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 allow us to change the font size. Remove the box around the clock and return the friends list to its former glory.
If I knew this would have happened to my XMB I wouldn’t have updated.
idk wut everyone is complaining about i personally think this firmwware update is great i see no problems with it
My god you people will never be happy, I for one am happy with the new design, the startup is much more harmonising, yes I agree I’d like the have the Gameboot back (maybe evn redesigned like the coldboot?)
But come on guys, shut up and stop complaining, I am loving the new features, just because you don’t like 1 little tid-bit or are expecting something else but didn’t get it, you go and blast your mouths off and call Sony idiots and that the people behind the Firmware Updates should be fired and so on.
GROW UP.
some people wants mkv supports — r u crazy ?? do you think sony do that ?? NO WAY — bluray is going damn well on market why would they do that ??
So, are you guys going to actually address this issue and inform us on what you guys think of the feedback or are you going to do what you have been doing this whole generation and pretend everyone loves 3.0? I’m thinking the later…
Go to music settings, change it to 48hz, then you’ll be able to exit xmb and browse intenet while listening to music.
* I prefer the smaller font in the menu. I have the option to change the sizer? And the friend list I prefer too the old style. The grey box is not good to see the friends.
I thought my ex wife complained a lot. You guys need to calm down. Nothing in life is perfect and you can’t please everybody. This is a work in progress and they never said this is the last update ever. They will tweak and fix everything over time. But I like the update and it proves they are trying to make the ps3 the best console ever.
Sorry, but I don’t see much to like about the new update. I mean, more avatars sounds great, the choices were pretty limited. Paying for avatars though? Come on, that’s starting to sound like something you guys used to lampoon your competition over. All the extra stuff themes can now do does sound cool, though.
However, what the heck is with the font size? Not all of us are on tiny TVs, you know. The gargantuan text looks ridiculous on my 50″ screen; it looks like I have some kind of visual disability feature enabled. Let me shrink it back to the original size!
Also, now we can’t turn the info bar off anymore? What on Earth makes you think I want to be forced to have advertisements scrolling around on the screen, especially when I have the family sitting around waiting for me to start a movie? Obviously something made you think forcing me to have that there would be cool, but it ain’t. One thing I always vastly preferred about Playstation vis a vis certain competitors is I don’t get blasted with advertisements when I boot up my console. Please give me the option not to.
Finally, the new friends list. What were you THINKING? Giant hideous flashing silver boxes everywhere?! Are you kidding?! Why?
nice
My chimes!?
The startup sound was modified. And the game start chime is gone!? I loved that!
The fonts WAY too big, and it remove my other themes. Theres an ugly box around the friend list now, and the status bar is wholly uneeded.
Why are we getting aesthetic upgrades when functionality is what we really need? H264, Matroska, Ogg Media support would be wonderful. Allowing other controllers to log into their Playstation (and thus PSN) accounts so multiple people can track their playtime through multiplayer games!
Seriously guys, I don’t know why you thought we all wanted sparkles instead. And the font? I don’t have a slim, so I don’t know why my text can’t match my 60GB model… You should at least allow us with the older models to customize and change the font to match the system a little better.
Don’t listen to all the cry babies, they don’t know what they are on about.
THIS IS A GREAT UPDATE.
Everything is faster, great new add on features, snap shot for broswer and the gray boxes I like quite a bit. Some themes didn’t let you see the names or whatever. I like it, solid update.
WHUT! sony is doing it big with this one.. make a BUNCH OF dynamic themes plz.. also the grey bar on the names are ugly who thought of that?? ne ways i love the hard work.. im glad i own a PS3.. and my blu ray lens gave out and i still love it.. big ups sony
Ha ha ha, you can’t turn off or _ON_ the infoticker!
It’s in the same state as before the update to FW3.0.
My GF has the ticker but I don’t. Can’t be long before the next FW update…
Oh, and the Friendslist is fugly.
LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO MY AVATAR SONY,
Ye, thats right, im not happy
wow a lot of comments lol.
anyway im happy with the small features it has introduced.
not a fan of the overall design tho
Friends list grey background doesn’t look good, everything else is great
The sparkle is lame but everything is gr8!
There needs to be a way to disable those boxes around the friends in the list.
For anyone having trouble showing the XMB when playing music, change your output from 44.1khz to 48khz.
The problem seems to do with a new feature that isn’t in the change log: the ps3 is now able to upsample mp3s in addition to CDs.
I wanted to give feedback on this 3.0 update. Please get rid of those grey boxes on the friends list. I liked it the way it was before, there was no need to change that. I know you want to copy the xbox 360 (I have that system too) but that did not need to be changed.
FIX THIS!
Build in a download manager so that I don’t have to try and get the updates from the PC; or post the most current update on the website at the same time. It is truly pathetic that I can’t get the update and probably won’t be able to play online for the next 24 hours if not the next 48. Better yet, do both.
I also dislike the grey boxes on the friend’s list, they could have been clear or maybe a light shade of white?
This firmware is Joke.
1. Friends list awful
2. Background music?..
3. Fonts. I have a 32″ 1080p SONY bravia tv. Apart from the obvious sharpness the text is twice the size.
4. Sack whoever designed it lol
When is it comin ??
My ps3 update always has errors by usin via internet so i wana download it from here and do via storage media .. i cant wait till i can play cod waw again but i cannt do the system download until u put it up for download on ur website !!
why does this friends list look so… gray?
This fw3.0 is riddiculous… I was expecting way more and better than this.
– FL is horrible!
– Where’re the new avatars after all!?
– XMB font size, what in Gods name is that!? Couldn’t you make it bigger!? Ohh dear…
And the rest will come in time!
PS: Oh, by the way, €2.99 fot a damn theme? You’re joking aren’t you? Stop being greedy!
I suggest pulling the update ASAP. Before the you feel the wrath of the entire playstation community.
Also I agree with other users we dont need that many advertisements on the playstation store! Goodness I bought so much stuff from there do you really think I dont know where it is. The ticker on the upper right hand corner is not needed it is never up to date please give us the option to remove that and the font needs to fixed. Really Sony please get your act together.
Ok I overreacted on the font. It takes a while getting used to… but the Friends list and the store under games/videos needs to go also let me get rid of the damn ticker.
Please fix this update 3.0 the friends list please change it back to the way it was. The font size is atrocious and the constant ads for the playstation store is NOT NEEDED. I buy plenty of stuff from the playstation store already. Do you really think I dont know its there. Please allow us to turn off the news ticker it is never up to date and you know this.
Yup…
Like most people, the big text everywhere is annoying… I would also like the loading icon in the upper right to come back.
It was the one that was animated and not the lame ticking clock.
The banners around friends is ok, but we should have the option to lower their’ size… Maybe let developers “theme” them for games when they come out.
The online indicator – atleast for me – displayes the wrong number of people online. ATM 12 are online and only 11 are listed.
The PSStore icon everywhere is annoying too. It should stay under Network.
Other than that, everything looks pretty cool.
Thanks
– ugly friends list
– PSS icon in game tab, don’t need that piece of [DELETED]
– where are avatars? I suppose will be payable
– payable animated anithemes, give me a break Sony, don’t need second M$
Hi there!
The new update adds some interesting features, but overall it’s not that revolutionary. Despite the menu bar, and the “what’s new?” section there isn’t much for us, that makes the XMB more… usable.
One thing, i think needs to be changed/aplicated:
The browsing through the friends list – I think it feels unnaturally pressing /\ to view messages and all the other options regarding my friend. Everywhere where I want to explore something, i press X. So it’s way more natural if after pressing X i see something like a gamercard/optionsbar of my friend, where all necessary options are available, like: a miniabstract of the last received messages,”new message”, his status, an abstract of his trophys, chatoptions and everything else I can chose from.
The trohpycard after pressing X feels just usless. I often catch myselft pressing X, just when i wanted to write or check a message.
Under the /\ should be some less important option like: delete user, add user, group user and other.
However, I’m still appreciating your work, you are doing really well and thank you!
FW 3 rocks. Too bad this doesn’t allow Old ps3 to bitstream audio. Makes me wonder why it can’t considering that LPCM stream uses bigger bandwidth of the HDMI no?
Where is folding at home?
The console is now totally noisy when idle… :( (Euro relase 60gb with ps2 support)
Again a update thats as craps as it is good.
And the new startup sound :(
Well, I like it. I don’t mind the grey boxs in the friendslist, now I can read the name better. I also like the front. All in all I am Happy with the update.
thank god i didn’t update.im sticking with my 2.80 till this gets sorted.
Did anyone see the free Afrika Theme on the JPN PSN Store? It’s awesome! Check it out on youtube (search for Afrika Theme PS3)
@1018: the first icon on the trophy card gets you to that friend’s messages though, so it’s not all bad?
I’m agreeing with everyone so far, however i think everyone just like to go off on one.
They’ve messed about before… To be honest, this was more likely a massive feedback test. Put out something slightly different and see what people do…
Looks like they got their wish.
I have no problem with any of this stuff, it’s just a bit clunky… PS3 was always style, now it seems more … ‘childish’? is that the right word… it’s not a gaudy or annoying as the 360 though, and they’re on the right track, it’s just not as ‘clean’ as it could be.
I’d like to spend some time looking at the interface myself, just to see how it could be improved and simplified, but still give us all the information that Sony are trying to provide to us…
Does somebody on the blog staff intend to compile the concerns in a ‘Non-Ranty’ form so we can be objective about this stuff?
Also, have we considered design previews (ala Facebook: they have a group designed specifically to show and preview updates – even doing beta’s with select users) as i think this could be incredibly useful process-wise moving forwards.
i want font color change. i would love to change the font color for the afrika theme. i love the new update. i just hate the idea you cant browse the XMB while playing music from an external device.
Limited beta-ing of these changes would eliminate these kinds of issues arising again (while keeping in mind you can’t please all the people all the time)
Thanks all,
Let’s see what comes up in the next few weeks.
DMcD
cross game chat please
Hi Eric. Just upgraded my firmware..Wondering why no animated theme for EU PSN…US PSN already got LBP….
Thanks
And i have to agree with other gamers about the PSStore icon present “everywhere” – it’s simply too pushy. But I have to say – i like the “what’s new” section.
The old loading animation was also way more interesting and “stylish”.
I have to agree with most of the complains. However i like the new FL.
I’m actually disappointed.
Few design changes shouldn’t be v3.0 .
But I also have other problems about it:
1. Stop placing the PS Store everywhere.
2. The new startup animation is kinda ugly.
3. No new functionality and stuff. Only design changes doesn’t count as major update, IMO.
Can someone at sony fix Mahjong Tales? I re-downloaded my games to my new PS3 slim with 320 gig hard drive, and mahjong tales reboots itself during its update. Most likely, the file isnt there and the PS3 resets itself. Someone please look into it.