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.
how bout you give us the avatars we were promised in update 3.0?????????????????????? man that was a big thing i was looking forward to. don’t disappoint me Sony. I’m considering buying a 360!!!!!!!!!!!! They have most of their shix together
Nice!I sure I’m gonna enjoy this cant wait. Well i hope in the future updates you guys come out with a feature that allows the ps3 to recognize an external hard drive as internal drive and being able to play any ps3 contents on my psp over remote play.
Keep up da good work.
facebook is good but some of us still use myspace wonder if yall can some how use that on to the PS3.
another thing is we all want cross game chat. but it won’t be stand alone to just games i wanna be able to use the browser and chat with my friends while he’s playing a game or on the browser as well
Just One Request:
When you attach a wired external Hard Drive to the PS3 USB port (for playing music or viewing movie files, for instance), there is no UNMOUNT option… no way to safely eject the disk before unplugging it from the PS3. That’s a pretty bad oversight that could compromise the integrity of the data on the external drive.
Please, please fix this error in the next update.
Sounds awsome keep up the good work. Skype on PS3 would be cool though.
Nice update.. Just waiting now for it to come out!
As for the whole Facebook thing.. Cool i guess Not a huge fan.
Really Hope the PS3 Becomes better then Xbox 360 Dashboard. I was just given a 360 and noticed that they are aead of us by some bit!
I liked how at one time ps3 had Video Downloads of the newst movies coming out.
We also need a Msn Feature
We need Party Chat (it gets quite annoying when you are havving to pause or Hide out in a game like MWF2 to send a message back to your friend or even read.
And we need to have a clean Friends Dashboard.
I think Ps3 is going the right way and still perfer PS3 to Xbox.. Just how it is.. PS3 FTW!
We need something that is going to make those Xbox ers go what we dont have that!
Someting new. Ps3 is the better system by far!
I will be adding feed back once i have viewd the update!
Hopfully you guys at PS3 read this..
Contact me if you have to..
Sony,
You always end your videos with “and we look forward to your feedback”.
We provide feedback, but it seems like you aren’t listening to us and are just twiddling thumbs coming out with useless updates. Facebook? Really? Are you serious? This is a gaming system, so please make updates that actually enhance the gaming experience. Not pointless updates that take three months to be delivered that just provide a shortcut link on the xmb to a website meant to be accessed by computers. And as for the color scheme of the PSN profile, it’s just pathetic that you actually think this will suffice. Now please, listen to feedback, such as this blog post, and provide a useful update.
If this post doesn’t make sense to Sony and blog visitors, then I don’t know what will. A tragic update and waste of time.
Hope update 3.1 addresses some of the stability issues and not just cosmetic stuff…but since we’re on the topic…
Get rid of the news ticker – the “Whats New” icon makes it redundant and also it is just plain annoying.
This trend towards cluttering up the XMB with ads looks very unclassy SONY.
Man… You know what is one thing that has bothered me for a while is the fact that when I scroll through music or files there is no letter name that pops up at least to let me know how far I’ve gotten in my music. All I see is blank symbols and I have to guess when to stop. Is there any way to add this feature? That would be rocking. (Possibly for the next firmware update)
cross … game … voice … chat
Where is:
Cross Game Voice Chat?
Trophy Auto-sync?
Avatars?
Improved Web Browser? (webkit)
It Only Does last place this console generation.
Still….No…In-Game Chat!
ok.. i have my ps3 for 3 years now, never had a single probleme with it, i hook up my ps3 online a month ago for the first time, i dwl firmware 3.00, it was gr8, until all my games start freezing and bluray too, weeks later it has 3.01, so i dwl it, it burned my bluray drive, it still reading all disc but… cant do anything with it… dvd`s and cd`s are fine!! is my drive really dead or dying? i wish firmware 3.10 fix that!!!
Stop imitating. Start innovating.
Thats a lame update. I dont want facebook on my PS3. Thats why I have a computer.
Oh my goodness, can you PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make it so you don’t have to click “Yes I want to post this to FaceBook” every time? Make it so, we can choose to not be asked anymore, PLEASE!
we need something to be able to at least hide the icons we don’t want or delete them or both.
i and many others don’t use the photo album, life with playstation, now facebook soon twitter. and we also would like this to work for the store icons and whats new section to thanks.
also could you please update the browser?
it is in serious need of a huge overhaul.
it always freezes and you can’t use anything with java on it or flash because it says it needs updating. also please give us an option to install another browser like moble version of mozilla, opera, or safari thanks again.
keep up the great work.
The facebook thing is really cool just another thing that makes me glad i didnt buy a 360
What we all really want is friend voice chat cross games 360 has had it forever
well I would actualy like to see google apps and google earth on ps3 then it would do everything.
the stand alone apps only need a ps3 executable file and use all the libs and content files just like how q-online did with their ps3 clients for angel senki and angel loove online the only dif between the pc and ps3 ver seems to be the exe.
also would like to see panoramio support.
I’d rather see an rss feed reader that you can add feeds to manualy or through the web browser that connets to the whats new bar that scrolls at the top of the screen and if twiter supports rss then thats the only twiter support u need.
Besides my earlier complains, will these FW update resolve the many 80022A07 errors I got since the last two weeks, and by judging from the forums I’m not alone … (especially European users are complaining). This is the Tropy Sync Error
the same thing you did for the photo category you should do it in the music category i should help alot :D cheers nice update!
AWESOME!! but here’s one tip, the same thing you did for the photo category you should do it in the music category i should help alot :D cheers nice update!
Great update, I can not wait for it.
twitter is gonna be on it
damn i REALLY like the photos update and the friend’s update. i might give the facebook thing a shot we’ll see. but awesome firmware update!
Cool… For some people I guess…
Personally this doesn’t seem too creative(IMO its an update I am NOT looking forward to)
Crosd Game Chat?
what???????? can you focus on voice chat please? what is the point on having FACEBOOK ON A CONSOLE? AND WHY? PLEASE? CAN ANYBODY EXPLAIN THIS?? WHAT IS THE POINT?
Yeah, because I really needed Facebook on my XMB. Why don’t you guys make some of these features optional? Is it because everyone would turn them off? You all have officially ruined the XMB and you keep making it worse. It’s as though a teenage girl is running things over there. I know you guys really love frustrating your fans, but this update is uncalled for and just plain stupid. Also, I don’t care about cross-game chat, but for some reason, most do. Make them happy already so I don’t have to hear about it anymore. And where’s my ps3 radio?! the psp has it, why not it’s big brother? While I’m at it, change the PS store’s update time to something more reliable!! and please update the internet browser!! and give us new avatars, damnit!
what was wrong with the friends list before..?
yes… facebook….. something to look that you’re working…
where are the asked features… can you hear the people…
in this generation ps3 is the turtle…
thanks to all xmb developers…
I love these updates. Unfortunately, I hate the browser. The PS3 browser is the worst. It absolutely stinks.
How about opera or something like that? I want real plugin support. Otherwise, I’ll save the browsing for the linux partition.
When will PS3 be getting private chat like Party chat on xbox. We should be able to chat privately while we play different games or whatever, without having to be stuck in a seperate chat screen.
PS3 needs party chat like in xbox
Hey sony how about some recorded voice messages?
Cheers sony :)
can we get some more cross game features?
Nice! PSN Card Color Changes…LOL @Facebook.
Where are the premium avatars?
WHAT ABOUT SMALLER XMB FONT????
ARE YOU GUYS BLIND??????
nice update… cross game wont be important to me until january thats when me and my bro will both have mics.The friends list is going to look good. Has anyone else noticed that he’s using a older version of the ps store ? keep up the good sony and psn
keep up the good work sony and psn
If you want to really wow people, make it look like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y0xyM7_Mks
who cares about PS3 Update WERE is this damm socom Confrontation update you guys make me sick. !!!
noyone is never satisfied omg
you know what i really wanted cross game chat o well guess ill just have to deal with it.
I wish you would just add some new avatars or at least update the current ones somehow. I’ve seen all these boring images since the day one. It’s a shame there are so little of them and they are so trivial and banal. It would be nice to have an opportunity to add/create your own avatars. Now that would be a great addition to XMB.
Nicely done with the photos by the way – I like it a lot. Though other features are of no value for me.
I like the new Friends-Menu and the new Pictures-Menu as well. I just want the old PS3 Logo back when a game starts or the PS3 boots. Anyway, a good job Sony.
i see a lot of comments about cross game chat/in game chat. i actually wouldn’t mind seeing it but i don’t have any friends right now since i am a 34 year old college student. i like the idea of integrating with facebook to show my friends my love for PS3. maybe this way they will be influenced to buy a PS3 if they haven’t yet. if we are to get a leg up on xbot (intentionally misspelled), we need more features that are on par with what they have.
when is the official release date?
i wanna try this our
What is this avatar stuff about is home not enought for you all. what more do you want and just because you say it doesn’t mean that they will do it so just wait. just like when they added the gray boxes i said that they would made them better and they did so i am happy. and since it using the web browser other sights can be intergreated in to the PS3 like twiter myspace and skype and even youtube so why don’t you all go hey Sony just took a step up instead of saying th esame thing over and over. do you really think that they are like lets not give them Xgame chat.they are working on it so back down i will not stand for such insolence toward sony they will bring it out when it is ready. do you want them to rush so half baked feature out and then have to deal with all of you complaining.
It really is amazing how Sony keeps adding stuff that’s irrelevant, while completely ignoring things that actually _ARE_ relevant :( It’s like baby steps, 3 years into the life of the platform – and we are still waiting for the _BASIC_ stuff, all the while Sony spends its sweet time developing things completely unwanted by the gamers… Home, Life with Playstation, Facebook et cetera… One can only wonder who the Sony have developed the PS3 for: the gamers or itself? Because by all signs, it looks like it’s been developed for Sony itself, so that they can do what _they_ want, not what _gamers_ want…
Hello that’s all sounds nice.
I want to have the DIVX Support on the Webbrowser back,also Flash needs to updated for the Webbrowser.
Is it so hard to do?
On the older Firmware DIVX was supported.
So please make the Browser better work before u upgrade the system with other
feautres.
Thanks