PlayStation 3 Firmware (v3.00) Update

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Hi everyone, PlayStation 3 (PS3) firmware update (v3.00) adds a number of great new features that we’re excited to share with you. The latest update incorporates changes that improve navigation on your PS3. First, you’ll notice some cosmetic changes to the design of the XMB (Xross Media Bar). We’ve enhanced the look and feel of the XMB so that it’s easier and even more intuitive to use. We’ve also added network improvements and personalization options to help enhance your PS3 experience.

Additional highlights from update 3.00 include:

  • “What’s New” – The “Information Board” will be replaced with a “What’s New” section, which allows you to enjoy interactive PlayStation news every time you start the PS3 system. Located under the PlayStation Network icon, “What’s New” displays the latest and greatest game, video, PlayStation Network and PlayStation news and releases, as well as your recently played games, in a sleek, new animated format.
  • Status Indicator – In the top right corner we’ve added an indicator bar, which displays your user icon, friend icon, the number of friends you have online and a small message icon to let you know if you have any new messages. The indicator also includes a scrolling ticker that features the latest news from PlayStation Network. In addition, when you press the PS button, the battery life indicator will no longer cover up the clock.
  • Friends List – Now your PlayStation Network friends will appear in a slightly redesigned format on your Friends List. Also, messages will now be viewable from each of your friends’ respective profiles.
  • PlayStation Store Shortcuts – We’ve added a handy shortcut icon to the PlayStation Store under both the Game and Video categories so you can access the latest content quickly and easily.
  • Personalization – Personalize your PS3 with new dynamic custom themes and avatars. Dynamic themes as well as free and premium avatars will be available through PlayStation Store. A dynamic theme takes your screen to a whole new level as it incorporates animated objects into the background.
  • Trophies – Showcasing your hard earned trophies just got better. Update 3.00 gives game developers the ability to modify how they display trophies for add-on content. Base and add-on game trophies will continue to be combined into a single list so you can see where you stand in a game as a whole. Within that list, trophies will be broken out into subcategories—base trophies and add-on trophies—that way, you can easily view the percentage of your base game trophy collection, and separately track your trophy progress in add-on packs. Look for this enhancement to be included in upcoming games.

To get a preview of what’s coming in update 3.00, check out the video below:

We’re looking forward to releasing firmware update 3.00 soon. As always, we appreciate your feedback.

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  • Oh yeah and Blu-ray XMB access while watching a movie is needed.

  • Hi, I just thought of this while I am waiting for the dirt 2 demo to finish downloading. But, how about a special “tone” that plays when something finishes downloading? You can have the option to turn it on or off(Or even set a specific volume for it), but I would really like this feature.

  • so in the past people could make there own themes. now are you going to provide the ability for users to create dynamic themes as well?

    and will there ever be a custom avatar adoption?

    and will the “whats new” be as updated as the infobar (never updated hardly)

    how will this affect my roommates japanese psn account?

  • sony this is nice but you’ve droped the ball again i expected this to be a HUGE overhall. you know how your moto is “it can only due everything” well then show us bring on the cross game chat cross game invites use of avatars outside of home u know. and sony i wouldnt mide laying a couple bucks a month down if it means better updates and better sevices how do u think xbox got there cool updates and apps like facebook and twiter
    by charging for there services and they returened the favor u need to do the same. and maybe an improved web browser atleast buy just a little.

  • BREAKING NEWS READ

    LMAO ANYWAY THIS IS GONNA BE THE LAST UPDAE FOR 2009 IF YOUR NOT HAPPY YOU GONNA HAVE TO WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR FOR THE NEXT UPDATE I READ ON SOMEWERE THAT ERIC TOLD EVRYONE THEY WORKING ON A LIL SUMFN SO JUS WAIT AND SEE YEAH SEE WHATS IN STORE BUT THIS UPDATE IS JUST WHAT YOU GONNA GET IS THE STUFF WRITEN ON TOP CYA LATRS HOMES

  • FANTASTIC! Love the new motion themes and status bar! How about some new visuals for the music player? Just a thought :P. Great work!

  • I don’t understand why everyone is asking for Hulu to work. It already does. I simple pick the vid I want to watch and presto it starts.

  • These new features look pretty good. But what I want Sony to do in one of their updates is to add refunds in the playstation store. Because I have a lot of stuff I dont want on my account and I cant give it back and get my money back so I’ll be happy to see this in an update.

  • Also how come in the UK where I live we don’t get PULSE? I hope Sony hasn’t neglected us.

  • Well after reading endless and endless blogs and faqs, all I can say is ITS ABOUT TIME SONY..so what have we learned that we’re going to get an update, some may say its gonna rock and others say its gonna blow. All I can say wait till sept.1st and we’ll all make our decisions.

  • Firstly, the animated themes looks cool and I guess the status bar would prove useful. Other than that, I don’t see anything else of interest (at least for me) coming in this update.

    I do have 3 requests, yes ‘only’ 3 lol:

    1. Trophy Removal; I have a number of trophy entries for games that I have played/rented which I no longer have. I would appreciate the ability to *DELETE* these entries in order to maintain an accurate trophy list of games that I do have.

    *** This has been requested by others so I do believe that alot of people would find this useful. (If someone is monitoring feedback – a comment to confirm one way or another would be much appreciated.) ***

    2. Game Sorting; It would be good to be able to sort games by title ASC/DESC; surely this can’t be that difficult to implement ?

    3. Folders; The ability to organize content the way I want it into sub-folders. For example, I might have XMB Music(GROUP)-> Madonna(Folder)-> 1..n(Sub-Folders)-> 1..n(Sub-Folders) etc.

    Other than that I’m happy; keep up the good work and hope that some of what I’ve requested gets implemented (Trophy Removal hint hint)

  • This is disgusting…

    I’ve never seen so many ungrateful brats in my life. We get a new update, with a bunch of cool stuff, and all the comments reveal is whining and crying.

    First of all everything has to install after you download it. I dunno what type of bandwidth you guys have, but it’s not long at all. 360 doesn’t load up games any faster, it’s still uses DVD, which does make a difference in quality, and it’s very loud. PS3 is a better piece of hardware,and you guys are really complaining about small features like X-game chat. If it was really that serious, why not just start a chat room?

    There are ways to communicate very clearly and easy using your PS3. X360 does it a little smoother. It’s not the end of the world, as there are tons of gamers (including me) that don’t care AT ALL about X-game chat. I have about 2 real friends on PS3, and there always in a chat room that I can easily find them. Or better yet, just send a message…

    Better avatar support would be nice though, bringing your Home avatar to the XMB is obviously a good choice. And please, to stop these little brats from crying add X-game chat. It’s like X360 can’t have one little thing better on it. Geez…losers

  • WTF HAPPENED TO THE CROSS GAME CHAT! everything is nice but that is really the number one priority now thnx!!

  • Just pure awesomeness!!!!

    This is exactly what i’ve been hoping for! 3/D backgrounds for the XMB! I’m so excited about the neat looking sparkles that are going to be on my background 8) That Little Big Planet theme look sweet, can’t wait to set it as my background.

    Now hopefully next you guy’s will bring more backgrounds for when you play music, just 3 to choose from is a bummer 8(

  • Eric, please, at least give us some notion, as to whether or not you guys are planning on ever releasing the cross-game voice chat functionality and if so, whether or not you have already started working on it?

    We are dying here.

    Typical Issue caused by lack of XGVC:
    “Hey man, i’m gonna play some MGO.”
    “Ahh, I’ll talk to you later then, I want to finish this movie before my rental expires”

  • This sounds all great. But there is still one small thing that i miss with the Throphies, and that is a progres bar. If the trophy is “Kill 100 chickens”, and ive killed 20 of then then i want to be able to see “20/100 chicken killed”

  • does it work for the 80gb uk version? + isit a free updatee? let me kno crawty

  • what a bunch of tossers. Be happy, play and enjoy, if not, come up with your own console. I’m happy, must be the only 1 the way most of you talk.
    Sony keep the good stuff coming.

  • We don’t need cross chat
    WE need a FIX to the 80029780 error or the update is DOA

  • I WANT A FLASH UPDATE ON THE WEB BROWSER!
    and it wouldnt kill anyone if your made the web browser itself faster.

    Also there are an insanely large amounts of PSN errors about random log outs not being able to log in and server connections problems.

  • FW 3.0 Looks good. Keep up the good work. I was looking for a gaming system to play Rock Band 2. I bought the PlayStation 3 because it is a BluRay player, I can install Linux, it can be a Media Server client, has great multimedia abilities. The PlayStation 3 has become the computer in my media cabinet. I would love to see a full featured mainstream browser. Maybe something based on the Firefox code base? I would also love to see a subscription based movie service that works like NetFlix.

  • I lost a large amount of money playing Texas Holdem Poker on ps3 home. The problem being the game locked up 4 to 5 times.I was told by a person in charge that, They had to be playing the game with you in order for you to get your money back.This dosent sound like good customer support to me.Anyone that has the same problem or Knows how to take care of this one please contact me.I would like to get my money back thank you.

  • nice but i want to be able to set the original background, the wave (and now sparkle) thing, to be black all the time and not just at the end of the day

  • This is gonna be awesome!

  • still more be done yet.

    .in game music
    .fast web browers
    .ps3 blog app
    .email support
    .ebuddy app
    .better music play
    .passwords on main user
    .move icon around
    .youtube app
    .face book/and more
    .better video layout
    . ipod supports
    .

  • Release it already!

  • Are all dynamic themes going to cost money or are some going to be free?

  • ps3 jus needs cross chat now, and you see that feature it mentioned in the video about how you can play the last disc game, does this mean that you can play the game without using the disc???

  • So, is this out now, or not?

  • I can’t wait for tomorrow, already checking if is out and is not

  • @1582

    Honestly, i don’t mean to be rude, but complaining that you can’t afford a PS3 with BC, then complaining when they drop the price and remove the BC is single-handedly the most retarded idiotic dumb@ss thing ever.

    If you couldn’t afford a BC PS3, that’s your own damn fault, and you can deal with a non-BC PS3. Not everything in the world comes for free, and if you wanted a BC PS3 then you should have bought one when they were still around.
    If SONY were to announce a new BC PS3 tomorrow for 399.99, would anybody here buy it?
    If you answered yes to that question, then… get your @ss on eBay. There’s plenty there.

  • If BC is such a big thing then go and buy a PS2, they play all the PS2 games and not just some of them and they look better, also there about £40 on ebay.

    With regards to cross game chat, it seems there are alot of people who want this, I am not one. I have an XBOX 360 which has had this for years and most of the time all you hear are prepubescent boys who have a bad case of tourettes and just give you abuse when you beat them.

  • Oh yes, finaly its going to be smooth with a new firmware with alot of new features
    and stuf!
    Good job Sony!

    – NorSkater

  • LEGEND but i thoght i would of ben bettea

  • comment 1776

    am with you all them features am after to

  • Please let Firmware 3.00 have new and better Codecs support!!! :)

  • for all those people who want BC, you guys should of bought a ps3 when they first came out.. plus, there is no update in the world that would make the current ps3 BC. there is a hardware involved in order for a ps3 to become BC (you guys are such IDIOTS!!!) now excuse me while i go play a ps2 game on my ps3 console. No No No wait, let me go play a ps1 game on my ps3 console.

  • @1788

    First off I want to say that I did pay the money when PS3 came out and I do have BC on my PS3

    Now Sony does have a patent out for emulation of the EE chip without need of having the EE chip.

    Second your comment about the Ps1 games on PS3 fails because all PS3 systems can play PS1 games. That comment made you look stupid and immature

    I can see where alot of the PS3 owners w/o BC are coming from having that extra space on your entertainment center can mean alot and some people have had PS2s break down recently

    I hope for those who couldn’t afford a PS3 at launch or wanted to wait and make sure the PS3 wasn’t going to 360 and missed the BC ability that you will soon be able to have your PS2 games back

    BrKn ^__^

  • Holy [DELETED] new update, don’t care, it’s not like the entire worlds changing

  • Nice, but Still waiting for a better Party system.. The playstation 3 is still mainly used for games, get on the ball already and allow universal chat. I had to but an xbox so I could have a gaming console, sure wish my PS3 had a gaming console feature

  • someone run a poll or something about this ingame chat we all want and then we can get sony to do this.

  • I only want ONE thing in this update and i will seriously be happiest person in entire world if this comes true.

    DIVX 7 and finally MKV support! Please Sony gods make it happen!

  • This is an awesome update. Very well done, the only thing I would have added is the ability to change the color of the text, otherwise very awesome.

    Get your Portable ID!

  • Yes! Coming out tomorrow confirmed on VG247!!!

  • Please custom font (color and size) plz

  • If you guys are not going to put in backwards compatibility. At least give us some PS2 download games come on sony.

  • all i want is in game music dont care about BC or crooss game chat

  • I’m the 1800, what’s the prize?…

    Couple hours to go. Wating for the 3.00 & 1.3.

  • nice it would also be cool if you could add trophy’s to the older games so poeple that bought ps3 when it came out can play the agmes again with a goal

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