PlayStation 3 Firmware (v3.10) Update Preview

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Hi everyone, here’s an early peek at PlayStation 3 (PS3) firmware update (v3.10). The latest update incorporates Facebook into the PS3 experience. By linking your PlayStation Network account to your Facebook account, you will have the option for the PS3 to automatically update your Facebook News Feed with Trophy and PlayStation Store activity. This update also enables developers to set specific criteria in their titles to publish additional game information to your News Feed. You can then check out your updates, and those of your friends, on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media favorites through the PS3’s built-in web browser.

This is just the beginning of our integration with Facebook and we are looking forward to adding new features enhancing the experience in future updates.

Additional highlights from update 3.10 include:

  • The Photo category on the XMB has been revamped to make it easier to see more of your photos stored on the PS3.
  • The PSN Friends List has been modified based on feedback we received after update 3.00. Additionally, you can now choose a color for your PSN ID on the XMB.

To get a preview of what’s coming in update 3.10, check out the video below:

We’re looking forward to releasing firmware update 3.10 soon. As always, we appreciate your feedback.

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  • This update is total f***ing bulls*** sony. I can’t f***ing use the facebook feature because of my f***ing sub account. I would create another account if it wasn’t for the fact that all of my purchases, friends, and 512 trophies. You f***ing bastards need to think before you come out with an update. This isn’t the last u’ll hear of me.

  • I haven’t been able to sync up trophies since the update. Not sure if it’s related.

  • would playstation ever get yahoo messager the would be great and having the system to be the first to have a ps3 cam to work wit yahoo make people happy wit friends in the army,navy,or airforce? think about it sony THANKS FOR LISTEN

  • sync issues is happening everywhere on controller, headset…
    Many, many things stopped working after updating to 3.10…

    3.10 pissing me off

  • since the update… My playstation stopped reading blue-ray, and game discs. why is that? this is the first time that has happend.

  • 3.10 Borked my PS3- Bluray movies play for 30 min and then freeze. Games (Borderlands) play ok, but lack of BluRay playback is truly annoying. Fix now, please or I go back to Microsoft.
    And change slogan to “It Does Almost Everything. Usually.”

  • Sooo since this update Ive been having Trophy sync issues annnnnnd….Playing PS2 games on my 60gig got visualy worse….anyone else notice the new jaggies? or is it just me.

  • Screw this. Make games.

  • After this new update, I was playing Gow Collection, a few hours later, the game freeze…

    I turned off Ps3 to the power switch, and then turned on…

    Now, PS3- Blu-ray driver not working afterall… Don’t recognize any Blu-ray or Dvd discs… Why???

  • very crap update my ps3 is not working.sort it out.

    that is not a facebook app. should be some thing like the xbox but bet.

    we need twitter /his/myspace/bbc radio/last fm. apps
    .in game music and in cross chat
    .icon size
    .youtube app
    .move icons.
    this is the ps3 and it best thing in world bet then xbox and wii come on make it ever bet. plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz bring these things.

  • come on sony………

  • what i want is….
    psn characters (like xbox live only look good)
    to be able to voice chat during gameplay
    a facebook tab including whats new, ect.
    to be able to play games with my character
    a recorder to record the screen in good quality
    and yeah
    i hope you make this
    PLEASE MAKE THESE FEATURES IT’LL MEAN UR THE BEST CONSOLE CREATOR

    P.S: Right now im thinking of trading my ps3 for a 360!

  • the only thing i need is a working ps3. please fix the firmware problems soon. all i know is i cant play mw2 or any of my games. that really sucks…..I guess i could always get an xbox.

  • i dont have the Facebook app on mine and yes i do have the 3.10 update please help

  • Argh.. can’t.. link.. with.. Facebook
    Somebody Help Me

  • too bad none of us can sync our controllers now and we have to use USB.

  • I have an original 60gb model that hasn’t given me any problems until I upgraded the firmware to 3.1. Now my games(Madden 10, Unchartered 2) freeze all the time. Even when I try to quit a frozen game, I get the “quit game” screen with the controller options black screen, it freezes at that point, not allowing me to choose anything. After waiting a few minutes and nothing happening, I turn off the main power switch, power on again & get the error notification message. I’ve sent about 10 notices to SONY so far. I wish they would come out with a fix, a patch or something.

  • I think a huge part of the ps community would eventually like to see global trophy rankings, will this ever be possible?

  • The facebook thing is nice.I would like it if they could make an update where we could put more avatars for our account picture cause I really dont like the once that are avilable.It dose`nt have to be costume ones but atleaste put new once on the playstation store so we could download them and put them there.I really want one of batman but there are`nt any.

  • Nice updates. I would like to see one feature added – split into two, to be precise. Namely, my audio receiver (Sony HT-SS360) has no Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD MA decoder. Therefore, I need to switch BD/DVD audio to Linear PCM under Video Settings each time I want to watch a BD movie. When I want to watch a DVD, I have to switch it back to Bitstream in order to use MV-DCS sound field on my receiver (it does not support sound fields on Linear PCM input). So, long story short, could the dev team split BD/DVD audio into BD and DVD settings separately in the next firmware release?

    Thanks!

  • The most powerful gaming console on the market and you give us Facebook….

    (Smashes head on keyboard)

    It would be nice if we could have (INGAME CROSS CHAT) so we can play with our mates without getting abuse from other PS3 users.

    (Skype) would be nice to have as a (INGAME CROSS CHAT) program, you have it on the PSP so please can we have it on the PS3. I would happy to pay for it if you put it on the download section.

    (INGAME CROSS CHAT) (please!!!!)

  • Future update suggestions:

    Trophy Delete!!!

    Toggle for friend notifications during video playback 

    Leave audio messages for friends 

    Better on-screen keyboard (replicate the Danzeff OSK found here: http://pspupdates.qj.net/index.php?pg=49&aid=23876)

    Reorder downloads in download manager

    Delete Internet search history

    More video shortcuts via controller (L3 & R3 = Skip forward & Skip back)

    Toggle to default all system dialogues to “Yes” not “No” (aka “Quit Game”). And move “Delete Complete” and “Install Complete” to a upper corner notifier, instead of having to press circle to go back to XMB. 

    Ability to easily add files to a album grouping in XMB… annoying having to type in album title to each individual file

    The browser should auto-zoom the text field when entering data.

    When your deep in XMB menus (especially on media server directories) holding left should back you out of the subdirectories to the root xmb category and stop there. 

  • How about applying the picture browsing update for when one browses pictures on a media server as well, instead of just local folders only?

    How about doing this for videos also?

  • good work Sony.
    but wen i try to update my status thru the PS3 it goes to a blank page lol. hope ur working on that :)

  • How can I show off my entire trophy collection on face book? Right now it just show’s my last 3 brutal legend trophies.

  • i just tried installing update 3.1 and halfway through the install i get a error 8002f1f0. i tried restarting and it just loops back to the install and gives me back the error… any ideas about this

  • This is cool, but I’d like to have upgrades for the browser. I wanted to stream windows media video from a website, but the current browser doesn’t support this plug in. I heard about some rumor about Firefox being ported to PS3. I hope this is true.

  • Hello Eric Lempel, just wanted to let you know I think you’ve been doing a great job with our updates. As we all know you are working hard to give us the things we want, waiting patiently on the Voice chat. I was curious, hopefully you’ll respond to this post, are you able to give us an install option to our HDD’s for our games? Not to run the games without discs, but to have them partially loaded to our HDD’s. For example, Modern 2 has been hitting Blu-ray drives harshly, I believe because of Infinity Wards texture streaming. So the game, while playing online maps mostly, the game seems to utilize the disc way too much. It would be nice to have those online maps installed on the Harddrive as an option. I, and many, wouldn’t mind replacing a HDD if something went wrong, but a Blu-ray drive would crush our little hearts. Is this something Sony could do or does Infinity Ward have to give us a patch to make this possible? If it has to be done on Infinity Ward’s side of programming, could you tell them to do it for us please? A response from you would be highly appreciated. And again thank you for giving us all the great features to put our PS3’s in front of the so-called “Console War”.

  • you still have not fixed what you have broken. your retarded update made it so i can’t even view things on this blog or my favorite video site everything says application not supported what the hell is the matter with you take this update and shove it up your asses

  • why cant i play music and go on the web at the same time anymore it says do you what to stop playback ever time what the f**k

  • When browsing videos, after a brief moment the titles of nonselected disappears completely. These titles used to remain on the screen.

    Could there be an option for these titles not to disappear ?

  • Add the opition to change your psn ID I know you can on xbox so why can’t we on ps3.
    I know I could make a new psn but then I would have to get al my friends again and get my 424 trophies back please add if you don’t read I will repost on the next firmware update preview please add this feature

  • What’s even more hilarious is how if something is a function on the 360 or Wii it’s ‘kiddy’ or ‘laughable’, but as soon as the POS 3 gets it it’s ‘zomg innovative’.

    Stop trying to copy the companies that are kicking you around like a red headed stepchild this gen, Sony.

    Imitation may the sincerest form of flattery, but it looks like you’re just playing catch up to the competition.

  • Does anyone else experience an error when trying to synch trophies after updating to this firmware? It usually happens with me when the load time reaches about 80 percent. I know I can’t be the only one.

  • That’s another one of the issues the new FW created, YellowBoy. We all need to start bugging the hell out of the people at Sony until they FIX this with a patch.

  • Nice update, I cant wait to see what the future has in stored for the integration with facebook. Hopefully there will be better support for Facebook on the ps3’s browser in later updates.
    Suggestions for Later:

    Like the photo update, something similar for the the Games Section. Like creating folders or simply separating the demo’s from Down Loaded games.

    -The ability to appear offline.
    -A memory manager would do wonders.
    -The ability to listen to your own tracks while browsing through the psn store.
    -Also a way to categorize friends

    Overall, I have to say im very satisfied with this system and feel like every penny spent towards it was well worth it! Great Job and can’t wait to see what the future has in-stored!

  • I am having the bluetooth controller issue that this update causes.

  • lucky for me i just bought a refurbished ps3 (80gb backward comp)from a co. that has a 90 day return policy. and yes, i too am a victim of the 3.10 firmware update. the system did play games prior to me updating the firmware. after the update, my games will freeze 3-5 mins in or it won’t load at all and had a couple of error msgs. i wonder if this was sony’s attempt to sabotage what’s left of the old systems and force us to buy into the newer and lower quality slim version. we’ll never know. i feel sorry for the gamers who’s warranty has expired through sony. by the way, one of the customer rep from the co. i bought from said they had a majority of their systems returned. they said one of the system tested the motherboard was jacked up! i’ll be letting this co. deal with sony. i’ll be also looking forward to see how many systems i can jack up and keep returning until i get an indestructible unit! hopefully sony will get their act together and hire competent programmers or their stock will continue to fall!

  • lucky for me i just bought a refurbished ps3 (80gb backward comp)from a co. that has a 90 day return policy. and yes, i too am a victim of the 3.10 firmware update. the system did play games prior to me updating the firmware. after the update, my games will freeze 3-5 mins in or it won’t load at all and had a couple of error msgs. i wonder if this was sony’s attempt to sabotage what’s left of the old systems and force us to buy into the newer and lower quality slim version. we’ll never know. i feel sorry for the gamers who’s warranty has expired through sony. by the way, one of the customer rep from the co. i bought from said they had a majority of their systems returned. they said one of the system tested the motherboard was jacked up! i’ll let this co. deal with sony and will look forward to seeing how many systems i can jack up and keep returning until i get an indestructible unit! hopefully sony will get their act together and hire competent programmers or their stock will continue to fall!

  • FIX THE CONTROLLER SYNC ISSUES, SONY!!!! Stop adding so much garbage to the XMB with these updates. Allow us to get on PSN without having to be forced to download these updates before we know whether or not they’re going to mess up our systems in one way or another.

    I’ll be posting this at least once a day and I’ll be escalating it to once an hour until I see an actual response from you idiots.

    NOW FIX THE DAMNED CONTROLLER ISSUES FOR THOSE OF US WHO ONLY GOT THEM AFTER YOUR STUPID FRICKIN’ UPDATE!!!!!

    Get the code monkeys working on a solution already, as this having to re-sync the controllers every so many days is getting old.

  • So whens the next update that will be sweet?

  • FIX MY PS3, Sony. You idiots messed it up with your stupid firmware update, now FIX IT.

  • My controller is still losing sync with the PS3, Sony. Your stupid firmware update caused it.

    NOW FIX IT, idiots.

  • FIX MY PS3, Sony. FIX THE CONTROLLER SYNC ISSUES SINCE FW 3.10.

  • Please include Bluetooth AD2P support in a future PS3 firmware update.

    Thank you.

  • This should make my gaming and facebook life easier

  • Well, after having to call Sony’s customer service line(1-800-345-SONY(7669), they told me to restore my file system on my PS3 and it would fix the controller sync issues.

    Thus far that seems to have done the trick, but we shall see.

  • A lot of people on youtube saying that after the 3.10 update u can’t sync trophies bluetooth headset don’t work and wireless controller have to always stay plugged in to play. it happened to me too and my cousin. am just trying to spread the word that there’s problem u guys need to make an update to fix that or am going with xbox 360.

  • I always wanted the update that was added to the photos in 3.10 to be implemented on the PSP. Photos viewable vertically on a horizontal grid. That’s something I’ve been wanting on the PSP for an ill minute.

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