SantanaClaus89  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:02 am

SWEET!!!!

Jeff Rubenstein replied on January 20, 2009 at 9:17 am

PS: Glad to see that you all are seemingly logging in easily with your PSN ID. Migration go ok?

craazy  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:03 am

Waht else does it do?

chubigans  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:09 am

Looks awesome! Wooo!

Aaron  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:10 am

AWESOME! :)

RubMyDucky  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:10 am

Great work, Eric and to the PSN guys. :)

PS. I’m looking forward to In-DVD/Bru-Ray XMB. ;)

brentos  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:11 am

Nice. I’d still love more support for sub-directories on external hard drives in addition to playlist support on external drives.

RubMyDucky  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:12 am

It plays games in pure HD. :)

darkiewonder  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:12 am

PLEASE update the whole PSN activation. I would like to have a feature where I can deactivate all accounts online because The only way to deactivate is to go to the actual ps3? Come on now!

Stoffinator  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:12 am

Very nice feature guys. The lay out looks really good.

LegendarySWE  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:13 am

I love Divx.

NiteStrikerZero  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:14 am

Thank you! Now lets get in some more PSN features, you guys gotta check out the PS3 Updates board on the forums, tons of great ideas from the community

YippyKiAy  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:15 am

This is a cool update. But for the next update, you should be able to have two separate PSN IDs logged in at the same time. My brother plays with me all the time and it would be great for him to have a PSN ID with his own trophies. BTW, tell konami to intergrate PSN with Metal Gear Online.

OLy  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:16 am

Lame

XxBigP123xX  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:16 am

Yeah…give us PSN features, no this.

I mean, it’s great you keep adding to the PS3 as a multimedia device, but I play games on it first, watch movies and view photos second.

Weggingt  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:17 am

Will we be able to order prints of our photos from the PS3?

Evildude  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:17 am

Why do we need guest access?
This is just gonna lure lots of haters and non PS3 lovers…

For the rest of the stuff i think we can use the new Dvix update..

pscoolman  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:18 am

Yeah this is awesome now i can have something like photoshop. and also Eric will the update also give us more psn features?

Stargatefreak  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:19 am

Nice features, but i want a better friend list!

I have much friends and i want to group my friends in own categories, for example:
- Clan
- SOCOM friends
- etc.

This make the PS3 friend list more useful and friendlier!

depward  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:19 am

Good deal. Adding further multimedia capabilities is definitely a great step in the right direction.

vince_the_biker  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:19 am

Please, give us the PS2 backward compatibility in a future firmware !!!

RubMyDucky  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:19 am

@OLy If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say it. I’m sure Sony has put alot of effort into this firmware update.

YippyKiAy  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:20 am

One more thing, Put the battery meter on the bottom right and leave the clock/date on the top right. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!

Fersis  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:20 am

Sweet news.
And yes Jeff, the PSN ID login is working fine. :D

IceColdEskimo  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:21 am

I wish there was video support for .mkv files =[. This photo app. looks cool but I dont think ill find much use for it, maybe a more casual gamer will.

Sev1512  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:21 am

I love the photo gallery feature idea…

I am constantly fishing through hundreds of pics of my new daughter, when family visits, its going to be great to be able to organize things a bit better.

RT_Boston  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:21 am

Was waiting for the battery/clock comment. It’s a valid one.
Other than that… continue the good work.

It’s appreciated.

RubMyDucky  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:22 am

@Jeff. The migration process was smooth as butter. :)

Jeff Rubenstein replied on January 20, 2009 at 9:41 am

Nice!

jayrockslife  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:22 am

I never left comments because I could never remember that random code password they gave me and could never figure our how to change it.

Now i’ll actually leave some comments.

@22.. or put it in the top right just below the clock instead of over top it.

Flava18  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:22 am

Nice update, thanks Eric :)

vince_the_biker  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:22 am

It’ll be great to see a message alert near the clock when we have a message from a friend !!

AlterEgo  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:23 am

The migration hasn’t gone perfectly unless I’m mistaken.

I logged in fine and merged my accounts but I was under the impression that PSBlog would from now on be using my PSN name when instead it still uses my PSBlog name.

Is this correct or is it going to change to my PSN name later on?

Jeff Rubenstein replied on January 20, 2009 at 9:42 am

We’re looking into this now. It’s supposed to be the PSN ID.

thanks for pointing this out.

issa3032  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:23 am

Looks awesome. That dedicated photo app looks like it will give Picasa a run for it’s money. Eric please let suggest that the PS3 firmware staff work on implementing cross-game chat because that is seriously the last remaining gaming related addition we need.

BTW, just saying hi to Jeff (it’s Andre from the Insomniac Community Day) !!

Christian399  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:23 am

Excellent. The PSP firmware should be out soon too (though it’s just a security update).

Oh, and for the love of Chr*st, please ADVERTISE KZ2. You know, on televisions and such. Where people will actually see the game.

Cheers,
- C

PirateThom  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:23 am

I posted yesterday, but I’ll ask again.

Would it ever be possible to have an option to make trophies auto-synch, like when you play a trophy enabled game and then return to the XMB, they’ll synch instead of having to visit the trophy icon or Trophy card?

rothbart  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:24 am

Completely unexpected features, but welcome nonetheless. Photo Gallery looks like it has some neat tech… “smile detection”? I wouldn’t even have the foggiest how that “really” works… but cool.

Alclay  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:24 am

I really like that Photo application. I’ve always been wanting some way to organize my photos more extensively on my PS3.

I’m definantly looking forward to this!

malomeat  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:25 am

I love this so much. The Playstations get better and better!

XxBoR1CuAxX  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am

cool keep up the good work

YippyKiAy  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am

@28..yea that would work too. I just hope Jeff is reading this.

playa7970  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am

please bring back backwards compatibility

jcmarkel  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am

Cool. I love firmware updates. Any word on some new avatars or custom ones? And will it finally be safe to change our passwords on our PSN accounts without incurring that notorious TROPHY virus error?

JordanBlack68  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am

Needs better features, have you moved the battery indicitor yet?

pixelKillerBR  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am

And how about support for srt subtitle? It would be super.

GrayFox1992  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:27 am

It’s great to see you guys (and gals) are constantly adding new features…although nothing in this update appeals to me i’m sure many others will appreciate it :D

Gotoxy-90  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:27 am

Is there a BIG surprise in FW 2.60? :P

DeathroW22  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:28 am

Thanks SCEA! Us europeans would be totally lost if it was not for you.

Anyway, could anyone comment on the cross-game chat possibility, you said that you were evaluating the possibility of adding it back with the 2.40 update and it would be nice if we could get one of the following replies (Because i know you most likely could not say much):

1) We’re not planning anything
2) Its a possibility
3) We’re still evaluating
4) No.

Thanks again though, PLEASE reply – i know you cannot say much but i’m sure you can just pick reply with one of the numbers i listed :)

YippyKiAy  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:28 am

PSN ID integration worked great Jeff.

issa3032  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:28 am

Yeah PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE advertise the HECK out of Killzone 2.
If you guys are wondering why Resistance 2 and Little Big Planet sales are mediocre, it’s because your advertising budget was low and the actual advertisements were uninspired.

Gothdom  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:28 am

Cool update.

This may sound trivial, but could we get more visualisation for the music player? (something like Milk for winamp comes to mind)

NathanJ  |  January 20th, 2009 at 9:29 am

“implementing cross-game chat ”

Oh shut up.

No one gives a damn about that stupid feature idiot. Go play with your RRoD box if that is so F-ing important to you.