PS3 System Software Update (v.4.50)

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PS3 System Software Update (v.4.50)

Later today, the next system software update for PlayStation 3 (version 4.50) will be available. We’ve added some features and improvements to make downloading system updates and Sony Entertainment Network online store purchases more convenient for all PSN users. In addition, we’ve made it easier to move games, movies and other content from your PS3 to PlayStation Vita with Wi-Fi data transfer.

Here are some of the new enhancements you’ll find when you update your PS3 to version 4.50:

  • Auto download of system software updates has been expanded to support all PSN users.
  • Auto download support of purchases made on the Sony Entertainment Network online store will be made available to all PSN users.
  • New options for Trophy privacy settings allow users to set which trophies are visible.

With the auto download features for system updates and SEN online store purchases, you can set a two hour time interval for your PS3 to turn on from standby mode and check for updates as well as content to be automatically downloaded. Any purchases made in the SEN online store before your designated time will automatically start downloading during that interval. For example, if your Automatic Update time is set for 10AM-12PM, and you purchase a game while you’re away from your PS3 via the SEN online store (at work or school via PC or maybe on your daily commute via iOS or Android) at 9:30AM, the content you purchased will start downloading while you’re away. This adds convenience and will help you get into your games quicker, so you can start playing when you return home. You can find the new settings on the XMB under  [Settings] > [System Settings] > [Automatic Update].

For additional information on PS3 system update v.4.50, including how to update your system, please click here when the update goes live.

Let us know what you think about these new features in the comments below.

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  • Has anyone figured out how to transfer data between the PS3 and Vita over Wifi? I upgraded my PS3 to 4.50 and my Vita is on 2.61, but if I select Content Manager on the Vita and choose PS3, it tells me to connect via USB. I did that thinking maybe it needed to do that once, but there’s still no option for Wifi data transfer with PS3. It’s only there for PC.

  • Omg still can’t arrange GAMES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER why?

  • will PS ever get the NBA app? or has that other system got it locked up?

  • With the PS4 coming out in just over a month its pretty safe to assume the a PSVITA update allowing Wi-Fi transfer to the PS3~PSVITA is coming sooner than later, along with whatever new and wonderful features are in store for the PS4… But with that said I feel a lot can be done with the PS3 before it makes it final swan song into obscurity. I agree with a lot of the comments here regarding the ability to remove 0% games from the trophies list it only makes sense. Now me as a consumer feel its only right to get your moneys worth out of any product you purchase, and I do just that. I put a 1TB HDD in my PS3 and I use it to its fullest potential, movies, music, photos and games bless my PS3 with a wealth of entertainment options, but with that much content a way to search it out would be an incredible convenience to those of us who have a large library of media whether it be games, music, or movies, some sort of search function integrated into the XMB would be amazing…

  • My update stuck on 99% installing , dont know what to do !! any one got the update to stuck ?

  • Yay!!

  • I can’t find any setting or anything at all on my PS3 that will allow me to transfer data from my PS3 to Vita using Wifi. Nothing in the forums. Nothing in the always updated after the fact manual. It’d be nice if they actually pointed you to instructions rather than just saying hey, you can do it. I mean one screen shot would be nice.

  • World at war: cannot send or receive invites to games immediately after updating. Please fix…..

  • Thats it? Well at least with automatic updates I can watch Netflix without being interrupted by pointless updates. Would love the ability to change the spelling of my username in the future though

  • I hate how 4.50 is out and the website still only has 4.46 available for download!
    the last 3 or 4 mandatory updates that i attempted to install via the psn network froze up my system for days.
    it was some magical miracle each time for me to revive my system without loosing everything.
    So last time i tried downloading the update to a USB and installed from there.
    but i cant frigging do that right now which really sucks ass! so i finally bought grand theft auto 5 today since today the online servers should have been flipped on. and now this. I have to risk freezing my system and probably wont even get the chance to play this game as i battle recovering from the freeze up for several days again all because for some reason sony can release the update on psn but cant bother to update the download on their site. thanks sony…

  • Does anyone know if the PS3 will remotely turn on to download or it turns on at a particular time of the day?

  • @111 looks like you set the hours it turns on

  • Dear PlayStation Blog

    I like the idea of the hiding trophies, but I think it needs a little work. Instead of having to click each individual list to know if it is hidden or not. Could you add a star or a red and green dot next to the game title? It would help minimize mistakes of clicking wrong lists. I checked mine three or four times so I would not make a mistake, but I am.still paranoid about it. Thanks.

  • you can arrange your game trophies by title but not games installed by title which is stupid and as for trophy hiding there is no option to hide trophies from yourself or non 100% ones, this is very misleading the hiding trophies hides trophies from others e.g. anyone, friends of friends or friends only. as for auto download we already have that if we are ps plus and i haven’t seen the option to auto download if im not ps plus -_-

    these options Sony adds takes them months where we come up with them in minutes this shouldn’t take Sony months -_-
    we need the option to sort a-z games sort order downloads DELETE trophies we dont want even if it affects our level and rename our ID

  • Well, the free games on ps+ looks like apps now. I’ll just go to the Instant Game Collection.

  • Why I cant download the update file from your website???
    PS3 download speeds arent that great to start with!!!!

  • Hmmm it would be nice to delete trophies because sometimes there are a few sports game on my PS3 that I never play since they were my brothers game from 5 years ago. They just sit there at 0% like Madden and among other sports game that I never play

  • ok i just downloaded the update and i can’t figure out how to hide my trophies, any idea’s?

  • I cannot send or receive invites to friends on cod: world at war since the update. Please fix

  • Mine wont download.. it gets stuck at 99% and i cant play or login online, and i was about to play GTA Online.. please help me, Thanks

  • Nevermind, it downloaded after being stuck at 99% for 20 minutes, but still alot of time, please make sure this doesnt happen again, thanks.

  • hit triangle on the game in the trophy menu, then hit ‘privacy settings’ from there it’s self explanatory

  • Next update please make it where on your profile comment you get more space to add instead of 20 spaces

  • where is the 4.50 download link?

  • it’s great to hide games with trophies with 1% completion, but please let us delete games with 0 trophies obtained. I don’t want to hide those, i want to delete 0% games

  • The forth option Idk how it works someone tell me

  • Great features for non-Plus users!

    However, it is high time that we can delete those annoying 0% trophy data, after years of system updates…

  • @118 Go to a trophy, press triangle and choose to hide it. You can also change overall trophy visibility to restrict it to yourself, friends, everyone, etc in the Account Settings Privacy screen.

  • I’ve decided that Wifi transfer between PS3 and Vita won’t work without a Vita firmware update as there’s no way currently to pick to transfer wirelessly.

  • Thx @morac I’m glad you saw the same thing too

  • What about some update that makes the Remote Play via PS Vita smoother?

  • Sony you have failed to address the “stuck at 99%” install for years now. Yet again my system is totally screwed, my data is lost, and none of these updates even apply to me. You need to start giving users the option to update or not to update. If a game doesn’t work because the user will need to update, fine, but imposing a forced update just to get on the Playstation Network is downright ridiculous.

    Fix the 99% issue.

  • Please.. for once and for all. Just let us delete our trophies so many people wanna get rid of the trophies for games they don’t have anymore, it’d help and keep it much more cleaner and organized by heaps.

    Xbox let you do it.

    Oh and by the way,
    Would love a new update for the PlayStation iPhone app. It’s a mess.

  • I was hoping for more with the trophy settings, like others said, being able to delete would be nice.

  • It’s dumb that your updates are focused on trophy’s really know one cares. Were gamers we want more ways to store memory why not make an update that allows us to use an external hard drive to store our extra content with out having to reinstal it on the HDD once we move it to the external HD. All the ps3 games that are coming out now want you to store like 6 to 8 gb on your system I have a 60GB so I can have playstation one and 2 backwards compatibility and I have like no more room for games sucks never had this problem with a wii. seriously fix your **** before you come out with new **** and rock star could use the same advice lol.

  • Sort games by name please.

  • :(((( It bricked my ps3, it restarted after the update with a black screen, when i move the right stick on my joystick left and right, i can hear clicking sound, it seems sony did a really bad job with this update.

  • Hey Eric,

    I’m glad to see that the PlayStation 3 is still being updated even though the PlayStation 4 is right around the corner. Although there are still some major things and some simple additions I’d like to see added to the ps3 through firmware updates. I hope that these suggestions will make it to the firmware team before they decide to stop updating the PlayStation 3.

    – A shuffle option added under both the picture and video menus
    – The ability to delete multiple messages at one time in the message box
    – A search option in the download list
    – The ability to group games and their corresponding DLC together in the download list
    – Expand the amount of themes able to be put on the PlayStation 3 to over 100
    – For true customization, create the ability to make a theme playlist and the ability to randomize it
    – New visualizations for the music player

  • playstation vita system software update version 2.70 Yet? I want you to increase a new function rapidly.
    It is like a new app.(ustream・dailymotion・twitcasting live&viewer・fc2livechat・Hulu・DMM.com・TSUTAYA TV・U-NEXT・bandai channel)

  • Sorry, but due to Sony’s european branch incompetence and ignorance, my only way is to ask here:

    Why again isn’t in this FW delete option for insulting, forced, unremovable, undeletable Singstar in XMB for european users? Why it needs to be so aggressive so it shows everytime i change disc, everytime i switch on PS3, even if will never play it? Why do you persistently reject one simple solution? Even dumb person can understand, that delete option can solve all our complaints without harming customers who appreciate forced Singstar in their XMB.

    Quote from another forum which nicely sums Sony arrogance:

    – How do i remove this s&%t from XMB?
    – You can’t, that’s the new Sony strategy of making customer satisfied.

  • now how i am going to see them?!

  • It’s a minor thing, but I would love to know from which game those Trophy icons on peoples’ profiles come.

  • Nice update for 4.50 firmware on PS3 system, however I been waiting for closed captions feature support to use when playing DVDs and blu-ray disc movies on PS3 system, but was hoping the firmware version 4.50 could be it for closed captioning feature support for dvds and blu-ray contents though. I also certainly hope Sony did a testing on the new firmware before releasing it to the public. I mean, remember about 4.45 version that caused PS3 systems bricked and everything? I’m just suggesting Sony would from now on to do a every future firmware test before releasing to the public. I’m also sure that Sony would want every single PS3 systems to be safe as of NOT bricked at all. Have a happy october.

  • Really good software update!
    Thanks Sony to all your support.

    But I’d like to be able to delete those games or trophies record with 5% completed or less that I will never play again. That’d be so cool if those data could disappear from the trophy list!

  • It would have been great if we could have hidden the trophies on a per game basis, instead of an All or None approach via the Privacy Settings.

    I know I bought a few games that I didn’t like, and now I have them constantly hanging onto my profile with 0% Completion. I thought this update was going to make it so I could toss the dead weight out of my trophy case.

    Please consider this for a future update. We should be able to choose which games show, not just whether they show or not and to whom.

  • i hope they can make the ps store better PLZ!!!!!!

  • so based on what i can see, this actually does hide the games from sites like psnprofiles, so that’s pretty sweet!

    one feature i would like to see is the ability to auto-sync trophies without having to download other things like patches, or upload save data to the cloud

  • @hooligan, that’s exactly what this update does…

  • Weird but I follow directions as stated by fellow users but Im not seeing privacy settings for individual trophies

  • the 1st 2 i could already do with PS+

    the trophy thing…have to see what that really means.

    the last thing is kinda neat, but i usually just download stuff right to my vita. and i back up my saves to the cloud. what is the reason to hook to a ps3? to back up the vita???? i really dont know

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