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.
I’d like the feature of browsing the XMB while music is playing again. Some times I want to finish listening to a song but look for a new song or a movie, but I HAVE to stop my music from playing. Can you guys bring that back? Loved going on the internet with my music playing, now its dull surfing since most media players need Adobe Updates to play music online on PS3.
I’d also like to see a few (Extremly) mentionable things. Cross-game chat, Multi-sign-in (similar to the one used in Resistance 2), and an overall music custom soundtrack (compatible with everything on the ps3. it just overlaps what ever is playing in the game/software, and keep the special custom soundtracks that are already intigrated with games. so essentially, if a game doesnt have it programed in, we just have to change the game’s sound settings).
Thanks again Eric*
Okay, all this sounds cool….but where is the Cross game chat??? Will it ever come or is xbox a truly superior console??
Just wondering becoz I would really like to have this feature.
Ps3 Fanboy…..Xbox is trash
Sony will prevail…..one day
wassup sony, so look you guys rock 100% and you guys keep on adding some really tight updates no doubt! I have this request that no one has ever had, i would like for you guys to have a screen shrink/expand option in the display settings on the xmb, hope it’s not too hard and would like to see it in an update, if it is, i cant ask for anything else
you sony you guys are dumb as a doorknob. you guys add things nobody needs and cares. you guys NEVER listen to we what as gamers.
how about making it so that when you don’t reply to a message, and choose to back out, you still remain in the inbox. it’s so annoying having to go back in after every message you don’t have to reply to.
eric lempel, i thankyou very much for improving the friends list big time cause sure what 3.00 did that was an ugly friends list. but 3.10 friends list looks great. cant wait to change the color box to my favorite color.
as far as facebook
eric lempel, i thankyou very much for improving the friends list big time cause sure what 3.00 did that was an ugly friends list. but 3.10 friends list looks great. cant wait to change the color box to my favorite color.
Looks like it’ll be a great update, one thing I’d like to see would be to be able to order things alphabetically.
I’ll go ahead and give actual feedback as well. I never cared about XGC, but it is apparent that most want it. I really think we do need the ability to go to the XMB from PS1 titles, universal custom soundtracks(my personal favourite), and the also long awaited PS2 backward compatibility. I have a 60 gb model, but it would be nice for everyone who has a slim. Oh, and again…
FACEBUNK.
FOR EVERYONE THAT WANTS CROSS GAME CHAT AND BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY. There are a few articles you should read in last months and this months Playstation Magazine. For one, the new slims and some older models do not have the hardware (mind you i did not say software) for backwards compatibility (doesn’t mean its impossible). Second, in this months issue the magazine asked ERIC LEMPEL about cross game chat.
These are cool little features but there are bigger problems that could use your time. I would like to login to multiple profiles like on the 360. Borderlands and Modern warfare 2 both don’t allow for multiple profile logins and it is ruining my gaming experience. Gaming is the reason I bought a PS3, not Facebook. If Army of 2 40th day doesn’t have this feature, you will have a very disappointed customer.
when are you going to add more avatars to the PSN???
Everybody at Sony should seriously be fired.
FACEBOOK INTEGRATION? WTF? Thank you for at least fixing the friends list but where is…
CROSS GAME VOICE CHAT?
AUTO-SYNC TROPHIES?
SONY WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?
PS3 – it only does last place this console gen.
Hey Sony
we gamers want cross game chat and hopefully your working on it or in the final stages of testing it because So many gamers want it. It would make the online experience go up a notch.
Is the update OPTIONAL? It sounds like a bunch of useless features. Why gives us Facebook when you don’t even give us Twitter (which is more important than Facebook). I’m not downloading this so I won’t be going online again until the next update that includes something other than maintenance stuff. I don’t want some emo application like Facebook on my PS3.
good move sony cause myspace sucks. and twitter is basically for news, i know you will eventually go to twitter, but more pepole have family and friends on facebook so we can brag our trophies to everyone even our job and co workers, matter fact i better take off for GOW3 so i won’t call in lol
We want
screen capture
rec movies
and for more then one PSN to be able to be on-line at once.
Hmm more things people didn’t ask for. Well thanks for an update at least…
Facebook is good, but what about an icon instead of the browser use? And where the hell is our cross game chat and in-game music? I’m still disappointed.
Seriously? Facebook? For what? Stop wasting your time.
Instead of adding colors why on earth didn’t anyone listen to the real complaints made after the previous update and give us the option to REMOVE those ugly boxes.
Not to mention, where is the cross game chat hu?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH ha. What an update.
Cross game chat!?!?!?!?
More stuff we don’t need. All I ask for is xgc. Stop wasting your time making other crap.
Not to mention, if you’re gonna mess with the friends list that much then add an “appear offline” feature so where you go invisible to your friends.
guyz the face book thing is really nice and u fixing the grid is also cool , but please just tell me pls i just want some body to tell me what is so impossible about adding the in game music feature ????? or cross game chat ( i dont care about it, but id think adding it would mean in game music as well) thank u Sony ur doin a gr8 job
Nice. I’m actually more excited about the picture viewer/friends list updates than Facebook, but it all looks good. :)
Can you make the grid view available for the Video section also? I have a lot more videos then I do photos and I think it would be a nice touch.
Eric lempel, i forgot 1 thing
will the comment box be extended to type more words then what we have now? cause i hate to abbreviate stuff and people on my friends list ask me: whats that?
and i’ll have to tell all of them that sent me a message about what im saying on my comment box.
so, is the comment box extended more characters in this update?
in game chat and custom avatar would be nice but this is still a great update
Before people get their shorts in a knot about not having cross-game chat (not like they haven’t already), keep in mind that Sony is marketing the PS3 differently than the Xbox 360. For example, the ‘It Only Does Everything’ slogan runs contrary to ‘Jump In’. Sony is marketing the PS3 as a multimedia system, whereas the focus on the 360 is more game-based. Hence, these firmware updates should not come as a surprise to anybody considering that.
I do believe a lot of these gamers have a legitimate complaint, however. I believe the focus should be more on the games than the multimedia capabilities, as the vast majority of people purchasing a PS3 are, in fact, gamers, and not multimedia enthusiasts. In satisfying the significantly smaller portion of the PS3-purchasing public, Sony runs the risk of alienating the hardcore gamer.
I guess the question I pose to Sony is do they think it’s worth it to release numerous updates that have very little to do with gaming, at the expense of their most loyal gamer fans?
I like the PS3 way more than Xbox 360 for its multimedia capabilities as well as being a kick-ass game machine, but not everybody out there is like me, Sony.
ARE YOU SERIOUS?
i thought FACEBOOK would be connected to our PSN PROFILE.
so if someone on your friends list decides to look at OUR profile, they would be able to see our FACEBOOK.
if this^ is not a feature, then its pretty much USELESS.
CROSS GAME CHAT?
I’m not picky but I would also like to see some new avatars
i cant beleive u guys didnt really put our FACEBOOK connected to our PSN PROFILE, meaning if someone clicks on our profile they would be able to see our facebook if we have one.
way to go sony u guys left out a feature that wouldve been useful, all this is USELESS.
3.10 SUCKS!
3.00 is where i stay. i like my ps3 to much. Updates are scary
LOOKS FKING AWESOME!! Look forward to updating it.
y do u keep saying we look forward 2 ur feedback if u never listen 2 us PLEASE all we want is CROSS GAME CHAT, NEW AVATARS, AND IN GAME MUSIC ON ANY GAME!!!!!!!!!!
Hi!
Can you guys fix this annoying bug that happens when you whant to send a message to someone, it’s something like this:
The avatar of the person has to load before you can write the message, so depending on your internet speed or server load this can sometimes take quite some time and is *very* annoying. You also can’t cancel the message either, so basically the PS3 freezes until the avatar loads up.
Thanks! :-)
PD: Sorry for my english, it’s not my native language.
I like the way that the photos look (just like a preview).
Any ideas of organize your friends list?, maybe create groups or something like that.
Finally, is good idea to upload your pictures from the ps3 to facebook =).
Salute and keep going the Update!!!
Pretty cool, better than nothing and will surely come useful.
-Can you have the bluray remote control the in-game/XMB music, not just when we’re actually in the music player?
-Can we get in-store/PS1/PS2/DVD/Bluray XMB?
-Can you stop turning off the music when we enter the store (or the web browser via remote play)?
Finally the party system we been asking for!!! thanks Sony, your number 1
It would be also be nice in future updates to be able to pick and choose features you do and don’t want.
For example, in this update the photo and friends list things are worth it, but to me Facebook is just useless. A few posts ago a guy mentioned that firmware updates are scary. This way if a feature causes problems it can be ignored. Not to mention lame s%#t like Facebook integration!
Wow! Thanks Sony!
You guys just made my day!!!
Really looking forward to the Facebook integration so I can now show off some of my trophies earn to my friends.. haha
When are we getting the in-game cross chat (VOICE)?! We all really need this badly!
WHERE ARE THE NEW AVATARS YOU PROMISED???
I love it but im Arapic & the PS3 built-in web browser is not Support Arapic Language so are i will see Arapic Language soon ?
not just me there are many Arap people want to PS3 support Arapic language & we know that very hard but you are SONY & SONY can ( Make. Blive )
Copía de Xbox Live, pero no importa si la PSN no me cobra por esos servicios. Ya hacia falta algo así!!!!
where is crosschat???? we have been asking for that feature for years, its like the most requested feature that ps3 users want and instead we get facebook… yeah i have a computer and a laptop so no, i use my ps3 to get the best gaming experience..