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.
… Text Chat…. Really. Wow, Ok come on sony. We dont want text chat we can already send messages we want in game voice private chat. Jeez, All these updates are wack.
2.70 firmware is out and it has some interesting features, but we’re still missing a few minor things.
– The ability to scroll through your sent / received messages. It would be nice to scroll left to right (via the d-pad, L1/R1, etc) to read through your messages within the in/outbox, because it’s painful to read many messages one by one by one by one.
– Hide those who are offline when sending out game invites.
– More PSN icons.
Keep up the work Sony, but I hope to see these missing features implemented in the next update/ firmware release. :)
text chat is pretty cool :)
Fail update is fail.
whats the difference between this and just sending an online friend a message while playing? why would i want an msn type conversation.. i have my ps3 on for a reason.
Another added feature that ill never use.. it can sit in the corner with home lol
What happened to in game custom music why can’t I play my own music for a change, been waiting on that since day one, come on SONY whats the hold up?????
@627
thanks for the link. . .you should work for Sony.
so people like me dont have to wait for hours just to get a stinking link for the stupid firmware update.
So how is this awesome?
This better not be an April Fools joke.
Good Job, I like firmware updates
I am also going to say the magic words
VOICE CHAT
we just want cross game voice chat , that would be awesome
There is just one flaw with the new firmware i’d like to add and its that there should be an option to have
Online sorted by Alphabetical
and offline by Alphabetical
Reason being some people have alot of friends and its easier to find the offline ones in alphabetical order. Because now if you choose status it does the offline by last time they were online, but if you choose alphabetical it mixes the two.
There needs to be a setting for Offline friends, and for Online friends.
yes I thought I lost all my movies due to YLOD now I can download them all just like games and back them all up! YES THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
2.70 xmb load time is reduced by far
when you compare trophies or click on someones name to see their level, latest trophies,and amount of trophies it’ll load much much faster.
@710
Welcome
Please show continued support to those with backwards compatible 80gb models by patching games with known issues. Namely, Ar Tonelico 2. That is all.
One step closer to audio chat!
thanks sony for your hard work.keep it up the PS3 is worth the effort.
cool
This is cool and all, but is it really too much to ask for fixed backward compatibility?
@718 Agreed, I’d like to play that…I purchased it and still havent seen the loading screen even. I actually thought there was a disk defect and exchanged it for a new one lol…anyhow, patch please! ;)
Sony its hard for me to say, but:
you are going to loose everyday a little more against the competition! and this on a day withan update? rediculous! who would pause his multiplayergame to wait half a minute to get the xmb, scroll to the chat-option, open it, tipe 5 minutes for 5 words(cause the most wont buy ur rediculous expensive thumbpad), and go all the way back to the game only to see, that u have been killed.
all the people here congratulating u, are on the one hand not intelligent enoughe to see that they are fooled, or thaught this option was the crossgame-voicechat we all waited for (3 years!!!) and now see, that they are fooled.
and dont give me the “its free” point, cause it isnt. i payed a lot of money for the launch-ps3 and other sony products (ps1, ps2, psp) so that i think we can expect such a simple service, a competetive console has over years.
i know you definetly dont mind loosing me as a customer, but today you have!!! and many will follow. the next generation there will be no rrod saving your …
i’m not angry, i’m just sad….sad to saw an icon DIE!!!
How did Sony get so far, while being this stupid?
PUT TEXT CHAT IN THE ACTUAL GAME! PC GAMES HAVE THEM, no reason these can’t. Whats the point of the system being able to use a keyboard, so far next to nothing uses it. And what about the deaf coummity do they not matter?
Sort your friends…wtf, IT ALREADY DOES THAT.
Who cares if you can text better. Just wasting my playing time having to wait for this new update to download. And it really offers me nothing i need.
@669
Found it on a forum.
@700
Xbox allows PSN logins? ; )
maybe they could fix the ps3 from freezing all the time. that would be nice. i love the ps3 but only had mine a month and its already acting up. dont know if its the ps3 or the firmware or what. but props on the new update!
just give the rich ones stuff nobody needs.
all the “i purchase so many videos via psn i cant store anymore, and what can i do with my 50euro thumbpad….”.
pathetic!
woooooow.. Finally!!.. thats a cool improvement.. thats why sony is da best!!..
nice but i still want ingame voice chat but im sure thell have it in the 2.80 update
I don’t see why peoples would want voice chat that badly. I always end up muting everybody in game that support it anyway. Nobody has a microphone and those who got one are stupid kids yelling crap 95% of the time. Off course if it private voice chat between friends chance are nobody gonna act that bad…
I like to have the ability to create a message board with all contact. That would make planning for game night or weekend a lot easier.
beenii,
Buh bye loser!
Text chat IS in the game, Spirit Thief. It displays teh chat in game in the right hand corner.
@714
That was how your friends were listed if you selected “by status” before the update. Now its been removed!
dont forget. . .they censored the text chat. -___-”
like who would get offended? theyre your own friends.
not some public chat site.
ok the “sort” friends list is not what i thought it was going to be.
SONY…………
you need to make it so we can GROUP our friends list, like if it was yahoo messenger or something. you know, let me be able to make a group named “NYC players” and then everyone i know from nyc can go into this group. OR, lets say a “MCLA” group and everyone i know from Midnight Club Los Angeles would go into this group.
thanks for giving me a reason not to log into HOME anymore to chat with multiple people at the same time,now i don’t need to waste money dressing up an avatar. you know what we want sony, stop playing with us. in game voice chat please, do it with skype, so i can also make phone calls from my ps3.
Awesome! It would be great to get in game voice chat as well, but this is a great first step.
I thought Sony had stopped updating the PS3, it’d been so long. :( Please guys, don’t let it take four months before the next release.
Anyways, wishlist items, as per usual:
* MKV support (just add the newest Divx certification and that should do it)
* Quicktime MOV support (free HD movie trailers on the internet for the win)
* FLAC support for music.
* Animated GIF support in pictures/photos.
* Video playlists (was never sure why this didn’t get included when playlists were originally added)
* Allow access to the XMB while watching a movie (for DVD this should be a no brainer, I know Blu-ray will be harder to pull off, but should still be doable).
Keep up the good work. :P
@738
lol thats asking a bit too much. xD
In-game text chat? Come on, Sony. We have been asking for cross-game private chat since November 2006….why has it not been implemented?
The Xbox 360 offers this FOR FREE (you don’t need to be a gold subscriber to use it), so why don’t you offer it after such a long time?
Really, I, and millions of other fans want to know this, yet you won’t even talk about it.
Sony, come on already. At least talk to us so we know that you hear us and that what we want is coming (maybe even a time frame).
It’s not just the fact that you still won’t give this basic feature to us, it’s the fact that, instead of bringing it to us, you bring us in-game texting, which, frankly, is pointless when we can already message friends from within a game.
I love my PS3, far more than my 360 or Wii, but this is getting ridiculous. Talk to us, damnit!
OMFG!!! FINALLY GOD DAMN IT!!! XX33 IT’S BEEN AWHILE SONNNY!!! XXX333
Holy’eck! Of all the updates you don’t mention the one thing in this update that I’m the most jazzed about…the Trophy changes when comparing to your friends!! I love how it puts dashes now next to the games my friends haven’t played. Makes it far easier to see what their gaming habits are, genre interests, etc. All those 0% bars used to drive me up the wall.
Thanks again Sony. I love wasting time I could be playing a game on my GAME machine downloading some useless trash that your code monkeys punched up while high on smack.
Really, I do.
I mean, for cripe’s sake, I get online to play GAMES at 10 pm or so. This crap wasn’t up for download 4-5 hours earlier when I was on and even checked for a stupid update.
Yet, when I want to go and just play a game without any hassle, I get this garbage thrown at me.
Gee thanks. Now I can chat with my pals on PSN. That’s ever so nice.
How about adding backwards compatability for us PS3 owners with the non BC models? Oh wait, I forgot that’s not a priority anymore, adding all of these little annoying items is, right?
I’m really starting to wonder why the hell I chose the POS3 over the 360 at this point, since aside from God Of War 3 there’s really no other games that the PS3 has that I couldn’t just get on there.
Why isn’t the update available via PC!?!?!? The servers are all jammed up and I can’t use the PS3 with the new system update! I’m going through Killzone2 withdrawls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does this mean we are never gonna get in-game or cross game voice chat? because once we get voice chat who is gonna want to text? it just seems like a wasted effort.
BOO! BOO! WE NEED VOICE CHAT! Ya I know I sound harsh but the rest of you act like this is the best update ever. CROSS GAME VOICE CHAT!
was hoping for cross game voice chat but i guess this is a start but im not trying to complain every feature is well appreciated thanks guys
SWEET, EPIC FAIL, I love how it take you 10 mins to type out “lets play Killzone”
That is so awsome.. i love how i can text my friends in game and get fraged all in the same time. this is super sweet…
but really, come on dude.. Awsome system, but this update is more of a setback then a move ahead..
give us cross game voice chat even if its only one on one.. I mean come on we use to do it over 56k dial up, why cant the ps3 do it over highspeeds? why are you holding out? it would be nice if you would tell all of us who droped a dime on the system on why your not doing the stuff people request! but still even tho this update is a epic fail with the txt chat, the back up is nice as well as the 3 meg update. just wish sony would stop doing one step forword and two steps back!
Love you All
This update is great good job guy. But, can you make in game chat rooms. i want to be able to talk with friends regardless the game i am playing like how xbox has party chats. That would be a great update for the PS3.
GO PLAYSTATION!
FANTASTIC!!! THANKS FOR KEEPING SUPPORTING THE CONSOLE!!! 1st PARTY GAMES AND FW updates = PS3 FTW!
Well im dissapointed in this update, Why would we want Text Chat? If you can just message your friends? You still have to open the XMB and go to the Chat are/Inbox. You guys should add Voice Chat. Other than that i think the Update is good.
-Ivan