The next system software update for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) system will be released on April 1, 2010 (JST), and will disable the “Install Other OS” feature that was available on the PS3 systems prior to the current slimmer models, launched in September 2009. This feature enabled users to install an operating system, but due to security concerns, Sony Computer Entertainment will remove the functionality through the 3.21 system software update.
In addition, disabling the “Other OS” feature will help ensure that PS3 owners will continue to have access to the broad range of gaming and entertainment content from SCE and its content partners on a more secure system.
Consumers and organizations that currently use the “Other OS” feature can choose not to upgrade their PS3 systems, although the following features will no longer be available;
- Ability to sign in to PlayStation Network and use network features that require signing in to PlayStation Network, such as online features of PS3 games and chat
- Playback of PS3 software titles or Blu-ray Disc videos that require PS3 system software version 3.21 or later
- Playback of copyright-protected videos that are stored on a media server (when DTCP-IP is enabled under Settings)
- Use of new features and improvements that are available on PS3 system software 3.21 or later
For those PS3 users who are currently using the “Other OS” feature but choose to install the system software update, to avoid data loss they first need to back-up any data stored within the hard drive partition used by the “Other OS,” as they will not be able to access that data following the update.
Additional information about PS3 firmware updates, including v3.21 (once it becomes available), can be found here:
http://us.playstation.com/support/systemupdates/ps3/index.htm
PS3 owners who have further questions should contact Consumer Services:
http://us.playstation.com/support/ask/
800-345-7669 (800-345-SONY)
Any games or Blu-Ray I get that require 3.21 will be returned.
I can’t believe it’s been 15 days since this post and there has not been a single utterance from SCEA on the matter. This is outrageous.
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
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PlayStation 3 owners aren’t technically required to upgrade their firmware. However, Sony has built a vast and sticky web of DRM restrictions that will kick in to make life miserable for anyone who declines the “upgrade”:
It will be impossible to play PS3 games online.
It will be impossible to play new PS3 games.
It will be impossible to watch new Blu-ray videos.
New Blu-ray discs could even disable the Blu-ray drive entirely if they contain an AACS Host Revocation List that affects the old firmware version.
Videos on DTCP-IP media servers will be disabled.
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@Hekels
I was reading your older psts on top of this page…
Man, u definitely dunno what is having an old phat system….
if u had one…u would understand our anger….
@Hekels
dude your retardation is amazement of human kind.
@dr_DOOM69
you said it bro….
retard? maybe i am, but a W H I N E Y B I T C H i am not
ow pls…nobody is complaining at you man…
If you feel by anyhow affected then you should rethink yourself, this is a international matter, not just your hot neighbor being nailed…alright?
Lets just focus on the real problem here…We dont come to post here to argue with other ppl…just think about it
if you dont have any complaints, if everything is just fine for you, then stop yammering about it…
@Hekels
i hope you enjoy your playstation 3 network banned for 30 days, for spamming-flaming comments.
i reported you and ill be calling sony tomorrow and reading them all the messages you sent to my ps3.
@drDOOM
OUCH, he gonna be sore tomorrow.
@drDOOM
What?? rly?? the guy would even annoy you on the PSN txting u there…holly f***…
definitely sry….lol
@rickcavedon
yeah real childish remarks as well, but non the less he’s been reported 2 ways tomorrow ill make it 3 with a phone call to sony. I had to blocked him as well.
@dr_DOOM69
yeah…and I thought that playsttions and psps were the only things that really were good…I mean, from sony. but now..there is nothing good from sony…only the chicks who work there…with all due respect to them
they’re quite something…I myself worked for sony once, thats why I can say that…well I cannot say this here in their own forum…but anyways…here in Japan everybody knows, for example: u want a good lcd tv?? no BRAVIA for the sake of god…aquos are the best..Sharp is the most reliable home apliances in here…IDK about other places, but Sharp is totally unbeatable in Japan.
By the way, shall we all buy our Xboxes???
@rickcavedon
yeah i need a xbox360 and the alienware LAPTOP & ill have it made.
YOU LIVE IN JAPAN?!?!
@dr DOOM69
yeah yeah…I do live here (JP)
Actually right now Im at work…but none of my coworkers are aware of this (v3.21)…they just dunno…
Japs..Japs..
Wish when they will grow da [DELETED] up and learn to speak by themselves…always afraid to say anything…
@dr DOOM69
If the Emperor says “Now, everyone kiss my ass”…
All the Jps will do just as he says…so dumb.
They got no own speech. hate it sometimes being among them…
cant help…its how it is…Sony JP…no moves yet
what?
Japs are not really concerned about this matter…for them its like….whatever!!!
I am horribly disappointed. I recently purchased an older PS3 model specifically because they support the Other OS feature as well as backwards compatibility. My console arrived in the mail today and I hooked everything up just fine. However, to my shock, I found out that the Other OS feature has been disabled with the new software update. This is NOT COOL. I did not install the update. However, whether I do or I don’t install the update, I will end up with a product that I cannot fully use. As a customer, I am very dissatisfied with Sony’s decision to discontinue Other OS support.
@DivineInsect
Welcome to the party buddy…get warmed up cuz this is far from done…there is gonna be blood. Sony wont give up that easily.
I’ve been hearing some rumors here in Japan…idk tho
@rickcavedon
Blood SWEET!
japan sends japanese ninjas to kill us all..lol
I die with great honor, no! NO! NOOOOOOO!
Please sony, ninja stars fly left and right before i knew it my head was gone..
im dead..
or sony going to kill geohotz.
I ended up wrintng my own daemon to make sure my PS3 gets online. I know other tools exist, but they require manual steps. I setup a Linux box as a router on my network. Every packet that goes out of my home network gets inspected. I’m assuning proxy support is next on Sony’s list, so I one beat them to the punch. My Linux box is now monitoring all packets. The daemon is chaing for any connections to Sony’s network. I can modify any packet I deem necessary. I never would have learned about this if it wasn’t for Sony This wa not well thought out by Sony’s executives. I can’t believe those guys get the salaries they currently do. Executives should be visionaries. Sony executives are obviously mindless leaches.
My MGS ps3 from this point on will be the last thing i will ever buy from Sony. I don’t care if they make the best game of all time, i will not buy it. Even if Sony comes out with a heart felt apology and returns the OtherOS feature, i will still not buy from them. unrelated matter, same goes for MS. PC and Linux for life!
I give sony a pass on this. After what happened with the psp it’s totally understandable that they wouldn’t want this to get any further.
pc’s are virus infected big time and batch file are easy made in note pad. must be careful on the pc while using any information being. dropper trojan/ keylogger, win32/spybots will molest you hardcore
@dr DOOM69
hahahahaha
Japan is not that violent..as a matter of fact they poop themselves out when they hear the word NUCLEAR…
ur funny dude…
Jon_Mclane: You’re looking at this backwards. The PSP had firmware updates from the beginning that existed solely to close security holes. The PSP launched in the US with firmware 1.5. Check the update log for 1.51– it was ONLY for security issues. Didn’t work particularly well, did it? Something like 17 PSP firmware updates existed SOLELY for security updates. So to think that Sony sat idly by on the PSP and “learned their lesson” for the PS3 is just not correct. And it won’t work well here, as the users who WANT to hack the machines won’t upgrade and will figure out a way to do whatever needs to be done to hack ANY firmware version.
Removing features ONLY HURTS LEGITIMATE USERS. It won’t stop anyone looking to do anything else, just like it didn’t on the PSP.
3.2100 here we go…
What he (geohot) said is true…the ppl who took away the OtherOS feature is the same ppl responsible for turning over a hundred thousand ppl into “hackers”…
Lets just wait till hes done with the new firmware…
is it koreans there are angrier or china is the angriest, hong kong? theres ninjas somewhere out there
@rickcavedon
i do like japanese people alot there nice i guess the ninjas are just movies lol
Whats the weather like in japan?
I found a workaround for this, by simply using a proxy server you can avoid having to download this joke of an update, Im able to access the playstation store as well as my OtherOS option, I opened it up tonight and did my homework on My Openoffice version of Word. Take that Sony! I refuse to have you take away an option that you marketed the system with.
If there is a class action lawsuit against you I would be happy to throw my hat into it.
goodbye playstation, I hope this is the end of the playstation series!!! No more out right lies!!!
continue to fight the power DOMINOE_421 as i still havent updated, the D.N..S workaround im using has also helped me aswell
THIS IS STUPID!!! One of the reasons I bought a PS3 was to take advantage of its epic processing power by installing anew OS. Now I have to pick between an OS without PSN or PSN without the other OS. Hackers will easily find a way to get both, but I wanted to install and use Linux legally! you have ruined a fantastic console, Sony, and supercomputers may never be built w/ PS3s again. So, what else are you taking away WHAT I PAID FOR????
Has anyone gotten together a clas action suit yet?
I guarentee you Sony, You will loose and you will loose BIG time! I am gonna buy microsofts next system and probably also nintendos. But Sony, your fate is far more worse then that of SEGA. PS will be no more after your next big blunder of a console
sony sad it we could use ps3 fat as pc too but now sony have betrayed us
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@coreyfarkas
I’m told that one is coming soon. For updates, searc.h for ‘SueSony’ on T.witter.
@rickcavedon
thats sucks man im sorry to hear that
Hey ist true?..Can new games take off your BR player in your PS3?..& Then you must update or it damages it?…cause if it damages it SONY WILL BE DEFINATLY BE LAWSUIT!!..but if it push us to do the update then its nothing we can do…2 of my friends are already in this dilema…Im about to give up & update …but since I dont have a PC at the moment I cant aford to it..IF SONY WOULD HAD GIVES US TIME FOR THIS UPDATE THEN IT WOULDNT BECOME SUCH A “HOT POTATOE” ISSUE!!..in this bad economic times sony decides to push us to get PC’s ..AS SOON AS I GET A PC IM UPDATING …SORRY GUYS BUT HAVING MY BR DOWN & MISSING ON 3D GAMING ITS NOT WORTH DEFENDING THAT P.o.S. OF LINUX..
P.S . new PC’s are almots 150$ (HELL YEAH )
YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF TRAITOR B I T C H E S. THERE IS A SPECIAL PLACE IN H E L L FOR YOUR KIND, AND YOU MOTHER F U C K E R S WILL BURN. YOU F U C K E N SELL OUTS. OK SO SONY TOOK SOME USELESS SH IT OFF THE PS3 AND I UNDERSTAND THE ANGER OF THE PEOPLE BUT OH MY F U C K I N G GOD, B I T C H ING ABOUT IT WILL NOT SOLVE ANYTHING. OBVIOUSLY SONY THINKS YOUR R ETARDED AS MUCH AS I DO. YOU SHOULD ALL GROW THE F U C K UP.
@the_Hekels
So glad that you can see both sides of the argument and that you make you point in a rational way without repetition.
i can understand why people are dissapointed that Sony has changed what a PS3 is defined as for early Consumers of the System.
I cannot understand why people feel compelled to harass those people that are dissapointed..