PS3 in-game XMB and trophy video leaked by Bioshock
By Mike Ferro
I reported the story that several outlet including Gaming-Age have reported firmware 2.40 will indeed have the much anticipated in-game XMB support. Also the leaked video of the Bioshock development video showing 2.40 XMB features. Now it seems that video has been mysteriously removed.
Gaming-Age confirmed these features for 2.40:
- In-game Custom soundtrack
- Universal friends list
- In-game messaging
- XMB Trophy system (in addition to Home trophies)
- more they can’t comment on yet
According to the leaked video there seems to be a new clock that displays when doing in-game XMB, as well as. The video shows Bioshock running in the background with the XMB overlayed on top. It looks like this firmware will be very rich in functionality.
Mysteriously the supposed leaked video has been removed but not before other users downloaded a copy of it and uploaded it to gametrailers.com. This just gives the mysterious video more credibility.
It also makes perfect sense for this feature to come before the highly acclaimed Metal Gear Sold 4 hits the store shelves. Given Sony’s update history a June 10th date sounds very plausible. Metal Gear Solid 4 will have in-game custom soundtrack which was already verified by Kojima himself, it sounds plausible 2.4 will enable this functionality in the game.
I guess we will find out if this rumor is true by next week, stay tuned. It seems like next week might be an exciting week for PS3 fans as Metal Gear Solid 4 is slated to be released already garnering a 97 on Metacritic.
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June 2nd, 2008
great, I expect nothing less from Sony considering the amount of time we have waited for this feature. Glad we’ll have universal friend lists as well, by the sounds of it, it could be on par with Live, which is a very good thing. Guess we’ll see.
Fingers crossed for the June 10th
June 2nd, 2008
Well I hope its all true because it sounds pretty cool.
Hope they let you stream music from a media server.
June 3rd, 2008
I’m with SW.
I could care less about in-game XMB or PSHome or whatever. I want local shares browsing for music and video and pictures. If I’m already sharing all my photos and home videos from my PC, it’s rediculous that Sony makes me copy that content to PS3 hard disk in order to have full functionality. ome on Sony, dozens of devices support browsing of shared files via SMB and/or NFS, if PS3 is truly the multimedia hub you make it out to be you need to add this.
June 3rd, 2008
I’m with SW.
I could care less about in-game XMB or PSHome or whatever. I want local shares browsing for music and video and pictures. If I’m already sharing all my photos and home videos from my PC, it’s ridiculous that Sony makes me copy that content to PS3 hard disk in order to have full functionality. Come on Sony, dozens of devices support browsing of shared files via SMB and/or NFS, if PS3 is truly the multimedia hub you make it out to be you need to add this.
(okay…XB fanbois start ragging on PS3 now and tell us how wonderful your RROD’ing console is as a media player).
June 3rd, 2008
What they really need is NDAS compatability.
Now THAT would be awesome.