Trophy tracking coming soon to PlayStation.com

Great, now add Trophy support for the PSP please

here I am thinking they were going to wait til E3. good shit

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. That being said I highly doubt the Ps3 will ever eclipse or reach Xbl in terms of its online structure.

plus in-game music is patented by microsoft. The only way for games to have in-game music is for the developers to add it.

awhile back you had people complaining that psn should be intergrated into the website like xbl now they're doing it people complain it's like xbl

cross game chat is a nice bullet point feature but i don't think it's a necessity. it's not worth $50 to me either. i still think a free silver account should cover basic online play in the games you pay for.

blekh, too many comments :/
it is progress no matter what you think about it so stop the complaints. of course complaining at something better than nothing makes a whole lot more sense right?

"easy access to friend lists"

I didn't realize tapping the PS button and pressing right a couple of times was difficult.

Now I can track those, like, 6 trophies I've earned!

I'd never use this myself . I mean it's so much easier to just hit the PS botton and click my profile and hit R1 once to get the trophy breakdown.,. and Wait for them to load up? So the site is gonna load instantly? cause I wouldnt consider the half a second it takes for them to load a long timeframe I'm sure the site would be much slower plus it takes my attention away from my TV screen(PS3)

546 for me just reached level 10 a few days ago (5 Platinums, 28 Gold, 75 Silver and 438 bronze) soon to be slightly more as I have Fallout3 & Bioshock collecting dust neither played much at all yet, Plus UT3 trophies coming thursday and i'm only half way through Killzone2 haven't had much time to play it since I got it friday

Will they also improve on their sigline that will now show trophy counts too?

Check on Playfire.com. They have this trophy integration already. It doesnt load directly from your psn account so there is instances of people lying to get better trophy scores. But if you keep honest to yourself you have a great looking Trophy Card that keeps track of everything you have.

This is good news indeed for PSN users. I'm sure it'll also be very useful for social network sites like playfire.com and raptr.com too.

It took sony this long to catch on? I mean seriously the 360 was out a year before the PS3 and Sony couldn't make a decent online community?

Xbox live was the the stencil, all Sony had to do was trace. But I guess that's too easy for those arrogant bastards.

I don't think anyone who owns an ecksbawks can ever complain about Sony copying anything that happens to be on XBL. I mean apart from Gamerscores (big wow) have they ever done anything original?

i mean, come on guys what about...

Singstar
Buzz
Eyetoy
LBP - I hear M$ are doing a "game creation" game. Typical.

Not to mention Microshafts industry fairness program, ie, buy up patents (which your XBL fee pays for) for anything that might be useful to a competitor, ie in game music etc.

Microshaft is a ruthless, rule bending, corporate terrorist. Not a company I would be proud to support.

Hey the trophy page is up!

it was up, just pastmidnight chicago time

Is this US only or is it working in the EU?

Hmm, maybe a lot of these were system related, so I do apologize there.

But let's just talk about XBL.

Almost every person there either has a headset, or has access to one for a few dollars. They're cheap, easy to get and have decent quality.

You can't, ever, not ever, say the same about the PS3. You have to use a bluetooth headset, and even if you find one for cheap, it seems rare that anyone has a headset. What's the point? I have a few friends that have a PS3 and none have headsets. I know that's a microcosm, but in relation - Everyone that I know in person that has a 360 has, and uses, a headset.

And sure, the XBM isn't too difficult to navigate to friends, but what can I do when I get there? With XBL, I can view their gamercard, review the games they've played, see what their gamerscore is, send them a chat, send them a message, invite them to a party, invite them to a game, etc, etc.

Oh, and I have easy access to a full list of people that I'd recently played and can either add them to a my friends, I can rate them, complain about them, invite them to a new game.

Now, for the system itself...

I can cycle through other chats that I have open, look at messages, launch a game, play music, change various system settings, all of this without actually leaving a game.

And I'm sorry, I don't care if the developers don't want me to miss out on their sountrack. Stuff it. If I want to listen to my own music, then let me. It's not impossible to do, it's not difficult, it makes no sense, after seeing what the 360 has done, to stop that from working. And most people. Please, stop generalizing. Most of the people I know like having music playing over when they're playing something online. It's great for a lot of MP games, when there's no important music. And if "most people didn't want it", why are so many crying for it and why are there so many articles about it?

As for custom soundtracks, there's far too few that allow it. Wipeout has introduced it well, but a lot of games haven't.

Oh, and have you looked at the date of the "In game music patent" articles? Do that, then come back and we'll talk :)

XBM being "faster" than the NXE is subjective. Sorry. But I don't like the layout of the XBM, even having used the PSP well before I had a 360. I don't see it as that much faster, and the layout is far less logical. And where are you getting your stats that "the majority of players prefers the XMB, because its more sleek and clean as well as intuitive. "

Uh, huh? Really?

Also - last, but not least - and please, let it be ABUNDANTLY clear I am not a 360 fanboy. My PS3 is the best hardware system I've ever owned and some fantastic games are on that system (don't get me started on the worlds worst analog sticks though, bleh. But D-Pad FTW), and it's nice that I don't have a jet-engine in my living room when playing something on the PS3..

So, that said - does anyone realize, really, that all the things Sony is implementing, Microsoft did first, and have done better. EVERYTHING that Sony is bring to the table, Trophies, Voice messages, Cross Game chat, game invites, all things originally done by MS.

And Roto13 - so I can go over to my friends on XBM... whee. What can I do once I'm there? See that they're offline? It doesn't provide the same quality, it's like there's a soul lacking in the XBM, just this vacant tumbleweedville of an interface.

Its aLive, it's live now!