PlayStation 3 Firmware (v3.10) Update Preview

good update guys. even i won’t be using facebook its nice to see free added content to ps3, and the friends list looks a lot nicer too, but as far as more improvements are concerned, having the oppotunity to change your PSN id would be great and would work exceptionally well if it was payed for too, i and many many other people i know would definately chage their PSN id if they had the chance. please sony make it happen.

Cross-Game-Chat
Cross-Game-Chat
Cross-Game-Chat

facebook sucks!!

Great News!

The system gets better with each big update. I especially like Vidzone and the Photo application which works a treat with my camera.

More PS1 games would be nice, but as it’s my Birthday today then a God of War III Demo code would do just nicely….

MP3 PLAYER ON ALL GAMES!!!!!

FACEBOOK SUCKS!!!

Awesome new Friends List, thanks.
Great little FW update.
Hoping a Twitter version of this Facebook implementation is on the cards, I would definitely use that one.

PS: I don’t care about cross-game chat

@150

did you even read my post?

What I am saying is that you should not have to quit a game, wait for it to close and then have to click back on the game to start the reloading process – so in effect it is the same as loading a different game.

I am not talking about uninstalling a game, just reloading it from the last save point

I guess this is great for FB Fans and Teenagers, but I don’t see myself using this…I mean who cares which demos I download.

The colourthingy is nice tho, hope to see more customization options in the near future.

i know all of the people saying this bad… blah blah blah… but it gives me more of a reason to use facebook as it will anoy my friends on how many trophie i get just wish i had used the twitter support for uncharted now :S

Can I have my Cross Game Chat now PLEASE?!??!

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Surely its your IP thats causing the Iplayer issue, as the consoles are not regionalised as far as I am aware.

Otherwise ill be buying a UK PS3 next time im over.

This cool, my 360 I use raptr to update Facebook/Twitter with my gaming activity, something the 360 doesnt do, but I bet raptr will be trying to tap into the feeds, auto feeds from PSN is better..I hope they dont over cross so I get raptr updating and PSN updating the same thing on my profile…

and the crossover chat?

@203

I know what you mean taking the “Soft reset” (L1+R1+L2+R2+SELECT+START) out was a bad move, some games aren’t so bad having a “quit to menu” option in the pause menu but not all of them have it.

Hey James, where we can report XMB/FW bug?

Hi… I like what has been done with the ‘Photo’ section… will you do it the ‘Music’ section too? As i have over 100 songs on my PS3 and its soo anoying having to scroll through them all, it takes forever, and would be so much easier set up like the photo is now set up.

When do we get it ?

Cool update. Facebook could definitely be a good way to connect with other PSN members.
-I agree with some earlier comments about Game Status being updated and posted on facebook in a similar way as your friends list on the XMB – “Currently playing..”
-The purchases options seems interesting but something I probably won’t enable.
-I’m interested to see how the Trophy option works.

“Music” need an overhaul for sure. I hope that’s “In Progress” right now.
Custom avatars would be sweet too.
The video shows some browsing speed that I wish I had…damn.
If I could browse that fast, my PS3 would be the center of my entertainment universe.

I’m curious to see what else PSN will integrate with…
Last.fm?
Youtube – for in-game videos/replays, etc?

I dont have Facebook, but I like the colors and the pictures. Can we expect backwards compatibility of PS2 games in the future?

Sony cant do it all on their own. Open up the platform to other developers, create a free SDK. That way other companies can bring media services and apps on the system. Sony is to slow working on this stuff. But otherwise good update. However, the new UI design is really bad like many said. It does not look like a Sony-Product!

@160 posted this link and it looks beautiful!
somebody in sony should take a look and get inspired!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0xyM7_Mks

As long as I can play Mafia Wars, it’s good news.

For all the people shouting and moaning about cross game chat go look on page 2 and quit your moaning.

/rant

I’m liking the color idea of the friend Boxes

Could there be a way to place clips from films or trailers on our HDD’s on the background like a dynamic theme

James, why do you keep calling it FIRMWARE? It’s name is PS3 System Software! It isn’t a firmware and firmware isn’t its official Sony name anyway. This just generates confusion. Some people think that the PS3 SSW always modifies the logic of some device controllers in the PS3.

i don’t understand, let’s say if i turn this free game advertisement app to on, why would i get a pop up window asking me do i really want to share this information on facebook yes/no, i personally set it to on, of course i want to post it if i set it to on, can we please get some fresh minds working on future firmware updates, things are not getting done right with whoever is working on them as it is, thank you

CROSS GAME CHAT IS A COMING, HUZZAH!!!

Can’t wait to be able to use that and chat to folk online whilst playing other games

so no cross game chat again still at least the awful friends list will be updated.

Please remove the censorship of text chat, in Spanish censor words as harmless and common words like “hour” or “goodbye”, and is quite frustrating, I hope you have in mind for this because we spoke Spanish (at least) is a nuisance …

Why isn’t the FaceBook icon on the XMB? It would be cool if you could put any site you want ‘icon’ on the XMB

I would love cross-game chat to, but I don’t understand why so many people here feel the need to be rude about it. I would be very surprised if not almost everyone at Sony knows that cross-game voice chat is a priority feature for users. And at the same time I would think it is obvious that Sony has not been holding it back just to be annoying.

In other words they must have had challenges implementing it, most likely system resource issues. One likely scenario I could think of it that in order to free enough resources they would have needed to reduce the resource usage of other running services, which is probably a both quite intrusive and time consuming task and thus something that has to be done gradually and with a lot of testing.

Do people here really want cross-game voice chat if the cost is lots of your games doesn’t work at all or increased stability and frame rate issues due to cross-game chat fighting with games over resources?

So guys, keep up the pressure by requesting this, but please stop the juvenile insults and insinuations, they just pollute the website and doesn’t help anyone.

It feels better to surf the net with the latest Internet Explorer with a ten year old entry-level PC (quite irritating but still better) that it is with the PS3. Any update on this front ?

The facebook integration is useless, you still have to open a web browser, which lets face it, is awful on the PS3. Why not integrate it inot the XMB itself, like Xbox Live has done on their dashboard! Integrating it into the XMB would be soo much better than the web browser. On Xbox LIVE it allows you to leave comments, update your status etc from the dashboard without the need for an web browser, why can’t PS3 do that with PSN??????
And the friends list needs a serious update guys, why aren’t you looking at this guys work for reference?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124148306403
This is way, waaaaaayyyyyyy better, adding the ability to see your friends home avatar as well as the artwork for the game they are playing on their profile page or friends list would be a fantastic bonus as well IMO.
And last but not least, where the hell are cross game invites and cross game chat!!!! i thot they were coming in this nw update, stop telling us it’s definately coming and tell us why its not here yet!

So instead of having an annoying block of grey we have an even more annoying rainbow coloured friends list.

NO.

can’t sony europe make the store more like the american one it’s more organised than the mess that is psn europe store, honestly it’s hard 2 find stuff on the european version it’s annoying.

Great shout GER-Cloonix!! Twitter updates (like in Uncharted 2) would be much better than FB. I get really annoyed by people that spam Facebook with how they’ve done in Bejewelled

Wow, I’m totaly disappointed.
This update is so not what I wanted.

Why not use your resouces to make some usefull additions.
I don’t give a hoot avout Facebook or whatever.

Love to see the use of different folders to orgenize my pictures, music, movies and games?

Thank you Sony for putting the Polish language for PS3 .. Of course, the probably do not know if once we get VidZone and no longer talking about the Video Store ??????????????

@ those who mentioned last FM

Its strange the PS3 doesnt have an internet radio, when the PSP has had one for about two years now!

I look forward to the colour change and I might be interested in the facebook functionality, I will give it a try. I have to say though, I am waiting on those new avatars and cross game voice chat(I’d be complete with this one feature). At the minute I can’t get my trophies to sync up which is jolly annoying, keeps getting an error. Anyway, I don;t want to sound like the many annoying moany gits that plague this site, always demanding more because I’ve seen the progress the PS3 has made since launch. I’m very pleased to see the evolution of this console and hope that it continues as it goes along. Good work sony.

Well.
Maybe a facebook account may have to be open.
A lot of ranting about X game chat.
Would it not be better to have In-game Skype as a more productive application.
Being able to have this should not be hard to implement. Should it?
Would be a new addition to “It does everything” ad campaign.
Play HD games
Watch HD movies(soon a movie store)
Listen to music.
Browse the internet.
Now Facebook.
With Skype intergration then it would b,
And Talk to ANY other PS3 user, PC user, Skype enabled Phones……
Now “It does everything”

I’m not a big user of Facebook, though I do have an account… and this is a nice feature.

I hope this is another step towards Sony opening up the PS3 stats data so that we can make use of 3rd-party sites and features such as Raptr.com. I personally would rather have that than cross-game chat, which for me is an irrelevant feature that I would never use.

And absolutely brilliant news about the Friends list. Only having the box around the selected friend is excellent, and how it should have been from the beginning. It shows that Sony do actually listen to what their customers want.

nice little update look forward to it, but lets not forget CROSS VOICE CHAT & CROSS INVITES is what we need not just the cross chat so please SCE we have been waiting 3 years i think this is long enough time to be waiting for these features.

thanks for the efforts to bring us new things its much appreciated.

why, as the owner of this console can i not choose which firmware to run without being effectively banned from going online or to the PSN Store? it’s like not being able to use the internets if you don’t upgrade to Windows 7 on your PC.

It’s cool that you can change colour of your profile on the friends list, but it’s not enough!!! You should be able to buy on ps store some backrounds (I’d love Uncharted one) to decorate your profile. That would be awesome and very profitable

This is great, much better than the rubbish the 360 is getting.

Any word on being able to remove the bar from the top right (The bit with the clock and number of friends online)? It looks really messy, also still waiting on the theme that makes the text and icons smaller again. In other words, make it look like it was before 3.0

Just a idea but couldn’t you guys make a deal with mozilla to integrate firefox on PS3?
That would truly make the browsing more pleasant.

Great but the XMB is still a little too big for my liking. Are the features in the video the only features in the update? Also I’m sure you don’t need reminding how much people want some other social networks on PS3 too I find that the PS3′s browser loads a bit slow and sometimes pixelates fonts when I zoom in, its in need of an update! Thanks!

This blog needs an edit button! In my other post I meant to say why not remove the boxes completely and replace them with just a line box like the one around the clock. It could be semi-transparent through the colour the user chooses, I find the bubble boxes look cheap and not like the professional PS3 look.

I think it good that you continue to improve the system even if the progress is going to slow.

One thing that could be made a whole lot better is how you connect to you´re friends to play a game online. It´s a mess today. I who have used the system for several years now thinks it complicated, it must be a nightmare to the people who is new to the system.

There really should be a standard system of how you connect to a game. That would make the online experience so much easier and better.

I cannot understand why you get a message when someone invites you to play a game and then you need to start that game and figure out how to get into the game (lobby, server) your friend is playing. Waaaaaaay to complicated. It should be a no brainer to get into a game with your friends!

Instead you should be able to just click a button which says “join” and takes you directly into your friends game (even if you´re not playing that game at the moment) when you receive an invite from a friend. So much easier!

Please make the online system much easier to understand and operate.

I had a pot noodle for dinner it were deliciously tasty.