PS3 Custom sound tracks [/w other rants]

[Kamatari]

On the PC we can ALT+TAB or just play in windowed mode ( with whatever software used for music), the 360 has its own (patented, Damn you Microsoft) form of dubbing your music over the muted game sound track, etc. I know this is out of Sony's hands, as they leave it up to the developers. So, my point (to get to it) is that developers have control over the game, and how its played. It's THEIR game. So custom sound tracks seems to be more or less, a hit-or-miss. little big planet received some limited custom sound track patch a few months ago. With that update, you could listen to music in your pod, and while creating stages, but never during game play. Kill Zone 2 shipped with some custom sound track, but only online (and perhaps skirmish). Metal gear had a nice way of implementing custom music, where you basically had an ipod and played the music you wanted (not to sure, I didn't play for more then 10 min) I recalled downloading the psyco mantis theme from MGO and playing that in the ipod. So , with these examples in mind, how come PS3 exclusive developers seem to barely cover the whole custom sound track idea, and 3rd party multi-platform games have no such after thought? (Call of duty 4, virtual fighter 5, UT III, etc) ? Just a rant. :/

My other inquiry is how come (Especially in FPSs) developers seem to give such little control over...our controls? they try their best to offer pre-set schemes for games ( Halo, COD , KZ2) but never have I seen an option to set our OWN buttons. on the PC this is all yours, but on consoles you never get the opportunity to map your own buttons! I'm going to college to major in computer sciences , and hopefully become a game developer (programmer specifically) . I would like to adress these sorts of things in any games I would end up pushing out.

 

[BlackDragon37]

So custom sound tracks seems to be more or less, a hit-or-miss. little big planet received some limited custom sound track patch a few months ago. With that update, you could listen to music in your pod, and while creating stages, but never during game play. Kill Zone 2 shipped with some custom sound track, but only online (and perhaps skirmish). Metal gear had a nice way of implementing custom music, where you basically had an ipod and played the music you wanted (not to sure, I didn't play for more then 10 min) I recalled downloading the psyco mantis theme from MGO and playing that in the ipod. So , with these examples in mind, how come PS3 exclusive developers seem to barely cover the whole custom sound track idea, and 3rd party multi-platform games have no such after thought? (Call of duty 4, virtual fighter 5, UT III, etc) ?

I know this is out of Sony's hands, as they leave it up to the developers. So, my point (to get to it) is that developers have control over the game, and how its played. It's THEIR game.

Nice of you to answer your own question.

 

[Kamatari]

Alright, so go make a knife, kill people with it, I can do that because its MY knife? I was asking why do developers stiffen up the custom sound track options, while stating the game at question belongs to them. That still doesn't answer WHY they go for that option however. Thanks for the help guy.