Firmware 3.10 Detailed, Includes Facebook Access
It turns out those leaked shots of a supposed new firmware for our beloved PlayStation 3 consoles were real. Firmware 3.10 has officially been announced, and includes some nice social networking functionality as well as general UI improvements.
FB on PS3 via XMB!
Built-in Facebook functionality will include automatic posts to your account’s feed when you earn new trophies or make a purchase/download from the PlayStation Store. Of course if you are anything like the even casual PlayStation owner this would mean a lot of new posts inundating your Facebook’s wall, so you are asked if you want a purchase broadcasted onto your network of friends. This update will also allow games to automatically update your Facebook with in-game events, much like Uncharted 2 does with Twitter. This is all at the user’s discretion, of course.
Pick a color.
Other than Facebook functionality, firmware 3.10 gives users a new grid-based view of photos saved on the console. This allows for an easier way to find the photo you are looking for. The friends list on the XMB has also been tweaked. Only the currently highlighted PSN ID will have a colored background, the color of which is determined by the actual owner of the ID. What are your thoughts on these changes and new features? Stay connected with PlayStation LifeStyle for this and other PlayStation news.
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35 Responses to “Firmware 3.10 Detailed, Includes Facebook Access”
The PS3 is comming on with a vengence!
hopefully theres a secret in this update that is the cross game chat they supposedly leaked a few weeks back.
i think it sounds cool n i 2 hope the cross chat is included
sounds pretty lame. Who on facebook is gonna give a flying poo about trophies I’ve earned on my PS3? I’m not even sure people on my PSN friends list care. Sound like a big waste of time when they could have worked on other things. :::sigh:::… when will they get to the things PS3 users actually care about? Cross game chat, universal music playing, a fully enabled browser, some more dynamic themes (what are there, 5 or 6 now?), and the dynamic avatars they were so adamant about enabling… to name a few.
One piece of information is missing – when is this available? Does announced mean released?
Usually when the video is posted on the blog the firmware is availabe that tuesday night around 11-12 at night, So I would be willing to bet it will be available tonight around midnight
@bigwhoopmagazine
when hell freezes over. I want all that stuff too but appreantly they must have extremely doopy kids who want asked what they want for the PS3 update go “Duhhhh i dun know, facebook? Oh and changing my profile’s colour” Does sony think we’re fricken five years old and this is going to make us happy as we jump up and down screaming “I CAN CHANGE THE CALOUR NOW! AND ALL MY FACEBOOK FRIENDS WILL KNOW WHEN I GET A TROPHEY!” when off my friend’s moans at me when i accidently send him a mafia wars invite
Some people are never happy. lol.
I bet you’d be surprised how many people will use the Facebook thing. While I didn’t ask for it, I will use it. If I’m on my PS3, it is much easier than having to turn on my PC. I’m also glad you don’t have to have all that stuff posting on your wall.
Throw in cross-game chat and the PSN is a force to be reckoned with.
@Gator,
I agree, while it was not the earth shattering update many of us hoped for, it is still solid news and a lot of people will use it.
Although I know a lot of people will be pissed there is no cross game chat, the euro blog confirmed that it is coming and they are just waiting for the powers that be to OK it’s release.
On the second page of the Euro blog’s announcement the Moderator answers a direcct question about Cross game chat and answers the following:
“I wish I could just give you a date, I really do!! Trust me when I say that as soon as I hear from ‘up top’ I will be shouting about it and making myself the most popular person on the blog ”
I am not sure but I think this is the first time anyone directly from Sony has confirmed it’s existence but I could be wrong.
Here’s a link to the quote
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/11/17/playstation-3-firmware-v3-10-update-preview/comment-page-2/#comments
I’m 50/50 on Cross Game Chat.
One way it’s awesome for obvious reasons.
Other is it can be used for cheating.
any word on a date?
@Nikril, How can it be used for cheating?
@GATORJV
I agree. I don’t care for the facebook thing, but I will use it anyway. Also, I want my cross-game chat dammit.
its thursday: http://scrawlfx.com/2009/11/ps3-firmware-update-v3-10-will-include-facebook-gamercard-colors
http://www.t3.com/news/ps3-joins-xbox-360-with-facebook-launch?=42293
@ Nikrel: Even M$ has found that their party chat system is being used for cheating and they are removing it from new online titles, so it is not the have to have application as it is made out to be. I will bet that those that have both systems will whine in the X-box forums on M$ that they want XGC back.
It could be why our Japanese Shogunate minders have held off on putting it into the XMB. The Japanese are real big on honour and resposibility so they feel that if it could lead to cheating they might not allow it to be implemented or they would leave that upto developers like in-game music.
how is cross game chat related to cheating?
You guys think this is a big update?
Lol?
@SolidCake
do you really need an explanation to that?
PS3 needs Cross game chat … it is so nice to use it on 360!
No more cement blocks!? Now THAT’S what I’m talkin’ about!
cross chat is not in this update guys. Go read & watch the video at the playstation blog
Hey Gator, you and me are changing our gamer card colors or orange, right?
GAY!
complain complain complain, thats all i ever see half of yous do..its sorta pathetic… u give someone a lil, and theyre never satisified and always wanting more…you sound like my ex-wife (if i had 1) i dont want facebook either but i might use it here and there
Thank god we get to set a trophy list color. It’d still be nice to be able to turn the boxes off entirely, but this is close enough I guess.
One more thing to turn purple!
@ SPD55
What the hell are you talking about?
Cross game chat is used to gain an unfair advantage in certain games. Like when you die and can view the whole map in certain FPS games, you aren’t allowed to talk to your team at that time….With the cross game or party chat on, you can give away your opponents position and things like that.
So yeah, it’s kinda cheating for some games. People have been doing that for a long time on xbox now
Cross game chat can be used to cheat in this way also. Let’s take Killzone for instance. If all of my friends play on the Helghast side and I play on the ISA side then I can give away the positions of my teammates and the paths they are taking via cross game chat. People need to verbalize exactly what it is they’re looking for in cross game chat. You don’t want the same thing as what’s on the 360.
@SPD55
please stop putting people in categories.. im aware of what your saying but its hilarious your comparisons, especially the japanese example. If you do more research youd find out its only in MW2 for the 360. Im sure M$ knows its own systems weakness and exploits. Dont base 1 game that cross chats been removed to be EVERY game…
@megs1120
lmao… i second your comment..
@barkiemailman
It’s called cell phones or skype. if there’s a will,. there’s a way.
At the end of the day though, it’s really not cheating they are spying. The difference? Cheating is like using a program that gets rid of the Fog of War on an RTS letting you see what’s going on. Having a spy is just co-ordinating based off of intelligence of someone pretending to be the enemy. In my eyes it’s a fair tactic for war games.
Also I suck as a player. Someone taking a spy role is probably going to get more kills than I will. So spy’s are better for the team than me. So I really can’t diss them. I try to kill and I just die like crazy. So… Plus it’d probably be easier for a team to plant a mole that just runs to the their friends to get their kills up, rather than to sit there and to try and co-ordinate character positions.
It just seems all too complicated and if people care that much about it, do clans. Of course they can still spy but. What ever. You’ll never fix that. They’ll just buy a PSP and use skype if they have to.
@Makai
Yes it’s an extremely fair tactic to have one asshole give away the rest of the team because he feels like it. I guess if someone might want to play the game without the enemy heading straight for them non-stop they’re screwed.
How about 2X and 4X zoom for the Blu ray player? Every DVD player ever made had that – even my $30 unit I got a $15 mail in rebate on. So obviously it was thought of as a somewhat important feature. But not my $400 PS3. Nope, just a bunch of facebook crap. Question: why would anyone be interested in using that on the PS3 instead of their computer, which has a freakin’ keyboard?
@Makai – I see why you would want to justify your cheating. Lacking in skill, you need to cheat. However, changing the name of it, and dubbing it “spying”, does not change the fact that its cheating. That said…..
This all could have been done before with skype, a cell phone, or if really necessary, friggin’ walkie talkies! So… yea… it makes it easier,,, but… I don’t think it’ll really change anything that much.
@JackC8 – Not that I’m interested in the slightest about using facebook on ps3… but mine does have a keyboard. Any USB device works dude, and man its so much easier having a keyboard hooked up on the ps3… since text chat is the only real cross game chat I have right now
It’s pretty cool- more significant would be the ability to customize your XMB, but im sure that will happen far far down the line, when there is plenty more to add/remove.
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