[GregoryRasputin]

Andrew House, President of SCEE, has answered some important questions asked by forum members, of the official Playstation forum, here are some of the more important questions and answers:

Q. When will we have cross-gaming chat?
A. We know that cross-game chat is something that the community wants and hopefully we will have an answer for you very soon.

Q. Are you aware of the degree to which users complained (forums, news, etc.) about the decision to remove the Other OS Install option? Could you comment on the situation?
A. We are very aware of how vocal the community has been about this. I can assure you that it was a very difficult decision for us to take, but one that we fully believe is in the best long-term interest of PlayStation and the PlayStation community.

Q. Will PlayStation Network become a paying service?
A. I can assure you that the current PSN as you know it will remain a free service. It is something that our competitors don?t offer and something that shows our loyalty to the PlayStation Community. However, Kaz Hirai stated a few months ago that we were looking at a premium service to sit alongside the current free service and that objective has not changed. You?ll learn more about it very soon.

For the full story The People vs Andrew House

Im sure the questions that Mr House didnt answer properly, will be revealed at this years E3.

[xenno]

I'm still on 3.15 I might miss out all of the good stuff right now. But at the end of the road I see myself with a ps3 that is running custom firmware and all u haters are on ofw:thefinger:

[SuperDre]

removing OtherOS Long term better for the community? Can you spell Bull****? you can smell it at least coming from him...

[MIDASA]

The thing is, if you look at it at a long shot, he's right.

If the PS3 would get Hacked, there will be people,who make playing backup/downloaded Games possible. And if thats whats happening, people will use the opportunity to download games and dont pay for them and if that is the case, they will sell less games and Devs wont make so much Games thirdparty Games ;P for it.
That would exactly affect us and them, but who wants really bad nonsolding thirdparty Games. I even myself buy only really godd games for my PS3.

Even if hes right he maybe is wrong about our attitude^^

[Spiker]

Originally Posted by xenno I'm still on 3.15 I might miss out all of the good stuff right now. But at the end of the road I see myself with a ps3 that is running custom firmware and all u haters are on ofw

Thing is, when the PSP was hacked, and the Xbox, there is always a new hack to get OFW users onto custom firmware. All we need is the info to see every last part of the PS3 system running, which CFW will do. I'm not worried about it.