Hi everyone, we’re adding some great new features with the next PS3 firmware update (v2.70) that will continue to enhance your connected experience on the PS3. The 2.70 update brings a new Text Chat feature that enables you to communicate online with your PlayStation Network friends. Now, you’ll be able to chat with up to 15 online friends using the Wireless Keypad, on-screen keyboard, or other compatible keyboard peripherals. Not only can you chat with your friends instantly, but you can also access Text Chat while playing PS3 games and even participate in up to three chat rooms at once.
In addition to Text Chat, we’ve added a few more enhancements:
Friends list on the XMB (XrossMediaBar)
- Sort your friends via their online status
- Attach larger files to the messages you send to your friends (file size will increase from 1MB to 3MB)
Video delivery service on PlayStation Store
- Video files you’ve purchased from the PlayStation Store can be backed up to an external storage device and then restored to PS3’s internal hard drive for playback – so you can clear up space on your hard drive and then restore the video anytime in the future
- Videos you’ve purchased for PSP (PlayStation Portable) system can now be transferred to PS3 for playback
For a quick preview of Text Chat and some of the other 2.70 features, check out this video:
The 2.70 update will be released soon, and as always, we look forward to reading your feedback.
You guys are seriously censoring our chats?!?!?
this is going to be awesome
who came up with this idea
@ slamdciv (591)
I’ve had a large number of my AAC (!!) music files display as unsupported data as well. I was fine with this update until I wanted to listen to the KH soundtrack. That’s just not right.
Come on, people. This happens everytime. A rumor comes around saying one thing, I, among many others, tell you to not place your faith in the rumors, and then you whine that they weren’t true. Did you learn NOTHING from fw2.00? It’s… sad.
PS el_animal21, get lost you RROD-troll.
Thats nice, but that all you have for a firmware update? How about making it easier to view a message you get in game, or smoother transitions in the xmb? I know it take time but I would rather wait longer and get some in game voice.
> I have a serious question I hope you guys read and consider.
Why does sony not just apply a split screen setup and keep a small window on the side of the screen while in game to live view your chat, etc? (example 15-20% of left of screen is split plane, or the bottom 10%, etc. Heck like on the Sony tvs, users can adjust the split scale, etc. Has to be a way to merge those tech’s.
Honestly in game chat/voice is useless if you have to leave the game to talk and or even see what is being said. Whats the point?
This could also give a way for users to play music, heck even videos if memory will support while playing games with some tweak of code and having the user select audio source in split mode.
You guys are doing awesome with the improvements but I think this missed some very critical points. You guys could really trump another console if you got something like I said to work, and I mean like brutally. Hope this made sense.
What other updates will we have with this new firmware? Are we ever going to get the one that will allow us to use the Madcatz TE sticks on ps2 games? I would really appreciate this, pleeeeeease
hope there a better web browser coming
I think its great about time. Thank Playstation!
Text chat? Wow, that will really make those Xbox owners with cross-game voice chat jealous!
your kidding me. text chat? are you mental? seriously? this better be a april fools joke.
When are you going to make my 40gig backwards compatible?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ slamdciv
I can also confirm divx files that I was once able to play are no longer working and show up as “unsupported data” Funny thing is I was watching a video, checked for update, updated then wanted to continue watching the video and it said the data type could not be played. lol I was wondering if I was alone. Otherwise thanks for the update.
man in-game chat would have been really great
1st April?
I think it’s time SONY came clean and explained exactly why they can’t provide voice chat.
Something is seriously wrong somewhere. It’s been over two years. What is wrong with SONY / PS3?
Nice to see some browser love…at last. Nice update but you’re NOT listening SONY.
2.70 is live just downloaded it……it’s ok more of an april fools joke than any great features, i would have called it update 2.61, this is not a full update, come on Sony give us something to be excited about, give me a reason to turn on my PS3 for more than SFIV
Thanks for the update Sony. This is well needed. Cant wait you guys update cross game VOICE CHAT with xmb for my psn friends. Keep up the work.
sony is lucky they got good games
WHAT!!!!!!! this is pretty good but really??? what about voice chat it would be so much easier then to text.
hey eric do you play the ps3 as often as jeff?? i know your the operations and all, what is ya favorite game or what not so far on it!
Perfect the in game text chat, work on voice chat. Damn I hate most of the comments here.
@Cordy44
Very same thing here. Watching a movie, updated, now nothing.
Looking forward to 2.71 in the next few days.
Here is the link for the direct download of PS3 Firmware 2.70, if you don’t feel like waiting for it to download on your PS3, download this file to a thumb drive, or memory stick, and load it into your PS3.
*http://dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/us/2009_0402_3352adc32e39ec5f7b4cdeb8b861052a/PS3UPDAT.PUP
well i herd u can surf the web when your playing a game if so im hopeing that you can play music while playing a game,not every game for some games its nice to listen to some music and other games its not good to listen
listen to music(GTA 4-GT5P,Burnout paradise) and many other
WE WANT IN-GAME XMB!!! WE WANT IN-GAME XMB…oh wait.
That’s not it, we’re way pass that, let’s moan about something else:
WE WANT IN-GAME VOICE SUPPORT!!!
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Sorry, seems like no one will ever be happy. haha. Keep up the great work, Eric and Co.
Can you program the PS Button so that you are able to bring up the Text Chat window by pressing the PS Button twice quickly?
la ti da
if their can be a better way to organize music
I’d be happier
genre/artist/year/album/song file
THIS IS AMAZING!
THANKS ALOT
its ok but really???? why cant we have voice chat yet? :(
Anyone having trouble with MGS4 Online? It has been trying to load the Online game for half an hour. Worked fine before the update. Tried a hard re-boot after the update and still no luck :(.
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We need Cross game / In-game Voice Chat. It can’t be that hard. No of us want toggle between playing a game and texting people to talk with our friends. Then you wonder why Xbots down the PSN, because you guys are hustling backwards. Come on, Sony get it together and give us Voice Chat, it’s not like we don’t ask every time a firmware comes out. Beginning to think this is the Delaystation 3, cause ya’ll just won’t give us what we want.
Couldn’t you always sort friends by status?
Grr, the one thing I really, really wish you guys would truly implament is multiple logins for PSN users. My brother hates the PS3 because of this feature. If we want to play SF4, he wants trophies too. I thank goodness at least we have R2 and LBP to use this feature.
C’mon, Sony! You guys are almost ON TOP of Xbox Live. That’s a big feature they have over you.
VOICE CHAT sony.
all we want. can’t you see?
please… /cry
just say something…
It’s been nearly 2.5 years since the PS3 launched and still no cross-game private VOICE chat, which has probably been the #1 requested feature. Can we assume that it just can’t be done on the PS3 architecture? Does it take too many resources to pull it off?
This in-game text chat just seems like a quick fix to me and pretty useless. You still have to access the XMB which takes you away from the game to use the chat feature.
Can we just get a simple yes or no on this? Is cross game voice chat a feature we can expect, or is it just not possible on the PS3?
OH! I get it! They are releasing half of 2.70 today, for laughs, and the next half tomorrow!
:S
@640.
Im pretty sure it can be done on the PS3.
ZAANOS has a great point, so do other who have mentioned the same thing. Accessing the in-game text chat should be much wicker and seamless. Double-pressing the PS button would be an easy quick method for this, and would make things much easier. Also, as someone else pointed out, maybe dedicating a certain percentage of the screen to a kind of drop down text window. Either way, some kind of quick way and smooth way to access the in-game text chat window would make it much more useful.
Obviously considering the 600+ comments, Eric you might want to start thinking about adding in-game voice chat as well (which seems like it’s around the corner since it’s clumped under the same menu as the in-game text chat thingy). But yeah, would be a useful feature…
great, I can sort my friends by their online status *yawn* BUT I STILL CAN’T FREAK’N SORT MY DOWNLOADABLE GAMES BY THEIR TITLE. WTF SONY!! One simple thing. That’s all. Come on already. 2.5 years later and of the easiest things you need to add still hasn’t been done.
Good job on this update…hopefully this cross game text chat has opened the door to a cross game voice chat in the next update. I love the dynamic normalizer for the music files. I have my whole library of music stored on my hard drive and sometimes the volume is out of control and I gotta constantly change the volume on my home theater system.
I was also hoping this was an April fools joke.
In all the forums and posts I’ve seen, not once has someone asked for in game text chat. What with those wonderful top of controller keyboards? To type anything on those, especially without typos, requires all your senses, meaning you can play and text at the same time.
For god’s sake, give us in game chat already!
Look at all of the spoiled whiny people crying…
Seriously, you need to close the comments. Its making me mad to see people who have no idea what they are talking about.
this is by far the worst update i’ve ever downloaded. text chat, WHO THE HELL WANTS A T.E.X.T CHAT!!?? THIS IS A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT!!!
it is awesome, but if they really want to finish xbox at all, they have to add cross game voice chat (definetly), but we all have to agree that SONY proves it self better and better as the time goes on, i mean cmon just look at all the good stuff we have gotten since the realse of Resistance 2, this year is 100% ps3 games territory, we have awesome games realeses like killzone 2 and we have a lot more to wait for this year like infamous, R&CF:ACIT, uncharted 2, GOW3 (but if im not wrong its not comming until next year… hope not), did i heard something about a new Jak game???, the list dont ends there but i think u get the main idea… yeah!!!
I was hoping for at least being able to leave voice messages. Oh well, hopefully the next update will have voice/video messages and cross game VIDEO chat.
It goes to show that you need to spell out what you want. We said cross game chat, and we got it, although it’s text chat.
This is cool but it’s not the biggest and baddest update. It is a very good update and shows that they will beable to stay around with this system for a long time. And my favorit part is that you can move your movies you downloaded to a external divivce.
I think for sony’s next update they should join up with NETFLICK or another company to supply thiere moves. That would make this update more useful because you could download more movies and then move them to diffrent divices.
Yay, the video content can be backed up…..
….too bad RE5 is giving me hell and I already did a back up and formatted the HDD in my PS3.
Too bad RE5 is still giving me hell and the backup/reformat was for crap as it didn’t fix the problem.
Can’t even play the damned game. Wants to install on each boot of the game.
Otherwise, that feature is nice. Too bad I already lost the video I bought.
*grumblegrumble*
FEEDBACK-FEEDBACK-FEEDBACK-FEEDBACK
1. Remove the character limit. I can’t complete full sentences.
2. Remove the censors. It’s our own conversation, not yours. Please get rid of it. I see no harm in why it would hurt when we can only chat with our friends in the first place.