UPDATE: The PS3 Firmware (v3.00) update is now live. You can use this update to upgrade your system software to version 3.00.
Just in time for the official launch of the 120 GB PlayStation 3, PS3 Firmware (v3.00) will be available shortly. As detailed during gamescom 09, 3.00 will introduce a number of great features, including “What’s New,” a redesigned status indicator and Friends List, and support for new avatars and dynamic themes.
We look forward to your feedback once the update goes live.
please sony i can’t looking at this friends list it is just hideous, please please please change it, also the font is kinda huge, not a big problem but kind of adds and ugly factor, but the friends list is something i can’t stand looking at, other then that nice update.
I got it! WOOO!!!!!
*game loads silently and without fanfare*
I miss my ps3 jingle :(
where are the new avatars?
will all dynamic themes be premiums?
can we get our old friend’s list back?
why all the icons for the PSN store, we aren’t dumb like microsoft/xbox…so we don’t need constant reminders that we have a store…
will this update fix lag in any kind of way?
how about some cross game voice chat?
how about voice chat period?
Oh my god the sparkles. I’m so excited.
Is the PSN down? I have not been able to sign onto the PSN as soon as I downloaded the new update.
Sony, I love ya, but the following things in this firmware are horrid:
– Ticker design
– Grey boxes on friend list
– Font size (THIS IS SOME SERIOUS UGLY)
– So many non-changeable XMB icons (ruins themes/cohesiveness of XMB)
– For the first time, the XMB has begun to lose its elegance (taking into account the issues above, the ubiquitous PS Store icons, tons of DLNA icons (should be only one that expands to show all servers available).
There needs to be a way to change the TEXT SIZE.
PLEASE GIVE US THE OPTION TO REDUCE THE FONT SIZE!!!
AND GIVE US THE OPTION TO GET RID OF THOSE UGLY GRAY BARS ON THE FRIENDS LIST!!!
PLEASE GIVE US THE OPTION TO REDUCE THE FONT SIZE!!!
AND GIVE US THE OPTION TO GET RID OF THOSE UGLY GRAY BARS ON THE FRIENDS LIST!!!
How do you edit trophies? Also, why are there HUGE gray boxes around my friends in the friends list? Who thought gray boxes look good?
**** dude i love the ps3 but look what you did, take it back please take it back
Could we get the option to have our friend’s list look the way it did before this firmware update?
I like the new things overall, except for the friends list.
Why the heck is the fan on my 40gig going full bore, full time now with 3.0??? Before, it only did this while watching SD movies. My warranty is out by a month as well. I will be contacting support anyway to deal with this…
Eh for what’s supposed to be a major update there’s not really anything worth mentioning. Kind of disappointed.
Huh, I like it. Well done Sony.
So…
When will the fixer firmware be out? This is bad. Flat out bad.
Really guys, Everyone hates the changes. You guys have too much time on your hands and have forgot to KEEP IT SIMPLE. The boards are on fire, check it out:
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3updates&thread.id=94724
Spectacular update guys, it kept my mind off my EX……….Dang I relapsed, time to get back to playing LBP.
Again great update!
Not liking this at all. The ‘What’s New’ section is okay, but the news scrawl at the upper right hand corner HAS TO GO!! That’s rude and ugly. I didn’t pay this much for a game console only to have it constantly stuff advertising in my face. I also don’t need to be tripping over PSN Store icons in half the XMB menus! One is plenty!
I hope Sony is listening, because whatever features this update may be adding are not nearly as visible as the obnoxious elements that I can’t stand.
the new sensitive video play is nice, the fastest game boot is nice, the new og time also….BUT
– the big grey blocks are HORRIBLE. the friendlist looks ugly.
– the font is too damn big.
– avatars cost money now? yeah right.
sadface.
This firmware is horrible!
– Font size is way too huge
– Ticker needs to go
– Grey blocks for friend list are awful looking
– ***BUG*** Setting the size for my wallpaper is no longer recognized, meaning if I zoom all the way out or in it does not make a difference.
-ugh, the font
okay got the update only thing is cannot connect to Playstation Network now and ALL my Icons are HUGE…
Am I the only one that can’t connect to the psnetwork after the update ?
please please please change the friends list to how it was before.
the new one looks ugly
I’m starting to miss the old start up screen, game boot, and friends list. It doesn’t seem to fit the original concept of the PS3.
Ok you guys need to calm down a little. I know the firmware has its problems but I’m sure if you have a little patience you will see them disappear. I have to say though, I can’t see anything wrong with the ticker, it can be disabled in the system settings if you really don’t want it anyway. The status bar at the top right looks pretty sleek if you ask me. Although the friends list does look a little ugly with the big grey bars. Could you also add the option to reduce the font size again please. It makes it look like my PS3 has changed its resolution to 480p or something. Good job on the rest of it though.
Oh and one cool thing I discovered, the particles can be moved a bit with the controller, shake it up and down and they spread around the screen away from the wave.
This update, just like Sony this generation, is full of fail.
I really like the video speed control and support for multi-output for sound. The new start-up sound is different, but I’m fine with it. Though, I definitely don’t like how the friend list looks; it’s not very aesthetic, and it needs to be changed, as well as the border around the info in the top right. I can’t seem to turn off the ‘What’s New’ ticker and would like to be able to. I would also like the ability to toggle the PlayStation Store shortcuts as well. Everything else looks pretty solid. I love the little details like the new loading icon, PS3 logo, and the blurring effect (it reminds me of PS2). Overall, I love the new concepts, but it still needs some polishing. :)
Many of those things have been said by others but I need to leave my opinion too :
– new features are horribly designed (friends list, status) and do not follow the overall look, please ask Q-Games (original designers) for advice whenever you want to add/modify something.
– There are now layout problems with icons and their text. Video preview icons are way too close to the file names in the Video list. Problem is worse with the icons in Account management. Strangely, game names are correctly tabbed from their preview icons. Please have a sharp-eyed designer in the QA team.
– The ticker is annoying.
– A PS Store icon in every section is redundant. It is especially annoying for us people in Canada who can’t access the Video Store. Clicking a store icon in the Video menu telling us we don’t have rights to access the content is a HIGHLY FRUSTRATING experience.
I work as a graphic designer and user experience expert, I am therefore not ranting for the fun of it.
Fix or give me a way to fallback to previous version.
Sorry if i’m a bit harsh but I really do care about this kind of stuff.
Thanks.
RETARDED FONT SIZE RETARDED FONT SIZE
RETARDED FONT SIZE RETARDED FONT SIZE
RETARDED FONT SIZE RETARDED FONT SIZE
RETARDED FONT SIZE RETARDED FONT SIZE
RETARDED FONT SIZE RETARDED FONT SIZE
GREY FRIENDS OF DOOM ??? ARE YOU RETARDED SONY??
i think with all the layoffs that happened this year , they got rid of all the wrong people. they seemed to have fired all of the sony employees that had a sense of style.
either that or microsoft now owns the patent for style (what a horrible thought) aswell!
i hope to god i wake up with the ps3 requesting that i update to 3.01 .
Mr. Lempel if you would like our feedback, please make not of the numerous threads on the playstation forums too.
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3updates&thread.id=94724&page=6
*The new friends list is awful
Downloaded the update and now I can’t log onto PSN… help?
Firmware 3.0 Complaints
-Change Friends list background color to a black transparent border
-Change “What’s New” section to display background while accessed. THe other store icons show the current background but the “What’s New” section displays blue wallpaper. I would like to see my theme if I am to have this as my default boot screen.
-Option for overall font size.
-Remove border for upper right status/notification area.
-Give option to display ticker information in upper right corner.
As for that, I love everything. I love the new LBP theme. The faster XMB. Faster store access. What’s new section and other tweaks I am finding during use.
OMG OMG OMG Finally I hope there will be some secret features. X0. Here’s hoping
Well, this is rather neat. Looking forward to it, Sony.
This is ridiculous.
Huge font on HDTVs?
Crazy grey boxes on friends list?
PS Store icons under EACH category? (Which doesn’t help, because after my previous PS3 YLOD’d, I can’t buy any movies because my previous system couldn’t be deactivated)
Wow. I sincerely hope the next FW is better.
I want some new PSN avatars! LOL
Great now my ps3 wont work. I cant access my trophies or log into the PSN. Great job.
I don’t comment often on the blog but i have to now that i finished installing update 3.0..
first let me say the whats new section is refreshing and new owners of the ps3 will like the look..
secondly.. the friend list is disgustingly awful.. it has the old xbox 360 blade thing going on and thats not a good thing when you consider the rest of the XMB does not look anything like that..
you made the PSN look great, the XMB has been spiced up but you took a U-turn on this one lol.. why don’t you let the community be more hands on with your new designs.. perhaps make some concepts and have us vote on which looks like the best?
i hope someone from the blog is reading this as the page count is 11+..
Here is MY feedback:
I do not like the text size, the ticker in the top right corner, the redesigned friends list, the PS Store logos under “Game” and “Video”, the outline of the upper right information, the blurring of the background when you select an item in the XMB, the new startup screen/logo, the doing away with the Playstation 3 splash screen when you start up a game and no option to display the classic XMB.
THIS UPDATE SUCKS DONKEY BALLZ lll
As Posted in the Forums:
What on earth is the firmware team doing? They are totally ruining this system. What was once a sleek, trim, minimalistic interface, is now full of garbage that is useless.
Why are they trying to fix things or change things that are not broken? Are they just changing them to say they’ve been busy and have done something? None of this junk was necessary.
Pet peeves:
The clock thing that shows in the top right when the system is busy is distracting and annoying. The old droplet I thought was classy.
The thumbnails for all of my games that are in folders now lag and do not show up right away (Im guesssing due to the dynamic backgrounds).
Charging 2.99 for a dynamic background? Thats just silly.
The browser still asks you to run damn plugins all the time.
The font was FINE the way it was. Why go and fix it? I loved how it looked before because it really showed off the definition of high definition. Now its too in your face. Again, why change it? It was never broken.
The startup logo and game startup logos. I dont have a slim PS3 with a new logo. I have the old one with the Spiderman font. Why change it?
WHY CANT I LOG IN NOW!!!!
cool
Great job Sony. Now my PS3 doesnt work right now. My trophies are all screwed up and cant access some of them and I cant log into the PSN. Wow terrific job.
OPTION TO CHANGE FONT SIZE PLEASE
OPTION TO CHANGE FONT SIZE PLEASE
OPTION TO CHANGE FONT SIZE PLEASE
OPTION TO CHANGE FONT SIZE PLEASE
OPTION TO CHANGE FONT SIZE PLEASE
OPTION TO CHANGE FONT SIZE PLEASE
OPTION TO CHANGE FONT SIZE PLEASE
Also, put the names back in the Games category. It only shows the name of the currently highlighted game.
Firmware 3.1 on Thursday.
MAKE IT HAPPEN SONY.
So I’m gonna be serious here.
What in all honesty needs to be fixed:
– Friend’s list.
The gray bad is down right horrible. It makes the xmb look like it’s ughly in-bred cousin from this sticks.
– The flickering
Since it’s so ugly, it flickers cause it can’t load right.
– The ticker
It has got to have an option to turn it off.
– Store icons
So we really need a store icon on almost every fricken section of the xmb?
– Font size
Are your firmware testers blind? Really, at least give us the option to change it.
Yes there are good things but most, 95%, of it is awful and makes me wonder just what were you thinking?
You need some serious focus groups or something.
Jeff you know i love playstation and i rarely complaint but the gray boxes on the friend list GOT TO GO , who thought of that??? the elegance of the XMB is no more , eveything is so HUGE now , i do love LBP theme though , now thats really nice
Continued :
The garbage in the top corner. So they increase the font size of the XMB which was already large enough, but then make the info bar on the top right tiny? That makes no sense.
The whats new section? Do I even need to discuss how bad this is? It looks awful and cluttered. I can open the store and find all of this stuff, why does it need to be in 8 places? Again, with UI’s, less is better.
The friends list may be even WORSE than the whats new section! How awful is this? I cant even read the peoples names its so hard on the eyes when scrolling. Its completely awful. The old friends list was so sleek and simple. It just worked. Why go and put huge grey boxes around everyone? This is simple idiotic.
Somebody needs to wake up and start listening to what the consumers want. And by judging the amount of displeased people on this board right now, they should listen good.