Facebook confirmed for PS3 News

According the thesixthaxis this could arrive in 3.10 as early as next week:

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2009/11/11/p...

Sneaky sneaky :D

Ha, and yet, who cares about FB still? xD

Time for MS to get there heads out of the sand me thinks.

@DevilsNeverCry
65 million active users?

The funny thing is.... with the ps3's browser you can access face book anyway. How does this really benefit anyone?

Will this then come out before the 360 implementation?

After all MS's harping on about it as well.

I dont see what's so good about accessing facebook through a console

I would have been surprised if Sony didn't at least try to build upon, Uncharted 2's twitter thing.

And if the Friends list border colour change is true, my friendlist is going to become psychedelic when this update hits.

The funny thing is.... with the ps3's browser you can access face book anyway. How does this really benefit anyone?

It'll either be a straight link to the website like the BBCi player or it'll be integrated into PSN ala Uncharted 2 twitter updates.

What reelbigkris said.

seems every electrical device now needs some sort of social networking ability.....heaven forbid i couldnt tell some one how hungry i am when opening the fridge

all this means is another way to advertise a console

Great now I can keep up with what my friends are doing in Farmville in game and when Im not on a pc/mobile

Dear Eurogamer, the PS3 got a webbrowser, which means all these services are available on the PS3 since launch...

I have trouble* logging on to facebook using the web browser - does anybody else have the same trouble?

*it seems to load the frames but none of the updates appear.

@foreverafternothing: What Steroyd said.

Facebook, meh, social networking for people not old enough to meet down the pub.

I'm still amazed at how many people fail to see the difference between accessing a service via a console on an interface tailored to the console versus accessing a service via a console on an interface tailored to a webbrowser on a PC with a mouse.

The PS3 web browser is awful, i've never managed to use it for more than 10 mins without it completely locking up my system.

It's not that hard to use the web browser to access Facebook so, yes, PS3 got there first.
I'll still use my laptop for Facebook as I'm unlikely to want to fire up my console to find out what my old school chums are having for tea tonight.
I'd rather pretend to shoot people in the face for three hours instead like normal well-adjusted people.

What Shinetop said.

"Facebook, meh, social networking for people not old enough to meet down the pub."

Isn't that a little like saying "Telephones, meh, communication for those not old enough to just shout across the room"?

I think your comment says more about you and your circle of friends than anything else. Maybe if all your friends didn't live in the same town, the benefits might be more apparent.

@davisorle

You needed all those words just to regurgitate the usual "Ooooo, Company X are copying"?

Two words.

Grow. Up.

Just to be even more clear, having a web-browser does not equal having access to all the content over the internet, at least in a usefull way.
This is not the 90's anymore.

I prefer real social networking, it can b done without a console or computer.

I wish Sony would spend their resources on things that matter. Like getting the EU PlayStation Store on par with the JP and US ones.
Who wants FaceBook on their consoles anyway?

Facebook is the burberry cap of the internet.

Forget sodding facebook, twitter etc. When the hell are they going to make SD content on BDs upscale? I still can't believe this hasn't been added!

As long as it won't be as shittily coded as the main Facebook site...

Also I'm slightly with Funkateer on this, please work on the bloody PSN store. :(

I mean out of self respect, if I were Sony I wouldnt be that obvious into ripping off my competitor so much and make others question me. Do something new ffs. And dont give me a Wimmote wiyth a gay name, saying it a whole new experience.

This is the new chicken and egg argument, would you say Nintendo were the first to have motion sensing gaming?

What's funny is that people bitch on PSN for not copying the cross game game chat doohicky feature that XBL has THE CYCLE COMPLETES ITSELF!!!

Lets face it, we're at a point where it's very hard not to come up with something that hasn't been done in some form or other somewhere else, the best you can hope is do what the competitor does, improve it in your own vision and hope it's different/fresh enough so consumers flock to it like flies to dung.

I don't even use Facebook on my PC, so having it appear on consoles isn't any use to me at all.

It's not so much copying as it is providing features that people expect to be there as standard if you call a product a multimedia hub.

Lately there have been so many "accidental" postings of stuff that shouldn't be announced yet that I'm beginning to wonder if these postings weren't so accidental after all.

Bloody hells teeth. The people that do the firmware updates, and therefore the budgets associated with them, are in no way related to the EU PSN store. Different teams, different release schedules and different buckets of cash.

I suspect the Facebook update will including status updates being automatically sent to FB, eg jefranklin is now playing SingStar or jefranklin has just got trophy x. I just hope there is a way of turning this off as I am not sure I want my non-gaming friends knowing how big a nerd I am.

@davisorle: SingStar/Lips, Buzz/I forget the name of the MS game. They all copy each other, get over it.

@TonyCocaCola
I dont see what's so good about accessing facebook through a console

That's because you obviously have access to a PC, not every console owner has easy access to one.

fact is when ur dual screening with comp and console...it pretty obsolete ;)

I use Facebook quite often, as do many of my PSN friends, so i can see an integrated app being useful if you want to check your profile for messages,tags etc... Though i do question (as do many others) Sony's priorities. Yes, Facebook is huge and i would use it often but, i think first and foremost it is a gaming console, so adding most wanted features for gamers to enhance gaming and online services for games is more important. Oh and those ugly grey boxes... get rid of those please!

Hopefully they are removing those horrible grey borders around our friend list. I'd rather that than facebook tbh.

@kangarootoo
Clarifying why i have that opinion and making my point is showing imaturity? I could just come out as a fanboy and the usuals say something bad for what they are doing and be flamed as a fanboy. You need to think straight and instead of trying to be a smaartass, to not be a dumbass and open your eyes as in why i said all i said. You were the one that was reading my whole post apparently so who needs to grow up? Noone forced you to read it all and bitch about it.. lol thats new.

@des
So true.

@ Steroyd

I never denied that. I yet agree with it. I love competition and me being against improving from whoever something would be stupid of me and anyone thinking that way. Im just irritated from the kiddos that we both know excist and will say " thank god Sony came up with the Wand" or.. Thank God they thought of bringing Facebook on the console". If Sony wasnt going around saying "we did something new here" when they talk abotu wands and instead said " we are improving what X competitor gave you and you loved" ( im not a Wiimote fan :P and yes I know how old the motion controlling is. I had one of those Sidewinter controlers from MS for my PC about... 10 years ago? Was like the SixAxis. Hated it. Was crappy tech back then specially. ). In that case I wouldnt think less of them.


Anyhow. Thats about it :)

"Bloody hells teeth. The people that do the firmware updates, and therefore the budgets associated with them, are in no way related to the EU PSN store. Different teams, different release schedules and different buckets of cash. "

In the end those 'buckets of cash' are all coming from the same source, so your point is moot. The point is prioritizing those buckets of cash.

Personally i think Facebook is a waste of time, and yes you could access it from the web browser already. But the console market has become a "Me first" type situation, so if Sony can get in before MS with a new FB icon (like the BBC tv channel), they feel they have got one over... I dont think it makes much difference, but that is what all three manufacturers are doing right now. I think Sony want to do this because MS made such a big deal about it in the first place...

jefranklin: Strange argument, just because they are separate teams doesn't mean the overall focus is wrong.
As it is now, the store sucks balls, whether it's EU, US or any other version of it. It's just horrible, and I'm talking about the interface so the firmware people would most definitely have something to do with it.

I would've thought an innovative way of doing this would be to integrate Facebook into PlayStation Home.

@Skurmedel

I don't mind the interface but I guess people with different opinions don't count.

@davisorle

I have no idea what you just said to me. Except for this bit.

"I could just come out as a fanboy"

Errr, yes? It would probably save us all a lot of time, yourself included.

The alternative though of course, is to make an concerted effort NOT to be a fanboy. And just comment on stuff as objectively as you can, instead of getting bogged down in "company X (who I hate) copied, but company Y (who I like) were inspired by".

You must surely have an opinion about Facebook on the PS3 that has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the 360 or the Wii?

@Skurmedel

The interface isn't that bad. I don't even know whether I "like" it or not.

I use it, it works, I buy stuff and then I leave. The searching could be better, but its never been a major barrier for me. I have no strong feelings about it either way.

and one feature more for the PS3 you would have to pay on Xbox... :)
Facebook on a console is really not all that big of an event, revamp of the web browser would make more poeple happy (and allow them to use "normal" facebook as well) but thinks like this really seem to improve the value of PS3 with its free online services.

Now bite me, xbox owners and fans

John Koller (SCEA) spoke of social network integration back in April 09, two months before it was announced for Xbox360 and DSi.
He didn't specify/announce/confirm a facebook app, but did say that plans were underway.

Essentially, I don't think anyone's copying anyone else - they all see facebook/twitter essential marketing tools.

What grayn said.