PlayStation 3 Firmware (v3.10) Update Preview

Do the colour changes on the freinds list boxes effect the boxes in the players met menu?

Ugh, still no new avatars?

Good changes but are you aware of the widespread trophy syncing error 80022A07 on psn and are there plans to fix it.

dear james – to stop everyone bleating on about this feature and that feature could a roadmap be published for future firmware versions ? That would generate useful feedback rather than this me me me fest everytime.

But while you are reading how about …

bout time i hope i can set my box to clear

This update is ok but far from perfect….what I miss;

- In game voice chat
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- Browser acces during the game.

- Better audio/video codec support. ( divx with .srt support, AAC, mkv etc.)

- Better trophy view in friend list (level progress etc.)

- Automatic thumbnail view of (downloaded) video’s

- Much faster browser, like a modified ”Firefox 3” or a ”Webkit” based engine for example, with much more plug in support (Quicktime,Flash Player 10 etc.)

- Back up the entire savedata map,now you must copy/back up savefiles one by one. I know that you can back-up your PS3, but that is the entire hard disk. It wil be very useful if you can back-up only your savedata map.

- Faster load time of the XMB in a game.

- Auto sync of trophies in the background.
- A2DP support
- In background downloading while playing a game.
- More details when you’re installing a game update, what of kind a features or bugfixes etc.


If only the half of the list will be added in the near future…..I’ll be happy

When In game voice chat
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james comments abt cross chat removed lmao guess its nt in works then . 360 time me thinks

Hey James, hope you are still going to read comments on this.
What I would really like is for that XMB fade to be optional. When scanning down my DLNA album list I like to read the album names but since the introduction of the “fade” they vanish too quickly and is very very annoying. The only real use I find for this “fade” is in videos showing stuff on the XMB because it makes it in-focus but for a user it is pointless!

I thought that new PS3 photo viewer application looked awesome but never installed it because it does not support DLNA, so is another useless item IMHO. Please tell them higher-ups that DLNA should be supported more, pretty please!

Why do we have to manually sync trophies? I love my PS3, but I know that the achievements on the 360 are on your list of achievements as soon as you earn them, boom, they are there! Also, I have noticed that it takes about 10 seconds for a trophy notification to appear on screen when I gain a new trophy, why is that? When you get an achievement on the 360, it is awarded to you instantly! It makes the trophy system feel tacked on and and after thought. Please sort this out Sony, make trophies sync AUTOMATICALLY and also award them instantly like the 360 achievements are. Thanks.

Man this is a great update. Now i can fight back to all those friends that keep spamming my page with all the farmville crap lol

Seriously though, we dont really need cross game chat (although we do), we need cross game invite. On my 360 there was nothing better than getting sent an invite and just being able to click accept and it takes me straight there without all the hassle. Any idea when this is coming?

the update looks really good but we should get cross game chat

Oh, yeah, cross-game voice chat.. what a very important feature! What about backwards compatibility for PS2? What about the tons of ORIGINAL PS2 games i already own, i never touched pirate/copied games so i could support the game companies, Sony and so.. I never modchip’ed my PS1, PS2 so i could support the game developers and Sony! What will i do my PS2 games? They are sleeping in some huge boxes now! Damn!
Was removing the BC a “Thank You for your Support” for me, Sony?
Oh no, i will not buy an another PS2 console for the third time! Let me decide that, please!

Sony should include a real chat program on PSP, and you can use it to chat with contacts on the PS3.
It should be possible with the Go cam & mic …

so then SCEE, you actually gonna listen to any feed back this time?

please do the following:

send some type of email or survey to all your registered accounts so you can prioritise what WE want, not what you think we want.

put a donations section on the PSN store so users like me who would happily pay you guys to help improve the service can do so. you clearly need help. i can’t think of any other reason for the sorry state of PSN.

start listening to people who start a sentence with “You know what would be great?” they tend to be right at least half of the time.

Just a few things I’d love to see -

- Own music in game mandatory (if not already) network streaming?
- When inviting someone to a game in COD:MW2 you have to click invite, click triangle on friend wanted, scroll/move to invite to game, click invite to game, click to send message. How about just pressing R1 or something on highlighted player to send the default game invite message. Much faster. Apologies if this is more down to infinity ward than Sony.
Perhaps this could be extended for normal XMB use to go straight to messages from that player. Having to click triangle then scroll to messages annoys me as I never look at the profile and I always just go to a player and click x. (Probably my stupidity but it seems like a reasonable enough request) maybe even just change default view and have it as an option?
- On the game invites, how about tick boxes to send multiple invites at once?
- Any chance we can get some sort of transparent backgrounds for the friends list. No matter what colour you make it it’s still going to stop me seeing the game in the background which is very annoying when we could do it before.
- MKV support
- noticed recently I can only set my PS eye mic level to off or 3. What’s that all about?

Please Sony update after update i pray for the next one to allow us to play music in game. The PS3 is so powerful yet it is hindered with the inability to perform pretty basic tasks. Pleeeeease. Facebook is a good addition though i’m an addict

where is faster rewind music? and maybe some calendar

While it looks slightly better the new way, the friendslist still looks like crap with that ugly box. Painting it in different colours doesn’t make it look any better.

Please, add a way to theme only the icons and those ugly boxes of the XMB.

Sounds nice but the internet browser the ps3 got is a total mess :/ takes forever to load sites even if i have 100mbit etc. And sometimes it makes my ps3 froze so i have to reset it but nice update anyway

i would like to say that the use of twitter and facebook looks a lot better on the xbox 360. Sony you need to improve how you update things and how you listen to the people who are telling you what they want.Could you try to keep us well informed about whats happening with the movie store for the UK

i got a question, at your avatar icon/time/messages you have a scrolling text that says whats new in PSN etc. Now to my question why doesnt EU has one like that? JPN and US has that but not EU ;(

Nice improvements but the bulk are features i wont use

at the moment ps3 looks dull and boring. The main menu should be more like a 360 but with its own unique sony feel.I would also have to agree with spajdah about the internet browser. Sony needs more content for games like gta 4. Xbox has two dlc ‘s and i’m begining to think i wasted my money on a game that is now extremely boring. xbox are also getting mw2 maps early. Ps3 should compete for the right to have the maps too for the sake of their customers and others who may buy xbox over ps3 because of it

spajdah ps3 in uk has this but some other countries dont its annoying america gets everything before anyone else like their the most important people in the world ha

Any chance of support for WPA2 enterprise support for wifi? cheers?

Good to see some Facebook integration but was expecting news feed and ability to post status updates. Hopefully that’s coming later to at least match Xbox.

Also where’s the ability to change the font size back to pre-FW3 size as requested in the last firmware update?

Here’s some other requests

Background d/l of patches
Bluetooth A2DP Stereo headphone support
Skype as on the PSP
Internet Radio and YouTube app. It’s crap on the browser.
Automatic video thumbnails on downloaded videos from PS Store

Widgets like weather, PS blog ticker or customisable RSS ticker

is there a fix in this update that fixs the iplayer problem for people that cant get the iplayer icon on xmb due to people ps3′s getin ylod and sony sending them a refurb euro ps3′s model number endding in 04 instead of uk only models endding in 03

get everything working properly before adding more stuff!

I love this! It looks like the shiz! But, I still do not like the weird font size from the last update. It looks like it’s in 480p … GRRR … please work on that. THX!

error 80022A07: will it be resolved?

awesome! =] can’t wait! great job playstation. hopefully overtime things will get pretty advanced. I’m actually sorta a facebook addict lol, but it’ll be nice to post trophy updates and stuff. i mean so far it’s really just like an app sorta thing, but maybe over time it’ll kinda become more advanced. it’s like a game enhancer. just as long as it’s not going status update crazy! that’s kinda why i didn’t like facebook beacon, it got nosey glad they ditched that. it told your friends everything you did from renting movies from blockbuster to rating/renting games on gamefly. n i’m like ok enough is enough. as long as they clearly tell us and don’t do stuff behind our backs. get your hands on last.fm. the best thing we could do is at least tie with xbox. lets try to surpass them.

rumor has it, that today´s the day. Found this on N4G
http://www.n4g.com/gaming/News-430134.aspx
If nothing else specific has been anounced about the comming update, then it shouldn´t be v. x.10, it more like at small addition to the previous one. Maybe 3.02 instead. But as alway – my hopes are up high anyway, I seem to enjoy the fall

Sony, please don’t waste to much time on useless facebook/twitter features!

Just because MS waste their time on it, doesn’t mean that it worth the time and resources.

Implement cross-game chat, voice messages, privacy settings and add more avatars instead – thank you!

Will this update cure the crashes? games now lock up, console freezes and either a power down is needed or a triple beep happens.
I couldn’t give a flying one about anything in this update unless you fix the disaster that was 3.01

Maybe I should send you MW2 and you can send me the refund? It’s your fault, not the games.

My god, the friendlist is getting worse and worse with every update.

Make it transparant like FW2.x. Or at least configurable so that I can overwrite all the stupid colors people are likely to choose and choose to disable the badge color completely.

The bigger font that came with FW3.0 was also said to be configurable in a future update. Has this happend in 3.10?

Facebook: There needs to be an option to post entries without confirmation, otherwise, this is going to become a chore. Shouldn’t the options be [Ask Before Posting|Post Without Asking|Don't Post]. It would make things run smoother from the start and I don’t think it will be long until you hear this from a lot more people!

I will not activate this feature trust me I just want cross game chat .so if 2day is the day just add that cause its going 2 be a waste of time serious…..

I like the colour changing in the friends list, and is starting to look like the playstation portable id. One thing I would like to see is to allow customimisable avatars. How about allowing us to put our home avatar instead of the default ones? And maybe this could eventually lead to having our home avatar in our XMB?

Hi James.

The 3.10 is going to be a new update. good with all that is going to bring I have a few questions. ^^

- Added in a future update, pay channels like Animax Spain, Gol TV and Canal Plus?

- My reader is broken by the Modern Warfare 2 game and want to know if future updates you add it as an optional installation for xbox 360?

- For the earlier models that have to put operating systems. option will add an option to release the Cell and playing PC games? I’d like to because the PS3 is a very powerful piece of cars

- One last question. when added as the party chat mode for xbox 360?

Well I hope some of my questions for those of validates me at least, but the firmware are good for improving the system of the PS3. This week’s update comes a great and full of novelties.

Greetings

Great work on the pictures, but Please please PLEASE will you tell them to fix Music in a similar fashion?

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

Here is everything that is wrong with using the PS3 as a media centre in one simple picture: http://twitpic.com/jjn2z

I have nearly 400 CDs in there – and there’s just NO way of organising that number allowing you to get to the album and track you want except Artist->Album->Tracks. Even the PSP can now do that!

question

will this firmware fix the problems like game freezing and blu rays not working that people have experienced with 3.01 ?

great whens the update available

The ability to find friends through Facebook with PSN ID’s would be epic! Finding out that you can game with people that you may have lost contact with but have their facebook would be sweet!

I am really exited about the new 3.10 update
i will be up bright and early to link my facebook account to my ps3
Im really happy that this intergration is happening becuase i go on facebook most of the day and this will be a good advance in the playstation network.

Peace Out
Darkgamer333

i was wondering if 3.10 would fix the thropy sync problem cause i keep having a problem sync my thropies when i go online.

this update is pointless

Sorry but I am having a huge problem on updating my ps3 to 3.10. It update’s to slow then it just stops and error. Can anyone help me?

WTF?? Why can’t we play music in the background anymore? Pretty much the only time I listen to my music on here is when I’m using that god-awful internet browser… Now, I can’t even keep listening to my music if I hit the PS button… Why would you do something like that?? Jesus tapdancing christ, think before you act people… Besides that retarded ass tidbit, I love the new picture setup (although I can’t agree with the other people who want their music set up like that, I would, however, like more sorting options [i.e. Sort by Artist>then Sort by Album, having all the albums in their own folders, then being able to sort by track number]). I kinda like the new colors on the friends list, and also kinda like the Facebook integration. And to everyone who thinks this will spam all of your friends profiles, they DO have the option to hide updates from Apps (trust me, I’ve hidden all my friends’ Farmville and Farkle posts). So, if they don’t like it, they don’t have to see it. Also, if you don’t use Facebook, you DON’T have to use the new Facebook integration. But, yeah, give me back my music.

Hey, where did the BBC iplayer icon go? Is that supposed to disappear with v3.10?