GDC 09: PSN sub-sign in feature to be added to “a couple of high profile games”; no plans yet for PSP Trophies
More hot PlayStation news from GDC. This time, we turn to Jon Webb of the SCEA Developer Support Group, who spoke at GDC 09 about the PlayStation Network‘s past, present, and future. One of the things Webb mentioned is that the PSN sub-sign in feature already integrated in LittleBigPlanet will also be included in “a couple of high profile games”. More after the jump.
More hot PlayStation news from GDC. This time, we turn to Jon Webb of the SCEA Developer Support Group, who spoke at GDC 09 about the PlayStation Network‘s past, present, and future.
Webb threw out some interesting factoids about the PSN, most of them detailing the nuts and bolts of the service as well as the improvements they’ve added to since it was first launched, one of which is PSN sub-sign in, a feature that lets a second player join in a local multiplayer game by logging in using their own PSN ID.
So far, the only games that I know of that support this feature are LittleBigPlanet and Resistance 2 (once patch 1.50 is installed, anyway). Webb, however, mentioned that this feature will soon be added to “a couple of high profile games”.
Webb didn’t mention any specific titles, but IGN reports that he did say that the system will pull save data from both users’ personal saves and that making this work falls on the game itself supporting it.
IGN also asked Webb whether or not Trophies would eventually find their way to the PSP. Webb said that there’s concern about adding trophies to PSP titles due to the number of hacked and modded PSPs, so prospects of it happening are still cloudy. He did assure PSP owners, though, that Sony is still working on bringing more parity to the PSP in terms of the PSN’s offerings.
Finally, Webb said that they’re looking to release an update this year that expands avatar functionality. Still no PlayStation Eye support though since, according to Webb, it opens up too many monitoring issues.
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