Cross-Game Voice Chat & Voice Messaging Coming Soon to PSN

03/23/2009 Written by Giovanni Scialdone

 

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In a post about the recently released Home ARG game, Cydoniax, the Community Manager of PlayStation Home, has confirmed that two highly requested features are in development. She confirms that Cross-Game Voice Chat, as well as Voice Messaging are currently in development and will be making their way onto a PlayStation 3 near you in the future.

The beauty of Voice Messaging is that you can just hook up a headset, and leave a voice message for your friend to listen to later on. The point here is that you get your ideas across faster and express a lot more emotion in your messages. In addition, you will now be able to chat in-game with other users regardless of what game you are playing. For example, one could be blasting Majini heads in Resident Evil 5, while having a nice discussion with a friend who is playing an intense match of KillZone 2.

Here is the official response from CydoniaX:

ruffneckc  |  March 23rd, 2009 at 9:16 am

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When are we getting game launching abilities for every multiplayer game in the PS3 library? Why is it that the most basic of features for both the XMB and HOME get prioritized and delivered before all the extra stuff?

1) XMB – Voice Chat across games
2) XMB – Voice messaging(30 sec clip)
3) HOME – Game Launching for all games

Deliver what the fans want first and foremost then surprise us with all this Xi stuff.
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CydoniaX replied on March 23, 2009 at 12:32 pm

All that stuff is still in development, game launching started with Warhawk and should be supported by all future game spaces now. It takes time, but we haven’t forgotten about all the stuff that our users really want!

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20 Responses to “Cross-Game Voice Chat & Voice Messaging Coming Soon to PSN”

  1. Paulmichael Contreras Says:

    Wow, I remember reading that comment this morning and thinking they’d never get a response. Impressive, hope these features come sooner rather than later!

  2. Trexman Says:

    just voice messaging? or can i make a video message with my EyeToy?

  3. Voyou San Says:

    lets hope this is sooner than later

  4. Jeff Belote Says:

    Can’t wait for Cross-game chat. Then all they need to do is add Cross-game invites and I will be happy.

  5. Sneeches Says:

    about damn time!!!!

  6. John Draisey Says:

    Cross-game invites is a bit much, but cross-game chatting is definitely awesome. I can’t wait to use it since it’s one of the best features of Xbox Live.

  7. Adam Wolfe Says:

    Cross-game invites are more important to me then cross-game chats, but even so this will be a nice addition.

  8. SolidCake_ Says:

    sounds great, nice to know they’re listening.

  9. Brythefry Says:

    Great news indeed! Continuous improvements to the XMB (and Home) are always welcome

  10. GATORJV Says:

    Maybe a lot of people will stop crying about another thing now. Sounds really good, but to me is nothing necessary.

  11. Dan Massi Says:

    Good news!

    I’m guessing this will come with the update supposedly coming this month ..

  12. DGR8Mc187 Says:

    Really want cross game chat so this is good news but nothing that we havn’t heard before

  13. babyboy Says:

    Hopefully it will be soon, I have not played my x360 in a while and would like to see this feature on the PS3.

  14. haskell420 Says:

    NOW THAT IS AWESOME!!

    Finally the ROCK has come back to…oh wait..sorry, can’t do that anymore…

    It is gonna be sweet IF it runs smoothly. IN game, bring up the XMB, send a voice message over to your friend, instead of typing out a severely edited version of what you want to say or tell them.

    Things are definately starting to ramp up within HOME, and with the PSN…it’s getting exciting again.. FINALLY LOL

  15. s3phiroth2006 Says:

    Thats excellent news.

  16. smokey_vols Says:

    That post has been updated, were not getting cross-game voice chat, only chat through Home :(

  17. John Draisey Says:

    I wouldn’t expect to see cross-game chat until Firmware 3.0. They’ve got to increase the amount of available memory for this feature by trimming down the OS, and that is a lot of work. Even in-game XMB took two updates to really become quick and useable.

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  19. Cardinalfan5 Says:

    “Guys, some clarification seems to be needed on my above comment, apologies for being misleading. I was talking about voice chat for Home in general being worked on, not specifically about voice chat across games or voice messaging on the XMB. I can see how my quick answer was taken as a confirmation on all 3 items, but this is not the case.”
    Sorry guys. Doesnt sound like were getting cross game voice chat just yet.

  20. 247gamer Says:

    theres no cross game voice chat that i know of

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