Justin

Why the hell are you being such an asshole? He was just giving an update to people that might not know. I live 5 minutes from the Galleria and just found out in an email from Apple.

Who cares who is "first"? What that makes them cooler?

Really you have the videos in Flash!? This is the last site I would expect this from.

Yeah, isn't this an Apple "expert" blog...

"looks like a winner..." Are you serious!? It's super ugly, and inconveniently placed.

"...reminds us a lot of Xbox 360's chatpad." Because it has the alphabet on it? It's nothing like the chatpad...

If you want a real keyboard for the PS3 get the Logitech. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16879212008&ATT=79-212-008&CMP=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r&nm_mc=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r&cm_mmc=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r-_-PS3+Accessories-_-Logitech+Inc.-_-79212008

It doesn't have a unified friends list. There's a PSN friends list that I guess can be considered 'unified'... But then each game has it's own friends list, how fun is that? Sweet let me make a ID for every f*cking game, and add my friends over and over again...

And 6 person chats? To bad no one uses mics on PSN, how stupid for Sony not to include one... "But you can use any Bluetooth headset..." True but there is no BT headset under $40 dollars! The 360 come with a free headset and if you want wired you can buy it for the price of a BT headset. I played Resistance and the silence was ridiculous. No team work, no cooperation... You can make the argument that a lot of kids scream and sing and make racial comments now, while that is true to a degree there's a lot more usefully info going on than not.

The PS3 has it's strong points too, online just isn't one of them. For a cross-platform game, there's just no reason to get it for the PS3... The 360 has Live, Achievements (where you like 'em or not), and in game dashboard support.

At this point the PS3 is a great Blu-Ray player that happens to play games too. You can't tell me that right now $400 dollars is worth it to play, Uncharted, Ratchet, Warhawk, and Resistance...

Even CoD4 is better on the 360. Partying up to play with your friends, no lame server list of games to look through, achievements, etc...

Come on Halo, Mass Effect, Bioshock, CoD4, HD movies and TV shows, Media Center, DivX, custom sounds tracks, easily stream pictures and movies with no additional software from you PC to the 360. The 360 does so much more than just play games and it does them all so well (like an Apple product!) I don't go a day without turning my 360 on.

I don't mind paying for Live at all, as long as the price doesn't go up. Everyone keeps making these comparisons to the PSN but you pay for what you get... The PSN DOESN'T have a unified friends list, private chat, voice msg, text msg, picture msg, cross-game invites, free demo's of 95% of all the retail games, and how many 'arcade' games do they have???

As far as what I'd like to see:

1. Multi-person private chat.
2. Different sounds for different 'toast' pop-ups. ie. one sound for a friend online, another for an achievement, another for a game invite, download complete, etc... A lot of times I'm in the kitchen or at the computer, and I don't want to have to look up at every pop-up to see the one I'm waiting for.
3. I agree with the ad removal comments, either have a disable option or just get rid of them. I shouldn't pay $50 a year and THEN see ads, it's either free with ads or pay with no ads... Let me be clear, ads for Xbox games are fine, and movies aren't too bad... But for Axe or the Army get out of here.
4. Less step involved for certain actions: Like to mute player through the dash. And to listen to a voice msg, like hot-buttons. So when you arrow down to a new voice msg, all you have to do is say 'RB' to start playing the msg instantly. Instead of having to press 'A' to select the msg, then 'A' again to play voice, then 'A' again to select 'done', then 'A' one last time to delete the msg.


That's it for now, thanks for the great show Major, Peter, Ryan.

To bad you still don't have any good games to play on the PS3... Better luck next year! Halo will continue to dominate anything Sony brings out.

With your "free" online service you get what you pay for, no unified friends list, no game invites, or anyone that has a mic ever. The PS3 is more like a PS2 with HD graphics.

Also, my iPhone browses the internet better that the PS3.

You do finally get a "last gen" feature back though, rumble...

Maybe Sony should send out more "instructions" on how to play their crappy games (like Lair) to get their reviews up.

Here's to wishing you would have saved money and bought a good next gen system.

Why did you have to recover your account? Did you send in your HDD too?

I want a phone that's not held together by Duct-tape! Please hook me up!