PS3 2.60 firmware update available now, all 140MB of it
By Thomas Ricker 
posted January 21st 2009 3:44AM
posted January 21st 2009 3:44AM
posted January 21st 2009 3:44AM
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Yes, you can upgrade your HD and it will have no effect on your warranty with Sony.
You do need to keep your old hard drive and if you need to send it in, put it back in... never send your after market drive to Sony. It's also a good troubleshooting procedure. If you put in your old drive and it works, then it could be firmware problems or your new hard drive.
it voided mine -.- my ps3 had a sticker over the hard drive cover :D dunno why -.- havent heard of anyone else having a sticker there D:
why is engadget always against sony?
Why is EVERYONE against Sony??
I second that, stop whining. If Sony didn't add any features, you would put them down for that as well.
Because its not Sorny.
You don't know? I'll give you a hint. It starts with the letter 'A'.
@Ryan
Everyone isn't against Sony. They are all against the PS3 for pretty much the same reason that everyone is against Microsoft but not the XBox. The Playstation brand got too big and powerful over the course of the last 15 years or so and now everyone wants them to fail. Same thing happened to Nintendo the last time around (early 90's). Make one little mistake and you go from dominating the market to bottom feeding for a while. Sucks to be a PS3 fanboy right now. It is a really nice console.
Maybe because Sony has repeatedly priced things at insane levels (PS3 pricing, now Vaio P pricing), pushes proprietary crap at every turn (ATRAC instead of MP3 or AAC, Memory Stick instead of SD), and has botched numerous product lines over the last few years (let's remove the backwards PS2 compatibility to save a few cents)?
It's really sad, as the technology in the PS3 (and the PSP, and the Vaio P, etc) is extremely impressive, an by all rights should have done much better. Sony has just botched it up repeatedly.
Slightly off topic, but to those people who replied that they even have higher speeds: I said that in the Netherlands 4 megabits is about the minimum. I myself have now 20, which will be upgraded at the same price to 50 in the next two months and to 80 before year end.
Love that broadband competition ;-)
God damned American internets! I feel privileged to have 8Mbps.
shit, i have 1.5mbps DSL. Its free with my apartment, so i cant complain, except that i will never see that much bandwidth, because they have 8 other units on the same fucking line. As a poor college student, i dont have the funds to support $50 for the lowest (and online) cable option in my area. American broadband fucking blows.
@semi: because there computer geeks . . . . Microsoft make an OS an console so that's why they are higher ranked . . . in there eyes ps3 is just a console with poor support.
140MB! OMG my hi-tech ISDN will scream in agony!
My internet is based on punch cards sent via carrier pigeon so my birds will be working extra hard this week.
On a serious note ... no could not think of anything serious to say.
This is 2009 guys, 140 mb took me about 20 mins on my 1mbps connection. Besides ever wonder why the PS3 can't be semi-bricked like the wii? The entire OS is re-installed which is a very good security measure.
Based in Australia, this update took nearly 2 hours to download. This is not due to the speed of my internet connection but due to the fact that for some reason I only get 30-50k per sec from the PSN with my PS3 hooked up to my wireless router. I get 1MB download speeds on my laptop using Wifi but crap speeds on my PS3.
took me all of about 5. via wifi aswell. gotta love ADSL2+ and its dodgyness compared to the rest of the world.
Gotta love the anti sony fanboy editiors.....
Getting a little old guys, we need Ryan Block back.
Ryan wasn't exactly favorable to the Playstation if my memory serves me.
Hmm, glad NOT to live in Australia then. Even my cellphone has 3 megabit (3G HSDPA) nowadays without download limit, for less than you pay (10 Euro a month).
sucks ass that the ps3 still doesn't have wireless network memory, i have to install the network all over again everytime i go to my other house
Must be painful owning more than one house and only being able to afford one Playstation.
@ Andir3.0
ROFALMO!!!
that would be a nice, simple feature to add. i dont like having to re-configure my wireless connection when I am home from school on break. however, the 2 min, automatic set up time is hardly maddening.
140MB isn't a big deal. I just started the download and switched over to the 360 to play some COD WaW while it installed.
Since we are talking PS3 here, can anybody give me a valid answer on WHY you can't download and install everything all in one shot?
I have to download the update, then install the update (which includes the OS), but then I have to download the photo gallery, and then install the photo gallery.
Why can't I download the update, and install the update, and everything work?
The only thing I could think of is that people may not want to use the photo gallery, so they don't have to install it, but other than that's I can't figure it out.
Anybody got an answer?
Just as you say. Some people don't want the feature. They patch the OS to include interfaces for the programs and it's optional if you want to use it. Why download the Folding client to everyone if they don't want it?
I also like how they download the demos and let you install them, copy them to another drive, or delete them before installing them.
exactly, not everyone will want the photo features.
Also by downloading it separately Sony can get some hard figures of who actually wants this type of feature and then (if its popular enough) do the same for Music and Video organising.
Kudos Sony the PS3 is miles different from the launch console.
Makes sense....thanks for confirming my thought.
I would like some new visualisations for when you play your music. The earth and stars is pretty freaking sweet, but I would like to change it up to some different things. (if there is a way, I haven't found it yet)
Wait, someone actually prefers having to install demos?
You just blew my mind.
Because one is a firmware update, and the other is an "add-on application". The firmware is downloaded to disk, and is written to another memory location that is not the harddisk. The "add-on application" installs on the harddisk.
Its people like this that make me worry what our future population are going to grow up like.
Well I guess reporting is not all necessary in blogging. I guess the writer didn't care to learn that the Photo Gallery is an optional download after the firmware update. I believe your size argument did not take this into consideration when posted. Also as a gadget blog you think you would actually cover this more informatively instead of this.
I swear, if you nit-picking complainy nerds put this much effort into writing articles yourselves...
i guess in their urgency to get the news out they missed out a few facts..
but i still doesnt understand why they feel the need to give sony a negative spin all the time
@Joe Look at the title of the post. If the writer wasn't so concerned on slamming Sony for adding features maybe he would have been able to get the story straight.
Nice, I just dumped 25GB onto my PS3 last night!
Finally an update I won't mind having to wait to download.
what i REALLY want is a2dp bluetooth support. is this possible with the existing hardware?
Who cares if it's 140meg...not like we got space issue. I don't anyway. I just upgrade mine to 250gig for 80 bucks. A 360 can't even do that double the price. Anyway, I think it's cool how the photo manager can sort by age, smiles, and other options. The firmware update will not download the photo manager, there will be a link to download it under your photo xmb icon and you can choose not to download it if you got space problem.
Has anyone actually used the new Photo Album software? I did last night.
Seems like the PS3 wants to be a local data store for my photos. I already have a file server for photos with a typical upnp streamer that works with the PS3 photo viewer. So it looks like this tool is of no value to me after all.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat.
-mw
@Bjsfreaked
Shouldn't it be 'people like these' rather then 'people like this'?
Wow...
Prozac anyone?
@Adderz ..
I am sure you are with iPrimus by the sound of it. This stupid company advertises their 6Gb quota as "massive" download limit.
Like Dave Chapel said, research on Whirlpool.net. I have used broadband in Australia for almost 7 yrs now, so far TPG has always offered best deal - AUD60 for 50Gig Download@1.5 Mbps. Also Optus has some deal with unlimited broadband and everything for something like AUD129/m.
In a nutshell Aussie Broadband sucks, God knows when will we be at par with the developed world.
Sigh. I still want the same four features I always did: ftp access (or another way to push or sync content), music search, web shortcuts in the SMB, and SE phone integration. I wish Sony would think more about positioning.
When i got my 40GB PS3, i got it home set it up, and i found i only actually had 30GB available, i'm now down to 11GB, yet i have no photos or music at all. Just game saves.
Not sure WTH is up with that, but yeah 2.60 didn't offer me anything that i really... REALLY needed, and so, more memory was used lol.
seriously does no one notice that u never download 100% only to around 50-80%. this is cuz the firmware is fixed size. the update will never exceed that size.any features they make will fit in there. most of the stuff they are adding arent that large in size at all. if it was on the HD it would also be called software updates not firmware updates. the two terms are completly different. if it was on the HD i could take out my drive copy it bit for bit and id have a complete copy of ps3's OS. and they dont allow that. you cant do that with a chip unless you know its pinout and specs. and as you know taking apart a PS3 and tampering with its circuitry is illegal in US. thats reverse engineering. theres a reason mod chips are illegal in the US and you cant sell them, and have them imported.
For what its worth, I installed the update and after about a week my PS3 does not recognize any discs. Apparently there's a glitch that makes some of the lenses burn out. Best of luck....