Playstation: It only does everything. Except what the other consoles do.
"Apparently, the PS3's RAM is used by the game the system is running. Because of that, the console can't support cross-game chat like the Xbox 360 does."LOLWUTShut up, Sony.You're a bunch of idiots, Sony.Your "rumor control" commercials are interesting, Sony.Your products are of great quality (normally), Sony.But please…Go back to making TVs and Computers. If you can't optomize a game system that's supposed to be way more powerful than the 360 in a way that can handle some voice conversation ACROSS different games, then please just huddle into a corner and go into a fetal position.….Seriously. What the hell, sony.
I don't consider my 360 a social media device. Though while having cross game chat is more on the line of social contact rather than chat for a game, I still find it a bit more useful at times here and there.
But anyway..And also, after re-reading that article, I find it funny that they claim that:
"Once a game gets RAM we never give it back," Yoshida told Eurogamer. "It's not possible to retrofit something like that after the fact."ORLY MR. SONY? Cool story bro. I'm sure there's no room for an update that disables cross game chat on any game that fails to pass a test that determines if enough ram can be used for cross game chat (you know, your hard working employees could have a session where they test the games with voice chat - if it fails, disable it, and if it works, enable it.) Ta da.You are actively advocating taking resources away from a system which is already starved of resources, in an environment whose sole advantage is being able to use every last drop of resource without having to worry about it, due to having a set hardware platform. The pitiful amount of RAM both current generation consoles have is the major limiting factor holding games back in general, and you want to make that worse for the sake of a trivial feature that is already done better than could be achieved on console on PCs?
No.Advocating taking resources away from a POWERHOUSE of a game system? Yeah. A bit extreme/stupid? Perhaps. Whether it's actually good/worth doing at this point doesn't matter to me - at this point, if/when I finally get a PS3, I'll settle with the fact there's no cross game chat (like how I settled with a per-month fee for XBL) but the fact that an "inferior" game system can do it, but a powerful one uses the excuse of no ram? Please. It's nothing but 0s and 1s. There's gotta be some way it'd work but whatever.
And yeah, I'm sure that if they DID devote ram to that, games wouldn't be as good. /sarcasmBut PS3 - comments aside…Would the overall quality of the game/service decline that much if a few megs were set aside for cross game chat?I think the whole thing is that nobody really care about that. I never use it on my 360. If I want to chat with people I'll talk to them on other devices, not on my gaming console.
Also, I hate talking and playing games, unless its either in person with friends or yelling random crap into a mic in the game room I'm playing in to annoy/distract/amuse the other players.Powerhouse? The PS3?
You're listening to their advertising too much.And yes, when you only have 512mb RAM total, to share between video and regular data, yes, every megabyte counts. Statements like "Please. It's nothing but 0s and 1s. There's gotta be some way it'd work but whatever." read more like "Computers are magic, why can't they just wave their magic wand?", to me.Playstation: it only does….(Your wallet, your time, your laundry, your work, your girlfriend, your taxes, your mom.)
Need I go on?PS3 has no games.
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I forgot when that stopped being funny, tbh.The packaged 360 mics work so much better than any turtle beach that is hooked up to the PS3. The quality is unbearable.