Update on PS3 Firmware 3.00

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SCEA is aware of reports that PS3 owners are experiencing isolated issues with their PS3 system since installing the most recent system software update (v3.00). Rest assured that we are looking into the matter and will provide an update here as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience, as it’s our mission to deliver the best consumer experience on all PlayStation platforms.

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  • Just Make An Update That’s Like 2.80!And Then Everything Will Be Fine.Also If you Can Add More VideoCodecs That’d Be Awesome :) You Have Angered Many People With This Stunt So Fix It.

  • hope they fix it quick,alot of my games are freezing,heres a list
    cod4
    cod5
    killzone
    R6V2
    socom seems to be the only one working for me.

  • Frankly, complaining about the font size tells Sony that most of you will complain about anything and everything no matter what they do.

    I’m pretty sure that Sony closed comments on the earlier FW 3.00 post because it was just spiraling out of hand with these kinds of aesthetic nitpicks.

    And I’m sure Sony recognizes that just because some of their users are very vocal doesn’t mean their opinions reflect the entire world.

    I mean, I know you guys carry on like just because most every post here nitpicks this stuff, obviously everyone on the planet must also agree. But that’s not a valid assumption at all. The people posting comments here do not at all represent a cross section of Sony’s user base.

    In fact, I’d dare say the place is pretty overrun by a less mature segment which has pretty well caused everyone else to leave.

    I don’t doubt that Sony takes all this into account when evaluating how they’re really doing.

  • Hey Sony.
    My favourite part about 3.o is when:
    my controller doesn’t work
    uncharted freezes
    and the crap grey boxes over my friends names.

    Thanks a million.
    BTW how do i change my PSN name?

  • Give us option to to make it smaller and disappear that ticker news or make it more smaller for SDTV. Oh yeah friends list grey is no no.

  • I SO SICK OF PPL COMING ON HERE CALLING OTHER BLOGERS WHINERS AND BABIES this is a place leave feedbac good and bad if u don’t like what ppl say don’t read it . just shut up ppl have a right to speak their minds without being criticised by u.

  • Oh Nad Put In-Game Music.I’m Tired Of Hearing The Music From Games.

  • the people complaining about things being messed up have every reason to do so…the people complaining about people complaining…are just being stupid fanboys.

  • Also I am REALLY annoyed that you can listen to music while browsing other things at 48 khz, and YET a lower frequency 44.1 (enabled due to the new multi audio output) will not let you browse and jam out. Why???? Please fix if possible, I can understand not being able to at higher frequency rates of 88 or 176 khz, but shouldn’t I be able to do it at a LOWER sampling rate of 44.1? Thanks hope you look into it.

  • http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3updates&thread.id=107453&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

    Make sure you look at this forum entry…So many things misaligned…It’s not a big issue but it should still be fixed.

  • THANK YOU MUSOKA_ELMIN! NOW I’M BROWSING MY MUSIC THANKS TO YOU! THANK YOU! Stupid Sony Dudes You’re ABSOLUTLY RIGHT ABOUT THE LOWER FREQUENCY THING! AND I GOT SURROUND SOUND!

  • @244: I’m sorry, but you have no idea what you’re talking about, with regards to font size and resolution. Also, the friends list looks radically different, with the gray boxes. It should be optional or at least the user should have an option to set opacity, all the way down to 0% if desired.

    @248: Seriously, shut up. This message board is probably the best form of communication we have to express user feedback. You can applaud the PlayStation development team all you want, but others deserve the same forum to critique the product freely.

  • It would be nice to be able to roll back to the previous firmware.

  • add in-game voice chat

  • Thank you SCEA!!!!! lol version 3.01 maybe????

  • Good to know you guys are doing something about 3.00 fiasco , thanks.

  • At the moment, I don’t have any technical issues with Firmware 3.00 affecting my system. My only gripe is booting up my system and seeing multiple PlayStation Stores. That looks more like overkill to me.

    I’ll also agree with #50 (Sucaballuc) that I’d like to be able to toggle some of these features since I’m very used to customizing how my XMB looks and feels.

  • NO! NO HIGHER VERSION UNLESS ITS LIKE 2.80!

  • too bad we have to put up sony kiss ups #252 ur a tool

  • @248-

    I’d like to point out FW 3.00 thread had 1.5k worth of replies while a typical blog has 100-300 replies AT MOST. Certainly an interesting statistical outlier to me. What’s the cause? Of course people are happy with it and complimenting 3.00 right? …Right?

  • “it’s our mission to deliver the best consumer experience on all PlayStation platforms.”

    Yeah, I would believe that if you guys actually tested 3.0 you idiots.

  • I want the jingly thingy before a game back.

  • LOL COMMENT 264 IS FUNNY LMAO :)

  • I’m having one of those “isolated issues” too, with my friends list looking ugly – some kind of hideous graphical glitch is causing these stale, gray backgrounds to appear in the list.

    My option for disabling the the ticker is also broken.

    And it seems tinkerbell has infested by console with fairy dust. Looks like I need to find a static background picture. (I’m certainly not paying $3 for a new, dynamic one.)

  • add a gameboot screen it doesnt have to be the bell with PlayStation 3 in spidey font. but could use ps3 and the “tion” sound

  • I see absolutely no difference in the XMB speed from 2.80 to 3.00 so if at all possible could you please just give us the option to go back to the XMB interface from 2.80?

    Keep the status bar (minus the scrolling ticker), remove the grey boxes around on the friends list. Keep the ability to control videos with the right analog. Bring back the ability to have the video continue to play in the background if we hit the “PS” button on the controller.

  • u gotta love sony.

  • let us play music while playing all games and not just killzone 2.

  • Please implement an option to revert the design back to FW 2.80 – if it ain´t broke why fix it?

  • i am only having an issue when i quit game(happening while playing arkham asylum) that the screen just goes black and xmb doesn’t come back up and it double beeps when that happens and front touch power button doesn’t respomd so i have to turn off back switch. never happened till 3.0 update

  • you guys are whiney,like shutup.

    acting like lil sissies,”oh,the sky is too blue”.

    shutup!

  • @274

    “BAWWWWWWW PLEASE DON’T SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT MY SONY!”

    Seriously, you fanboys need to realize that when a company @#$%s up they need to get chastised or they’ll get away with it. Until Sony pulls their head from it’s @ss they can count me out from supporting any games on their platform.

  • Good job Sony! I have not had any problems with 3.0 so hopefully everyone will get their issues resolved.

    Now all we need is GOOGLE CHROME!!! For a web browser. That would be sweet.

  • With the new audio output support, could we get support for Dolby Digital EX (that is 6.1 audio) over optical connection? It should be possible, as it is only one flag in the bitstream, and the downmixing should be a breeze as there already is various downmixing options available.

  • @275

    yea so complain about everything right.

    you guys b!tch about everything.

    i wont get mad when people complain about uncharted freezing or something to that nature but you guys are b!tching about a friends list.

    BE A MAN!

  • Glad I could help someone out here Chuckster310 after a bit of playing around with options that first night, I figured out that was what the problem was, I still stand by we should be able to do that at 44.1 khz.

  • @278

    “PLEASE STOP TALKING BAD ABOUT SONY! PLEASE!!!!!”

    Jesus, you fanboys sure are a broken record. They’re way more problems than just Uncharted freezing and a ugly and cluttered XMB:

    – People can’t sync trophies

    – People can’t log into PSN

    – The only way to play music while multitasking is to set the audio playback to 48kbs

    – Web browser crashing

    etc.

    3.0 was a shoddy update. I know it. You know it. Sony knows it. So YOU be a man and voice your opinion or you can kindly GTFO.

  • Yes jboog1, thank you.

    Uncharted freezing is an issue you should actualy complain about, not boxes around the friends list? WTF!

    GOOGLE CHROME…GOOGLE CHROME…PLEASE for the love of god give us GOOGLE CHROME.

  • Only Issues i had was the install. The PS3 kept saying it failed to install and then would keep restarting. Finally i left the PS3 off overnight and upon boot it worked.

  • Any software engineers out their know why some people are having so many issues with 3.0 and some people like myself have none at all? So weird.

  • @248

    If a company opens a communication channel it should not assume anything and even less level things by the bottom as you are trying to do.

    There are constructive criticism being posted in here from costumers that paid for their product in the same way (I assume) you’ve paid.

    So doing what you’re trying to do that is to imply that we all should just shut up and accept is a colossal stupidity. People that don’t voice their opinions and accept any crap, make for a worse world.

    The work done design wise in certain parts of the Firmware 3.0 is indeed a atrocity and attempt against good design. A patch work of styles that don’t fit with each other and certainly don’t look good nor solve long standing issues like text readability to mention just one. It’s so basic that loads of users realized it instantly as soon as they fire up 3.0 for the first time.

  • @248 – continues

    It’s not a matter of taste or age, or giving it a chance. Good designs work for everyone and require no adaptation time, period.

    Regarding the operational side of things this becomes a even more serious issue once Sony is the one controlling your PS3 unit software wise. They leave you no option to update or not. If you don’t you’re automatically prevented from using it to what you’ve paid it for. So users not only must voice their opinions but it’s their complete right to do so.

    On the other hand if you think you’re really that mature, enjoys a ugly looking version of what use to be a great looking and sleek OS, loves a ticker and don’t care about bugs and a overflow of subliminal “buy me” links you can of course remain silent and ignore this whole thread.

    just my 0.1 cents

  • Oh, and forgot to mention about DTS-ES support over optical as well.

  • Please fix the sound level. It now broken under version 3.00. I can barely hear anything now. I like others, don’t understand why we can’t just restore 2.80 while this mess is fix.

  • except for the friends list! i really like the new xmb. most of what people are complaining about is adjustable in the settings menu. also you cant navigate xmb any longer while playing music! that sux and is a step backward not forward. will this be fixed? i certainly hope so

  • I’ve been on playstation network since the begining so I love watching it evolve been happy with my ps3 since I got it, best 599.99 plus tax and extra 79.99 for insurance I ever spent never really cared much for the updates but loved them everytime they added something new. It’s always a beautiful gift since it’s a free service the only problem I have it’s everytime I put a game in, now it makes no sound it shows me no Logo I loved that because it’s been there since I got it, going on 3 years now Like I said Love it when you add new things but haiting it when your taking things out, Please put that back in, in some way as an option to turn it on or leave it off it let’s you know your game is starting and I love that hate just waiting to see if its starts. PLEASE GIVE AND OPTION TO TURN ON OR OFF. Thank you for the updates there always appreciated.

  • @canucksocal

    I’m a dba, but I’ve done my share of programming and am certified in project management.

    Testing, Communication, and customer (and executive) buy in is crucial to any roll out.

    Obviously, there were changes to the system that weren’t tested thoroughly enough. Maybe the guys at Naughty Dog pulled some undocumented tricks for performance, and of that is backfiring now with Uncharted. Can you imagine Sony testing every single game before releasing firmware? Hell, there is one part of Oblivion that crashes me every time (the bone garden) and I don’t see that getting fixed any time soon.

    With the controller problems, apparently that is because the failing controllers are knock offs. They were probably reverse engineered, without having access to the proprietary Sony spec, so someone looked at how the real controllers worked and guessed what the system would be looking for… and guessed wrong, and people are only finding out now.

    Telling people that if they don’t like the new XMB theme, they can revert back to the previous theme, and then they find out the only thing you can turn off are the sparklies. Well, people don’t handle that kind of thing well.

  • @canucksocal continued….

    Add to all that, the PS3 is a locked down system. Microsoft gives you crappy software, you upgrade to a previous version. We can’t do that because Sony owns our consoles. So there is a level of helplessness that breeds anger.

    Regarding Google Chrome, unless Sony builds a Linux API or emulation layer or convinces Google to write chrome for the PS3, I don’t see that happening.

  • @bobflac ok umm you need learn how to read or somethin…So I am a tool because I say people experiencing problems have the right to complain? are you stupid?

  • Good point BLUEDICE, but the 3.0 update being an “atrocity” that’s a bit extreme… hahaha. Now Scarlett Johansson getting married to that D-bag, now that’s an atrocity. :-(

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