Geekpulp reports that the new Firmware which was metioned a few days ago does not offer any new features such as ingame XMB
"The complete indifference actually surprised me somewhat. If you were hoping for ground breaking features it might pay to hold tight and just enjoy some games in the mean time"
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
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live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
Well isn't the whole point of Debug firmware just to fix any bugs not to add new features?
@ people expecting in-game XMB and home in the next week. Get a life!
I can wait as long as it takes. Most of the features that having in-game XMB will provide will not get used frequently in my household. I don't play a lot of games online, so accessing friends lists and communication features won't be a widely utilized thing for me. I have my PC in the same room as my consoles so I can just listen to music off of my PC, therefore having access for custom soundtracks directly via the PS3 is not terribly essential for me either.
There are plenty of nice things that will come with in-game XMB, and it'll be excellent for the users who want those features when they come. I'll use them when they come, but I have no problem waiting. Honestly, though, my most wanted feature is a sleep timer for when I'm watching Blu-Ray movies. There's a sleep timer in the Folding@Home application, so they can do it for Blu-Ray as well, I just hope somebody over there thinks of that. I'm not the only one who would find that useful, am I?
No other way to put it, IMO. What I don't understand is why wouldn't there be any new features added in this update? I find it hard to believe that it jumped to 2.15 with out any accessible features. I was expecting big features from this firmware update since this is the longest we had to wait for a firmware update(close to 3 months). PS3 usually gets them every month. I hope this 'leaked debug firmware' is nothing but old unreleased firmware leaked.
XMB will not arrive soon since it takes already a lot of ram to run properly.