Eric Lempel answers your frequently asked 2.40 questions

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Wow you can't do too much.

No voice chat? Why bother then.

Also on day one only SuperStardustHD will support trophies and actually not a single game ingame-music, because every single game has to be patched for it...
Infos according to official blog..

However, that's fine with me... Most probably only a matter of days, weeks, months - hopefully not so the last...

cant wait

“Will the patch automatically allocate unlocked trophies according to your saved files or would you have to do it again?

No, Trophies aren’t retroactive.”

1)Can a patch ever be capable of retroactivity? (Or is it truly out of the question?)

2)I own but I have yet to play MGS4, should I wait until a patch gets released to play MGS4? (Cuz really, what would be the point of starting it if I’m going to have tostart it all over again for trophies(in what could possibly be 1-11 months from now))

3)What if a game I currently own won’t ever support trophies? (Like in the scenario I just mentioned, What if MGS4 won’t ever support trophies?, I might as wellstart it now then)

4)How will we know when our games have become trophy ready? (Will we have to constantly pop in games to check or simply constantly check dev websites)

Please don’t get me wrong I’m truly grateful for the advancements the PS3 will make with 2.4, but having to start ALL my games over is angering and saddening. So once again I ask…

Can a patch ever be capable of retroactivity? (Or is it truly out of the question?)

Unlocking a Trophy giving a Sound affect i could do without LOL

Great FAQ

Now all I need to know if its launching around 12:01AM on the 2nd or later in the day..

We need voice chat !
cmon i need to use my pc with teamspeak to be able to talk with my friends when we are playng GT5P.
We have waited 2years for us, and more than a year in europe for in game xmb and we only get text message ? text are you serious ?
voice chat is the most important feature we need! who really care about in game soundtrack, ok its cool, but to me only in racing game.
Voice chat i need it in every game !

Still cant wait.

Oh well, i want a cute noise when i unlock a Trophie

OMG THE PS BUTTON DOESN'T PAUSE THE GAME?! I'M SELLING MY PS3!

Although I am disappointed in the fact that private chat is not included, I am encouraged over the fact that Sony has acknowledged the fact that we want it.

With that said, I am very happy about the Trophy system, and will gladly REPLAY my games from the beginning to collect every Trophy.

It's one of the two things (other being private chat) I have missed since I got rid of my RODbox.

Knowing Sony I most likely believe that Chat and Invites won't be released until months later maybe even next year.

Right now I think Sony is focusing on patching those games for trophies and getting all around trophy support all Sony has to say is 'come on you give 360 achievements how hard is it to map those achievements to our system'. Sony has met us 2/3rds of the way so we should be happy and appreciate that they finally listened us. All Sony has to now start pushing the software by that I mean GOTY contender FFXIII and kinda God of War 3.

So what I'm saying is Cross game chat and invites in 2.41 no in 3.00 or even 2.70 most likely but I could be wrong they might surprise us.

Someone get that man a block of Mozzarella!

I just read the Blog section with the FAQ and the second to last question about the Trophy noise has been updated....there WILL be a noise when a trophy is unlocked! Sweeeeeet!

booooooo i want in game chat not cross game chat but like MLB 08 has no voice chat support and i would love to be talking with my one friend i play that game with instead we have to use our cell phones and put them on speaker (both of us have verizin so free in calling)

Voice chat in game needs to be a priority. On the other hand I am glad Sony is releasing what they have and hopefully they will take the community more seriously and get this done quickly?

IMHO this update is lacking. This system has been out for almost two years. The 360 had a 1 year advantage and Sony is still struggling to implement features to match not even surpass the 360.

Sony's Eric Lempel has posted a somewhat exhaustive Q&A session on the PlayStation Blog, which details everything you may or may not have wanted to know about the console's major, upcoming firmware update. While I'm sure it was meant to be helpful, a read down his list of responses does little but drive home the point that, as neat the implementation of the trophy system is, the addition of the in-game XMB is nowhere near as useful as most of you thought/hoped it would be.

As an example: does the in-game XMB allow voice-chat? No. Can you browse the internet while playing a game? No. Can you access the in-game XMB while playing a PS2 game or watching a DVD/Blu-Ray? No. Can you change any visual settings while playing a game? No (sound settings, however, gets a "yes"). Can you access the PlayStation Store while playing a game? No. Does it let you invite a friend to a game who's playing another game? No. See where this is going?

If the in-game XMB forces you to quit the game to perform most of the functions you'd want to perform in it...then there's not much point having it available in-game, is it? Course, Sony probably knew this, which is why it's only been implemented now - after you all cried yourself hoarse over it - and not at launch.

The interview was changed. obviously there is now a sound when unlocking a trophy ....

The question that I have is will the ps3 finally be able to have sex with me with 2.40? I mean if not, I am getting a 360

Wait can we play Music from stuff like my PSP and MP3s when in game like the 360?

I am all for progress and improvements. But no in-game voice chat? I hope this gets added quickly on a follow up update.