have a valid point there. The implementation of Home will allow all the functionality of in-game XMB I suspect (just not called "in-game XMB"?). Sony would rather you browse Home to interact with friends and colleagues, invite games etc all the while tempting you and your mates with other pay-for services? Pure specualtion of course, but would partially explain the delay in introducing a feature that must SURELY be relatively easy to implement from such platform developers as Sony??

Wow, summer.. thats a long time tbh. Not that I dont think Sony should take their time if they need it, but c'mon. Isn't HOME even coming out before summer? IMHO i think they should have that In-game XMB ready before GTA IV...

Summer for you guys/girls, winter for me.  we just finished summer

They always say someone '' hints '' something and it either gets delayed or its not quite exactly what they thought was hinted. I'm not gonna give my hopes up... again.. I'll believe it when I see it.

Well, its only like 18 days left in winter officially. After that its all downhill. Play thru gow and ff:cc and when you look up it will be summer.

Urrrg - come on! everyhting is so slow in coming...thank God I have COD4 - I just cant get enough of that game.  anticipating: LittleBigPlanet,KZ2,HOME and new PAIN enviroments!

Actually I thought it would be in a spring release here in the end of march or start april :-(.. well good things apparently take time!

Geez no need to get all worked up people Summer's onyl 4 months away just study hard in school and summer will be here in no time.

I don't agree fully with  H3LiX and X5_Hundred. While Home will sure replace a lot of XMB functionality I still think that we'll need something like In-Game XMB to be able to access our mp3 collection from inside a game or read/write messages. Cause the only thing I want is to be able to play my own music inside a game and communicate with people on my friend list. The rest of the XMB is not interesting to me.

 

And I'm not sure Home can do this for me, really.

hmm.......verrry interesting :)

Nice Nice! Hope it will give what we all wish for in the in-game XMB

 

in game xmb and home should of been released when ps3 released.... they could of out sold the wii... plus they have been working on home for at least 4-5 years already this b.s sony

Ephacris, as I say it's pure speculation of course. I also hope there's a genuine XMB update, but thinking about it, they could achieve the same functionality as you mention using Home, who knows. Take the following scenario for example: Effectively when booting up your PS3, instead of being presented with Sony's XMB you could be placed directly into Home (if you enable that function?). From here you can Invite your friends to play directly, and as you say, during a game, maybe pull up Home's PSP interface (replacing in-game XMB?) and select which custom music you want to play. Of course, this is all off the top of my head but I'm just illustrating that in game XMB can be implemented in another way. I personally dont mind which way as long as it's quick and easy. Thinking about it from a business perspective, Sony could effectively force people to use Home (which is no bad thing as you're not FORCED to buy anything) but it makes excellent advertising and sales opportunities aswell as raising awareness of new and upcoming PS3 titles etc etc etc. The use of Home is limitless if they know what they're doing.

Wow we're in for a wait. But hey- at least we know it's on it's way! If I can happily wait, with much anticipation though, for MGS4 come Summer, I'm sure I can wait for this one too (I'm going to have to anyway lol.) We will now have a kicking summer through Haze, MGS4- story and online-, and In-Game XMB. Hopefully it'll let us listen to custom tracks as well as hold voice chat with buddies on friends list while playing games. Hopefully it'll be the best update.

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Summer isn't soon enough.

Nothing really concrete here!

@zarajoe is that even possible?

why is it so hard to put in game xmb! it souldnt take all the way to the summer!!! GAHH its prob not even hard to do technaclly!!!!

 

I WANT IT NOWWWW!!!!! GRAGAGGGAGGAAGAHHH..... im okay.... trust me i am..... *twitch cough die*

psn id: gingo... cant wait for this, only problem is that it is in the summer and thats a bit away

@Deldwen... the seasons are determined by the tilt of the Earth's axis in correlation with the Sun. So, the southern hemisphere experiences winter at a different time than the northern hemisphere. Didn't you learn this in elementary school, how old are you anyway??

So it would probably be around summer/before fall then? In-game communication is a big thing and I hope they follow it up with in-game music.

yea!!! but that's like a little dated how much ;ike when mgs4 arrives or home......

i dont care how long it takes as long as they do it right

Home has NOTHING to do with Ingame XMB. they are two completely seperate code bases. Yes Home has an ingame communication system but so do Burnout Paradise, Rockband, and several other games already on the market.

when I 1st heard about being to use your own music in games was on the original Xbox many yrs ago. I wondered why PS3 did not have the ability out of the box

Let's see.  We're on 2.10 and we have AT LEAST 2.20 and 2.30 before 2.40.  That's not including all the small FW updates along the way. 

Start the 2.40 rumors.  In-game XMB, Sony unlocks the disabled core, play movies and games at the same time, rumble foot pads, free PSN cards for everyone, etc.  I could go on forever.

I'm gonna like this summer