Rumor: List of features accessible via in-game XMB

by Jem Alexander on Jun 25th 2008 10:35AM

More 2.40 rumors today as CVG claims they have some new information from a very anonymous, very inside source. This information comes in the form of a list of accessible features for the in-game XMB. We know a lot of you are pining for some sort of in-game music and, if this list is true, your wishes may have come true. Additional details aren't available, unfortunately, so make of this list what you will. We've put it after the jump for your perusal.

CVG also claim their source reckons that 2.40 will drop in about three weeks, during E3. We've a couple of reasons to think it might come earlier than that, but nothing concrete. Regardless of when it appears, 2.40 is looking to be the greatest firmware update yet.
Features accessible via the in-game XMB will (if the rumor is correct) include:

Friend category
View, send, receive messages
Manage downloads
Set the vibration feature of the controller
Sign in to PlayStation Network
Register friends
Manage Bluetooth devices
Terminate the game
Music category
Use the system BGM
Work the system BGM operation panel
Settings category
Assign controllers
View profiles
Game category
Set audio devices
Use the voice changer

Source

Tags: 2.40, CVG, firmware

Reader Comments (70)

Where is in game private chat?

That feature better be there, or I'll be bummed.

really LOL

the second bullet says view, send, recieve messages

you will not be bummed

I for one am pissed that in game sandwich making isn't included here. I mean, damn, if I am playing MGS4 and want a sandwich, then I should be able to just pause the game and have the ps3 make a sandwich. All this getting of the couch crap is so N64. I kid, but if they included that, the 360 would be completely blown out of the water.

I'm thinking...in-game hand-job?

well i would really like to see more stuff you can do inna chat room.... i would love you see inchat internet browser and being able to play music while in chat. what ever happened to the whole i can upload the music thats on my xbox onto the game and have it play as the music thing? cuz i missed that with my old xbox. the ps3 beat the 360 so i have a ps3 but i really did enjoy that feature

All this talk about in game XMB is making me super wet.

marry me

LMAO Threesome anyone!??

make it a foresome

Pretty much everything anyone cares about except cross game voice chat. I'd also say game invites and launching, but I know those features will be in HOME and really don't need to be XMB features.

Though the ability to send a friend an invitation to join you from within a game would be very nice.

the friends receiving, and sending messages feature is in the game so i'm sure you can be like "get in this fuckin game with me" and you're buddy will join you, if that game doesnt have invitations i mean

There needs to be in game private chat! Not all games have chat in it.
And what about using the Internet Browser? It can be done to register in MGS4 so why not in in-game XMB? What if we want to go to GameBattles.com or something and get a clan battle going?

i know thats the one feature on 360 sony y did u have to screw me over again

yea i was looking for browser access too. that would be great for looking up walkthroughs and such for when i get stuck on a game. i thought cross game private chat was a key feature of the in-game xmb anyway, guess messages and invites will have to do (unless the list is incorrect or im reading it wrong).

"i know thats the one feature on 360 sony y did u have to screw me over again"

Huh? The 360 doesn't even have a web browser.

I'm tlking about prvt chat while playing a game

>Popfrogs: I believe bs6268d was referring to the in-game private chat which Joe referred to first.

im interested in what reasons you all have to think it is coming earlier??

look good 2 me maybe in 2.50 they put stuff in it ADD ME 2 psn djpenny1

Ummm....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26383125@N06/2609483777/

"IF" the info about special card layouts is real then maybe people will stop complaining about the gamercard being ugly.

i was hoping to be able to access the internet browser so you look up a guide when you're stuck in a game.

You may want to check it.

sorry. don't know why I wrote that.

Where is the in-game private voice chat???

Probably under the Friend Category

Personally I call that a "cell phone".

who in the hell wants to waste minutes for hours I sure dont

You could always do as the Nintendikes do and use your 360 to communicate. LOL.

I've never done that but Mario Kart online is a freakin' bore without chat.

Oh shut up you whiny babies. It's not even here yet and you're whining already. How old are you guys?

amen to that!

All I care about is that I can check or send messages while in a game and access background music. Those were the biggest annoyances to me

Voice/video chat would have been nice, too, but I'm not too sore about that. I flat out don't care about browser access. The browser on the PS3 really isn't that great, anyway, and locks up when you're just browsing as it is. If the browser's stability were to be fixed then I would like to see in-game access.

I'm pretty happy with what can be accessed at the moment, allegedly.

i don't think the source is relieable since they also quote "in game controller assignment" as new feature, which is already a feature...

That's fake. Where are the trophy options that we saw in the leaked videos? This thing doesn't list them - and they were confirmed.

Wow. You guys are freaking out over a rumor.
A RUMOR.
This isn't official information. For all you know, 2.40 could have the features you're whining about.

private chat?
gamercards?
trophies?

:(

This list is so obviously fake, how embarassing that ps3fanboy even posts it. Come on those aren't even the way sony describes their own features. I guess you can get anything posted on the web these days, what baloney. Wake up folks--terminate the game? BGM? hahahaahahahahahhahahahahahahahaahhahaahha
ahahahahahahahahah
ahahahahah

sorry but whats BGM?

BGM = BackGround Music

These all sound good... but can we please get a simple friggin' clock!?!?

I second that.

Also, while this sounds like a great update (especially being able to change audio device settings without leaving a game), my personal favorite is the one which added the "album" ability for DL games. I've got probably around 70 items under "Game" and not being able to organize them was a NIGHTMARE.

Yeah people are getting mad with this list of features as if it was the official one. What I'm wondering though is why ps3fanboy thinks the update will arrive earlier. At least to me all signs point to a release near E3. The Cagney update for Burnout Paradise will come out in July 10 and one of its features will be custom soundtracks.

That makes me think that the 2.40 firmware will release around that date and that not all games will be able to have custom soundtracks. Only the ones that are patched to have that feature. Makes sense to me because if it was a feature that all games will gain instantaneously once the new firmware comes around...why would Criterion patch their game to have it?

Anyway it should be a great update no matter what and I'm eagerly expecting it.

Maybe with Burnout, the custom music is integrated into the game the way the regular music was, and you can easily skip tracks using L1 (or whatever button it was), instead of going back to the XMB to change songs.

"The Cagney update for Burnout Paradise will come out in July 10 and one of its features will be custom soundtracks."

Games have been able to use custom soundtracks for a while, Super Stardust HD has had it since day one. It's up to the devs to implement it.

I thought about that (a more comprehensive custom soundtrack option). I hope it's like that and not what I'm saying. :)

So does cross-game invites fall into the cross-game messages category?

I'm really hoping this is not overlooked, it's pretty much the second most important feature behind the cross-game messages.

Also, does cross-game messages include voice messages?

wow i cant believe some of the complaints. clock? browser? how bout the clocks that are on your tv, watch, cell phone, clocks around the house.

how about your computer or laptop. absolutely ridiculous some of the complaints. Should it beam your food to you too?

hells yeah it should beam me my food. hook me up with some mcdonalds so I dont have to get my fat ass up off the couch.

No one will ever be happy with whatever Sony puts out.

We have to wait on that video walkthrough of 2.40 first. Hopefully, they're are working it on right now.

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