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zackblue on 03 March 2008

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/03/03/scees-maguire-lets-slip-firmware-2-4/

SCEE's Maguire lets slip 'firmware 2.4'

Posted Mar 3rd 2008 10:30AM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News


Ray Maguire, chief of the UK division of Sony Computer Entertainment, let slip a few details about an upcoming firmware when speaking with MCV. "Achieving one million PS3 sales faster than both PSOne and PlayStation 2 is even more gratifying considering PS3 is a premium product introduced at a premium price," he told MCV. "Our momentum will continue with the introduction of in-game communication in the summer, firmware update 2.4 and the strongest line-up of games through our third party partners and our own studios. I'd personally like to thank our trade and business partners for helping us on the start of the PS3 journey." [emphasis ours]

Remember when Sony's official site leaked in-game messaging, only to have it mysteriously disappear? There's only two conclusions we can get from this: first, in-game messaging is definitely coming this summer. The other? Maguire is going to disappear as well. We'll miss you.
(Also if you think this is a rumor, fear not, sony's official PS blog has it on its news section)


 

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SpartanFX on 03 March 2008

nicee,,this means home will be here before summer



 

 

 

kingofwale on 03 March 2008

wow, Sony. THANK YOU. but you can't announce this during GDC? That must be the worst show for Sony owners.



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DOATS1 on 03 March 2008

it says nothing about in-game comms' being in 2.40 though. punctuation marks change a alot about a sentence. it seems like update 2.40 and the in-game comms were 2 different subjects in this sentence. so 2.40 must be something special.




coolestguyever on 03 March 2008

In game XMB FTW!



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LISMDK on 03 March 2008

This can't come soon enough.



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EHSTEVE on 03 March 2008
kingofwale said:
wow, Sony. THANK YOU. but you can't announce this during GDC? That must be the worst show for Sony owners.

Last years was good, they announced Home and LittleBigPlanet.

thekitchensink on 03 March 2008
DOATS1 said:
it says nothing about in-game comms' being in 2.40 though. punctuation marks change a alot about a sentence. it seems like update 2.40 and the in-game comms were 2 different subjects in this sentence. so 2.40 must be something special.

Regardless, it specifically says " introduction of in-game communication in the summer"



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URNotE on 03 March 2008

we're only at firmware 2.1 so.. xmb should come between or at 2.4



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CaptainPrefrences on 03 March 2008

whenever sony talks about in game xmb, they always talk about messaging, but what about the in game music player and video player? i know the obvious answer will be" its the xmb no duh" but it just sounds funny to me that everytime in game xmb is mentioned its ALWAYS about messaging