Hi, everyone, we have a system software updates for PS3 coming soon, and I wanted to provide you with a sneak peak at the details.
The PS3 firmware update (v2.60) is designed primarily to enhance the system’s media capabilities. The key feature is a new Photo Gallery application, which delivers a suite of tools for sorting through and displaying your digital photo collection. Digital pictures can be organized in groups according to various criteria, including the camera used to take the photos, the event date and time, colors in the photos, as well as the number, ages, or facial expressions of the people pictured. You can also create slideshows set to music and build photo playlists with an easy-to-use interface. The Photo Gallery application will need to be installed separately from the XMB after you update your PS3’s firmware. To install the Photo Gallery application, go to the Photo section on the XMB, select Photo Gallery and press the X button.
The 2.60 update also includes:
- Guest access to PlayStation Store – This enables non-PlayStation Network members to browse through the storefront to check out the latest games, demos, videos, etc.
- DivX 3.11 support – Videos in this format can now be played on PS3.
Here’s a video walk-through of firmware 2.60 that shows off some of what the Photo Gallery can do.
As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback.
Nice update guys. Keep rolling them out! :D
also would like costume profile pictures
hmm this seems pretty cool! can’t wait to try it out!
Something I don’t really get. As much as i love all these new features, there is one thing that annoys me and that is that they all have to load, there is no way of jumping in out of them. I know by saying it has to load sounds retarded, but I never use life just because i cant be bothered waiting on it. The store works really well as you can just pop in.
So why cant all these new feature not be made to operate in the same way as the store.
Cheers.
The new photo options look great. I do a lot of slide shows with my PS3 when family comes over.
Like at Christmas time everyone brought there cameras and we loaded up all the memory sticks and SD cards. Made for a good time.
This is great! :D
Now I just wish that I owned a digital camera! <:)
Much like the others, I’m still waiting on a cross game voice chat.. I mean, I’m obsessed with Fallout, and I’d love to be able to play it at the same time as my mate, so we can actually give each other tips or whatever.
The ability to join your friends game would also be brilliant, although I doubt that’ll ever get put in.
Anyway, I’m hoping the “sneak peak” is a fraction of what’s in this update :)
The sorting options and “edit” feature I noticed on the toolbar should come in really handy! Just out of curiosity Jeff, is there a red eye reduction filter? I am guessing this is in the edit menu item along with crop and what not. If it has redeye, brightness (saw this already), noise controls then this is awesome and really sets the PS3 apart and well ahead of any other media centre on the market! No need to edit pics on computer before unloading to ps3 would be great!
Looking foward to photo gallery :)
nice, thanks for the update. are there any other features or do we have to find out for ourselves. either way thank you.
Looks cool but I’m still waiting on in-game voice chat and possibly some new avatars or maybe let us upload our own so we have no reason to complain
firmware updates make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It’s like a shot of whiskey from sony letting us know that they’re here to take care of us.
Wow, 16 pages of comments!
Anyways looks like a decent update, except its missing one thing:
FOR GOD’S SAKE! ADD SOME MORE FRICKING AVATARS DAMMIT!
How many times do we have to ask for that? Its not that hard to make some 100×100 pics and upload them!!!!!!!
hay this is my 1st time on the blog and was woundering how this blog thing works? by the way when is the new update 2.6 aval?
I always like updates but we need more updates that deal with games and home. This update is cool but it doesn’t really do anything for the PS3 as a gaming console
WISH LIST FOR PS3
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PS3 – Voice Cross Chat to at least 4 people on a Phone Chat.. kinda like HOME but would beable to do what we want while on the PS3 Phone.
PS3 – Skype Added to PS3 Please!
PS3 – Screen Shot Ability for when ever we want, playing music, videos, internet, games, anytime anywhere. Even if were sitting on the XMB also. Please!!”
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PSN: Skater_Ricky, 8)
great thanks for more useless updates BUT SIRUSLY THIS UPDATE IS COMPLETE GARBAGE NO INGAME CHATTING JUST A USELESS PHOTO GARBAGE instead wasting your time on CR@P LIKE THIS HOW BOUT INHANCING THE PSN WITH USEFULL UPDATE AND THE PEOPLE WHO SAY INGAME CHATTING IS USELESS STOP STOP PROTECTING SONY ALL THE TIME THIS IS CR@P IM SORY BUT THIS I HOW I FEEL AND PEOPLE KEEP SAYING ITS A GREAT UPDATE JUST BECOUSE U LIKE SONY WELL THERE GONNA KEEP THIS CR@P UPDATES COMING
Well its nice to see the divx update, is this teh divx update where the hi def stuff is incorporated?
thats annoying if you have to sign in each time to comment.why don’t i stay signed in?
but that photo gallery feature looks cool. gotta try it when i get back to NY tomorrow.
Kind of not exciting. I wish Sony would add more codec support like rmvb, mkv, iso, and flv
This feature looks great guys, but one issue it does not seem to resolve is the problem with copying and organising my photos to replicate how they are organised on my PC. My photos are stored in folders and sub folders on my pc and when copying across I must copying 1 single album at a time. There is also no way of having sub albums or folders. this means i end up having 1000’s of albums which are time consuming to sort though – if you could solve this problem then all my photos could be on my ps3 instead of streaming them or just having a select few….also the ability to ftp the photos would be ace :)Keep up the great work on the media functionality…..
why doesnt my psn id appear… w.e
sweet;
I know it’s a long shot, but any chance this update might make Ar Tonelico 2 playable on the 80GB MGS 4 bundle?
D:
Add the internet radio that the PSP has to the PS3!
Nothing compelling, was hoping for Blu-ray XMB support finally.
I love how u can now log in with one account everywhere in this website!! this is why I love SONY.. they give us wat we want.. and about the update.. its amazing!! the PS3 only gets better and better.. and one question, when are u guys goin to update the Trphy System?? like we should get some privilages as we level up =].. jus an idea but it would be very cool and I know a lot of people want this
please improve the video scaling. lower resolution videos don’t look good on my HDTV because of the bad scaling. compare it to other players, either HTPC or various hardware and they do a much better job of scaling video. HD content also loses quality due to the “normal” mode of display sometimes cutting off part of the image and doing some form of scaling, or when 720p videos are scaled to 1080p (in that case it’s much more subtle than SD content upscaled to 1080p)
I’m hoping this works with Tversity! :)
woo hoo. that was easy enough
This whole integration thing has worked PERFECTLY, now I can be me, ON MY PSP!!!
Oh and on this site 2!
aw, no in game chat :(
Can’t wait to try out the new photo app though!
I gotta say…that is pretty awesome update. And I just upgrade my hard drive with 250gig of drive space so I won’t have any problem with more stuff on the ps3 anytime soon.
Hi,
Does it mean also that streaming XVID video via the network will work? it seems that XVID works at current time only if they are locally on the harddisk or then via USB HDD.
Regards,
Sebastian
yay I can leave comments so easily now i love u playstation!
Ps3 really needs more network features to bring it up to the same level as the 360..
This is great, I wish they more codec support like rmvb, mkv and more types of mp4, not just the playstation kind.
Thanks for the update!
Nice. Looks like a good media center feature that I would use often…IF it included support for Flickr integration. I store all my photos on Flickr, and 99% of them are set as private, so it would be huge if the ps3 can 1)integrate flickr, and 2)allow flickr authorization so that it can access ALL of my photos.
The updates I really want to see are support for more codecs. Divx 3.11 is a good start, but as more and more HD videos are being distributed in a mkv container, I would like strong support for that as well.
Thanks!
the change went fine for me because my PSN and PSBlog ids are the same :) and another PS3 and PSP update! Thanks!
You guys should add a feature where you click on a posters name and it brings up all thier comments
That looks amazing! It makes me wonder why Sony works so hard on value added content for free?
Not bad, can’t really say I care about the photo gallery but its nice to see the ps3 getting updated, hope next update gets more interesting new features.
That photo gallery option is AMAZING. One of the most unique things I’ve seen in a long time. Gotta love free stuff too. Thanks Sony!
The presentation was great! =) In the update after 2.60, they need to add the feature of sending a song or video in a message.Now you can only send a picture
can the next update speed up downloads
Great stuff, I look forward to using the new Photo Gallery.
Useless update is useless.
Faster trophy loading
Fixing the clock/battery issue
would be a more useful waste of time for this stupid firmware update instead of “HURR DIVX FOR VIDEOS THAT YOU WON’T WATCH BECAUSE YOU’RE BUSY USING YOUR PS3 AS A GAME CONSOLE LIKE IT WAS DESIGNED FOR” people such as myself.
Don’t force us to update to this to use PSN, kthxbi.
Great work with the Divx support. Hopefully now all of my media will work. I’m browsing through my videos, and they is always a few that says “Unsupported data”
Oh and great work with the PSN integration. Its much easier and I wonder why it wasn’t done sooner.