Lors d'une discussion avec Eurogamer, Shuhei Yoshida (president de Sony Studios Worldwide) a revele pourquoi la PS3 n'a pas et n'aura apparament pas acces a un chat audio general d'un jeu a l'autre (aussi appele X Game Chat): A cause de la facon dont la memoire de la PS3 est organisee.
En effet, bien que la PS3 aie autant de memoire que la Xbox 360 (512Mb, unifiee dans ce cas), Sony a fragmente la memoire de la PS3 en deux portions. Une portion est de la memoire XDR tres rapide, l'autre est de la classique GDDR3 pour video, mais aussi accessible par les developpeurs. A cause de cela et de la facon dont les jeux s'accaparent 100% de la memoire non reservee par l'OS (environ 40Mb), il n'y a pas assez de place pour une fonction comme le X Game Chat il semble.
Chaque developpeur s'occupe separement d'avoir son propre support pour chat audio pour son jeu.
Lecon apprise pour la prochaine gen (et la PS Vita, par contre, peut elle gerer le X Game chat il est deja revele).
Sony devrait penser a changer leur slogan disent deja certains: "It Only Does Everything" devenant "It Only does everything except Cross Game Chat".
Cross-game voice chat is not possible on the PlayStation 3 because of memory restrictions, Sony has revealed.
The PS3's RAM is gobbled up by the games it runs, which prevents the much-desired feature from being implemented, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida told Eurogamer.
"Once a game gets RAM we never give it back," he said. "It's not possible to retrofit something like that after the fact."
As revealed by Eurogamer yesterday, PS Vita, due out in Europe early next year, actually has more RAM than the PS3.
Vita has 512MB of RAM and 128MB of V-RAM, compared to the PS3's 256MB of system RAM and 256MB of video RAM. This enables features such as cross-game voice chat to run in the background while games are being played.
On the PS3, however, things are different.
"The game has to use its own memory to do [in-game voice chat]. There's always voice chat in the game. But it's a part of a game feature. It's not a part of an OS feature. That's the reason in terms of the ability to have voice chat across different games."
So, voice chat is better on Vita than PS3?
"We totally agree!" Yoshida replied.