PS3 System Software Update (v3.70)

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PS3 System Software Update (v3.70)

PlayStation Plus Auto Update
Hi everyone! As we are continuously working toward providing the best gaming and entertainment experience on PlayStation 3, I wanted to give you all a heads up on the following new features and changes coming with the next system software update (v.3.70).

To make things easier for PlayStation Plus subscribers, we’ve added the option to automate two existing features. The [Automatic Download] feature will now be called [Automatic Update] as a result of these new options.

  • A new auto upload function for online save data back-up will be added to make it easier to back-up your game save data. Under (Game), select the game for which you want to automatically upload saved data, and then press the Triangle button.
  • Also, Trophies will now sync automatically at the timing of Auto Download.

Automatic Update

A new recommendation function will be added that enables you to share your recommendations for PlayStation Store items, such as games and videos, with PlayStation Network friends. You will be able to send messages with a store link from the product pages within the PlayStation Store.

PlayStation Store Update

Due to the increase in video applications being offered on PS3, we are adding a new category on the XMB called TV/Video Services. This category will include video applications such as Netflix, Hulu PLUS, and VUDU.

  • You’ll be able to find and download all of the video applications available on PS3 directly from this new XMB category.
  • A folder labeled “My Channels” within this category will allow you to easily access your downloaded applications.
  • Any videos downloaded from the PlayStation store will continue to be placed in the existing Video category on the XMB

Two updates for all of you enjoying Blu-ray 3D movies on PS3:

  • 3D support will now be available when accessing Java-based special features on Blu-Ray
  • DTS-HD MA, DTS-HD HR decoding/bit stream output (or lossless audio) will be supported while playing Blu-ray 3D movies.
  • 3D digital photos in MPO format can now be viewed in 3D on the XMB and in the Photo Gallery app.

The 3.70 update will be available soon; additional details will be available after the firmware goes live here. Separately, there will also be a minor PSP system software update (v. 6.60) launching soon.

As always, let us know of any feedback in the comments below.

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792 Comments

  • I updated this morning, that’s not quite a lot but creating a TV channel is a big kudo for this update.

  • Phew! Took me all day to get to the end of this blog. I’d like to thank everyone, especially the repetitive whiners, for giving me great laffs @ work.

    I haven’t done the math to decide whether my day 1 Plus subscription has been fiscally sound, on a monthly or annual basis, & I don’t care.

    I got the Plus so Sony could afford to give the rest of you what was & still is in the cost of your PS3–free online. They didn’t start the Plus so some of us could lord it over you, as some suggest, it’s to afford to continue & grow. The features they add, from time to time, are above that baseline, even though you think the baseline needs to move up. Even though I agree with you about the trophy part. The update should have been optional UNLESS there is some secret sauce in there intending to protect their IPthat they don’t want to tell us about. I think that might be it.

    Anyway, much fun. Going home now to play Dragon Age Legacy, unless the update messes me up, lol.

  • Dear Playstation
    what the hell happened to my Dead Nation’s save data? Please answer my question thank you for erase My saving data WITHOUT asking

    Hate SONY more than ever thanks jackasses

  • Why does the updates have to be an auto-on feature? I hate the fact that my PS3 will discretely turn on everyday. My PS3 is connected so everything else in my set-up turns on when it turns on. I don’t enjoy the fact that my TV and sound system will turn on everyday at that time. Would it be so hard to allow all of the auto-downloads to happen when you turn off your console? For example, like how Windows install updates before shutting down if you opted to not install the updates beforehand.

  • STOP ADVERTISING PS+ WITH SYSTEM SOFTWARE UPDATES. ITS ANNOYING THIS IS THE SECOND TIME AND IF IT HAPPENS AGAIN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO START XBOX SO GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEAD SONY YOUR NOT GOING TO MAKE MONEY IF PEOPLE LEAVE AND GO WITH XBOX BUT SONY PEOPLE DONT GET THAT I GUESS. SONY PEOPLE YOU’LL JUST END UP WITH THE SAME PROFITS YOU USUALLY HAVE. AFTER MORE PEOPLE PAY FOR PS+.

  • GOING TO XBOX I MEAN.

  • it is cool

  • NO ITS NOT COOL

  • may be you do not want to update

  • I ALREADY UPDATED ITS JUST THAT EVERYTHING IS WORTHLESS EXCEPT THE TV/MOVIES SECTION IN XMB

  • everything goes to the plus users, this sucks

  • I am a PS Plus Member and I think the added features are great and a long time coming. But why is this not available to EVERYONE?! A basic feature to get your console to work as it should, for paying members only.

    I don’t look forward to the PS4 where you have to pay $50 a year just to turn ON the device.

  • wow this should be for everyone, this is so minor. who’s sony trying to impress.

  • ITS NOT IMPRESS ITS DEPRESS

  • ITS MAKING ALOT PEOPLE GO INTO DEPRESSION LOL.

  • Bring Location Free back in the XMB !!! PLEASE or away someone can download it for the PS3

  • I own a ps3 and an xbox. i have to say that i use to play my ps3 %90 of the time… lately i find myself turning the xbox on first… so i could say it’s about 50/50 now… I think it’s mostly because i buy more multi-plat games on xbox now… i am just afraid that my ps3 will turn into a blu-ray player… meh don’t matter anymore.

  • How does the MPO support work? I tried viewing a photo from my Nintendo 3DS and I don’t see an option to view it in 3D.

  • Well, not anything that I’ll use. Why was this required for online play?

  • and no further comments from Sony on the blog, but we’ve got 14 pages. Not surprised at all.

    Thanks for listening and responding to your customers. Your ‘customer service’ is utterly appalling and now you’re making your update features ‘exclusive’ along with a TOS that is downright disgusting for consumer rights, which of course we have to agree to to continue playing on the PS3. The set of brass gibblets you have. You seem more worried about saving your own arse than making a top notch system. Have fun in the basement of the console wars.

    …signing off…..one seriously disgusted long time Sony console owner and but seriously happy it’s my only Sony product. Based on the business practices I see employed here for PS3 and PSN, there is no way I’m buying another Sony product. Plain as day what they think about their customers…esp since they don’t have the time to answer anything worth answering on the blog.

  • YEAH I AGREE WITH YOU autoxfool

  • THEY SHOULD HAVE SYSTEM SOFTWARE UPDATES EVERY MONTH IF ITS MINOR LIKE THIS UPDATE. IF THERES A GOOD UPDATE MAYBE TAKE TWO MONTHS. A MINOR UPDATE LIKE THIS TOOK TWO MONTHS THATS LAME.

  • Another crapy update. We want CROSS GAME CHAT.. How hard can it be to say if it coming or not? or even if you guys working on it

  • LISTEN TO ME SONY I HAVE THE MOST COMMENTS ON THIS BLOG.

  • Honestly I don’t see why auto-sync is such a big deal. It only takes a couple seconds to check and update it yourself. I don’t really care about cross-chat either but I can understand those that do. All I want is the option for an ID change!

  • @672 I would’ve been less inclined to agree with you a year or two ago but its simply proven itself to be true at this point. Sony used to be a step above the sea of corporations out there, but sadly, I can’t say it’s not heading in the same direction. I mean, they can’t even give us a simple defragmenter that would stabilize PS3’s and probably decrease their own CS calls. Yet PS+ updates are rolling out every system update now. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was included only for PS+ members down the road.

  • Yea, glad I renewed my PS+ XD. Updated my HDD to 500gb because I’ve started buying more games through PSN like infamous and assassin’s creed 2 to name 2, so the cloud save really saved my @$$. The new trophy sync feature is great too.

  • SONY CAN YOU AT LEAST READ TO WHAT YOUR COSTUMERS ARE SAYING AND THINK ABOUT THEIR FEEDBACK LIKE MAYBE ADDING CROSS GAME CHAT, OR ID CHANGE AND MAYBE STOP ADVERSTISING PS+ SO MUCH ITS ANNOYING -_-

  • Eric071896 your CAPSLOCK is on.

  • really? i have to be a plus member to use the auto trophy sync? thats lame DELETED this.

  • well I think trophies are useless anyway and what ever with the auto updates? I’m not so lazy that I need to let everything work by itself. Why would I pay to get this and why is anyone else have to pay for this lame things? A big WOW! for playstation plus membership, playstation plus gives you the opportunity to get rebate on games that you wouldn’t had bought in the first place or that you already have AND the ps plus membership gives you the AUTOMATIC UPDATES! ahahah WOW I’m getting ps plus right away!

  • I hate seeing peeps whine like little monkeys when PS+ gets goodies. Just go get PS+ It’s not expensive and it more than pays for itself in spades. DOOO EEEETTT

  • the auto trophy sync is good and all, but why put that for Playstation Plus when it should be a default setting, if you really want to get more people to buy Playstation Plus, put the Cross Voice Chat Communication feature for playstation plus. Great update, but i really just might switch over to xbox 360 if u don’t put cross voice chat in, im also wondering if the xbox can do it cause of the mini pop up menu it has, anyone who took the time to read this, and if u really want what I am pushing for, please comment zxAS-_ (is right)
    AND SONY, PLEASE MSG ME ON PS3 WHY U DONT PUT CROSS CHAT IN!!!!!!!!!!!

  • And mustbehiggy, your completely right and people should thank sony for free online.

  • I’m loving this update. The only reason why I’ve never bothered with the cloud saving was because I didn’t want to upload my save data every time I played my game. Now, I don’t have to worry about it and can continue to enhance my laziness. =D

    The “Recommend” feature is a nice surprise. I plan on using it specifically for a few friends.

    The XMB Category update and the trophy sync has been a long time coming. And, I wish I had a 3D TV. =(

    Overall, this update is awesome and I don’t understand why everyone’s complaining. Criers want to cry, I guess. But anyway, thanks, Sony!

  • Sony, im sorry, but your disopointing the playstation community very much without that cross chat,

    THINK SONY THINK, WHY DO YOU THINK THERE IS MORE XBOX 360 USERS, CAUSE OF FREAKING CROSS CHAT, OMG, I JUST FIGURED OUT WHAT A COMPANY COULDN’T FIGURE OUT, DO I GET A TROPHY NOW:)

  • i hope there is not just blog readers in sony, i hope the president of sony checks these comment out, i really do

  • Sony, i think you have plus to help keep us haveing free online, but to boost your income of plus members, put freakin cross chat as a plus member, sony blog reader better tell their president that

  • Sony, where the freaking hell is the community catagorey on the xmb, im not finding it, (OR YOU HAVEN’T PUT IT THERE), whatever im just not gonna comment anymore cause sony don’t take these comments seriously and this blog is for people to relive there stress so they keep playing ps3 instead of xbox

  • I’ve said it numerous times before and I’ll say it again – being a PS Plus member does not justify getting anything “exclusively” to them. Not all, but a majority of these people who have PS Plus subscriptions, thought that the PS3 was a crap system not worth a darn, always complaining about the price of the system, the price of games, update not having what they want, etc. etc. – UNTIL they had you giving them free stuff just for paying the same amount as buying one of your games. So you are telling me that people who would only spend enough money for ONE of your games, ONLY IF you promise to give them free stuff, is worth more as a customer, as opposed to those of us who continuously shell out $60 bucks after $60 bucks every time a game comes out?

    Really?

  • Explain to me how somebody paying $50 or whatever it costs, ONCE, for a full year of you giving games away for free, gets you more for maintenance and networking, then others of us who buy games year round, and don’t get them for free.

    I’ve been a long-time Sony supporter, and I will continue to be… this isn’t some threat about me switching systems or whatever… this is honesty, plain and simple. But this is a slap in the face, and I’d equate it as if I worked for Sony and somebody said: “Sony stinks, Microsoft is better because… you know, at least they haven’t given away my credit card information to a bunch of hackers because they built a crap security system.” That isn’t fair of me, to judge your entire worth, based on ONE particular situation… but yet, you are doing that to us consumers…

  • making people pay for a basic feature? For shame sony for shame…

  • Hey I updated but it still didn’t add DTS-HD MA to my phat PS3. Does this come later Does anyone know?

  • all people r saying that these automatic stuff should b for default, and not for playstation plus, i agree, but then i also say to my self that the system is solely for vids, games, and music, so all this is technicly EXTRA stuff.

  • Dear Sony,

    Sincerly,
    Me

    thats what your giveing us, useless stuff but good ideas that have been thought of way bfore u gave them to us

  • I’m not hating the update, but it would be nice to have some features for the regular PSN users too.

    Sony, how about letting us have custom avatars or something. :(

  • I know a lot of people are still complaining about Cross Game Chat, but PS3 didn’t have it when you bought it, and it doesn’t have it now. There’s a very good chance that it will never have it, and we should accept that fact.

    If people bought the PS3 on the condition that it would have XGC then those people are fools, because it has never been a PS3 feature.

    This update adds functionality to PS3, and that is good. Even if you won’t use those features, many other people will. All PS+ users will use trophy sync, many PS+ users will now use the new-improved-lazy cloud save function, and anyone using the PS3 as their primary Bluray player will be pleased with the Bluray updates that have been coming out over the past year.

    Anyone complaining, remember at least this isn’t a mandatory security fix with no new features.

  • Can anyone explain to me how does the automatic download feature works? I am a bit unclear about the time settings. Let’s say I set it from 12:00 – 2:00am. Do I have to have my PS3 on in order for it to work or will the PS3 turn on by itself and once it’s done it will turn off?

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