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Home » PS3, Playstation Network, Sony

Psst! PSN supports voice chat

Submitted by Mike Koss on March 13, 2009 – 2:56 pmComments

Speak no evil monkeyThis is a quick reminder to all of the new and old PS3/PSN players: most games on the PS3 now support voice chat.

I bring this up because it still seems that some of you haven’t yet ventured into this somewhat new arena. I know you may be shy or worried about your anonymity, but that can be helped by using the Ps3’s built-in voice changer to mask your real identity. When you set your mod to deep/evil no one will make fun of you for having the voice of a 5 year old. Also, in case you think you need an expensive and/or fancy Bluetooth headset, all it takes is a USB microphone/headset to use the voice chat. With combined sales numbers of almost 1.5 million copies, a few of you must have purchased Rock Band (1 or 2) with a microphone that could be used to allow greater interaction with your fellow players. Hey, if you have a USB microphone for your PC, you can use that as well.

How do I know that there seems to be a disparaging amount of people not using this feature? Because out of all of my random online gaming encounters, very few competitors have used it. Let me put this into perspective. During the beta for LittleBIGPlanet, less than 1/4 of the players I adventured with exploited voice chat. In all of my random battles in Street Fighter IV, including where I accepted random fight requests, no one has had voice chat enabled. This is discouraging, because after you choose to fight me, and I whomp you, I want to be able to rub it in your face… or congratulate you when you rub my face into the ground.

Either way, I reach out to you fellow PS3 online gamers: grab your microphone headsets and let your voice be heard online.

  • lundy3311
    I bought Warhawk on ebay and it didn't come with a headset, so I went out to Best Buy and bought myself one. I use it a lot, but as mentioned most of the people don't have them. I tend to only friend request people who are fun to play with (usually worse than me lol) and have a headset. That way I know what they act like. The closest to being in a game with people that all had headsets was in Burnout Paradise, when I think, we had seven out of eight people with headsets.
  • StephenJMunn
    I use my USB headset which I purchased for recording the podcast. It works great. Still, I would never recommend playing video games online with strangers, since they even ruin games without voice chat like Mario Kart DS by cheating, and if I did, I wouldn't want voice chat. Playing LittleBIGPlanet with friends and family? That's a totally different story.
  • morphiend
    So far I've only had one bad experience on the PS3: the other player did a search, joined me, lost, and dropped out before I was awarded my "medals" for the fight. Luckily it wasn't a ranked match, and I'd hope that Capcom has that covered.

    Otherwise, I enjoy playing games with "random" people b/c that's how I've met some of the clans I've played in, as well as new people to hang out with. Out of all of my current local friends and immediate family, only a handful of my friends own a PS3. Playing online games with them provides for a rather shallow pool of options, especially when they don't play some of the same games that I do.
  • salesmunn
    I have a headset and use it often with friends but rarely in a room of sniveling 12 year olds. (which is 99% of the time)
  • Jordan_Snyder
    Sony could have solved this problem two years ago by packing in a simple headset with the console, just like Microsoft did. With the Xbox 360 I could go online and chat it up on day one; now it seems that I've taken Microsoft's gesture for granted. I'm too focused on buying games to use my money for a headset. The only way I'll have headset soon is if I buy SOCOM: Confrontation or Warhawk, both of which are unlikely.
  • morphiend
    As I stated, you don't need anything special to have voice chat on the PS3. If you already have a Bluetooth headset for your cellphone, or a USB microphone (like from another game, etc [I got mine from Karoake Revolution]), then you have all you need.

    It's nice that the 360 did come with a headset, since it required a special one: single jack for both microphone and earpiece.
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