Hi everyone, PlayStation 3 (PS3) firmware update (v3.00) adds a number of great new features that we’re excited to share with you. The latest update incorporates changes that improve navigation on your PS3. First, you’ll notice some cosmetic changes to the design of the XMB (Xross Media Bar). We’ve enhanced the look and feel of the XMB so that it’s easier and even more intuitive to use. We’ve also added network improvements and personalization options to help enhance your PS3 experience.
Additional highlights from update 3.00 include:
- “What’s New” – The “Information Board” will be replaced with a “What’s New” section, which allows you to enjoy interactive PlayStation news every time you start the PS3 system. Located under the PlayStation Network icon, “What’s New” displays the latest and greatest game, video, PlayStation Network and PlayStation news and releases, as well as your recently played games, in a sleek, new animated format.
- Status Indicator – In the top right corner we’ve added an indicator bar, which displays your user icon, friend icon, the number of friends you have online and a small message icon to let you know if you have any new messages. The indicator also includes a scrolling ticker that features the latest news from PlayStation Network. In addition, when you press the PS button, the battery life indicator will no longer cover up the clock.
- Friends List – Now your PlayStation Network friends will appear in a slightly redesigned format on your Friends List. Also, messages will now be viewable from each of your friends’ respective profiles.
- PlayStation Store Shortcuts – We’ve added a handy shortcut icon to the PlayStation Store under both the Game and Video categories so you can access the latest content quickly and easily.
- Personalization – Personalize your PS3 with new dynamic custom themes and avatars. Dynamic themes as well as free and premium avatars will be available through PlayStation Store. A dynamic theme takes your screen to a whole new level as it incorporates animated objects into the background.
- Trophies – Showcasing your hard earned trophies just got better. Update 3.00 gives game developers the ability to modify how they display trophies for add-on content. Base and add-on game trophies will continue to be combined into a single list so you can see where you stand in a game as a whole. Within that list, trophies will be broken out into subcategories—base trophies and add-on trophies—that way, you can easily view the percentage of your base game trophy collection, and separately track your trophy progress in add-on packs. Look for this enhancement to be included in upcoming games.
To get a preview of what’s coming in update 3.00, check out the video below:
We’re looking forward to releasing firmware update 3.00 soon. As always, we appreciate your feedback.
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I need a chat function in a game session. Now i have to use skype, its so 2008 :-(
WE WANT EEE! (Emotion Engine Emulation)
Wow,i love the 3.0 features.Im most liking the animated themes.I hope we dont have to wait much in terms of getting a variety of them.
PS2 playback on PS3 PLEASE SONY ;)
I like that , Hey Since you guys have MK II for the Playstation Store , well how about MK Trilogy or Killer Instinct 1 or 2 ? Im sure alot of the PS3 players are wondering the same . Oh yeah thanks for adding Marvel Vs Capcom 2 good job , and they say the 360 is better , yeah right ha
i will say though otehr than bashing limpnoodle. i mean limpell er lempell for being incompetant and non-responsive.. the animated themese is neat. still doesnt hold a candle to X GAME VOICE OR WORKING MEDIA FILES. sigh. or even a whisper about them working on such.
FCK YOU SONY CU|\|TS
Ummm…some of the stuff sounds nice….but putting the “PlayStation Store Shortcuts” in more places seems kinda overkill…I see they want to get more people to use it….(I dont want to sound lazy or mean) but it is just another shortcut that will get in the way… I hope you can get rid of the shortcuts in the game and video area…
Can we please get an update to how parental controls are administered. Currently I have games from E to M. I also have 5 user profiles ranging from age 5 to myself 32. I really hate how the parental controls, especialy for games is a global setting. Is there anyway to micro-manage a user account to where I can set the parental controls for each individual profile? Thus being I set my 5 year old’s parental control for games that are rated E only, etc. It would also be nice to include this for DVD and Blu-ray movies as well as any downloaded video content from the Playstation store. Just a fore thought, it would be neccesary to password protect profiles at this point, what would keep my five year old from logging in as daddy to play games I didn’t think was suitable for him?
WTH… CANT EVEN GIVE US VOICE MESSAGING JEEZ. WE WANT VOICE MESSAGING AND CROSS GAME CHAT ERIC!
OMG I cant wait. so much new stuff. one question though Eric, has the whole XMB OS in 3.0 been an overhaul? Like it will run, load, and operate quicker? or has everything just been added on?
Themes- a guy that makes themes frequently i was dreaming for animated themes to come
Avatars- i would have no problem paying 4 this…hope u guys make ones not jus 4 gaming…and can i myself make 1 and send it to u guys for certification
Everything else is amazing also…thank you sony 4 delivering…hope ya throwing in that audio chat
Why not allow for the PS3 community to vote on what features get added?
where is in game music (and on the psn games that DO allow it, you have to copy your music from your home network to the ps3 (wasting hard drive space), why not allow streaming from your itunes or NAS?).
why can’t game updates happen in the background?
private in game chat? cross game invites? more info in profiles?
How about a community for adults on PS3 home?
ABILITY TO CHANGE YOUR ONLINE ID and keep your game data!
more codecs
improved browser
Netflix? I know xbox 360 has exclusivity on this, but then why did I get an email survey from Netflix 1 week ago asking if I would be interested in a free disk that would allow me to stream movies from Netflix on my PS3? Sony is just money hungry for us to keep renting/buying videos from the PSN Store.
why the constant PSN store ads-what’s next PSN Store commercials in game play?
1080i scaling would be nice although Sony has made it very clear that they are never going to fix this as they blame the developers; but I can’t help but think that they could do something rather than downsizing to 480p. Hell, the ps2 games upscale to 1080i.
not impressed with this update.
The only thing I wanted from 3.0 was cross game chat. At this point in the current gen the only advantage that the 360 has over the PS3 is it’s ease of ability to chat outside and inside of games. The PS3s chat is clunky at best and is the main critisim that my 360 owning friends have about the PS3. Sony have been asked for this umpteen times over the past couple of years and still no sign of it!
Yeah, I’m happy with the other features but the majority of us PS3 owners out there feel that expanded chat features are absolutly essential to the PSN.
What is the hold up? I’m starting to consider buying a 360!!!!
All that is needed now is crossgame chat an Ps2 compatibility.then the PS3 has nothing to be ashamed or be talked bad about.
I think we should get to change our name without losing our trophies in the next update. This update is still awesome
Added cahnge your name for online for free without lossing anything
i like all those features, but not as much as i’d like a cross game chat feature. sometimes i just want to talk to friends while i play games with them, not to everyone else.
Premium avatars? I think I concur with the mob when I say a resounding: BOOOOOOOOO! No way we should have to pay $ for a tiny icon. More FREE avatars? A long time coming!!
Looks good!
I think making certain features easier to get to is a good idea. You want the information immediately available and easy and fast to access.
Any updat to the browser?
Love the dynamic themes. Keep up the good work.
Great i love Sony is there a release date for this the new slim model comming september 1 is supposed to have this update already and is there any thing the ps3 slim is going to get that the older models wont cuz if so im gonna gave to buy a slim thanks
Nice update. Looking forward to its release.
If you want bc go play or buy a ps2
ewwww I dont like the sound of premium avatars. premium themes are bad enough and I am guessing you will have to pay for the new animated themes as well.
uhhh, that’s it?
deffinatly would be nice to change name but maybe have to pay five bucks or sumthing so everyone and there brothers arent doing it and when u change it automatically adds them to friends it just changes there name so u dont have to try to remember who was on ur friends list that would be amazing
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In-game music has been there for ages. Is up to the game developers to implement it. Super Stardust HD has it for quite some time now.
As for the multiple icons for the PS Store I’m pretty sure I don’t like that idea.
Background syncing of trophies would be great. It would be even greater if once you loose your game data due to crappy game updates (which unfortunately is a common thing, especially when you talk Treyarch) everything would be restored based on which trophies you have.
Cross-game chat, better browser and more video codecs support wouldn’t bad as well.
We should also have a option to set different status, busy, offline, invisible, watching a movie, available, etc.
Anyway… looking forward to 3.0.
looking good but still more is needed and yeah is home still in beta? :P and when are the trophy cabinet thing coming out for home? Firmware 3 looks ok but as per normal no huge changes i like the new layout looks quite good although the sparkles make the xmb feel a bit taccy the moving lfp theme looks wicked :D And can i ask whilst im here, you had singstar queen up there right how come that didnt have trophies? I thought as since january / march whenever it was all games had trophies on ps3 now and singstar is sony made aswell? so…?
I’d like the ability to opt out trophy support and be able to delete them.
Fair enough people love the concept but not all of us do. I personally feel the game I’ve bought with my hard earned money is dictating the way I play it. Besides that I don’t want to broadcast every game I own to the world and how much effort i’ve put into playign them.
Thanks for the great update Sony! I mostly appreciate the battery indicator change, haha. Kidding, I appreciate all the work you guys did to make 3.00 a great update. There’s still more to be done though. *cough* cross-game chat (:
This is what im TALKING ABOUT!!! this update is insane i told i asked about the motor space it the next day i ask 4 a new firmware update he it is sony’s game real i love i never get tired of it son defines the phrase “theres always room for improvement ^^
amazing update sony keep up the good work and everbody xbox360 Failure Rate Reaches 54 percent lol smh
Cool firmware! how soon is soon?
sry about errors so excited ^^
New avatars!
i hope we can also do more with the xmb have more alive and have are avatar interact with it more 2
Wow, the dynamic theme looks awesome!!! Eric Lempel, about how about Dynamic avatars? Nothing better than seeing a LBP character dancing around under the friend’s list.
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
Finally animated themes rock on eric lampel :)
as well as many exciting features i read and saw the preview video
cant wait to install this baby on my PS3 soon:)
for rating i know the highest is 10 on this blog but im taking you to the next level, you get a 100/100 A+++++
Looks like we’ll have to wait until Sept 1 to get this FW update. -.- LAME!
Jeff remember i asked you for the delete trophy feature a month ago and you said you’d tell the development team
Awsome i want it. hopefully it comes out to tomorrow.
Hey Eric, i have a question but please… respond.
I have a PS3 JAP, when with FW 2.00, sony added the information bar, due to the region of my console i was unable to change the languages (like in the ps3 european information bar) so, my information bar is linked to the Japanese PSN.
Please, tell me that with this new ‘News Menu’, now, i can’t selecto ther languages apart Japanese…. :(
This looks Amazing
How do I get my Trophies to show up when I post something?
wheres the CROSS-GAME CHAT sorry good updates but not great XBOX 360 AS IT C’MON GUYS…………
I liked my XMB simple and clean. Why do I need shortcuts to the store everywhere, is it really that hard to click right on the dpad a couple of times to get to the store? Does the new message notification system flash up the message onscreen for a second so I dont have to tell people to hold on while I go to the XMB to read a short message?
Ups there some error in the latest phrase.
Please, tell me that with this new ‘News Menu’, now, I CAN select other languages apart Japanese…. :(
While it’s nice to finally see a new firmware update, I gotta say that this really doesn’t add much to call it 3.0.
I was hoping for a complete overhaul of the trophy system, and all you did was add a “sort-by base/add-on”, wow, that’s about 5 minutes of work, and it took you a year?
Seriously Sony, you need to put more TALENTED PS3 programmers working on the PS3 firmware, because there are A LOT of things that could and SHOULD be done which would be a HUGE improvement to the PS3 and would probably be as important as the $299 price drop is in selling more PS3s…
i hate wen ppl complain on the blog… bringin every 1 down cum on b excited 4 another awesome update!!