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.
What’s the difference between this update and testicular cancer?
Nothing.
thAts crazzzy ;
It would please me an infinite amount if you would just fix YOUR SONY implemented custom soundtracks. The stuff is nice but in the end useless. I would prefer if you would fix the problems instead of this vain attempt to distract us with shiny tat.
Awesome work! Looks wicked. I hoping you’ve set it so we we can finally edit that RSS ticker tho!
Also, here’s some other firmware queries if not requests :)
is Bluetooth A2DP gonna be supported soonish?
Background downloading of game updates?
Internet Radio or Skype support possible as on PSP?
Amazing Update
I Just Hope It Includes
In Game Music
If Not I Hope In Game Music Is Included
In Any Update B4 4.00
did people forget about playstation cloud?!?!?where is it??when will it be available!!i think that this update is nothing as compared to what is going to come.
kool but when does it come out. i wish they would say a date instead of soon and if they don’t have a exact date then don’t reveil it at all coz that just pisses people off when it takes months after a reveil before it comes. be like apple and anounce the stuff the day before it gets released…. on another note it’s does look awsome :)
Hey maybe this will include a Canadian PlayStation store because we have been waiting for like 3 years now. i mean apple can get a Canadian video store Sony’s a better company they should be able to get it to.
plzzzz Sony Canadian video store.
it will probably come out on September 1rst with the PS3 slim.
when is it comming out
this update sounds cooooooool
but if your going to have the playstation store shortcuts in each section, you may as well split the store into sections so they arent shortcuts, for example: playstation photo store, which will just hold all available photos; playstation video store, which will just hold available videos like game trailers, etc and playstation game/add-on store which will have the buyable games and add-ons. this will make it easier for playstation to track whats being downloaded as they’ll be 3 stores and each playstation user should have a profile that shows what they have downloaded in each specific store (Y) just saying this as it’ll help playstation a lot.
second thing, us gamers want to have cross game chat… you could do this by providing a new option in the ‘Settings’ section which allows us to pick between communicating with the players online within the same game were playing and communicating with our online friends (Y)
thirdly, you need to make an BC (Backward Capatability) update. many gamers would like to play ps2 titles on there 80gb ps3 but you lot at playstation either forgot to install it onto the 80gb addition or just wanted the 60gb to have an exclusive package…
Please stop making network features and advertising a higher priority than what the PS3 is first and foremost, a game console.
very Awesome can’t wait for it
we need pary chat wile playing i thought it would be there but it isnt but the updat still looks sick
Eric….how would a valued customer get ahold of someone like you? i mean to be honest i like the upcomming firmware update its nice but …..what would set you and sony as a whole apart from the others is if you took feed back from your customers…..PLEASE hear me out…have a blog and ask the question …SOO what would you guys like to see in the next update…..PLEASE trust me on that…..you will get soo much feed back…if you could please email me at [DELETED] or catch me on my ID ….please trust me on that…hear the customers voice….if you did that microsoft and nintendo would have NOTHING on you guys…….as us the customer what we would want once in a while….please………please please please…..I MEAN everyone else hear agrees with me right?……dont people ususally say the customer knows best? and that the customer knows what they want?…….please i hope you get this ……thank you for reading this and have a great day.
i hope to see somting shaking or new background when ever i play music cuz what we have now ….. (no comment)
Can’t wait till it tells me 2 update. This been the best day ever. This, my invitation 2 the MAG Beta, and everything else.Good job Sony keep it up!!!!
the animated wallpapers are awesome. as well as “what’s new”
will this firmware fix the rock band issue that was caused from the last update? my rock band guitar and drums wont work on the following games WITHOUT reassigning the controllers: rock band and guitar hero world tour. The instruments work in rock band 2, please fix this as i have to reassign the guitar and drums EVERYTIME MY PS3 IS TURNED OFF
The scrolling ticker will be much better if it would scroll on the bottom of the screen kinda like a FIFA 09 style ticker, its’ nice to glance at and read and it feels unobtrusive.
Thanks for reading my suggestion!
where’s the B/C that was patented months ago? :(
Please let there be an option to allow the system to appear offline and to let me block Friends so I can play online without my friends knowing that I’m online, or play only with the ones that I want to see me online.
I’d like to be able to pick up my PS Headset and talk to my friend about whatever whilst looking at stuff on my ps3, playing a game that they’re not playing, basically chatting whenever I turn my PS3 on as I kinda feel it would be easier than typing “COD4??” Just coz i can’t be bothered to type the rest, which brings up my point about how annoying it Is when I’m playing my Call Of Duty Online and then a mate who I really wanna talk to sends me a message, meaning I have to press the PS button, get killed like 5 time and maybe even get kicked out the game :/, Updates are capable of almost anything, so why do I find myself typing a lot, this is quite stupid as it kinda defeats the purpose of the head set :/
Wow. Great firmware update. I’ll be looking forward to it, especially the new status indicator and dynamic themes.
when is this coming out they say soon what do they mean by that
THIS UPDATE SUCKS
Thanks for all the extra functionality you guys throw in with every firmware release, and congratulations on a bang-up job. Every single one of these changes is super slick and makes the whole PS3 experience that much nicer. Thanks again.
This firmware v 3.0 looks good. It looks like you are trying 2 please us while some of us like to whine -_-. Do all you whiners know how hard it is to create and implement these stuff? Show a little appreciation. If you want it so bad create a program for cross chat yourself and give it to sony yourself. All you b/c whiners use your ps2. We 60g ps3 with backwards capabilities get signed off while we play so it just like playing a ps2. If sony finds a way to give y’all backwards capabilities then it gona screw up ours because of the repeating program error.Just wait if we are lucky the ps3 slim will give y’all backwards capabilities. So stop complaining and show them thanks for what they are giving us. Thank you Sony :).
Those are some cool updates.. I look forward to seeing them.
Those are some cool updates.. I look forward to getting them, like I look forward to getting colon cancer.
wow this is an awesome update.the more features the better,nice job guys.
i’m really digging the improved XMB layout, including the new info pane at the top right and the sparkly background :) lol. also, ANIMATED THEMES FTW!
holy crap i just realized i’m almost leet status :O
oh come on, just a few more :O!
i wanna be’z l33t :3
hehehehe 1337 :3 n00bs
The title screen from the God of War III E3 demo being one of the new batches of animated themes would be incredible. Let’s have some Blog magic – make it possible.
ERIC LEMPEL YOU DA MAN NOW AS FOR PEOPLE ASKING FOR VOICE CHAT WHY NOT ASK FOR SKYPE IT IS MUCH MORE USEFULL YOU COULD PHONE FAMILY SAVE MONEY BUT DISCONECTING YOU PHONE LOL MAYBE NOT BUT STILL SKYPE IS DA BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
When’s It Coming out?
when are we going to be able to watch rent or buy movies from the playstation store in Canada
Okay, it has to be said… what about those of us that never use our PS3’s to F@H, or don’t want to go on Home, or never use the Picture Gallery? Can we at least get rid of those icons for good so that they’re not there anymore?
Most of what I see here is primarily stuff that I’d never use, and because they’re always there, it just feels like I’m being nagged into using them by the thing.
Could you later add a function so that you can make full screen the start setting for all videos? and Video Play lists would bee good to. Then a private chat function and I would have everything I need :D
and again love the moving themes :D
Please tell me you can change the startup location on the XMB back to the way it is now with 2.xx!!!!!!!! My xbox constantly loads me into that stupid “What’s New” section and it drives me nuts! If I want to get back into the game I was playing last night, guess what, it’s still in the system and all I have to do is hit cross and I’m “BAM!” playing the game.
Also, that ticker on the top by the clock better be able to be turned off. I HATED the “information” bar and the first thing I did was disable it when it was introduced.
How about you guys work on party chat or something instead of trying to force us to look at stuff? I already buy a ton of crap from the Playstation store, you don’t need to sell me on its merits!!!
Props for finally fixing the battery over clock problem, but did you really have to make that ugly border around all of it? And will there be a quicker way to get to messages when you receive them and will they FINALLY not sort replies lower on the list than the message being replied to? That drives me insane.
2 questions i had about that
1. in a future update can my profile and other profiles display a home avatar along with a display of what we are playing and other folks can look at our pictures, how old are we, where we are from
2. other then the sackboy dynamic background, can there be a possible background of a character that we can interact with like talk to or make them do or say certain sentences…ooo or even reconize voice’s
AWESOME!!!! sony for ever!!
O-M-G moving backgrounds!!!!
i will kill for that!!!
seriosly
the person above should watch out
lol jk
but thanks for this much needed stuff you guys!!!!!!
btw to the people who want cross game chat: when it comes, it’ll come
quit nagging. it’s annoying dont you think?
maybe they’re working on it RIGHT THIS SECOND but they want it to be PERFECT and not have bugs then have y’all complain how it was a half-baked job.
Just wait. I seen it in the NEAR future! :D
im blown away by how great this looks….
the coolest part is the new dynamics & clock / message / friends bar & whats new. im eager to see the avatars & new friends list,
AMAZING!!
As a Canadian, I MUST know.
When are we getting movie rentals and such over in Canada?
US has had it for a year, but Canada isn’t getting any of the movie love.
Please enable movie rentals and purchases for Canada soon.
when will be able to have multi user sign in? 360 has it. why can’t we do that as well? i have lots of friends who come over and want to play along with me but don’t because it wont do them any good if they can’t access their own PSN profiles to apply their progress to. what’s holding the ps3 back from that?
Can’t wait!