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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  • SORT IT OUT !!!!

  • you guys suppose to make the ps3 able to play ps2 games

  • Glad to see the friends list finally got fixed man that last change to it was irritating.

  • umm ok so how do u link ur account 2 facebook??

  • Still waiting for the following:

    1) Native FLAC support
    2) Native MKV support
    3) Random play of music, videos
    4) Bitstream of hd audio codecs (but this might be a hardware limitation)

  • Excellent work, Sony keep up the good work as always now if you wouldn’t mind giving us back the chime upon game boot-up that would definitely be nice too. Its significant to the ps3 I see it as a welcome from it all the time when I start up a game. just give it back with the new ps3 logo if you have too. Other than that seriously keep up the great work. <3 Sony

  • Okay Sony, first you release an update that bricks my PS3 (3.0). I thought you had enough people complain about the same problem that you would have done something about it.

    Just to let everyone know, 3.10 does not fix the bricking problem of 3.0. Ps3 games still freeze after 10 minutes. Thanks Sony….

    Does anyone know what the status of the class action lawsuit is?

  • nice Sony glad to know your listening to peoples feedback. Now if only you guys would wake up to fuking reality and bring backwards compatability back to the PS3 through a firmware update! who cares if it cant play all ps2 games its a start you can update it more in the future to do that

  • update- adds facebook trophy intergration. Why? You can already look at my trophies in home, players met menu, friends list. What is the point? Just as useless as the last update.
    Next update please remove all the ugly psn advertising off my XMB! Please quit with the useless shoveling of crap in updates.

  • Aloha, Eric L. & Company…

    Firmware v3.10 has “broken” some playback capabilities of the Net Front browser’s Flash Player Plug-In.

    When I try to access the preview video in this post as an example, I get the following error message:

    “This application is not supported.”

    Just passing this along…..peace.
    [-NBCraftsman] • (PS3/60GB/CECHA01)

  • Now that facebook integration is available. It would be nice to take it a step further, similar to what the Android / Palm mobile devices are doing with their contacts. Syncing your information (pictures / avatar, contact, info, etc.) along with your PS3 friends’ information via facebook would be awesome for those of us that like facebook. It is great to see the Sony team branching out into the social networking front. Making gaming a part of social platforms is a smart move, and continues to make the PS3 a relevant piece of “everything” hardware. Anyway check out the HTC Hero’s social networking integration for inspiration.

  • I’d still like to have a possibility to add aliases for my friends, like if someone’s name is Cooldude, I could then give him a name like “mom” which would only be visible to me (it could also display his account name on the side like this -> “Mom (Cooldude)”.

    Also, grouping friends, how about it? Possibility to put them into self-made groups like “blazblue”, “tekken”, “Call of duty” or something, so I’d remember which people usually play which games… o_-; … and it would be easier to find them from my list when I want to play.

    The messaging system would be better if I could have some more folders for messages I want to save.

  • personally, I think if Sony is to get ahead of the game they need to incorporate a Facebook “app” into the main menu.. so that you don’t need to go to the browser all the time and log in ect… xbox has there Facebook feature so something like that but what i don’t like is that if i want to use Facebook on the xbox is that you need to exit your game… load up the Facebook and all that. I think to get ahead of the game Sony should make Facebook available from the main menu and you should not have to load it up all the time its auto. I also think that Sony should allow the feature that when your playing any type of game you can access your Facebook… or even your edit your status updates right there in the menu, way easier and more efficient. That and an inclusion of twitter, movies, music ect. which I herd was on the way. I would like to see a more simple way of syncing your movies, music and stuff from a computer made more simple. So I can just go to movies and watch one off my computer ect…

  • I like the new text chatting feature, its clean, simple and faster then sending messages especially in game. I think the menu should load up faster in games and that it should just pop up right then and there. I would also like to see not so much having to sync up your trophies all the time that it is just there and up to date and shared, maybe synced every 15 mins with a little icon in the top right or say you can toggle the icon on and off and that it will just sync and you don’t even know but its still already done for you. simple and easy. I think Sony should consider some improvements and updates to the menu system. something maybe easy, simple and new. I quite like the photo tile system and was thinking that Sony should make a tile system in all there menus. You hit game and it pops open all the games menu options, all your demos, ect. same with trophies and well the whole menu. I play and own a lot of games so my menus get fairly big. having to scroll through the big menus is no problem but I think it can be cleaned up. Also a consideration of netflix. Sorry to be so ranty, I just wanted to be critical and through. I just want to see Sony rise to the top

  • Ok.. Facebook is nice. Although I could already go to facebook via the browser and I don’t want to look like a total nerd posting trophys and info on how i play video games all the time.

    How about this. FIX THE TROPHY ISSUE. MANY PEOPLE CANNOT SYNC TROPHYS IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS.

    ALSO: CROSS GAME CHAT, PARTY CHAT, VOICE MAIL.

    If you do those three things I will never ask for anything else. PLZ

  • Mega impressed with this new feature; I can see it has massive potential!

    I really hope you will take into account a few suggestions I have:

    – Could you please develop the amazing trophy sync aspect (not fussed about it being linked real time). i.e. when a trophy is synced to facebook, can it show how many of your friends also have the trophy and have some way to compare your trophies with any other fb user who has synced their trophies to their own fb page?

    – More of a long term idea would be the chance to record your own game footage (a video of your gameplay on the ps3) and then be able to edit it on the ps3 (trim it) to then upload to facebook, where you can add a description for it. Such as: “This is me completing Modern Warfare 2 on the hardest mode”. I think this would really make XBOX owners jealous!

    – I often use the music playlist function, however I have lots of music stored on an external hard-drive since I bought a launch day 60gb console, and the disk space is taken up mostly of game data now. At the moment you can only play songs in a playlist that are saved on the PS3 hard drive. PLEASE can you make it possible to make and play a playlist using songs stored on an external device? …

  • … THANK YOU so much for this update, it is a great step forward for PS3 and gaming in general. I really hope you take my thoughts into consideration and continue Sony’s reign as the best console makers today!

    (I exceeded the character limit with my first comment; I guess I’m passionate about games)

  • After the update when I try to sync my trophy collection on my PlayStation 3 60GB I get error code 80022A07 do you guys have the same problem?

  • Why dont integrate Facebook friend / chat list, so I can chat with them, show them I’m playing game is PS3, and invite them to join me, just like MSN and X360 ????

    The current PS3 friend list is limited and not useful at all.

  • I welcome the enhancement to the photo layout…however, this needs to be applied to photos that may reside on a DLNA server. DLNA seems to be neglected and you’re assuming everyone makes use of the Sony HDD for content storage. They don’t.

  • Im seeeriously kinda mad we still dont have the option to play music while we’re playing games, or look at pictures while we’re listening to music. This is nice and all, but there’s just too much we cant do.

  • was up sony. I try to see videos at the ps blog n other sites & i get the following error message This application is not supported. i mean its my ps3 or do anyone has the same problem. everything else works fine love everything else as well, great job keep up good job but please fix this problem sony i appreciate ty

  • Aloha, Eric L. & Company…Firmware v3.10 has “broken” some playback capabilities of the Net Front browser’s Flash Player Plug-In.When I try to access the preview video in this post as an example, I get the following error message:“This application is not supported.”Just passing this along…..peace.[-NBCraftsman] • (PS3/60GB/CECHA01) same problem here 40GB CECHHO1

  • when are u gonna make a FACEBOOK APP!!!!!!
    Gees make facebook feed without a special app
    so we can upload our photo’s to facebook
    maybe even make a new tab for facebook including:
    chat
    whats new
    profile
    frends
    ect.
    Thiss’ll be really great plz do this
    oh ps: Make a voice chat to use during gameplay
    thankyou
    hope u make these stuff

  • this update destroyed my ps3 i installed it last night and today i didnt play till night and at first it started to freeze which is not uncommon but then it started to shut down by itself then it just stopped to work i have never had any problems with my ps3 until the update so beware guys ill call sony tomorrow and see what happens

  • dick move Sony, how many people give a crap about some facebook app that can’t even be used to comment and look at pictures, all it does is spam facebook with worthless psn info. thanks for putting all those playstation store icons everywhere tho’ that’s so useful,no dynamic themes that are worth it, no psn games that are worth it, i don’t care about backwards compatibility cause mine has that, but goddammit shape up your game son.

  • To: #1050 sunhouse

    The ironic thing about the web browser is that it doesn’t even work well with the various places associated with Playstation.com, the place that people are more often told to go for help.

    Is FlackBook really needed? No. I can already see what my friends are achieving trophy wise, both past and present.

  • To: #1105 DJAlik

    Regarding the HD audio, for the fat PS3 you have to use LPCM over HDMI, lossless is lossless. Don’t worry about the little logo on the receiver not lighting up, as long as you have your receiver setup correctly, you’ll get the HD audio.

  • So here i was.. turned on the ps3 today and waited.. and waited anddd waited. Thought Yes this is going to be the best!! Sony listens to us right? So then we are going to have a fixed browser no more (do you want to run bla bla..) Nope Never fixed
    Cross Game Chat … Ha Nope!! Not yet
    A new look to the borring PS3 Dash board?? Nope!
    Ok so how about a sweet avitar setup where you can create your own guy? mmmm NO!!
    What about music as you play your games.. Still nothing

    Hello are you even listening to us?? I mean we are your market!! We as PS3 Owners are what made you big Right! I am sorry to say it but if Sony does not start listening to us i could see a drop in sales big time.

    We are all PS3 Fans!! which is why we own the system.. or else we would be playing Red Ring Box..(Xbox 360)

    Hopfully you guys can get this all sorted out.. We are your market!!! What does it take Sony??

  • oh and im not at all impressed by your update.. Who cares about Fag book the Picture thing sweet… but i never use that ne ways.. Im slowly starting to turn the ps3 into a media center but theres nothing special yet that makes me want to do it. Sorry for being rough but its Feed back and Honesty!

  • j-ozzie im wit u on that. word up. ms is advancing big time. sooner o later all ps3 owners including me will have to switch to fag box, i don’t want too,but it don’t leave me no choice, i grow up with u guys since day one, im 28. i love wat u guys doing but ms is way advancing wit games, movies, community social service etc, i mean i know u guys working ur asses of but u guys r way behind, eric man keep up make ps3 a better elegant professional ps3 home for all ps3 owners including me please. thanks

  • hi

    have somebody also the problem with the fw?? i can’t install it, when i download it through the ps3, at 70 % there it stops because of an error. when i want to install it with the USB there is also an error at 70 % – “The files are damaged” i have tryed it over 20 times with the ps3 and over 5 times with the USB, but it doesn’t work…

    i had also problems before. i had to download 8 times the MW2 patch 1.03 until it works, the 1.04 i download 3 times. i also can’t install demos, most of the time there is an error.. some of them i download again (some demos more than 4 times) and then the worked..

    have someone a idee what the problem is or have somebody the same problem??

    i have the 60GB EU-Version -> i’m from austria

  • has anyone who had their PS3 die from 3.0 tried this new firmware and did it fix your system? Just wondering if I should try or not since my PS3 has been dead since Sept. 1

  • Just installed 3.1 and my ps3 crashed, what a F***ing joke. Sony says it will cost $150 to fix, why should I pay for something they broke with their lowsy F***ing update. Yeah I guess its my fault I want to play their games on a ps3, can’t play them unless you update to 3.1, SO DON’T UPDATE TO 3.1 UNLESS YOU WANT A PS3 PAPERWEIGHT. Seriously thinking about switching to an X-Box at least their customer service will replace a console if their firmware causes it to DIE!!!

  • This update is quite good thought the photo layout update was a bit pointless and the colour option on your profile.

    I think Windows Live Messenger should be on the PS3 that would be cool and get cross game voice chat. I’m sure many people will agree with me :)

  • Yeah, I know Sony thinks its improved the “look” of the XMB, etc. but it really is more like going from Vista Aeroglass to the look of Windows XP.

    The panels around the friends list still look awful. The panels around the other stuff also look inconsistent and ruin the user’s experience. This is, after all, in my living room connected to my expensive entertainment system…and should reflect that.

    Saw the link posted by comment 957. This would be an excellent way for the XMB to look! Thank you!

    https://blog.playstation.com/2009/11/playstation-3-firmware-v3-10-update/

  • Great job on the friend list… it looks a million times better. I would’ve liked for Adhoc Party to show up on either the “Network” or “Playstation Network” tabs for easier access, but I’m not going to complain… been waiting for adhoc party for a while, so I’m happy to have it…

  • Excuse me for being OT but Sony:

    Please stop sending Netflix free trial emails to Canadians. It’s a terrible tease.
    It’s quite frustrating to go through the entire sign-up process, then figure out that I can’t even use the service.
    Please stop tormenting me.

  • Is this a joke? Your telling me there wasting time on this junk. Come on sony lets get back in the game with things that are needed to the gameer that supports your products. I hate to say it but I dont think we will ever get cross chat because it cant be done.

  • The new photo matrix feature DOES NOT WORK for photos on an attached external hard drive, even if it’s FAT formatted correctly and set up with Sony’s recommended folder structure.

    PLEASE fix this. Extra disappointing, considering the build up/hype.

    There is also NO WAY to eject or unmount an attached external hard drive.

    That seems like a serious oversight. Just make it one of the contextual menu options when you hit triangle… please.

  • So i just went out and spent 60 dollars on CODMW2 pop it in and wa wa waaaaaa it freezes shut it off turn it back on it freezes again. so i unplug it plug it back in still freezes. Call sony with out asking me what is wrong or trying to fix it She says it will cost 150 to fix. I say i have the 20 gig it would be stupid for me to pay that when i can get a new one for 300. Now i find out it is there update that caused this. whats up with that law suit

  • I don’t know if these comments are considered as the feedback, but it is where I am going to leave mine. This update looks very good but you still need to attend to a minor issue in the Friends List column. When you go to your Message Box and read one of your messages, most of the time you proceed to press O (circle) to go back. Instead of it going back to your Friends List it should go back to the Message Box list of messages. This would be very helpful and save me some minor frustration of having to keep clicking it, waiting for it to load, opening one, closing it, and repeating. Either that or have some kind of ‘Mark as read’ feature. This is especially annoying due to the new Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game because for some reason whenever you invite someone to game it goes to the message box thus leaving me with tons of messages in my box at a time.
    Thank You.

  • Not that I have any hopes that you will listen or care, but the facebook feed is kinda messed up. When you achieve a trophy that was “locked” under “???” description, it will appear as “???” on the feed, not as the actual trophy name and category. Just saying…

    You guys should really open up a channel for actual feedback on these features… Some of us really are interested in making stuff work better or correctly, not just mindless whining…

  • you would think Sony would come out with an update that gives the community things we want. I understand we don’t pay a periodic fee but does that mean our suggestions should be ignored?

  • i’m having trouble transferring files from my PS3 to my PSP
    it copies a file, like only 16 percent, and then says error
    anyone else got this problem?

  • @1134

    Wow, does this update brick some PS3’s too (like 3.0)? Why can’t Sony recognize that their update negatively affect some PS3’s and FIX THEM AT NO COST!

    Or do we have to sue them get them to fix it like some are doing with class action lawsuits for the 3.0 mess (I am one of them who’s PS3 has not worked since Sept. 1 when I downloaded 3.0).

  • this might be too far down to see.
    But I have an idea that would make my XMB experience better.
    I have a 32″ LCD HD tv. I run my PS3 on 720p. I wish there was a way to make the XMB icons and texts much bigger without having to go to 420p. This way I can navigate to games or movies much easier from farther away from the screen. Games and movies are no problem, just the XMB size.
    Thanks for reading if you do.

    PSN: Golds

  • KEEP THEM COMING, LETS GET WHAT WE ASKED FOR.. OR YOUR STILL WORKING ON IT?? LOL

  • MYSPACE SHOULD BE ON THE NEXT UPDATE.. :)

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