At last, the first post-E3 firmware update for the
PlayStation 3, and as you might've suspected, this one's got
PlayStation Plus packed into the mix. We've
talked about the service a bit so far, but to recap, $50 annual nets you a 50 percent discount on PSN titles, early access to betas, and one hour of demo time on select full titles (among other benefits). If you're not willing to shell out the Ulysses S Grant, however, however, there's a few other treats in the software patch, including five-star ratings for content purchased on the Store, video editor and uploader for Facebook and YouTube (note: not a video capture service, gotta use what the HDD already has), and expanded integration into Picasa and Facebook photo galleries. Speaking of Facebook, a new app will appear on the social site for showing off your PSN profile and befriending others. As usual, no exact date for the firmware is given, but if history's any indication, it won't be very long at all.
Update: We just checked our consoles and, sure enough, the update is live. We're downloading now and will let you know if there's anything peculiar.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted June 28th 2010 10:51PM
And it still won't bring back OtherOS, and it'll still lock ya out if you don't upgrade.
Love ya too, Sony.
@dragonfli Yeah and playstation plus seems like a waste of money too
@dragonfli No kidding. Where's Geohot with the 3.21OO update?
@hammydbest
I think it's a really good deal. Free games every month, discounts, early beta access, Qore, full game demos, automatic downloads of updates (PS3 turns on and off automatically to do this). The first month alone is going to have over $50 worth of free stuff.
@dragonfli What do you need OtherOS for? I have yet to hear a valid use for installing and launching Linux on a PS3. I'm all ears though.
@Toleraen
LOL
Geohot.com
NINJA VANNISH!
@Toleraen i've lost faith in geohot. For one, he never updated on the PS3 what's going on. Then at that hackers conference in paris he explained how the process is done. Yet he doesn't release it? Also, he promotes his own methods for jailbreaking and stuff. While he DID have a jailbreak for the ipad before spirit, spirit was released first. Then geohot touts that spirit users don't have any idea what they're doing and are generally stupid. Its sad.
@pcwzrd13 Yeah but its only good if you want the stuff that they give you otherwise it is worth 0....
@hammydbest
Well, assuming they continue to give you $50 worth of content every month, that's $600, not including the 3 free months promotion. If you don't like at least $50 worth of the content, then you must not like video games very much!
@dragonfli
I bet the 50% off games means you have to download them, which will require a massive hard drive upgrade as well.
@pcwzrd13
I want to get it.... but this is keeping me away: "Access to some content, excluding discounted content, terminates at the end of the subscription period." so....... if I got a free game+ dlcs and stuff, are they really mine? Was thinking of getting the 3 month trial so obviously i am hoping to keep what I originally paid for. Didn't turn out that way with linux tho huh? Still love my ps3 either way.
@bravokiloromeo
So, how much does a 500G hdd cost these days? Not like its a proprietary hdd required for the XBox
@deliteguy
Yeah, that is kind of disappointing but that only applies to the games, not the add-ons and themes. I still think it's worth it though.
BTW, there is no free trial. The free three months is just when you buy a one year subscription.
@pcwzrd13
Sorry, meant the 3 month package that is in the picture above. At least then you could try before you buy the whole deal.
@deliteguy
Oh, ok. I'm basically trying it too but I think I'm better off getting the 1-year and get the 3 months free. If I decide I don't like it at the end of the 15 months, I just won't renew but it's a much better ceal than the 3-month. I think you really have to have it for a longer period in order to know if you'll like it.
@mairondil
Indeed, that's one of my favorite features in the PS3. Cake-easy HDD upgrade.
@bravokiloromeo
They don't take that much space, but if you were running out of space, you can get a 500GB WD Scorpio Blue (5400 rpm) for $60 on Amazon. If you want a 7200rpm drive, you can get a Hitachi for $80.
There is absolutely no way for you to upgrade an Xbox that way even if you wanted to; and if there were you'd have to pay a ridiculous amount for a freaking proprietary HDD.
And of course, if for some reason yuo have a lot of data in the form of movies and music on your PS3, you can always store those in a huge external HDD and plug it in to on of the USB ports. Again, that's impossible on the XBox. The XBox only sees the first 16GB of whatever external storage you plug into it.
@DeFlanko Sony ninjas
@tikigawd You can simply just plug in a USB HDD in the 360.
@SmokemeaKipper
God dammit, I want a better fucking internet browser..
Browsing the internet with the PS3s current browser is a pain the ass
"video editor and uploader for Facebook and YouTube (note: not a video capture service, gotta use what the HDD already has),"
Download EyeCreate from PSN, it's a video capture service
@Dynamic3 I like linux, and you cant tell me thats not valid.
@SmokemeaKipper Only 16 GBs can be used though
@Dynamic3 Valid reason: "FRREEEEEDOMMMMMMMM!" William Wallace
Also, it's a good precedent to set, getting to put your own OS on your console. I think that's most important, not what you can do today, but what we can do in the future if we get the ball rolling now...let's see how well you were listening.
@Dynamic3 http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/12/air-force-disappointed-by-ps3s-other-os-removal/
The United States Air Force uses the Playstation 3's OtherOS capability for research. But is these units start to fail (since they're stacked so close together), it's going to be real to replace them.
@Tothamax *real hard
Hell yeah!
@Dynamic3 Physics departments clustered them for supercomputing.
@Dynamic3 research as a supercomputing array.
@uckApple
Agreed... Let's hope this is the next priority though I doubt it will be for the simple fact that almost anyone who owns a PS3 also owns a PC sigh...
@Extinction 16gb is alot more than the 32 mb memory card you playstation users got lmao.... and we can take our hard drive with us without having to unscrew anything... but nice that you gotta pay to send messagse or voice chat lol
@pcwzrd13
Well it's $50 a year, not $50 a month.
@Dynamic3
Codec support...
@Dynamic3 starcraft on ps3
@Toleraen 3.21 no way
3.41 from geohot yes!
@mairondil http://www.google.com/products?q=500gb+sata+2.5
@big nazty Since when does the PS3 have memory cards?!
@Dynamic3 : How about being able to play emulators? How about to be able to play homebrew (through good use of the SPU's).. How about having a better browser as the PS3's GameOS version.. How about having payed for that feature when I choose/bought my PS3..
@Extinction That's only if you want to use it for Save Games. You can use any HDD on the 360 for data (Photos, Music, Videos etc) but if you want to save games to it it's limited to 16gb.
@deliteguy I am not getting hung up on the not owning the game part of PS+. Two reasons, 1) if the value of PS+ is as good as I hope it will be, I will likely continue my subscription each year. 2) most of the PSN games I have bought in the past I will play for a couple weeks then never touch again (Magic Ball, Trash Panic), in those cases, I don't care that it would be gone. In the rare case I keep going back to a game (SSHD), I could always buy the game if I ended my subscription.
@hammydbest So by your definition my subscription to netflix and gamefly is worth $0 ???
@deliteguy
Thats the reason why i wont get it. i can imagine paying for the service for a year then next year i may not want it anymore, but then all the money i paid towards the games i wont be able to play. screw that!
@hammydbest
Can't the same be said about everything though?
@Dynamic3 BOXEE!
Ahhhh!!!. I just want more codec support mkv, 3ggp, .mov etc.
@Supraman I haven't upgraded since the OtherOS firmware was announced. But more codec support would get me on board. At this point, I don't expect Geohot to come out with anything.
@Supraman
http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/
I use it all the time to stream MKV to the PS3...
@DeFlanko That's all very well, but you need a fairly decent PC (at least if it's a high res/bit rate).
The PS3 is more than capable of decoding that stuff, so they just need to support, it would make life soo much easier.
Are you guys buying this?
@BlackedOut Still trying to map out just what we are getting. If we get one free psn game 2 free psn mini games and a free ps one classic EVERY month. It will likely be worth it for the heavy gamers. Looks like im gonna have to upgrade my HDD soon........