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Playstation User Draws Up "Premium Avatar" Concepts

September 20, 2009 in Blog comments 8

Spawn Kill writes about how PSN users are still waiting for their "Premium Avatars" Sony promised just after the release of Firmware 3.00. The post also contains two makeshift concepts of the new Avatars, courtesy of a devoted Playstation User at the official forums.

It’s been a few weeks since firmware update 3.00 launched on the PlayStation 3, signifying the dawn of the PS3 Slim. After seconds of release, thousands of PlayStation users flocked back to their gaming forums to moan about how minimal and bland the update had been. Apart from technical fixes, the update also raked in plenty of visual changes to the Cross Media Bar (XMB.) Fonts had been broadened, a sparkling animated effect had applied itself to the classic background, friends on your contact list were now boxed in, and also, dynamic themes became available for the first time. All of these features didn’t really displease me in any fashion, nor did they impress me, but if there was one thing I was looking for in the 3.00 update, it was more avatars to toy around with, something that was never included in the update, though it had been said.
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    Sayyed Sep 20, 09
    Its an interesting Idea, I like it. But the avatar should match the skin design of the box. Instead of crash bandicoot it could be a soldier.
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      Tiger of Wu Sep 21, 09
      Well the avatars would be interchangeable with the skin design, so it could be anything that's available there to go with any skin; I doubt the guy designing it thought 'nothing says MW2 like Crash'.
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    Metallica Sep 20, 09
    Nice one and I agree with LPF, although it would be good if the grey box had a background to the game you were playing, a bit like the wallpaper changing before you start the game on the disc selection.
    • 1
      Ameer Sep 21, 09
      That's a really neat idea actually.
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    Daweii Sep 21, 09
    When we finally get them they will probably just be moving avatars... Which isn't that great as the PS3 should be saving RAM for games not a video source for the background and an animation for the avatar. It's a waste of resources so I prefer this idea than using up resources to make things move around.

    Edit: It's going to get to a point where developers like Naughty Dog are going to be saying "Uncharted 3 only has an install because the 10Mb of RAM we needed to stream it all was being taken up making Crash Bandicoots head wobble in an avatar." PS3 games aren't getting less resource heavy, they need more to look better all this premium and dynamic shit is cool but it's going to affect our games at some point.
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      HisServant77 Sep 21, 09
      I agree, though I hope they are more than just animated avatars. I want better functionality and not just eye candy that becomes old news and boring after a week of seeing it.
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      Sayyed Sep 21, 09
      They could always become default after launching the game. When your in-game XMB you will noice the icons revert back to normal and the background is gone. So I don't think the PS3 uses and RAM to make the sparkles, as its turned off.
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    Caliber Sep 23, 09
    I really don't like idea man.

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