In Game XMB Sooner Than We Think?

From tripletags.com- "Got an email tonight from someone who has sent in dozens of tips in the last couple of months. I usually blow them off as meh since some of them seem so far fetched like the XBox 360 with HD-DVD (lol, dead in the womb). Anyway, the source sent me the above picture with information that puts the above interface in our hands before January is over.

What do you think? Believable or should we stick to serving PS3 Gamercards than following crazy rumors? ;)"

[Says you]

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[Sevir04]

and it was able to do that since early last year like right around the time of the first map pack release.. this is fake. and quite a few games already do that like timeshift, High velocity bowling, just to name a few off my head.

look at the pic and see for yourself. while i believe that it will come this year, i dont think it'll be here by January's end. with that said this is just a bad rumor that got out and nothing more move along.

[Staircase]

Really? Hmmm, were you able to listen to music while playing too? I may have to pop Resistance back in and check that out. Never noticed it before.

Thanks for posting that before I got excited. ;)

[Mu5afir]

That is not the same thing running on those games.

[Ju]

If you read the comments in the thread, you'll find a link to a picture with CoD4. And that definitively did (does) not support this yet.

[Kleptic]

n/m...wrong reply...

[ericnellie]

I'm glad I read your post because I didn't get too excited about this rumor. The bad thing is, 6 people disagreed with you and you ended up being RIGHT. It was a fake!! I hate people that take everything they hear as truth...things on the internet need taken with a grain of salt. The people that disagreed with you are idiots =) Bubbles for you my friend!

[Clinton514]

I'm not sure how anyone could fall for this. That photo looks fake and I can tell you why, but I won't post it here.

edit: Haha disagrees? Too funny.

[kthing]

hm... if thats how it works cool. dunno what to think about the pic. I'll believe it when i have it running on MY ps3.

[ohhthegore]

I remember resistance running something like that, I just can't remember if thats how it looked

[Blackmoses]

well maybe it is true. It's kinda hard to fake someone taking a bad pic. LOL!!!!

Look at the motion blur around the white lines...someone either doesn't keep still when taking pictures or they have a really bad camera with no auto focusing. Yeah, Resistance does it but it's only for the friends list...no other options. Plus ther isn't a background it always a black background. I don't know any other game that does it like this, this is definitely new. This pic clearly shows the game running and the option to "quit game" along with assigning controller ports, turning of controller, music option and video option. Currently when you push the Home button...it doesn't look like this. This doesn't appear to be fake, but at the same time doesn't mean it's coming anytime soon.

I'm not saying I beleive it but...

We will just have to wait and see!!!!

[Stubacca]

Yeah, it's totally fake like.

Shame. I desperately want full in-game XMB to play tunes and message folk whilst in a game. And maybe go online too. This development would give the PS3 an advantage on every front compared to Microsoft's baby.

Come on Sony. Blow us away!

[TheHater]

When it comes, it comes. But by then, I will be playing UT3, Call of Duty 4, Devil May Cry 4, Mass Effect and other great games.

[Skerj]

If it does come before DMC4 time it'd be the best xmas EVER. But since it isn't, I'll turn down the music ingame and play with my own like always.

[Ri0tSquad]

http://www.tripletags.com/u...

So fake.
For the people that think its real, look at this picture.

[Meus Renaissance]

If Sony add in-Game XMB then it's likely they update the theme/design of it as well like they do sometimes with the PS Store. So calling it a fake just because it has additional icons doesn't hold much weight.

Personally I think this is real

[TripleTags]

if you got the new super stardust HD and do the select music thing it has a static menu via options then pops up an XMB like sub menu for music .. so GOD knows how they will handle it In Game for realzees .. personally I think if someone wanted to give the scoop they would take better care in taking the picture ;)

[Skerj]

That's a crappy pic, so I'm not trusting it even though it does look awesome. I was fooled once by IGN years ago with MVC3, I'll never be fooled ever again without proof.

[pwnsause]

it looks pretty authentic, thats why I sent it for approval, IDK though, you didnt really get In-game music in resistance.

[Premonition]

Maybe the reason why some things are missing from the XMB is because sony will limit the things you can access when in game.

[Skerj]

Which is understandable considering you don't need to access the WHOLE XMB within the game, just Music and Friends. But why is the settings icon there on the left?

[Ri0tSquad]

Because its a fake. If I cant even listen to music and mess around in the settings menu at the same time then how would it be possible to do it in-game?

[Staircase]

Hmmm. I guess there is a possibility they could allow you to change Video or Audio settings while in game, its a stretch though. Nice catch, didn't even notice it.

[Jandre02]

Theres no way to tell if this is real or not, especially by saying the settings option is there. It doesnt mean the WHOLE settings band is there, and you cant telll if the music stops when your in the settings part.

But it may give you the option to change from 1080p to 720p (dunno why) and possibly let you change super-white, full RGB etc.

[monkey602]

In Game XMB Sooner Than We Think?

Wouldnt they need to travel back in time about 7 months to achieve that? I mean come on we thought we were getting ingame xmb with 2.0 along with home! I'll believe it when it happens. I'm not getting on these hype trains anymore.

[PirateThom]

It does look real, I mean, Resistance previously only had access to a Friend's List from a certain screen, but it's too blurry to be proof.

Hopefully though.

[perseus]

I think I'm the only PS3 owner who doesn't care about in game XMB. It would be nice to have my own music to listen to, but I don't need it.

<begin_random_rant>
Does anyone else get random messages from unknown people who ask to be added to your friends list? It seems like people just randomly invite every single person they see in a game JUST to make their friends list bigger. I think people have misunderstood the meaning of the word friend. If I don't know you, I don't want to hear from you.
<end_rant>

[DrPirate]

I thought like that too at one point, until Super Stardust HD got in-game custom music and now I play that game SOLELY because I can. It's a feature I thought I didn't care about until I got a taste of it, and now I feel like I can't live without it.

I would appreciate this feature to all it's extents and am absolutely looking forward to it arriving in the PS3's firmware. Not saying your opinion is wrong at all, but it's a nifty feature that many users would enjoy.

[Skerj]

The music thing is greatly needed, I don't think I've played through a single game on 360 without a custom soundtrack. It's mostly the reason I played AC on 360 more than I did the PS3 version even though I had both.

The friendslist thing doesn't bother me since my profiles have my PSN ID and 360 tag in them, usually when people send me an invite they tell me where they're from. However, I got a message from someone not on my list a few months ago on PSN asking if they could use my account to get a game and I was like "WTF!?".

[perseus]

I don't mean to say that in game music isn't cool. It'd be great to play uncharted while listening to AC/DC. I'm just not that worried about it.

@Skerj

You mean they asked you to buy one, or they asked to use your account to buy their own? I bet it was someone who got kicked from PSN.

Edit: Oh my God. That's hilarious. I can't believe that someone would have the balls to beg for something like that.

[Skerj]

They wanted to use my account and one of the 5 additional downloads to get a game I've already purchased. My brother and I do it for each other but hell he's my brother, besides we split games. I've already bought 9 of those mofos if you include Warhawk.

[DrPirate]

Why I think this is real: This is the exact same ingame XMB menu they showed before the PS3 came out (Yes, Sony lied to us, the PS3 was supposed to have it before it launched)

What I really think: What you see in this picture is nice, and really authentic looking because they even went as far as to copy what the XMB in-game looked like, and they even put nice little touches like the controller option and the game title name, this is not coming soon. It's better to keep expectations low, and if something comes out, we can cheer and clap, if nothing comes, at least we can laugh it off and wait for an official announcement.

Edit: Now that I think of it, there may be a small chance that if this is legit, it may be a picture of the in-game XMB beta that's in testing right now, read 2 posts down for my response to WilliamRBaker's comment for more information.

[DrPirate]

I read this on NeoGaf:

If I'm not mistaken PSN does have something like partnernet where its separated. I tired to add my self on a dev kit and it wouldn't budge. SO many hes on a different firmware (obviously) on that PSN

I tried doing the same with my friend in the QA dept. To my avail, he couldn't be added to my friends list either. I believe the testing he did (I'm not develoeper), is called "Collision Testing" if that means anything to anyone with more knowledge then I have.

[DrPirate]

Double Post

[WilliamRLBaker]

IN GAME XMB has been on the top of every ones wish list since before launch, and sony has been working on it since before launch, An INGAME XMB will require an entire OS rewrite you can disagree but this is a simple fact.

The 360 ingame stuff was built from the ground up into the OS it self the OS was designed around this, the ps3 was not you cant just put out an firmware update thats small and expect an seemlessly working ingame XMB its just common sense no need for techno babble...ect its common sense.

End of 2008 maybe, but im betting on early 2009 or mid 2009 for this.

The fact that an ingame XMB will either take up more or a lil less ram, and will either not be backwards compat, they will have to rewrite alot of code to make those games released in the past work with this, Devs will have to rework their whole attitude towards the OS if this is the case...and that speaks BIG update which in turn speaks OS REWRITE.

Edit: thanks for that drpirate like i said maybe end of year, or first quater 2009.

[DrPirate]

Just IM'd a friend, it's unreasonable to expect this kind of an update so soon. There's bugs and glitches that cause system crashes to occur.
(edited for conspicuity, and added vagueness to protect my friends).

Edited again: If anything comes up, I'll say something.

Edit: No Will, thank you for explaining why this task is not an easy one and why there is delays. My post was meant to backup your point that it's not coming tomorrow (or like it says, in January). It's not feasable, you're very on track with this one.

[TripleTags]

come work for me ;)

[WilliamRLBaker]

I have my moments dr pirate which usually occure when a topic has nothing to do with fanboys or the format war or the ""console war"" if any one has followed my posting history, take all that out and im pretty on the ball...lol but a good 90% of my time on this site is fights...but yeah in game XMB all for it, but wont expect it till end of year or 1st quater 2009.

[MikeGdaGod]

at least i got my DS3!!!

now sony just needs to patch ALL the games

[Bathyj]

Nice.

I went the ceramic white. Should be here this week. Gonna play all my games over again.

[name]

This could actually be true. Notice that the video option is absent, which wouldn't make sense having in game anyway right? I dunno, it's possible.

[Rattles]

but i know wher this screen came from do you all want to know? i can tell you.

[danarc]

Your Sixaxis rattles? Bit odd considering theres no vibration in Sixaxis, and I think it was the vibrating things which caused rattling in the dualshock 2.

[Bathyj]

I'd like animated or video wallpapers

[TripleTags]

its worst than the 1st one so im debating even putting it up.

[Skerj]

Just attach it here, or see if he'll write one of those "authentication" notices we so love to put in pics to prove stuff.

[dronde]

Please do u a favor and put it ASAP. WE would like to see more pictures and different angles.

[Ri0tSquad]

I'm sure it'll be debunked by tonight.

edit

Would this be it?

http://img161.imageshack.us...

................

This guy needs to do a video or something.

I think I'll be sticking with DrPirate & WilliamRLBaker on this one.

[TripleTags]

story is KILLING my blog server ;) i cant believe people want this SOOOO bad.

[dronde]

Thanks

[Khaqan]

The webpage won't load for me...

EDIT: It loaded. Damn it's hard to tell if this is legit or not.

[Rattles]

resistance 2 my friends resistance 2 lol no but i hope it arrives befor then "crosses fingers"

[LiquifiedArt]

But i think january is far fetched.

[dronde]

Bubbles for u Triple Tags

[Skerj]

I wanna play through Uncharted with Led Zeppelin's (or Tool's) "No Quarter" playing already, and from the same sound source not that external speaker stuff.

[dronde]

it seems like u are startin to believe it.

[Skerj]

Haha nah, I never get my hopes up on stuff like that. I know it's coming but I highly doubt it's before the end of this month.

[Clinton514]

Good job on the research. Believe it or not I find that a lot more reliable than obscure blurry photos.

[DrPirate]

Sure thing man, believe me, when I find out, I'll be singing praises from high heavens about it.

[Yoma]

wow, that would be good :D

[btkadams]

looks real to me. someone said that u cant see the psn icon though so it could be fake. but it just shows the game options, friends, and the edge of photos... but i bet thats just cuz u cant access the psn (store, account management) or the internet browser because ur in a game thats probably using the internet. i believe it, but i dont know to expect it at the end of this month.

[DrPirate]

Hi Adams. I saw that and I got a little curious. It wouldn't make sense being able to look at pictures in-game.

So I sent a another text, guess what that's for, it caught me a little by surprise.

Under that menu, is just one option that says "Take Screenshot"

Edit: Ok, the functionality at the beginning will have to be supported, and chances are it won't be in the first build of in-game access to the XMB. Supposably, if you try this during a cutscene, or an FMV(Or CG movie, whatever they're called), the processing time and memory requisite for this function ALSO causes crashing. Resistance has this already.

[btkadams]

woah thats cool! im trying to hold myself back from being excited about an update spurred by these "real/fake" pictures but its getting kinda hard.

[Elkeh]

I think its real.. theres an img of it in cod4

[GodofPeace]

cool I guess

[Expy]

Could be real, could be fake, but from what I've been thinking how the in-game XMB would look, it looks pretty much like that.

Only time will tell.

[SullyDrake]

Let's stop our bickering for a minute. It'll come, as all good things do with time.

Sony, get your asses in gear.

[ScottEFresh]

I don't think it will come that soon but heres hoping anyways! Cheers!

[whoelse]

wow where did the PSN logo go? ;)

[DrPirate]

In Game XMB is not full featured.

Instead, ask yourself....Why is the friends list offset a little to the right of the friends icon in that Call of Duty 4 picture? That'll bake your noodle. It's an obvious mistake, someone who "photoshopped" these, wouldn't have missed something like that.

I still don't think these are 100% real, but, if it makes you sleep better at night, somewhere in the world is an unfinished version of the in-game xmb in existence right now.

[Doctor Strange]

Very hard to tell since photoshop does wonders these days. I'm not getting my hopes up but if it did come at the end of the month Sony will be on track to having a good year.

[Clinton514]

Hopefully they'll get SCEE to comment and if someone's guilty...burn them! muhaha. ;)

[DrPirate]

I hear that. Something's gotta give.

I still have my suspicions that it's fake. It looks good, and it looks exactly the way it was described to me, but I know the only way to get this kind of thing, is to have a devkit in your home.

Regardless, they'll end the rumours. This thing has existed for 4 hours and it's already out of hand.

[therealwillie]

dr, we should just message barronET on this guys friends list, see if he knows anything :)

[TrillHeat954]

sony shouldn't of done XMB in game like this, it should of been a different variation of the main menu much like the difference between the xbox dashboard and guide

[theDuke]

This looks like music settings and message settings while running Resistance... It could be fake but Resistance is not able to do that.

[Madbrain]

but XMB looks like a summer tale to me... Hope Sony will make a miracle and get it before Feb..

[theDuke]

You deserve some bubbles just for avatar photo... an Xshit with two huge pile of crap!! Excellent!! Perfect job for this stupid machine...

[Jandre02]

Because if you look at Call of Duty 4, theres no messaging or friends invites. That was all supposed to be done with the in-game XMB.

It does allow you to see who is online or not, so I suspect Sony was just getting the final kinks out, possibly with in game music. this looks promising though

[TripleTags]

Why would resistance have it since day one and not COD4? good point.

[Mattearl]

You know... That WOULD be very cool to have XMB in-game... but i'm not going to hold my breath for a release this month... or even next month. BUT, i would very much like it if they did release it!

[darkside]

until Sony make a offical statement on the XMB. then i'll believe other then it's a fake.

but i hope this is true.

[TripleTags]

they are fake ;) .. ill update the post on tripletags.com to reflect that as soon as our upgrade is done.

[Bleucrunch]

I dont want speculation I just want in game XMB. That is all!