PS3 System Software Update (v.4.00)

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PS3 System Software Update (v.4.00)

A new system software update (v4.00) will be released this week. In preparation for the launch of PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) in Japan, this update will prepare PlayStation 3 (PS3) to serve as a content management device. It will allow users to copy their digital content such as games, music, photos, and videos between PS Vita and PS3, back up PS Vita game games including save data to your PS3 hard drive, and update the system software for your PS Vita system using the network features of your PS3.

Other changes to take effect with this update include:

  • PlayStation Plus members can now choose to enable or disable each automatic update feature
    • Game patches
    • System software
    • Recommended games and videos
    • Sync trophy information
  • New PlayStation Network settings for filtering friend requests and messages

You can find more details after the firmware goes live here. We look forward to your feedback.

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  • Guys seriously, PSN name change :'( WE NEED IT!

  • Im for an xmb update. This is wayyyyy overdue. Tho it would make my existing themes useless probably due to the layout change that probably would occur it needs a face lift. Look more lively and if not nothing else, run better/faster than its current form. Their needs to be a better way of checking things like your messages cuz it takes too long in game. Im also for PSN name change, another feature long overdue. You don’t have to make free as people would abuse it to the end, just make it at a reasonable price(tho i would never change my PSN name:)). Anyways, thanks for the update…………i guess.

    And whats up with the health warning-_-. Seriously, was that necessary to make me see every time i boot up my PS3?

  • What a joke! I have no intentions of getting a vita as the room in my pocket is already taken up with a phone that i can play the ocasional game on.. So mad i may actually buy an Xbox…

  • wow! this is update 4.0?
    not what i was hoping for…lol oh well…ps4 should make up for it……………………………………!!!!!!!!

    as for cross game chat, all i need is to be playing a shooter with my clan and be chattin with someone who is playing a totally different genre of game. just be jackin up my gamin…seriously, this probably will never happen even with the ps4. so get over it.

    #stabsnextpersonwhoasksforcrossgamechat

  • WHEN IS A NEW XMB COMING TO THE PS3? I use Firefox, Minitube, Zerogame on my PS3 phat with YDL on FW 3.15 Other OS. My slim is on FW 4.00 for gaming and PSN. I sure wish PS3 would use Firefox or Chrome or something not 5 years old, so outdated and slow!

  • im telling you this update is currupted or something cause i updated myne yesterday and my internet browser kept saying error accurred and my brother is mad at me cause this update so son check it out like now

  • How about they focus on bigger issues, like fixing the sync errors!!!!

  • Apparently it crashed my system! I was all good playing FIFA online last night and now, after this Update my PS3 keeps freezing. Browsing or gaming. Just fix it! This is not fair.

  • @ GIVEMEIT: I also have the same 6mb/s connection from Shaw. I’m paying more than what everyone else is too!

  • I still haven’t got to use the update to play 3-D yet so It gets a (MEHH) out of me. and it will probly be another 2 years before I use any part of this update Vita is to rich for my blood.

  • These meaningless updates are getting old. I bought a PS3, NOT a Vita. Oooooo, a new health warning and a PS Plus icon? How amazing!!!!

  • Well in addition to the spam bar in the top right we now get a message at every start-up that says

    read documentation about health effects blah blah blah

    that’s all i see that is new

  • so i’m still downloading but the main points seem to be all vita related

  • well that was 20 min of gaming time i’ll missed out on hope your happy vita owners

  • Why does someone always ask for Cross-game chat whenever there is an update?

    It already exists – it’s called a TELEPHONE!

  • since when sony became my doctor telling me to play responsible. get out of here with that. at least the other system dont have that crap. and this is really a disappointing update 5 yrs the ps3 been out and no update to the xmb. at least i have a update on the other system that is going to change the look it….

  • @14 There is already such a feature. You can choose if you want to see notifications when you get thropies and messages. It’s what most game reviewers do. I don’t remember exactly where you can change it, though, (can’t check right now because I’m updating my PS3..) but it is there.

  • @011 and still not PSN redesign or XMB upgrade ……. The XMB looks 10 years out of date.

  • Hey, since the release of this new update all my downloads gone crazy, my icons dissapear and appear everytime I restart the console, when I install something the installation icon still show up, some things that I already donwloaded before patch dissapear and appear some restarts later…. I hate it!

  • PS3 is officially dead to sony. they are focusing on the ps4. anything they couldn’t make happen on the ps3 they are going to do on the ps4.

  • This update just further my thirst for Vita!!! Playstation 3 + Playstation Vita + Playstation Plus = REAL Gaming nirvana…

  • i seriously thinking about CFW, the updarte brings nothing new, even as I’m still at work and didnt actually updated. But wtf? there is a epilepsy warning at start? For what i ask? it is in every game, and now in the system?

    the web browser is the worst on any platform. Even my TV does better. The XMB is old.
    Not to mention the PS MOVE support in the menu (it’s non sens) or at web browsing -_-

    im using the ofw because of PSN, i hardly play online, but i use the consoles online features, but update after updaete it seems not to make any sense.

    and ps home is stil well.. [DELETED]

  • Good update, it looks like be very useful =)

  • Aaaand still no option to automatically sync the clock. I’m constantly setting it with the Internet before playing trophy games so that my timestamp is accurate. Just as the PS2 before it, the PS3 runs fast. At least the Xbox 360 syncs itself with an exterior clock when online (albeit that it’s unalterable when connected).

    Do this, and I’ll truly be satisfied.

  • Hey Sony how about fixing the broken stuff like the Web Browser on the PS3 before adding features for a different system that isn’t released yet?

    I’m sick of my PS3 crashing-freezing almost every time I try to use the browser. Fix this please!!!

  • What day and time will “this week” be?

  • Give us option to remove the health warning during start up please. it is SO annoying. thanks

  • HOW MANY UPDATES DO WE HAD TO DO NOW 4.00 WHAT’S NEXT ?

  • Yay! In 3 months our hardware lineup will catch up w Japan’s! Viva America! Stock price should boom quite nicely in March, if it sells well. *Hint … I smell a price drop b4 June, on both the handheld and big time on the mem cards. May b more worth it by then. LOL just kidding, i’m not gonna buy this.

  • worthless update and waste of half hour of my game time last night.

  • I accidently did another date of birth when i maked my Psn Account.
    And i always clicked on save password but now i accidently clicked it away and my pass is gone .
    I lost evrything plz someone help me

  • I will update it now

  • We need an option to sort games in alphabetical order.

  • I just want the PSP support back, and remove the health warning.
    Vita is not even released for us till Feb.

    Also how about giving more control over sorting our games! Just a simple move up or move down.

    Also I can’t activate video on my PS3 since the web page onlys let’s you remove games. Seems kinda pointless when I couldn’t even deactivate my old psp

  • So, I know this is minimal, and I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this. But I just installed 4.00 and now my Deus Ex Dynamic Theme refuses to work. I deleted it and reinstalled it, and every time I select it, it appears for about five seconds, than reverts back to the classic theme. All my other themes work just fine, but the Deus Ex one now will not work.

  • that is all the update is thats a joke

  • Forget all that fancy stuff. Get a better web browser!

  • Dear Mr. Lempel,

    Who is the decision maker that chooses the same day as a store update to push a forced firmware update? There are 6 other days of the week to which you could use for this event, but yet again it’s on another store update. I login to my playstation looking forward to browsing the store and download a demo so I can decide to purchase a game or not. But I am defeated by a forced firmware upgrade.

    I will also take the time to mention that I like the feature of being able to select the auto download features. Sure there is a problem. I can only setup auto download on one system per account. Seriously?

  • worst
    update
    ever

  • so, still the awful xmb menue, no cross game chat, no music while playing games, nothing new… whats the point. ive lost faith in sony

  • Why is my update taking so long????

  • It’s 2011 and still sony has a broken brwser. What could be a great feature the competition doesn’t have is neglected and broken. Why include a browser at all if this is what you do with it? Sony has really got to get up to speed with the PS3 online and main menu. It’s poorly done.

  • I’m not one to complain about things. I’m generally a pretty positive dude, and I really don’t expect anything for free…but this Firmware Update is just the final nail in the coffin for me.

    I’ve had a PS3 and PSP since launch, and for the last half decade I’ve felt nothing but disappointment with every new Firmware update (with two notable exceptions), every game that looks and plays better on the 360, every cool feature that gets removed or gimped by Sony, every peripheral I’ve purchased that was promised to be supported but fell by the wayside (PS-Eye, PlayStation Move), and every initiative that promised to deliver some of the features we wanted but never actually did (the Suggestion Blog, etc).

    I don’t know if the grass will be any greener on the XBOX 720 side. Maybe not. But when the grass is brown on the side you’re on, what does it hurt to head over the hill and find out?

  • HEY its an update to make it compatible with the PS Vita ….. and its gonna be 3 months until its out lol couldnt this update wait until January at least?

  • Indeed #338 they should have thrown in an update to buff up the internet browser LONG AGO …. you should buy a Sony TV to see how much more terrible those browsers are lol

  • Seriously after reading all the post I hope this update isn’t Freakin up my system! Why can’t PS3 get it right and by no means should an update take as long!

  • XMB is awesome, people need to stop asking for it to change. It doesn’t get better than what we have.

    The only thing that needs improved is the speed, which is limited because the hardware.

  • i did see new PSplus intergration which i found interesting, cant wait to try out the vita intergration, needless to say its going to be unnecessarily EPIC

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