Conspiracy Theory: Why Cross-Game chat will not be in FW 3.0

Wanna know the real reason why Cross-Game chat won’t be coming in FW 3.0? Yeah, it’s been in the works for a while now, and people are actually expecting it to arrive with this update. Then again, that’s not gonna happen, and there are some wild (and disappointing) conspiratorial theories going around as to why this is the case.

Thanks to Naroon for this tip!

Over at the N4G Forums, one Super_Secret is spilling the beans that it’s not Microsoft‘s patent‘s fault why the in-game soundtracks, in-game XMB and Cross-game Chat features are not coming to the PS3. No siree. There are obviously a variety of alternative options Sony could implement and exercise in order to have it in their system. They just chose not to because of a certain company.

According to Super_Secret (and he’s supposedly been right on “about every other” Sony-related rumors/ speculations), a certain company, whose name he withheld, is the real reason why these cool things are not happening on Sony’s really cool console.

To quote:

So what happened? Why is it that titles HAVE to be developed specifically with custom soundtrack support when it was working more or less just fine?

Is it because Microsoft owns the patent on custom soundtracks in games?

This is something that makes me laugh every time I see one of the less educated ones spouting it off. That’s an absolute fabrication. Patents don’t matter, Sony as a while infringes upon thousands of patents through the whole company, both hardware and software. If you infringe a patent, you pay royalties to the owner or find a different way of doing the same thing that doesn’t infringe. That’s it. Microsoft infringes upon all kinds of patents we own but that’s up to legal to sort out.

No, the reason we had to drop Custom soundtrack support like that has nothing to do with Microsoft. It does, however, involve a different company. A rather large company. You see, one of their games happened to fall into the 5% that didn’t support in-game custom soundtracks. And they did not like this.

When they found out that a new firmware update was going to suddenly make one of their games look inferior to just about every other game released, they protested. A lot.

They threatened everything, from legal action to dropping support for the PS3 all together.

Hmm… that last bit.. I’ve heard that one before… Then again, it could be anyone, really. Let’s not end on a sour note, though. He did say that the Firmwares team (you know, those guys dealing with the Firmware updates) are really “working very hard on it”. If it doesn’t come out in 3.0, maybe it’ll come out in 3.1. Or 4.0. Or not at all.

Thanks to Naroon for this tip!

Via N4G Forums

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