PS3 Getting In-game Video Chat?

Seems like the PS3 may get in-game video chat very soon if one game's feature list is to be believed.

[Darkiewonder]

Game-Specific.

Just like the poker game on PSN there's in-game Video Chat too.

[HighDefinition]

This ...... http://winfuture.de/videos/...

and for the XMB to be able to control it thru motion and voice using the PSeye.........yeah. Plus if you like it or not EyePet which is a amazing Idea, JP will be ALL OVER THAT. I imagine some of this will come to light at E3. If you don`t have a PSeye buy one, it only like $30 or something like that.

[-EvoAnubis-]

Go! Puzzle had video chat too. That was a long time ago.

[sonyjunky279]

yea this will still not make me buy a ps eye

[KarateExplosion]

And the reason I bought it wasnt for games. My Mother, father, and two sisters are pretty far from me. Amazingly they all have ps3s and a Pseye. It is nice every Friday to log on and video chat with everyone scattered around the U.S.

[Raz]

For my money, even cross-game audio chat would be welcome. Why should I have to stop everything and go into a chatroom to do that?

For that matter, why is text chat such a chore? I have to pause the game, hit the center button, scroll over to my fiends list (oops, 'friends' sorry) and open the text room, hit enter a couple of times before I can even start texting, write, hit enter again, press the circle button to get out of text mode, and hit the center button to go back to my game. Why in the name of weeping, creeping Jesus should I have to go through all that, when a simple pop-up would suffice? Take a hint from Facebook, Sony. Geeze. >_<

[LiquifiedArt]

This isn't the supported videochat which works regardless of game. That is the one that would be very useful. Not even so much video as audio.

[360Hater]

You are not streaming video and playing a game online, sorry not happening this generation.

MAYBE a coop game but doubtful. My guess is they just improved the video chat.

[blackbeld]

I Disagree, sorry...

Video chat is already in PSN poker game...

We already using it every time we use the Poker Texas Hold'em game.

[DNAgent]

There is also going to be video chat in Zen Pinball (coming to PSN tomorrow). They had a trailer which showed a few people video chatting while playing the game.

[Face Palm]

Using HipHopLamer as source... are you f*cking kidding me?!

That list in legit but that specific video chat is just an in-game feature similar to High Stakes Poker. HipHopLamer says that it gonna be a permanent OS firmware feature, that just makes their site look even dumber.

[whoelse]

Says features for the game, not PS3 OS.

[StalkingSilence]

I'm with you - it's always been available to devs in-game.
High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition patched in 6-way video chat, allowing both PSeye and the old EyeToy camera.

[DA_SHREDDER]

Hey but at least its something that the ps3 can do. I remember when there were only certain games that could do in game music on the ps3, but then it was only a couple of months till Sony actually allowed Devs to use the OS to implement it.

[Capt CHAOS]

I'd want it as a feature of the OS.

[Darkiewonder]

Uno Live for 360.

[Wile]

Wow Darkiewonder, all those disagrees for a factual statement.

[themyk]

i remember the no ingame xmb days. and the old crappy store days. oh those were the days. lol

[360 man]

command and conquer 3 and kanes wrath also have dis feature and those 2 are proper games not little card arcade games

[xdye017]

Xbox live > PSN

[Capt CHAOS]

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[themyk]

why? lets actually try to have a grown up conversation why u think that. and in no way am i slamming you for your choice i think live is great. but i also think psn is great. i think some of you xbox guys still think it's 2006.

[Traveler]

I agree that LIVE has a few features that PSN doesn't have, but most of the main stuff is the same between them.

Also, LIVE costs money while PSN is free. For some people those few features aren't really worth the extra cost.

Personally, I like them both. But I do have to admit that I don't always have LIVE because sometimes I don't have the money to afford it.

[Theoneneo81]

yeah its great if you wish to spend 50 bucks for it good luck with that. with psn i can play free online games and oh yeah i can watch hulu and netflix for free with playon media server

[koehler83]

Can we stop approving the damned PS3 feature hype articles?! How many times do we have to hear this crap?

[HighDefinition]

If you don`t like it, go find something you do like.

[Baka-akaB]

What crap ? its something they already announced , the rumor is just the when and how ..

[MaN_uTd]

Link? Because i never read that before....

[Baka-akaB]

I dont remember a link , but it actually also was in official trailers/commercials from Sony .
At least one of those like shown under my post

[n4gn4gn4gn4g]

They've already confirmed this feature multiple times including the
big reveal on PlayStation.blog

Look at the 35 second mark of the launch trailer....

Sheesh.

[MaN_uTd]

Where did you read that on the Blog before? Assuming of course that you mean the Video Chat feature.

[n4gn4gn4gn4g]

look at comment 69 on the Playstation blog.

http://blog.us.playstation....

[MaN_uTd]

I meant if it was confirmed as an OS feature =P sorry

[n4gn4gn4gn4g]

no...doubtful that they would bother given camera sale penetration is likely quite low.

[MaN_uTd]

That might be because any USB camera works on the PS3 and Thats why we havent heard anything from eyepet.

[PotNoodle]

This is game specific and has been known for a while, it won't be universal.

Other games have had this on the PS3 before iirc.

[Christopher]

It's such a situational type item for mostly casual games that it's unlikely it will ever be a part of the OS/firmware of the 360 or the PS3, but tied directly to software (including Home and similar apps that may appear on the 360).

I think the main thing people are looking for the the PS3 OS is in-game chat and cross-game chatting capability on the OS level.

[DA_SHREDDER]

The thing is though the ps3 can handle cross game video chat in game, so why not implement it?

[Christopher]

I think the issue is that it would most likely be turned off most of the time if implemented so that people don't have their gaming disrupted by suddenly having a portion of their screen pop-up with a friend's face on it. They have other things to implement that would likely be more widely used on a larger level, so they'll work on those. Perhaps at some point they'll implement it, but not before many other things.

[shazui123]

sony hasnt released cross game video chat via firmware update. I mean I appreciate that theyre helping secure all these amazing games for us to play, but the community has shouted out for this feature for so long, why wouldn't they implement it? Maybe theres hope for this E3, remember the fw update that was rumoured at E3 a few days ago?

[shazui123]

PSN=XBL
-Wipeout HD, Burn Zombie Burn, GT5P, flower, flow, super rub a dub (i love that game), pain e.t.c....

its equal at the moment, put your fanboy away. That is until HOME gets game launching and a trophy room, then PSN>XBL

[Socomer 1979]

Ghost recon style !

So are they just making up more rumors before E3 ?
If so, then the media is relentless in trying to build up false hopes for the Ps3.

[Marty8370]

Just PS Eye supported game.

[rTR-Pioneer]

private chat would be a nice start, that is all we need, it is such a good feature, this game specific stuff is not addressing the problem.

[CypH]

in game video chat?
not in game private chat or in game chat.
in game video chat?

Im not getting hype but I would want to see this

[SuPa-MaRiO]

I Hope So That Would Be Nice Since Xbox Live is Cool Sony Needs 2 Show People That a Ps3 is Worth The dolla Bills u Feel Me

[KwietStorm_BLM]

It's obviously game-specific, as many have mentioned already, but why would anyone want video chat in-game anyway? Are you paying attention to your gaming or are you looking at the video chat? Now, private audio chat and a party system are another story..

And I laughed when they said something about taking HHG a little more seriously, at the end of the article. Be for real.

[ARog34]

...the ability to record msg clips and send them to friends... It'd be a great tool in HOME- say as an answering machine (<there's already a PHONE a friend option, why not leave a voice msg option?)

I wouldn't use in-game voice chat, I don't want any distractions from the REAL game... txt chat is good enough for now!

[No Way]

.............................. What the hell is "In-game Video Chat?"
Is it for specific games, or all of them? o.O
Cause I wouldn't wanna look at my friends mugs while playin.. a shooter? =/

[Allowen]

Video chat would be awesome bugt I would be happy enough if I could play the game I want and keep voice chating with a friend or two at the same time.
I still play a lot or old PC games and with friends via skype voice chat.
IT IS MUCH MORE FUN TO PLAY AND TALK WITH FRIENDS USING A HIGH QUAITY PROGRAM LIKE SKYPE !

I got a PS3 but I doubt that the console is powerful enough to keep a high quality voice in-game chat and so I doubt this video chat will be good enough to be worth using.

anyways as a Sony fanboy that I am it is always fun to get surprised.

[Avenged Sevenfold]

Nice! Will mics work too tho? I guess I might buy a PSEye soon.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

How do you chat without a microphone?

[Avenged Sevenfold]

It said video chat in the title. So...I figured they meant video chat only.

[Allowen]

The PSeye already have a super cool mic attached to it.
I preffer the sound quality of the PSeye over the Ps3 official headset.
only problem is that there is no mute button on the camera.

[f789790]

Some games jam when you just try to bring up the XMB.

[Ripyealip]

what we really need is CROSS GAME VOICE CHAT :( . after that ill consider the fact that PSN is better than XBL....

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

"We first got wind of the rumor from the HipHopGamerShow, and now it seems like it will eventually become a reality. I think it's time people start taking the Hip Hop Gamer a little more seriously."

[tee_bag242]

Give us cross chat for petes sake already. Its really not fun setting up a team based game like Bad company with no pre-room party chat. Is quite a head-f#@k just doing it with 2 people in RE5. Party chat on 360 is the sh!t and as soon as PS3 has it the sooner ill start buying multiplayer bias games for it.
Many-a-noob dont understand the importance of the cross-chat features for online. The many that do are frustrated im sure