| Goddbless said: I wonder how come no one ever complained that these features were missing? |
Probably becuase most people paid no attention to GDC back then lol. I think GDC07 was the first notable GDC, but even then most people didn't realize how many important announcements were made until after the fact.
Honestly, most of these features were probably canned due to ram issues. Sony initially had 96mb of ram reserved for the ps3's OS, a staggering amount compared to the 360's 32mb OS footprint. Once they realized developers had an obvious advantage with 360 in this area, they started working on cutting that 96mb footprint down to something more reasonably. Pretty soon after launch it was down to 64mb, and now it's right around 32mbs like 360.
They actually demonstrated features like in-game XMB only four months before launch, actually.
I wish most of the features had eventually made it in, and in general I prefer the look of the XMB in those to that which we have today, but I can certainly understand why some features were nixed. Cross game video chat in particular would require a stupid amount of ram for what's actually a pretty stupid feature.
