that was a old rumour, Sony's already come back and said that it will be available in the fall. They may push it forward, but they have yet to push anything forward.

I'm not too interested in a movie store until internet speeds increase a lot. At the moment, it would take me days to download several gigabytes and there is always the possibility that it would get an error and I would have to start it over again. Also I don't want to constantly stop the download to have some online gaming or if able to download at the same time, I don't want it to hamper my online gaming connection.

From what I understand, Sony allowed for developers to write functions to access their messages in game, from day one, but no developers actually used it.



Now they are adding in game messaging as a general system feature.



Why has it taken so long? Its no easy feat. Whatever game you happen to be running is already using up all the RAM that the XMB would normally use. Sony only reserves a small portion for the system, not nearly enough to run the XMB too.



For them to include this they would have had to do a lot of work.



Also, Sony isnt just one person at a PC making software, they have many different teams, so developing other software and addititons to the XMB/PSN doesnt mean that less time is spent on other things like im game messaging.



Also, I could care less about in game messaging, and enjoy all of the other additions.

Sev have said. I haven't seen anything that suggests it is true. Unless, summer is defined as fall and fall is being nice.



Let me explain...if you have a major selling point for your product, would you take a "let'em see it when they get it" or would you advertise it. Now, if you have a "system seller" like MGS4 in June and you know it will bring awareness to the system...would you hide that a major feature will be in place by then?



Chances are the next bigboy after MGS4 is Madden 09. I'm guessing you'll see them attach XMB to it...if we're lucky.



August IS summer but....I'll call it early fall because some kids go back to school in August.



If they just release it unattached (to a campaign), it would just justify the M$ stance that the console war was over and PS3 is just "trying" to catch up.



SO as far as I'm concerned, XMB is coming out much later.

I guess we'll know for sure next week. LMAO!

this game still unplayable on my ps3 due to freezing

60 gb launch with emotion chip

Lets see if sony finally follows through with something they say, I want in-game XMB. Why dosent sony simply just release stuff on time. instead of telling us 7 months in advance, then delaying it 5 more months before releasing it

Finally? ...I think the record is longer, but let's see if I can recall just SOME of the things they promised with the PS3... a) Remote Play to the PSP to access PS3 files from anywhere with a WiFi connection. b) Upscaling of DVD's to 1080p via HDMI. c) User-updated backgrounds + Themes. d) Upscaling for PS2 games (20/60/80gb models). e) music-CD audio-upscaling via HDMI. f) Background downloads/multi-tasking. g) DTS HD-MA lossless audio decoding via HDMI. h) Blu-ray movie version 1.1 and 2.0 support. ......Enough, yet? --How many times have you seen a CE manufacturer promise this much for their product and keep delivering?

The XMB requires some amounts of RAM when it is running, playing music doesn't take up much RAM as the PS3 is literally just streaming the data from the disc, it doesn't really store much in the RAM to be read later. Whereas for a game, tons and tons of data are being stored for a short amount of time in the RAM in order to be read later, this leaves little room for the XMB to use so in-game XMB would be a little difficult to implement. One thing they can do is to downsize the XMB so that leaves more room for the game.