Hi everyone, here’s an early peek at PlayStation 3 (PS3) firmware update (v3.10). The latest update incorporates Facebook into the PS3 experience. By linking your PlayStation Network account to your Facebook account, you will have the option for the PS3 to automatically update your Facebook News Feed with Trophy and PlayStation Store activity. This update also enables developers to set specific criteria in their titles to publish additional game information to your News Feed. You can then check out your updates, and those of your friends, on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media favorites through the PS3’s built-in web browser.
This is just the beginning of our integration with Facebook and we are looking forward to adding new features enhancing the experience in future updates.
Additional highlights from update 3.10 include:
- The Photo category on the XMB has been revamped to make it easier to see more of your photos stored on the PS3.
- The PSN Friends List has been modified based on feedback we received after update 3.00. Additionally, you can now choose a color for your PSN ID on the XMB.
To get a preview of what’s coming in update 3.10, check out the video below:
We’re looking forward to releasing firmware update 3.10 soon. As always, we appreciate your feedback.
Meh. Can I have my Cross Game Chat now PLEASE?!??!
Great stuff, wish you would add Skype also allow voice chat while in game, music etc
Seriously? still no cross game chat or party chat? who cares about about Facebook..
The photo and friendslist updates sounds nice.
I don’t get the point of the Facebook integration though.
I don’t understand why you guys wan Cross game chat. I don’t want my friends scream “OMG I JUST PWNED YOU” in the mic. But thats just me.
eric lempel,
have u played modern warfare 2 multiplayer? if u have then i’m sure you noticed the option they have to change your title and emblem of your psn id. this idea has been done before by such social sites like ps3tropycard.com. my point is that its truely something innovative;and, it gives us credit for doing something original. yes its been done before, however, it would be a step out of the shadow of the xbox360. the functionality of ps3trophycards.com’s customiztion on the xmb would be crazy. as for myself as far as trophies are concern im a level 12 with 800+ trophies. thank you
The facebook feature is nice, BUT I think there must be a own client for facebook (like the one on the xbox) and I’m still waiting for the overcross chat and a better message feature…
It would be cool if you can watch at the other people screen like in TeamViewer and watch what hes doing
Guys we need to be able to sort our games by name, I’m tired of seen my downloaded PS One sequels all over the place, it would be cool to be able to organize your titles so that they can be in consecutive order according to names and numbers. I don’t think that’s a science to do.
I always welcome the updates
THANKS ERIC & SONY
Waiting Twitter sync with status message in PSN Friends List ;)
KEEP THE CONSOLE AS A CONSOLE, DO NOT ADD FACEBOOK, I REPEAT DO NOT ADD FACEBOOK, THAT’S WHY HUMANS INVENTED COMPUTERS…. LEAVE FACEBOOK OUT OF PLAYSTATION 3…
Thanks for the update Eric, I really like the improved friends list.
You have probably heard this many times before, but out of all the things I would love to be able to do on my PS3, is to play my own music in all my games. This can be done on Microsoft’s console already, but would really love to be able to do this on the PS3 as I have my entire music library on there. So please can we have this in a future update. Maybe have the music player pop up in all our games giving us the option to play our music, instead of going back to the XMB.
Thanks again anyway for the update. Keep up the great work.
Very nice job, guys. I think your concept of Facebook integration makes perfect sense. A nice addition for those who participate in social network sites – and a great marketing too for Sony!
I’m glad to hear that you tweaked the browser to better support Facebook, rather than spending a lot of time creating a specific app for it. Browser improvements are always welcome!
Thanks!
Awesome job sony, very stoked.
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@653 Because you’re being forced to use every optional feature on the console, right? :|
A good start.
Sony has long needed to work on the social aspects of the PS3 – it’s way behind XBL.
The problem is, this is not what your core audience wants. Voice messaging. Cross game voice chat. Every update is littered with those comments.
Sony,
please stop wasting time working on these useless stuff. We want 3 important features first:
1. CROSS GAME CHAT
2. CROSS GAME CHAT
3. CROSS GAME CHAT
Thanks.
i love the revamped photo viewer, and the revamped friend list, i don’t have facebook, but for the ones who use it seems cool
Dear Gustavo,
I don’t care about your Xross Game Chat. It’s stupid. Progress is welcome on EVERY front, not just what you want. Please focus on these three tasks:
1. Shut up.
2. Go away.
3. Stay there.
Thanks.
it would be great too with Cross-Game Chat
Just like the last update I don’t see anything all that useful. meh
Nice for the people that use face book. Glad you fixed the friends list banners.
On a side note, we need X-game chat. I am so tired of playing a game and having to stop to send a text then once they receive the message text me back stop again send reply repeat 5-6 times.
It would be cool if you guys did a type of VM aswell. Lets say if I’m in a game and a friend send a chat request but I don’t feel like chating I can have a recording that says sorry I’m busy leave a message. Then they could leave a short 15sec message, that I could listen to when ever I want.
I know most would say then why not use texting? This is true but I can say more in 15 secs then I would want to text with the PS3. I would say you could have maybe 5 messages total waiting. Then you would need to remove them to get more or set them to remove after listening or after a day from being heard.
All of these are cool improvements, but the features that is really wanted is in-game chat or cross-game invites. I think after you release these two, everyone will be happy.
>>>Avatars<<<
Nice Update shame it isn’t built into the XMB
Thanks for the update. I like facebook and im excited to show my trophies :]. Ive been trying to do this for a while
On a side note, i just wish there was a way to sort my mp3’s a little better. Any Suggestions?
The photo update will be very helpful. Thanks Sony.
Very nice!
I love what you guys did with the friend’s list and the pictures.. Awesome update!
Thank you for improving the friends list! I like the fact that only the highlighted friend has a box and the color options are a nice touch as well. The photo viewing is also a positive change and I can’t really see why anyone would be opposed to better organization.
I don’t use Facebook and don’t plan to start anytime soon. I will not use this feature, but obviously a lot of people will take advantage of this addition and that is good for them.
What I don’t understand is the lack of avatars. I don’t think I ever made a comment asking for them, but seriously, it has been 3 years now. It is time to update that feature, or just add some new images. Facebook launched to the public on September 11, 2006. The PS3 launched November 11, 2006. Why does a third party community website get more priority over your own systems features? Avatars have been a requested feature pretty much since the system released, way before Facebook even became the ‘IN’ thing.
I am not saying Facebook integration isn’t a positive thing, but can we PLEASE get those premium avatars or just some new images. I am so tired of seeing the same played out avatars.
i like the downloads and all, but my ps3 is having a hard time with new updates for some of the games i have already. is there a fix for this
It would also be nice to toggle the what’s new feed in the top right corner on/off. It looks so tacky and the information it provides is so vague. Trust me, I already know the PSPgo is released and that content is available on the store. I don’t need a scrolling text bar telling me to try a certain game when I already purchased it. A lot of us know about this information way before the ticker is even updated, please give us an option to turn it off.
As for feedback on anything else, in future updates, please make features optional. Why can’t the USER decide what works best for them? If I am playing on an HDTV, why can’t I resort back to the old font?, If I don’t use Facebook, do I have the option to remove that icon from my XMB? You obviously know customization is important to gamers or you wouldn’t be selling themes and wallpapers, please just make some of the features optional.
As always, thanks for listening to your community. You might not get everything right, and you will never please everyone, but by making features optional it gives users a freedom of choice and that will always improve their PSN experience.
When can I have cross game Chat on the PS3?
I rather have the firmware team focus on cross game chat than on that irrelevant facebook support.
@ 653 what’s up with you??
And once again no mention if we could shrink the damn icons / font on the XMB back to normal. Aghhh!!!
Little Big Planet on psn ????
Hope we can uninstall or continue to leave off any social media add-ons. Total garbage and waste of time imo. Just what we need, more egotistical useless information that you suddenly learned not to suck in a level at 3:04am. Whoopee…
Love the picture changes. Hope 3.10 has more to it!
Its great that i an chose colors but why is their no color black!? I want to have a black background on the XMB like in the old firmware. Also, the new icons are to big and the font size also. Let us chose the old sizes!
please please please please put cross game voice chat already please is too much to ask.
Why the hell does everyone want cross game chat so badly? Most PS3 users don’t even have a microphone.
Cool…So you’ve proven that you can “connect” a facebook account with PSN Account….
Now you can “connect” our PSN account with our Skype account and have CROSS-GAME-CHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice! I’m wondering will the PS3 ever autosync trophies. IMO that’s the only feature missing, everything else is just fluff.
@679 I guess that is the one thing they want so these hidden lemmings will finally fully switch over to teh TREY! lol
Updating Facebook with trophy information and store purchases?
God no. Why would I want to embarrass myself like that?
…and if one of my friends starting spamming me with that kind of nonsense, I’d immediately remove them.
Anyone who thinks this is a good idea needs to put down their PS3 controller and go get some sunshine for once this decade (and take a quick peak at what girls look like in the year 2009).
Embarrassing.
When does the 3.10 ps3 update come out?
Wow. Facebook? Don’t care at all – I have other technology for that.
Picture improvements look really good!
I liked the clean interface, now its getting quite cluttered, like I didn’t know it was a PlayStation.
Browse and play audio simultaneously? You broke that last time.
Will you have release notes wqith known issues so I know whether to install or not? You broke so many systems and features with 3.x that installation is now quite dubious, since you guys seem to focus only on new (questionable)features…
I dont really care for Social site integration the main thing I want is Party chat or cross gamer chat as everyone says, please make this happen soon as it is so important
Thanks for changing the friend list :) it’s been bugging me for a while now. However, it may look weird if a lot of my friends will have different colors. Ah well, at least the ugliness is gone.
Facebook sounds nice, too! Finally able to let others know I got another plati. Some things I have been hoping for:
– font size; let us change the size, instead of giving us a ‘default’ size. I want my letters to be smaller, like they were before 3.00
– trophy list deletion; may sound weird to you, but it’s a big plus if gamers are able to delete a game from their list. Of course, deleting a full list affects your level, so it’s your own choice.
My main concern: playing games with trophies you don’t want to add to your list. I never play other games, because they have trophies. I just want to see my OWN games, not those of others.
I’ve heard some gamers about demos having trophies. What if I accidentally play a game I don’t want to see on my list? I will never be able to delete that? It’s freaking me out, and I am certainly not the only one out there. I am a perfectionist (having 6 out of 7 games on 100%), so I really can’t stand the fact that this might happen to me.
PHOTO : The grid idea is great.
Why don’t you apply that to music album? So we can see the songs in a grid to quicly play our favourites tunes.
I and many of my friends in Sony’s Gamer Advisory Panel think this is an excellent, overdue update! Facebook integration with the PSN is perfect. I didn’t have a problem with the grey boxes before, but it makes me happy to see that we’ll be able to customize our profiles a little bit further than the bare-bones approach we’ve got right now.
What I and a lot of the G.A.P. want to know is what about custom avatars? Or premium avatars? We’ve had the ability implemented, but none are available for purchase. And what about the expanded selection of free avatars? That was announced over a month ago, I believe, and we’ve not heard anything on it since. Thank you for your hard work and for keeping us in the loop!
Nice! This update sounds really cool. :)