will_orz  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Excellent!

ro13ert159  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

1st comment sweet addition

Aaron  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:47 pm

Awesome! I love PS3 only features :)

Mana Knight  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:47 pm

Now this news is really cool. :D

reson8er  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

lol @#2

F A I L

This is great, I’m going to check it out as soon as I get home from work.

Thanks for thinking of stuff like this, and improving on the web browsing experience on PS3.

outkast32  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:50 pm

nice.. great feature. im really glad to see the PS team still trying to enhance the web browser! i give them MAJOR props because i use my ps3 web browser daily and i know LOTS LOTS LOTS of people do also.

kudos to you guys.

speaking on enhancement.. were about ready for another firmware update arn’t we? hmm maybe febuarary or march.

if sony wants to know: MOST WANTED PSN FEATURES:

1 PSN party system (through the xmb- not home)

2 in game chat/in game cross game invites. (through the xmb- not home)

SevenFactors  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:51 pm

Awesome, I like this new feature. PLUS PLUS for the PS3.

Now we need the same for HULU.

We all love HULU and you guys know it ~_^

Chris Morell replied on January 15, 2009 at 3:30 pm

I want it for NBA League Pass Broadband. It works, but needs a little love.

KoD7085  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

Looks cool.

NewYork214  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

hmm. thats actually pretty cool.

NathanJ  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

Good job Sony. Seems like you guys are working non-stop on features everyone wants.

“cross game invites”

LOL, like anyone wants this silly feature other than as some sort of bullet point for Microsoft’s crappy online service.

Sakimori_X  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:57 pm

SCHWEET!!

Ghostm  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

This a very cool feature. I can dig it!

elorm9  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

Nice, thanks for your efforts to make this possible :)

playa7970  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

i thought this feature was already added

Daver  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Nice! Hey i saw Fat princess in your game! when ia it available for us ?! :)

Jeff Rubenstein replied on January 15, 2009 at 2:38 pm

Good eye ;-)

When we announce a release date, it’ll be right here.

ftwrthtx  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

I watch live sporting events from G0211.com quite often, and also all of my own BMX vids from YouTube.

youtube.com/user/ftwrthtx

BiezulbubBill69  |  January 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

at 11 seconds when the playstation site comes up in the browswer, mine doesn’t look like that! Mine only has the blog and the 3 other options underneath. How do I get mine to show up like that at 11 seconds??

willacuz  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

I agree, major lol @ 2….

this is INCREDIBLE! thanks sony! Any news on EOJ?

scorpio  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Great work in getting something like this done.

Much appreciated.

Nito025  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Cross game invitessss, xmb party system, more psn avatars!!!!!! Let’s see an update! Its been ages!!!!

Props on the You Tube support! Gotta love the 3rd party PS3 support! Keep up the good work!

JoE 15  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Just tried it out and it works really well. Great job guys!

Ghostm  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

Can you guys add this feature in the next firmware update. Every now and then while gaming I step away from the screen. The funny thing is, that’s exactly when I receive a new message. But by the time I’m back. I’m totally unaware of the new message. Maybe you guys can put a flashing message icon that pops on the upper right or left of the screen every 3 minutes? That would be cool.

Thanks

AceGamer  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

I like it.

Although, I would prefer a ‘YouTube’ icon in the XMB instead.

But don’t stop there, though. Hulu, maybe?

DeadBow  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

I saw Fat Princess and the Resident Evil demo. Lucky Man.

schwaa  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:03 pm

nice work!

Neil  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

That’s pretty cool.

schwaa  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

@22

i was gonna request that feature as well

CowboyDan  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

Fantastic! Great job partnering with Google!

I am sure you are already looking into doing the same thing for Hulu.com. But, if you aren’t that would be very much appreciated.

PsychoEddie  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Was this really necessary?

Trieloth  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

Thats cool, and yes its necessary, thank you very much.

EvoAnub1s  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

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MiiAmigo  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

I guess it could be cool to see dummies doing stupid stuff on my big screen. We shall see.

EvoAnub1s  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

I hope money wasn’t spent on this walled off area of youtube. Is this Sony’s way of trying to restrict what you can see with youtube? Too bad effort wasn’t spent on making custom soundtracks mandatory past a certain date as was done with trophies, cross game voice chat, cross-game invites, or a party system.

EvoAnub1s  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:15 pm

I thought the there was already an update to allow full screen flash.

blog.us.playstation.com/2008/12/01/ps3-firmware-v253-update/

C-h-a-o-s  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:16 pm

What about PSP users that have been crying for youtube support since 2006? PS3 and PSp should go hand in hand with the simple things.

erico316  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

now i see the reason for youtube partership

sbf717  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:19 pm

That’s awesome. Is there anyway you could extend this feature to PSP via a Youtube app??

illegalprelude  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

Hi Ginger, although I wont get into details, I myself work for a high profile tech company and one of the things ive been confused about and always thought about is, why does the PS3 via a firmware, not get a direct link to YouTube.

This comes and address what im talking about in some aspect, but where we currently have our WebBrowser and Search button, a direct link to YouTube would be nice that heck, might even directly just go to this site that your talking about right now.

We see them from devices like the iPhone that can go to youtube.com but have their own YouTube app, to other things like the AppleTV, TiVo Series 3 and Tivo HD units.

I would love to know your thoughts and comments on this.

SPARDA  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

That’s great feature.
It would be cool if (in a future update) Sony would integrate it a separate icon on the XMB like the google search icon

Thanks

SPARDA

LeonBlade  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Omg!!!!

This is awesome!!!!
PS3 FTW!!!!!!

Wuggyboobeaufuf  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

I’d rather have some exclusive games.

I can watch Youtube on my computer.

How is this awesome in any way?

Games Please!

xaos  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

This is very cool; I had been disappointed by the clunkiness of watching youtube on the PS3 so I’m glad this is being addressed.

For folks who want youtube on PSP, I imagine that it is not as simple as people seem to think. Flash is a beast of an application to support in my experience, and I’m amazed that even basic Flash support is present on the PSP. I can’t imagine how hard (if possible at all) it would be to get a satisfactory Flash video experience on the highly constrained PSP environment.

kadab  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

dude is that FAT PRINCESS and RESIDENT EVIL 5 DEMO you have there in your XMB
( watch the clip and pause at 4 seconds)

yunier91  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

wow totally cool ,now we need HULU

barom  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

I would be all over this feature, except for the fact that I use my PC monitor for both my PS3 and computer.

Cool to know when I get myself a real HDTV though.

3AM  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:31 pm

Awesome…This is a cool feature..

So now wheres the cross game voice chat?

crystalx3d  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

A lot of people on here don’t understand that this isn’t a sony firmware thing, it’s just google making a special youtube site that’s easier to use on the ps3 (just like the g4tv ps3 site). I would personally prefer to see a special youtube app that doesn’t use the browser or flash but instead uses the high quality h.264 videos youtube has for iphone and apple tv, perhaps with the option to save to hard drive. Unfortunately, the low quality .flv videos youtube uses look even worse when you blow them up to full screen.

BitRunner303  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

Hope this gets integrated with Home somehow!

BitRunner303  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:42 pm

PS: I would STRONGLY recommend an XMB Icon for this feature, not everyone who owns a PS3 reads these blogs.

crystalx3d  |  January 15th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Also, if you go to the link, you’ll see that this isn’t exclusive to the ps3. It also works with the wii browser (just like the g4tv site) and it says it will also support new set top boxes with browsers when they become available.