A new PS3 system software update, v3.56, will be released soon. This is a minor update that adds a security patch.
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A new PS3 system software update, v3.56, will be released soon. This is a minor update that adds a security patch.
971 Comments
I had issues downloading the update too, after like 5 failed attempts (same error as everyone else) I reset my router and modem and then it very slowly downloaded and installed the patch.
Does Sony know that this has been hacked already?
Please make as many software updates as you need to stop those stupid hackers, they don’t understand that they are destroying the game development industry. By arguing free gaming for everyone they are forcing the industry to lower the cost and therefore the quality of games, and who in their right mind would prefer mediocre videogames…
N-Gus | January 27th, 2011 at 7:22 am
OK Sony… You reaaaally SUCKS!
Stop Fighting piracy, and work to make a good product!!!
I´m shame of buy the MOVE Controller… The games are really bad. And I saw the comercial on TV, and is really sad to know that THE ONLY GAMES FOR MOTION ARE THE 5 GAMES ON THE TV !!
And now, another update…for nothing.
GeoHot rules!
I hope someone find the way to bypass the PSN control, so all we can forget this stupids updates.
The English language died a little today..
The download took 5 minutes, and no problems so far. If these updates stop hacked lobbies and the like then keep them coming Sony.
الى متى ياشركة سوني اكثر نسبة من مبيعاتيك في الشرق الاوسط الى متى سوف يكون بلايستشن 3 لايدعم اللغة العربية رجاءً ياشركة سوني ان يكون في
التحديثات القادمة دعم للغة العربية
To Sony when more percentage of your goods in the Middle East, how long it will be a ps3 for not supporting the Arabic language, please be at the Sony
Updates the next support for the Arabic language
@EdgeSetter: Some day you will discover that United State is not the center of the world, and all your software and games are thanks to a few paid hackers.
“If these updates stop hacked lobbies and the like then keep them coming Sony.”
You really have a lot to learn.
Study. Read. Learn. Don´t worry for the English language dying… Not everybody speak in english, but I´m sure anybody is more smart than you…
Have a nice day!
Please don’t saddle your honest paying customers with constant patches that do nothing but set the hackers back a day or two. Come up with a solution you can implement from the back end that doesn’t require a bunch of updates that don’t do anything.
If you really want to send out constant updates, then give us new features to go along with it.
Im about to just get a dam xbox360 cuz at least they update and bring new features and all that crap but ps3 updates are nothing but stupid minor little changes like idiots make updates to at least have a party among friends while ur playing like the 360
If needed, release a new security update each and every day.
Get rid of those 17 years old no life hackers and cheaters ****bags.
I downloadead the update last night. Fail freeze up at 5% on the install. Unplug (I know, bad to do) Fail freeze up at 0%. Tried this 3x. This morning after leaving unplugged all night. Install goes through and works… for 2 minuets then machine freezes and I get the fuzzy screen of unhappiness. Freezes on games, netflix, and when I try to report the system error. Call tech support, they walk me through the reboot. Fail freeze. Tech tells me to leave unplugged for a little while and let capacitors drain then try reformatting the drive. DOES NOT EVEN POWER UP NOW! Thank you Sony, It’s not like I have anything else to do today, other than contend with your update!
how is everyone my name is bryan and honestly im tired of this sony is stupid if their software wasnt so easy to hack ppl would be doin so therefore its sonys fault we have to update so sony here is so good advice make a ps4 and make it unhackable becuz ppl r gunna keep finding loop holes is ur system and keep hacking so sony good luck on failing
Spudboy. what you do when your game freezes is hold down the power button until it turns off don’t unplug it that will brick your PS3, I’ve had alot of freezes and i still do on some games like Black ops and MW2 kinda weird actually but oh well. it happens alot. But never ever unplug when you are still on, because you just got bricked, and that goes for everyone btw, also from JB cfw do not automatically update to 3.56 ofw, because that also would brick your console, do system recovery steps and then download the 3.55 from the website. and then after you got that down then go to 3.56 OFW if you want that will help you survive until another JB happens. Currently right now if you type in on your DNS part under network settings when you are setting up the internet on your ps3 type these 67.202.81.137 on both primary and secondary, to stay on your 3.55 CFW or 3.55 OFW it will let you play online and everything without forcing you to do 3.56 OFW, and you can turn your ps3 on off and even switch users, and even still play black ops 1.06 update that happened recently. Have fun hope that helps you guys
o yea here is a shout out to geohots dude come bak forget sony they are retarded there ur makin their software better not worse so geohots plzzzzzzzzzz come bak
xHD-HaCz, That was sonys mistake last time they said that the PS3 was unhackable but guess what it was,they gave hackers a challenge for that and there always will be able to make it hacked. Thats how everything work when you have really intelligent people hacking and knows alot about technology that has built their own motherboard computer and many other stuff you are gonna get that stuff, thats how it works these days.
Its clear for all to see Sony really is a textbook case of mismanagement taken to the Extreme. And no official responses to 500+ comments other than a scant few screaming “fanboys” only serves to make it worse.
I know nobody at sony will respond to or publicly acknowledge the mountain of complaints but it must said. Sony the arrogance and greed targeting your customers is intolerable. This has been pointed out to you innumerable times. This started last spring when you illegally disabled OtherOS on thousands of people systems including mine. An act in itself that was crimininal in nature. To further the insult to injury you did so on April fools day. In a single act you destroyed the goodwill you had with your now shrinking base of customers. This is why people are angry with you and why you are losing even more sales.
i kno that and im greatfull for hackers it makes games fun instead of boring this acc on black ops banned because i did the 15th prestige hack im really gettin tired of sony u i love my ps3 but i hate the ppl that work on them
So this prevents the hackers in the MW series? Sweet! Thanks, Sony and IW! :D
Heres a few facts some here are ignoring completely.
-Hackers are not all xbox players trying to destroy ps3 out of spite
-Cheaters are not hackers, all the cheats are achieved without the means hackers are using. Cheaters aren’t smart enough to understand them or even play a game without cheats
-Kissing Sony’s A** impresses nobody, those who do only cement others image of them as being infantile
-This FW is really a downgrade further removes your rights to do what you want with hardware YOU own in your own home. ToS & eula are innefectual as neither can justify what sony is doing, no contract can legalize the illegal
this last note is directed at sony:
-the PS3 hardware your affecting stopped being “yours” when you sold it to customers, in the collective sense the PS3 hardware you’ve sold is “ours” not “yours”. At that time you gave up your “right” to dictate what software we will or wont run on it.
yeah thats what im trying to understand if you get bumped up to the 15th prestige which im not at im only on 2nd legit on BO, anyways, all it does it makes the player a higher level woopie doo if he wanted to make himself not work towards anything anymore thats his judgement, shouldn’t be up to sony, they are still making the money and if he quits playing woot money for sony and the guy isn’t their anymore a plus plus for everyone. i had to survive for alot of hackers for a while until i did a jailbreak now im only using the backup manager for i can keep the games that i bought on my own.. just so they don’t get ruined. Thats it. So relax people, and you know sony if you had the back up manager somewhat like Xbox 360 where you can save it to the harddrive for better game play and more stable at some points i bet alot of hackers would actually stop and stay on your OFW that you set out.
Why are people complaining about this? Do you all want hackers to cheat online?
@PirateHarlock
You sound exactly like all those hackers out there who are trying to justify the fact that they hack only to steal.
Case close.
ok look the prestige hack is not cheating at all and the only reason i did the hack was because i got deranked due to stupid little kids reporting me i was 8th prestige legit until a week or 2 ago. and PirateHarlock ur right its ours not theirs if they didnt want ppl to hack it or whatever they should of made a little hand held game or something not a system that can be hooked up to a computer and be able to transfer files and what not
@720
Because this “security patch” limits freedoms on a piece of hardware that you bought with your own money without actually adding new content. I don’t plan on modifying my firmware unless CFW has a feature that I find appealing. So far pirating games does not appeal to me and I would much rather play the games I own online on PSN, but if I had an incentive to switch, updated internet browser or updated codec support ie, then I would. Sony needs to realize the key to keeping customers on their firmware is to actually through out new content that customers want. This does not mean support for subscription based services.
TLDR incentives matter – econ 1101
o yea hacking is not cheating or stealing it makes tha game fun
people are complaining because we might be getting security update after security update for a problem a majority of people are not responsible for. piracy is illegal #718. you have a right to use the hardware but if you want to use there software which is there intellectual property then you have to play by what ever rules they see fit. I wish they could identified the hacked ps3’s and send a virus to brick them so we wouldn’t have to go through this updates that have no features except for security updates.
well good thing my playstation updates automaticaly
@728
Why would you want to risk harming people who use CFW on their ps3 and don’t pirate software? It might not affect you or me, but it affects someone out there I am sure. That would not be fair to that person.
Geez, do you people have anything better to complain about? I mean in 2011 every thing that is electronic has updates. Heck every other day I get on my pc vista has an update. It took me all of 10mins to complete the update for my ps3. So if your not hacking or doing something you shouldn’t be doing with your ps3, its of no concern to you, but to only update.
Also, the so called people with bricked ps3’s after updates, it would be safe to say atleast 95% are from turning off their systems during the update. So don’t do anything foolish during it and you’ll be safe.
Just remember, if its a electronic and its connected to online, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE UPDATES. Its not just Sony and the ps3.
My update worked fine it just took quite long about, 15mins…. playstation needs a features improvement though, hopefully the next update.
move bundle: 90 + tax
separate move controller: 50 + tax
PS3 I bought sony claims I do not own: 400 + (when I bought it)
7 games I recently bought: 420 + tax
= 960 excluding the tax.
I believe sony should give me a full refund. I bought the ps3 under the belief and pretense that I own the hardware I bought with my own hard earned money. However sony is making a statement that they own the ps3 I bought and can not modify it how I see fit and are suing those people who are modifying the ps3… which they have a right to do since they bought the hardware. Now that you are coming out and saying I do not own it, okay fine take it back from me at cost because I’m not formally asking for a refund because I feel I have been defrauded. I bought everything I listed above under false pretenses.
(This not including the 1,200 I spent on past games)
Sony PS3: It only does lawsuits
anyone who hacks or modifiesa onsole is just a sad pathetic little loser geek who has no life. why not try buying games putting them in playing them then knocking it off when your finished,its a gamesconsole,try playing games. who cares about whatweb browser is on etc .no one even uses it,thats why people have laptops and smart phones. anyone who makes illegal copies of games or even cds or dvds deserve to have their hands cut off ,have their home reposessed and put in jail for at least 10 years.there is no justification for doing anything illegal like that and it just ruins it for everyone else. why is everyone so thick to understand buy games and play them,its so simple really
Another useless garbage update.
WHERE IS 4.0 SONY?
This is great no more hackers whooooo hooooooo
i want an update that lets me play ps2 games and i want legend of dragoon on psn sometime
Attempting to update for the 3rd time. Popcorns actually a good idea!
ry1987 you’re an idiot. By saying modding something is illegal you are saying the console you bought you don’t own. It would thus be the same thing to buy a pc, install an os that didn’t come with the pc but then the company coming after you for modifying your pc saying you don’t actually own it. No difference. Modifying something is not always about piracy you blind fool. I couldn’t care less about piracy, it’s the ownership rights that bothers me. You talk like a complete moron yet you have the balls to call others names. You’re sad.
SONY RULZ…..LMAO
Ty sony.. I hope you guys take on websites like ps3 hacks that sell the ps3 sercuity code and use it in the jailbreak framewares.. 1k of of the ps3 legionaire memebers are angry and they really want to hurt these guys who own these hacker sites and some of us have there real home addresses..
Please take them to jail sony, banning consoles is not enough.. anything that disrupt the console isinfrigment of the sony gamer license none of these console are in 1.50 frameware there at 3.5 or better they are updating the frameware of the console without autorization of sony. You can sue them for millions of dollars or take them to jail. Use ps3 gamer have had enough.. get it done sony!!
mcbuttz78
vp of ps3 legionaire council
mcbuttz I agree jail them all. All of those people who know anything about tecknowledgy are bad people… it is illegal to know anything or modify hardware you bought. Anyone who goes into radioshack and asks them for circuit boards, or resistors,capacitors and names chips by model #’s are evol and need to be sent to guantanamo bay because they are technological terrorists eeeepz!
Can anybody remember that we bought the ps3 as a linux-capable home entertainment system, not merely as a gaming system?
Linux was never about pirating games, but to provide a richer user experience, with freeware (and paid) apps and games.
Then sony removed that feature due to “security reasons”.
sony shagged our bumholes on that piece, really hard.
I want homebrew apps and games on my entertainment system, much like i love the xbmc app on my original xbox.
i want the possibility to back up my VERY expensive pieces of plastic, so i dont accidentaly destroy my only copy, worth over 50€ a piece.
Thats not piracy, thats FAIR USE!
Just as its fair use to rip a audio cd and put the mp3 files on your mp3 player or mobile phone.
In that process, i can play pirated games aswell, but that is NOT the purpose.
The purpose is to be able to use the hardware that i paid for, in combination with the software that i also paid for, but without being forced to remove half of my user experience or lose the function of installing homebrew apps/games.
that is not piracy, thats DEVELOPMENT!
Why is game consoles so different from any other computer?
Imagine if someone took a real interest in your bank account…but only decided to take a penny out each time…sure, its not a lot but its the principal.
Good work big S.
@retro active.. Are you being sarcastic?? I dont do levity.. I understand gamers want homebrew, If so go buy a pc and do homebrew .Its cheaper to do its only 10$. thats lower than mcdonalds meal. Dont make a framwire and sell it on over the net to other gamers to cheat up the leaderboard. Becuase sony reward gamers and invite the best gamers to contest and etc. The show tester is formed with some of the highest trophy getters on ps3 console. The legit ones anyway, SOny gives back to the gamers with rewards .SO they can get free stuff and prize. Cheating/homebrew does not help . It takes away these wonderful things. sony has plans for us the Ps3 gamer .
If You want us to suffer then the ps3 legion will make you suffer worse than any xbox troll, becuase we are tired of the hackers. We dont just talk on the net my friend.”Grin”
mcbuttz78
vp- ps3 legionaires
Took me 5 min to download and install :P
And to state a FACT; hacking your mobile phone (iphone) to enable installations of 3rd party software is in FACT legal in the us, europe and most of the developed world.
Same goes for game consoles and computers. (exept for US, where sony decided to take it to court, but they will loose miserably and the law will again be adapted to include game consoles, not just mobile phones).
And just a curious side-note:
hackers created the internet, they started the internet culture, they invented computers, operating systems and computer networks.
They built the base for the internet from scratch!
And most of these hacks are free to use today, and we use them EVERY SINGLE DAY, without even a thought to those countless of hours spent in dorm rooms or basements, to provide the rich and interesting enviroment we today call computers, internet and what not.
So stop slander thease VERY skilled guys and gals out there, fighing our battles in courts and dorm rooms to protect our RIGHTS against the multinational companies that gives a rats arse about anything but money!
Hacking/learning/developing is our human rights, using OUR OWN hardware is our rights as consumers and nothing can take that away from us.
xarox.. dude you cannot know the sercurity code of sony hardware. with out there written consent.. if you get it bay force like your boy geo hotzz did . then your infringement..
Im going totell you somethign to shut you up . you could alwyas homebrew on your ps3 with out knowing the sercurity code of the console software. Hell… sony even had a site with home brew apps just 4 u guys. But you guys wanted more you wanted to hack the sercurty and steal .when your boy geo hottzz did that. sony took away your home brew privalges. DOnt be madd at sony be mad geo hottz.. failoverflow.. they wanted more when sony gave them a privalge that was golden.
When making frame wares with out sony persmission ur in defualt my friend like it ornot. Its kinda like you telling me to go into your wallet and take 10$, but i go in your wallet and take 10$ and your credit card number and put it up on the internet and say join my site . you get to see so and so credit card number and even use it.. How would you feel my friend
mcbuttz78
vp-ps3 legionaires
mcbuttz78 yes it’s sarcasm. You don’t understand that Sony is trying to set the stage for other corporations to do the same and say that guess what that netbook you just bought you don’t actually own. It’s about ownership rights, if you can’t understand that I guess I’ll have to fault your parents. I’m only 28 and can see the big picture here.
If sony succeeds with these lawsuits technological advances will become fewer and further in between as would be innovators are either sued or jailed for trying to push their hardware to the limits. You must forget these computers we own today wouldn’t exist without the original hackers who for all intents and purposes created the first personal computers.
So go ahead and support sony trying to stemy future innovations across the board (gaming systems and non). What the hell did the populace of the united states go socialist overnight? Am I the only one that is worried? If Sony is so worried about modding why does sony supply feds in the US with modded ps3’s that they use for various purposes to save on money? Why doesn’t Sony focus on the counterfeiters in China who pawn off personal mp3/video players as legitimate PSP’s complete with Sony’s logo.
teddybear348, Amen to legend of dragoon on the psn network :P, would love also to play kingdom hearts and all of that on the PS3
People that having trouble downloading the firmware, try it later because lots of people are trying to download it at the same time, so it “overloaded”…
retroactive, I have been your age b4 my friend. and i know the law becuase i was in the navy upholding the law. There are alot ways to homebrew a ps3, and you dont need to know sony’s sercurity code to do so. So your point of sony defending its product holds no weight.. Its the same as me taking your family credit card numbers and posting them up and every time they change them. i change them too so everyone can cheat them and use it. “Break your family” to be frank.. ANd i say if there stupid enough to leave it laying out they deserve it.
But look how may time im changing it up keep them under my foot and neglect them. Is that right?? No its not.If you and your family where losing 41 billion a yr. what would you do to me. Think about that my friend.
mcbuttz78
vp-ps3 legionaires
xarvox, so you didn’t know that The internet was originally for military use only until it was, released to the public. Hackers didn’t create the internet the Military did.. wow.. stop talking unless you know what you are talking about.
Yes you are also right that we have the obligation to protect our property that we bought if i remember correctly thats why they made CD-R and DVD-R to back up data after when the floppy disk was created.. sorry that i would love to keep safe $650 dollars worth of games here and a $300 dollar system… damn i didn’t know it was against the law to protect your property so i guess all the theives and criminals out their are really not breaking the law when breaking into houses stores and banks and all.