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.
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.
I would appreciate if that blur when you select stuff on the XMB was no longer there. It makes my eyes hurt.
Also the friendslist looks tacky. Change it back or give an option.
Garbage. My trophies dont work and I cant log into the PSN. And having major lag issues with the whats new part.
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Ugh, I had being force fed!
1) Give us the option to remove the distracting scrolling ad in the status bar.
2) Give us the option of defaulting to the disc in the tray or last media used instead of forcing us into the “What’s New” crap.
3) Give us the option to take the store icons out of the Video and Game sections. Even if I chose “Classic” under themes, I can’t get rid of them.
Don’t shove your marketing down our throats, especially us with launch consoles. Fix this crap, or there’s going to be a lot of [DELETED] “in-game XMB” and “bring back BC” style.
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I have the update. Why does it take like 5 minutes to sign in? Everything else is pretty cool.
thanks alot playstation now I can’t log into my PSN. please fix ASAP
Its a cool update, I liked the bigger font look, and the ability to upsample music on the HDD., and The Multi Output option. But I’m disappointed in a few things that should have been fixed by now. I’m an audiophile so any improvements in the MUSIC section is always exciting to me.
So problems that still haven’t been fixed.
1. You can listen to music in PCM WAVE, but you can’t rip audio to that format.
2. The album art image is still too small in the Music now playing screen.
3. When the screen saver is enabled, it disables the Display view in the music screen after the set time.
3. You can not upsample the DSD layer of a SA-CD when using optical out (for original 2006 20/60GB PS3s)
4. You still can no longer covert the DSD SA-CD to Mutli-Channel DTS when using Optical Out since firmware 2.01 (on 2006 20/60GB PS3s)
5. They still skip 96kHz output.
6. The Seek forward and backwards function when playing music is still too slow.
WOW, SONY PLEASE START BLOCKING THE TROLLS THAT COME HERE AND SPAM THIS BLOG. IT IS RUINING THE BLOG, EVERYTHING IS CONGESTED BECAUSE OF THE TROLLS.
New larger font is horrible. Fix it.
No right side to the clock box. Fix it.
Ugly friends list. Fix it.
Worst update yet.
You guys are crazy I think this update is great
Nice update. At first didn’t like it, but I’m kinda liking it, it just takes time to get use of this i guss…. It would be nice if it shows what day it is next to the day and time. like Monday, 8/31 11:41pm. yu know? And it would also be AWESOME if we can use the pictures that we copy from the ps3 internet browser for our avatars, that would be AWESOME! Can’t wait for more updates! Keep up the GREAT WORK Sony!
yo i cant connect to playstation network after i updated whats up?
Ya, friends list is pretty [DELETED]. And the overall size of everything is wasteful.
Technically the update is great. Visually, it has failed pretty hard.
the font size was fine. the top box is ugly and annoying. the glitter is annoying so I put the classic theme again. the spam everywhere is annoying. I really loved the tunes when you turned on the PS3 and when you started a game, those are gone now. took like 10 min to log in. friend list is sooo wrong that I dont even understand. at least you can see how many or your friends are online… in an ugly box full of spam and ugly icons.
WTF?? the XMB got owned bad. Sony Should have left the friends list alone, along with the font size, you guys should have just added the new background and the “whats new” section and left it at that.
Sorry if I sound harsh, but who the hell designed this new layout?
Sorry Sony,
I’m usually not one to complain, but the gray boxes in the friends list has got to go.
i can not sign into playstation network after i updated what is going on
wonderful…a useless update that didn’t fix the problem caused by 2.8 my POS still wont read anything demos suck… if I ever get this thing working I’m trading it for a XBOX FAH-Q SONY!!!
Sony needs to completely undo this update in the next firmware.
The zoomed-in look of the XMB carries over to some games. Fat Princess characters are now huge and ugly, and visibility within the game has been reduced. I was told that other games don’t look any different now, but Fat Princess definitely does.
This is completely unacceptable. I want control over my own game console.
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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.
update is ok it aint bad tho i just downloaded it but sony yall should put voice chat like the 360 got it to talk to more friends then just one ;(
Nooo, fix the startup screen the older one was much better.
The new firmware is hideous! The fontsize is WAY too big, the boxes in the friendlist are a horror to see and scroll through and the sparkles are distracting as hell. The PlayStation Store in the game section is unnecessary (but I know why they put it there…). New clock bar, but why still have that annoying controller status window pop up? Integrate it too! Sony really have no clue, do they? The worst console even got more worse…
wow to many cry babies in here….hahaha
i like d update dont get me wrong but i hate d fact it takes 2 DAMN! long to sign in now
okay so i just updated my playstation and now my playstation won’t even turn on. is anyone else having the same problem…?
I CANT SIGN IN ON MY PS3!!!!!
SINCE I DOWNLOADED V3.00
Update looks great, cant wait to see what can now be squeezed into the xmb. I also have a suggestion to start moderating the blog, every post has the same trolls spamming in it, it is now affecting the quality of this site.
I’m sorry, this is really ugly. It’s too cluttered, XMB’s strongest suit was always that it was simple and clean. Now it has redundant icons that don’t match the rest of the theme, an info box that can’t be turned off and the friends list is now made up of big grey boxes filled with barely-legible white text. Please, please, please, give us the option of turning off some of these icons or, at the very least, the weird friends list boxes.
Nooo, fix the starup screen, the older one was much better.
I am NOT updating this crap ! OOOHHH no !
This is CRAP CRAP CRAP Sony… Honestly now we understand why you’re #3….
i really do not like the big gray boxes that cover up half my screen. i wish i could switch back to the original buddy list
There are unreasonable changes here. Big fonts are good for SD, blur background too… but men, that’s not congruent with the vision of future you want to make. In HD there’s no need to blur anything and fonts can be smaller (like before). At least, you should let us choose the other one, add instead of just modify.
The grey boxes horrible and unnecessary.
Too much PSStore, I already go to PSStore every Thursday, it would have sense if you add things everyday as people wouldn’t enter that much, but there’s more adds than new games/demos added.
And for god’s sake… no big funcionalities! Nothing big for the main thing, play videogames.
Btw, it takes too much time to log in now, 4 times longer than before at least.
Useless, I hope 3.01 will be released in a week and that bring us the chance to make it look like 2.xx.
I’m sorry to say it, but it’s the truth.
Do you even field test these things? Everyone has the same conclusions on this blog: It’s godawful! Put back 2.80 PLEASE otherwise I will forsake my 2 remaining PS3 games too and only use the Xbox instead. Incredible…
the big gray boxes take up half the screen. why would i pay for a wallpaper i cant even see
The new enlarged XMB is garbage. I always liked how sleek the interface looked, and now it looks like a f**king toy. I think the next major update should add the ability to ignore changes made in updates, because the people in charge of them obviously have no taste.
i agree with most of the people complaining here. i don’t like the forced grey backgrounds on the friends list, the forced background on the “what’s new”, and the forced enlarged fonts.
not to mention we still can’t cross-game voice chat..
@DEJAVU – Stow it…this update is pretty bad.
My complaints. This update is a resource hog. It can’t connect to the PSN account on the spot like 2.8 did. I have to waits 2-5 minutes just for my account to log in. I do not like the new boot up theme music, I would like the old one back. I can’t use the internet function properly like 2.8. AND for goodness sakes, please add an option to get rid of that what’s new feature since it’s taking up all the bandwidth.
Changed the theme so the glitter like theme doesn’t bug me.
WTF.. after i updated mine.. im having trouble logging in into my account..it takes me 10min to get on.. wow! good job guyzz!
ok i’m not liking this… i cannot login to the network… i can go on the browser but no network.. FIX THIS SONY… FIX THIS… you can’t do this to us!!!!!!
Firmware 3 sucks. The icons and text are way too big and your friends list is too big and it is hard to read whos online. It was way easier to read without the boxes, much more isolated and easier on the eyes. When scrolling down, it flicks and stuff and it irritates me. Same with the blur when u select something. Way to change something that worked and screwed it up. We wanted cross game chat, just figure it out with the publishers and release it. Two thumbs down
Can’t wait. Just another stomp on xbox live.
Nice update, at first I didn’t like it, but i’m kinda liking it. it just take time i guss…. it would be nice if it shows the day like: Monday 8/31 11:58pm. And it would be AWESOME if we could use the pictures that we copy from the ps3 internet browser for our avartars.
cooooooOOOOOOOOOOooooool
Do you even field test these things Sony? You really don’t have a clue where to go to with the PS3 do you? I’m running back to my Xbox 360 and sell my remaining 2 PS3 games. That or bring back 2.80. This update is a farce.
where are the new avatars cause i can’t see them and i have updated
HUH I cant get on the PNS at all thanks Sony!!!
its perfect
Most annoying update so far.
@Jeff…
While the blog was just ‘down’ I tried to visit using the link from the PS3 Browser Homepage…it let me visit and I was ‘logged in’ as some one else on your site!
NOT COOL.
Also…you need to change the PS3 Browser Homepage to reflect the new logo..spidey still lurks there.