When Sony announced a premium PlayStation Network subscription calledPlayStation Plusat its E3 press conference yesterday, I balked at the $49.99-a-year fee, since the features that Sony Computer Entertainment of America president & CEO Jack Tretton announced — which didn’t seem all that great anyway — didn’t even include cross-game chat. Now, it seems that party chat may indeed be coming to the PlayStation Network, and the apparent implementation has its pros and cons.
But the plot thickens: any mention of the feature has since been removed from all of the European PlayStation sites, and a Sony representative toldPlayStation Universethat cross-game chat “was not announced as part of PlayStation Plus.” Still, on these here Internets, this is exactly the kind of behavior that smacks of a confirmation, and I’m sure we’ll see one down the line.
E3 2010: Cross-game chat confirmed for PS3, Coming this month[Examiner]Cross-game party chat coming to PS3 (with strings attached)[Joystiq — thanks, Joe!]PlayStation Plus: cross-game voice chat and other details[PlayStation Universe]
