In an interview recently, Insomniac games' Ted Price revealed that the upcoming Resistance: Fall of Man will not use the central buddy list created for use with PS3's online service, but will have its own separate buddy list, clan registry and in game chat services. According to GamesIndustry.biz, this will be the same for all of the PS3 launch titles. You'll have to create a separate buddy list for each game? What a pain!

This sound suspiciously like the horrible Nintendo DS friend code system. They copied the DS's colors, fine; colors are nice. They copied Nintendo's motion control, not so fine, but the deed is done. The crappy friend code system though, that's where I draw the line. Someone over at Sony really needs to learn the difference between copying the good things Nintendo does and copying the stupid things Nintendo does Let's hope that by the next crop of games, Sony will have figured out how to integrate to a system more like the 360 than the DS.

GamesIndustry.biz: PS3 online concerns [Eurogamer Thanks, TJ!]