Music while-you-walk dropped from GTA IV

Some time ago, a number of magazines reported that you'd be able to listen to music while you walk around the streets of Liberty City using GTA IV's cell phone. Unfortunately, EGM has now confirmed that this feature has been axed from the final version of the game.

[Snoozer282]

Good, I want the songs only in cars because otherwise it'd get annoying for myself.

[gaffyh]

That's not even a major feature...

[Fishy Fingers]

Good? For you perhaps but the feature would of still been welcomed. It would of been optional anyway, you'd only turn it on if you wanted.

[Exhaust]

I'll believe this when Rockstar says it.

[Play B3yond]

The title had me worried... I thought they were gonna take out a big feature like getting drunk or something like that.

[GIJeff]

i agree 100%. how is THIS a major feature? a major feature is stealing cars. If they took that out, id be a little upset...but this?

[Montrealien]

to some people it is a major feature, to you 6, it ain't, that is all.

plus, I got XMP and 30 gigs of music on my computer's hard drive, no big deal.

[JsonHenry]

Does that mean you can't listen to custom tracks on your 360? I rarely litsen to the games actual music. I just play my own tracks in the background.

[marichuu]

Saints Row had an MP3 player, and you could unlock and buy music for it in the game. Wasn't that bad, dunno why Rockstar would remove it.

[GAMER NOT FANBOY]

thats not a big deal to me i would rather hear gun fire and car crashes

[TheEndzor]

Yes i agree

it wasn't that important

[will11]

the reason this was taken out was the xbox small 9gb disc could not fit any thing else.... plus bubbles please i need them

[zonetrooper5]

Gonna cancel preorder now, man its like the biggest feature in the whole game!

[moveteam]

Heh, it's (or was) a cool feature, but really I don't care, the game is going to be FANTASTIC!

[machete squad steve]

Your kidding right?

[wallace1000]

I am pretty sure zone is kidding but it is funny that he has 8 agrees and disagrees. I guess some people didn't realize he was :-P

[machete squad steve]

is the fact someone disagrees with my question. looks like someone has a hardon for me.

[Ivix]

@machete squad steve - You probably got disagrees because people thought you were a moron for even having to question that.

[Shadow Flare]

its amazing how bad some people's sense of sarcasm is. Can't you tell he was joking when he said "it's the most important feature of the game" lol

[jaaz]

The game has a ton of hours of in-game music, but it's not UNLIMITED. If they allowed you to play the same music on your cell phone that you could play in your car, you would go through the entire catalog of in-game music fairly quickly and might get bored of it too soon.

If anything, the removal of this feature affects the 360 version of GTAIV much more than the PS3 version, since on the 360 you were apparently able to play your own music within the game.

[whoelse]

Funny if Sony paid Rockstar to do that, though very unlikely.

[moveteam]

Read! This has nothing to do with custom soundtracks, but only if you can listen to music while you're walking!

[Mars Attacker]

Got that backwards dude. Using the all-powerful Dashboard, the 360 has custom soundtracks no matter what. Its the PS3 that's stuck with crappy built-in music without this feature.

This is one game that custom music is VERY IMPORTANT. Yet another reason to buy the 360 version.

[Play B3yond]

Yeah and dont come crieng on this sight when you pop in the game and when its done loading before you take your first step as Niko you get RRoD. Another reason to get the PS3 version.

[jaaz]

I'm not talking about custom soundtracks. That's always been there. At one point R* announced that you would be able to play your mp3s and other sounds THROUGH your cell phone. The music would sound like its coming from your cell phone, would pause when you got a call, etc. That's clearly not the same thing as a custom soundtrack that plays over everything you are doing endlessly.

Since the PS3 can't play custom tracks in-game (not yet anyways), it was thought this was a 360-only feature. Which now means the 360 lost a feature.

[Foxx77]

The PS3 does support custom soundtracks on a game by game basis ... SuperStarDust HD has this feature (play any music off the HDD or playlists) ... Burnout Paradise will also be adding this functionality in an upcoming patch. Not many games use it but it's there.

(Not a flame war message, just trying to clear up confusion)

[SUP3R]

I was looking forward to this feature, but I won't miss it.
At least now I can focus on what the peds are saying to me or each other.

[Hercules]

really, it would be annoying, i read an article that said you cna actually listen to other radio from other poeple cars..dont know if this is true or not, but if i had my music, plus someone else, i would get pretty annoyed

[Dmack79]

*cancels preorder* jk

[skynidas]

mehh it wasn't that important, it wasn't a major feature

[LSDARBY]

That wouldhave been a great feature though tbh.

[wow4u]

I agree. Though, Im not disappointed that a GTAIV isnt being used to sell music-tracks.

It would have been interesting to discover new music, but Im not upset it is gone.

I'll be satisfied with the R* supplied music, and when that gets boring, I'll switch to my Custom Soundtracks.

I subscribe to some RSS feeds for small-label MP3s and they automatically put new music on my home's media server, I'll just play that in the game - or my favorites.

[Saupau]

Does this mean we won't be able to hear at our own music? or what? Sorry im not english ;D

[moveteam]

Xbox 360 users can use the custom soundtrack feature, and hear music all the time, while PS3 users only can hear music in the car, until Sony releases in-game XMB.

But this story isn't about your own songs, but the ability to hear Rockstar's soundtrack while you walk.

[Cicinho]

"Until Sony releases in-game XMB"

Are you serious dude, you actually believe custome soundtracks come with in-game XMB?? Sony have already stated that custome soundtracks are up to the developers to put in. They are coming to burnout soon and there in a few other games.

Custome soundtracks are not waiting for anything, Sony just dont force the devs to make them for the game.

[wow4u]

Cicinho:

Custom soundtracks are a function of the Xbox 360's Guide, a part of the OS.

Microsoft doesnt force developers to put them in Xbox 360 games. They are there because of the design of the machine.

[brothersimon]

oh well
i can still stream it over with my xbox 360 :-)

[RealTimeWeaponChange]

lol, ownage. u can tell the droid army didn't like that one :)

[Xlll]

what we didn't like is that avatar. At least us "droids" won't have to worry about our console failing, burning down our house, or scratching our disc.

[NegativeCreepWA]

Music should still work through the 360 guide. You probably just cant use music through an ingame player.

[gnothe1]

this affects the PS3 more than the 360 because now the PS3 is limited to ONLY the music in the game(it might have a large catalog) the 360 users have always had the option to play their own music. just like if i wanted to listen to Plies while im playing I could, just not on the PS3.

[Official General]

You like Plies? Yeah he's good, I like those songs called "100 years" and "Shawty" real good stuff man. I'm getting the PS3 version so i'll just have to do with the in game soundtrack oh well!

[Chuck Norris]

Lack of space or development time?

[wow4u]

It could be related to the PS3's memory/CPU requirements for these functions.

Distributing DLC from within the game is a function of the Xbox 360's OS. While, in the case of the PS3, it is not. Additional memory and CPU resources could possibly have been required for the PS3 to do this.

A great discussion on these matters can be found here:
http://arstechnica.com/news...

"indicates that 9MB is required for friends lists (and 60MB for in-game commerce!). If those numbers are correct, a PS3 title using friends lists functionality has 512-96-9 = 407MB available, 73MB less than an Xbox 360 title using the same features."

http://ozymandias.com/archi...
http://www.innerbits.com/bl...

I'm very curious if any of these "additional resources" were required for these features and caused the PS3 version to run poorly and were subsequently removed because of it.

Maybe it was all just too unstable. Maybe they had issues with licensing or disagreements with the revenue from resulting sales.

Anyway, I'm sure we'll get word on the cause.

[Tunerboy8732]

to music on there cell these days anyways.As long as I can jack a ride and turn on my 360 custom soundtrack then thats all I need,Im gonna be too busy puttin hot lead in peoples chest while on foot.

[THC CELL]

Chavs ?

[Cop_Boy]

R* was unable to put the feature due to the limited space of DVD , Bill Gates really love outdated crap !! now just cos $50 million now the ps3 version is also suffering ..... well done

[Doctor Who]

yeah your right. coz xbox360 doesn't have blu-ray they have to cut out things. hope gta5 will be ps3 only so we can enjoy next-gen games

[brothersimon]

The real reason was because 360 already has custom soundtracks so its not worth working on.

Go think before u speak :-D
They dont care about PS3 cant u tell?

[SUP3R]

But doesn't 360's custom soundtracks blare through the entire game once it's on?
Rockstar's feature would have been smart. Getting softer during important scenes or key sounds during gameplay.

[brothersimon]

No.

i knows when to stop and start

e.g if theres a cutscene itll pause, most games fully support the feature so im sure this game will

i mean walking down street with some tunes bangin from ur celli.. man thats just chav'd and a dumb idea

[Flinty]

How does more storage space have anything to do with this?

The songs will still be on the disc.. It isn't like they've run out of space.

[Sony sucks balls]

Just think if you had an xbox you would be able to listen to music so another reason Ps3 sucks fat hair veiny ballz !

[RealTimeWeaponChange]

ahahahaahahahaha u guys do realize cop girl is joking, right? cuz honestly, no one can post a comment that dumb, lol. *bubbles*!!

[Xlll]

^ all your comments are dumb. most our just "hahahahaha droids" "ownage" really now if you just sit and take some time to think you might be able to make a valid point one day. Then again you do own a 360 so seems like all hope is lost for you.

[KBDuB]

Oh, well, ain't an important feature.. not to me at least. I just play my music off my pc.

[t-0_ot-]

Well that doesnt hurt the 360 owners since they can stream music from their xBox..

Xlll - what's the point? Ps3 fanboys say the same things all the time, too. All I hear is "no blu-ray LoLz Youz g4m3s Suxxorz!! LoLz" and "RRoD!!!!!!!!!!!! LoLZ OWn4Ag3!!"

[Xlll]

@to_ot RRoD is a huge problem for you 360 owners. it is more of a valid point then just a random "hahahahaha" wasting space. As far as your little point about xbox can stream music so it doesn't matter to you. Have fun trying to pause that music so it don't drown out important plots in the game. I'm sure it will be great to only hear the music and not whats going on while you play. If PS3 owners want to do that we can turn on a stereo for the same if not better effect.

[Saupau]

Will we be able to hear at our own music? im not english sorrry ;____________________________;

[solar]

on 360 yes on ps3 no.

[wAtdaFck]

corrected your sentence :P

And no, you can't. They confirmed that you cannot listen to your own music. However, if you listen to music from, say, a CD-Player or radio, then your set.

edit: unless you own a 360

[moveteam]

Look up ;)

[juuken]

Well that sucks. :/

[solar]

meh...i can deal without. i love the atmosphere the music of GTA games relay.

[Alcohog]

I personally was not too fond of the feature to begin with. I have no interest in having music playing outside of a vehicle.

[marichuu]

It kinda makes sense now, especially after reading the audio Q&A.
I think they did it to make people actually listen to the enviornment's atmosphere, which will be awesome without a doubt.

[wow4u]

Think of it this way: Niko Bellic has his own Zune, playing whatever music you like.

[BigKev45]

It was a good idea that the axed that. It should only be heard in the cars.

[Strife Lives]

For 360 owners, not a problem, but Ps3? where does this leave it with ingame music? This kinda unfair,as rockstar kept this a secret.

[supaflypriest1]

This has never been a secret, 360 can play music ingame on every single game. PS3 may eventually get this...

[Variable]

*cancels preorder

lol :P don't care about this, it's going to be a great game :D

[mightydog01]

brotherbraindead

when we say they took it out they would have kept it in. if it where ps3 only there would be more room on a 50gig blu ray then a normal dvd.They would have implemented it.......easy plus they could have done so much more......how can you say normal dvd greater than blu ray.......50>8gigs PS 360 as custum sound tracks like a tape deck it just play music but R would use a different program for fading out trickery stuff..

[heyheyhey]

that sucks

its a feature everyone was asking for and its absence led to major complaint

why remove it?

i know its sometimes better to just listen to the sounds of the city, but the option should still be there to purchase one

[zonetrooper5]

Protip: Read my comment again and decide if I was kidding. =)

[Whoooop]

:)

[OpiZA]

Haha :D

[Ali_The_Brit]

R* care most about PS3 cant you tell? i mean come on the PS2 was the first to have GTA III u naive fool, go drink some evian water

[Flinty]

They don't care about one console over the other. It's a business they care about making money. If they did care then they would have developed exclusivly for one console and taken a hit on the amount of games they sell.

[Sony sucks balls]

You are officially the dumbest person on this web site. We have a clear winner folks ding ding ding. If they cared so much about ps3 it wouldn't be coming out at the same time for xbox 360 dumb ass.

[SONYS LARGE D1CK]

@ SONY SUCKS BALLS, WELL YOUR RIGHT, I DO SUCK MY OWN BALLS. :)
8=========D`---------% SONY FAN BOYS LOVE MY D1CK AND MY CUM.
KEEP SUCKING LIKE YOU HAVE BEEN DOING FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS.

[SuperSaiyan4]

A major feature for me would have been that lovely exclusive dlc for the 360 version...Good thing thats still coming :-D

[heyheyhey]

hmmmm yes.... a feature?

[yanikins111]

A working console....

Sorry. Fanboyish i know, but this is stupid.
I mean this post is about a feature of both versions being dropped and it still resorts to my guns bigger/badder/faster/meaner than yours. Which is stupid cos No matter what gun you have, its still gonna have the same effect.

Hey hows that for an analogy?

[Whoooop]

I don't really care about that feature...

I for one don't like walking while listening to music, so I guess is a matter of preference.

For me is more fun playing the game while only listening to the game sound and music.

For people who actually hear music all day and walks everywhere with an i-pod or something... then I can see that person benefit from this feature.

[Baliw]

isnt implemented anymore?

Check the socialclub page and lookout for the ZIT service.

'Simply Dial ZIT-666-0100 from Liberty City whenever you heard a song
you're into and that song will be tagged to purchase later via the Rockstar Social Club and Amazon MP3'.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$

[moveteam]

Why should they axe the feature then? In that case it would just mean more money ;)

EDIT: I need a bubble!

[bootsielon]

nuff said

[xboxftw]

AND YET WE GET SPLIT SCREEN AND IMPROVED GRAPHICS ON UTIII. Better graphics and textures on 99% games. YET your BD exclusive games only last 5-6 hours. SO who fcking come they dint include it in GTIV for ps3?

Shove that up your bd @ss.

[RealTimeWeaponChange]

DVD9 are you serious? u do realize the songs are already on the disc, right?.... wow, u droids get dumber by the day--no--by the hour.

[Xlll]

you realize that even if the music is already on the disc it takes code space to program it while in use when walking? like when it has to soften or even stop upon a cutscene.

[RealTimeWeaponChange]

"code space"?? LMFAO. Did u just make that up?

[Xlll]

The game needs to know when events are happening to lower or increase the music. Even small things like that take up space. Sadly your "cutting edge" disc format can't hold much.

[Bladestar]

I don't know about other consoles.. but this features is useless on the xbox 360 since gamers can just plug their MP3 player via USB, stream music from their computer... while playing any game.. .including GTA...

[heyheyhey]

how the hell is that related?

unless you have the entire GTA soundtrack on your MP3, then what your suggesting is different

[phctheone]

major feature?

"listen to music while you walk"

thats lamme..

[TunakTunakTun]

But its okay, you ruined one game but there are plenty of PS3 only games that you won't touch with your filthy hands.

Afrika
Aqua
Buzz! Quiz TV
Coded Arms: Assault
Crysis
Dark Cloud 3
Disgaea 3
Eight Days
Epic Unannounced Game
EyeDentify
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Folklore
Formula One Championship Edition
God of War 3
Grand Theft Auto V
Gran Turismo 5
Gran Turismo 5 Prolouge
Haze
Heavenly Sword
Heavenly Sword 2
Heavy Rain
Hot Shots Golf 5
inFAMOUS
Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
Killzone 2
Kingdom Hearts 3
L.A. Noire
Linger in Shadows
LittleBigPlanet
Metal Gear Online
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metro 2033: The Last Refuge
MLB 07: The Show
MLB 08: The Show
Motorstorm
Motorstorm 2
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
Ni-Oh
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Red Dead Revolver 2
Redwood Falls
Resident Evil 5
Resistance: Fall of Man
Resistance 2: United We Stand
Ridge Racer 7
Rockstar Unannounced Game
Rouge Galaxy 2
Silent Hill 5
Singstar
Sly Cooper 4
SOCOM 4
SOCOM Confrontation
Star Ocean 4
Syphon Philter
Team Ico Unannounced Game
Team Ico Unannounced Game 2
Tears of Blood
Tekken 6
The Agency
The Eye of Judgement
The Getaway
The Protector
Timesplitters 4
Twisted Metal
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Uncharted 2
Unreal Tournament III
Valkyrie of the Battlefield
Wardevil
Warhawk
White Knight Chronicles
Yakuza 3
Zone of the Enders 3

Calling All Cars!
Dark Mist
Echocrome
Elefunk
Everyday Shooter
Final Fantasy VII Remake
flOw
flOwer
Free Realms
High Velocity Bowling
Lemmings
LocoRoco Cocoreccho
Mesmerize
NCSoft MMORPGs
Novastrike
Nucleus
Pain
Pixeljunk Monsters
Piyotama
Rat Race
Snakeball
Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer
Super Rub-a-Dub
Super Stardust
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online
Wipeout HD

BD Live
Blu-Ray
Built In Wi-Fi
Cell
Dedicated Servers
Easy to Use XMB
Firmware Updates That Improves The Console
Folding@Home
Free Online Play
Harddrive in all Consoles
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HOME
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ONLY ON PLAYSTATION 3

THIS IS LIVING

P L A Y B 3 Y O N D

Bubble me up Sony Soldiers, I make xbots cry...

[Deadman64]

Sweet life.

Your life obviously revolves around sucking sony's d*ck.

[illizit]

Better than getting your house burned down.

[Deadman64]

No, its better to have a life.

[Sony sucks balls]

Was that a list of the most overhyped crap game line up in history ? GTA 4 RE5 are the only good games on the list.

[SONYS LARGE D1CK]

YOU ARE RIGHT, HIS LIFE REVOLVES AROUND HIM SUCKING MY D1CK HARD.
I CREAM ON HIM EVERY DAY.

[Solid_Snake666]

......

[Solid_Snake666]

?

[Solid_Snake666]

i get it ......i think?

[cellypower]

They might add it later.

[MakgSnake]

i am glad that its axed......cause i only want to hear music in the car.......otherwise it will be on alllll thefreakin time.

[TrenchaunT]

Who cares? I don't use my REAL cell phone to listen to music, either.

[Infernus]

Walkman phones are awesome!

[KLEPTOMANIAC]

yeah this is the main reason why people were going to buy gta4. i guess i better cancel my pre-order. i dont know how on earth they will keep all those legions of fans now after dropping that bombshell. thanks for the early heads up. and just in time too.... *insert extreme sarcasm*

[TheExecutive]

i dont even care about this feature. If I want to listen to music i will cruise in a taxi, when i am outside i got some killin to do :)

[Infernus]

What is it about having to be able to listen to music at every possible moment in games?

Not having music on the phone in GTA4 allows you to take in the great surroundings R* have put together. One of the reasons why I'd never use in-game music if it were added for the PS3, for example, I like COD4 the way it is thanks :D

[running rampid]

albeit it would have been a nice feature to have, just stick your ipod into your xbox 360 and there you go.

[Cop_Boy]

man how many times will ya confess that u r f*kin GAY !!!!!! no wonder u got such a nice user name !!!1! looser !!! this time RROD will definately burn ur small D1ick as well !!!! thanks to M$

[Mystery_Person]

What the hell?! I hope we can listen to music when in-game XMB comes out..

[OpiZA]

It must've been removed after play testing.. i'm sure it was scrapped for legitimate glameplay reasons.

After reading the Q&A with the audio dept yesterday, it would appear that they've gone into great depth in creating location appropriate ambient audio... i imagine getting out the car allows the player 2 experience this, and the possibility of constant music would detract from this aspect of the game.

Or maybe it was conflicting with the other motorists radio stations..

But yeh... if it's optional then you could choose 2 remove it or not. Who knows, I sure don't :)

[-EvoAnubis-]

This is actually the first I've heard about it.

[wow4u]

I think we're ok without having GTAIV be a method to buy music. It doesnt bother me a bit.

Custom Soundtracks are universally available on the Xbox 360.

[Iron Man 2]

Have no fear PLAYSTATION®3 GTA IV players,these features have been totally axed from the inferiorbox 360 version of GTA IV,the superior PLAYSTATION®3 will be getting these features and more.

$hane

[air1]

it may not be the best feature to have cause you wana hear all the surroundings at first. what about 1 or 2 months having the game you get tired of the surrounding sounds and just wana hear music?! dah well ill have the 360 version any way no worries here :)

[JokesOnYou]

yeah this was pointless for the 360 version anyway, since you can listen to your custom soundtracks already, its optional sometimes you want to listen to the game environment or the ingame music etc but I do enjoy having the option to play my own music, its really a great feature on 360 has.

JOY

[realistgamer]

ah whatever it's not that big of a deal plus it shoould be in your car anyway.

[djtek184]

Microsoft has once again cause limitations to games because of DVD9.

[Sony sucks balls]

Or does Sony just suck for not having costum soundtracks ? Oh I guess that couldn't be the case could it buttfuks.

[Horny]

I was listening to my own music while playing Saints Row. At first it was fun blasting people to Bone Thugs N Harmony but then I realized this feature is kinda stupid because the music is always on, if ur walking, in the car, or doing whatever. Its just like putting a CD in your CD player and listening while playing the game. That is why I dont understand why people make such a big deal out of custom soundtracks. It just doesnt sound like its part of the game, it sounds like Im playing music in the background. I just wish the music would play through a in-game player.

[Smudge2626]

I agree, playing music the whole time seems to decrease immersion in the gameplay. I tried it a couple of times in Saint's Row and quickly decided to leave music for driving. Now, if they could implement it in a separate speaker, like the one in the Wiimote or through a headset I think it would be a more novel feature. (Yes, I realize it's not available on the Wii, just using the technology for an example.)

[yanikins111]

For the most part custom sound tracks aint all that important, but sometimes you just wanna stick in Gears or uncharted or Cod4 and blow some a'holes away to some breaking benjamin or stonesour or korn. Normally in game music is used to create the atmosphere and this is beneficial to the game. But some times you just want that atmosphere to be "DIE B!TCHES" and this is where Custom soundtracks are great.

I think this is partiularly true for people like me who use their ps3 (or 360 if thats what you have) as their entire entertainment system. Really it was a massive oversight by sony not to include custom sound tracks because the system does do everything and you can build an entertainment system that revolves around it, which means no cd player. What would be great would be the ability to split the speaker outputs to different sources. Say i am playing uncharted but have people around who want to listen to music, it would be cool if i could have say, my front 3 speakers playing game audio and my rear speakers playing only music. But now im being fussy. And if that situation arrises I really need to stop being antisocial...

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Dang...

I mean, I'm not getting GTAIV. I don't really like the series.

But that's a great feature to have.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

I want a PC version.

I have Vice City on PC and it's infinitely modable.

I can basically play crackdown.

[rareairtone]

While we can't turn on music from our phones, it would be unrealistic if we still couldn't hear music from NPC's cars every once in a while. I think the only feature that is gone is the mp3 function of the phone.

[Foxx77]

Has Rockstar confirmed that the PS3 won't support custom soundtracks? I mean the feature has been in previous GTA's when the hardware supported (ex. GTA on original Xbox and GTA on PSP)... just saying that there is still a sliver of hope for those getting the game on the PS3. This would obviously only apply to cars now though.

[andron]

I think it would take away from the games atmosphere. Having music playing constantly could clash with ambient sounds and so on.

[tudors]

you may want to know that when you play a custom soundtrack with the Xbox-360 it does not overpower the other sounds, it is as though it is built into the game, this is why Xbox-360 owners always boast about it, if you play it in game it becomes a part of the game, nothing like just playing your stereo alongside it.

[yanikins111]

For the pedestrians. I was gonna be playing some deep forest meditation bullsh!t whilst calmly cruising the streets of ol' new york. Now im gonna gonna have to BLOW SOME F*&$*NG HEADS OFF. DIE YOU MOTHER F%$KERS!!! WHERE"S MY F#$KING MUSIC YOU B!TCHES! F*&K YOU!

[tudors]

how good the Xbox-360 OS is, GTA does benefit from being able to use your own soundtrack, if you are one of those people who is emotionally attached to certain music types then you will know that being able to play your favourite tunes in game actually adds to the games atmosphere. I don't want to ever see a one console race but IMO if you created a hybrid of using the PS3 and the Xbox-360 (including the software obviously) you would have a near perfect console, but this is not the case so you either buy both or choose the one that is most appealing to you.

I realized the other day that I am not much of a film buff, if I puchased a PS3 right now it would mainly be for Blu-ray but like I said I am no film buff, there are games that I would love to play on the PS3 but it is the other stuff that they are still working on that is making me wait. Since I have upgraded my Xbox-360 I am more than happy hardware wise (much quieter and HDMI does make a difference), and you have to admit that the games are very consistent, somthing that I am still waiting for with the PS3 which IMO is still a work in progress.

Anyone who feels I am PS3 bashing please back off because I like the PS3 but they need to sort out the stuff that Xbox-360 users have become accustomed to since the original Xbox, come on guys just how long do you have to wait?

[andron]

But I know custom soundtracks can be great in games. Especially after having played a game for a while.

I hope the PS3 version gets the option someday. But it's not a very important feature to me. I generally prefer to hear in game sound only.

[yanikins111]

And yes the software is great. For the most part it really is, although i prefer the cleaness of the XMB. But the fact is software can be upgraded, hardware (apart from the HDD, and with the 360, dont get me started on price) for the most part can not.

I think what happened was MS did a great os, because thats what MS do... Software. Unfortunately they rushed the hardware. Sony on the other hand seem to have perfected the hardware but left core features out of the os. The difference is, the OS can and has been updated with no additional cost to the user. Where as to obtain hdmi and a quieter/cooler system you have had to upgrade your hardware which unless you sent your console in for repair and recieved an upgraded sku, you had to pay for.

Seems both Sony and MS have stuffed up certain aspects of this console generation, and few systems are ever perfect, but i think sony have really done a bang up job on the ps3.

And yes its not here yet, but when the In-game xmb comes, with the ability to create custom sound tracks, we will be able to have any music we want playing over any game.

[Sjoeter]

well it was a nice future but to bad it not there... maybe its just better to let you hear the street sounds and stuff

[ilkercruiser]

Why? Microsoft has patents for ingame custom sountracks.(a new news) Sony will have to pay M$ to get that feature

[yanikins111]

Unless there is new news available.

I'm no legal expert but i believe that patent doesnt apply to the PS3. 2 loopholes to explore.

1)Patent applies and refers to a "Game system" only. Sony could argue the PS3 is a "home entertainment hub"

2)Patent applies to a system where the Os plays the audio. Sony could make a program that heavily integrates into the os, but is infact a seperate program that can be installed/ uninstalled independantly. I believe that this would also bypass the patent.

[kewlkat007]

doesn't have an Ipod or something?

[sleepbox]

you can probably still use custom soundtracks on the 360 version while you walk.

[Auron]

as of yet ps3 can't so this is no blow to 360 owners.

[yanikins111]

We can hear heads pop instead. I wonder if we will still get that ridiculous fountain with our head shots. You know the one.... when old faithful seems to have erupted from the stump that was a neck. Anyone else chucking a sicky?

[VMAN_01]

EGM confirmed it but how come rockstar has not confirmed dropping the MP3 feature.