Blu-ray 3D Disc Playback Support Coming to PlayStation 3 System Next Week

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Hi everyone, I wanted to share some news out of Tokyo Game Show. We’ve announced that the PS3 system will be able to play back 3D content on Blu-ray 3D discs with the next system software update (v.3.50), slated for release on September 21. We know that many consumers have purchased 3D TVs already and more of you will be purchasing them as the holidays approach – so we’re excited to offer this firmware update that makes all 38 million PS3s worldwide compatible with Blu-ray 3D discs.

This new feature expands the PS3’s 3D capabilities – as you may recall, we added the ability to play stereoscopic 3D games with the 3.30 firmware update in April.

While support for Blu-ray 3D discs is the primary new feature within the 3.50 update, there will be a few additional features. We’ll post more details on the blog prior to the firmware’s release, so check back here on Monday.

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  • Nice 3D is a great new feature for people that have 3DTV, but i won’t be enjoying it i just upgraded to a bravia internet ready hdtv few months ago so 3D is out for me so i sure hope we r getting more features then that.

    1 a new internet browser
    2 cross platform party voice chat
    3 in game music for all games
    4 in game video/photo recording for all games
    5 faster smother XMB

    Peace!

  • unfortunally i dont have a 3D tv:(

  • 1 a new internet browser
    2 cross platform party voice chat
    3 in game music for all games
    4 in game video/photo recording for all games
    5 faster smother XMB

    THATS WHAT WE WANT!!!

  • When are you guys gonna give us details about this firmware? Its late monday afternoon and i hardly know anything about this firmware besides the 3d part.

  • AND ENOUGH WITH THIS CROSS GAME CHAT STUFF!

  • @104
    I agree it was our understanding by this post, that we would know what the extra features were..
    But it is monday and i beleive the last blog post of the day was just posted…

  • i can’t go on to the psn store whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

  • If possible, create a reward system that gives players some motivation to earn trophies. An example of this would be Avatars. Rather than charging $0.49 for an avatar, why not create a reward system that unlocks new Avatars for you to use depending on which game you play and what trophies you unlock? Each game that has trophies enabled has specific icons for trophies. Why not allow users to unlock these icons to use as Avatars? Every trophy contributes to the level up bar, so whatever trophies you earn during a specific level, once you level up, you unlock all the icons of all the trophies you earned to level up. For example. Level 1, you get 8 trophies from Flower, 10 from LBP and 2 from Batman Arkham Asylum. You level up to Level 2, and when you level up, ***you should get a notification*** AND you earn the exact icons of the 20 trophies across the 3 games you played to level up. Now THAT would be a sort of motivation to continue getting trophies. Everyone would now have unique Avatar icons to display. Sony’s 1st and 3rd party developers dont lose anything either since they’re developing the icons anyways, might as well allow them to be used as avatars.

  • So yet another stupid feature that actual gamers couldn’t care about, while breaking functionality we actually did use with yet another update.

    Stay classy, $ony.

  • i still have not been able to update to the 3.42..it keeps freezing up right at 99% … i am not a hacker or antthing of that sort…i tried doing the 3.5 update…still freezes at 99%…i tried all ways to update it… i have the 80gb..sony said that its a hardware failer…i dont see how cause it still does everything i want it to do..plays movies,and the games i have…but it wont do this update..i am not happy with sony now…i hardly use it to begin with but when i do i just play an offroad game with ppl all over the world..now i cant cause i HAVE to update it…which it wont…guess i have to go spend another 400 bucks for a new ps3 after getting this one only a year ago…grrrrrr…think they gonna fix it with another update?

  • The update is not ready, and i cant download is so that i can continue playing my games online untill the system is updated! FURIOS!!!!

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