PS3 and PSP both get new firmware
6.2, half a dozen the other. No, wait.
Sony has updated PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable with new firmware.
PS3 gets the bump to version 3.1, introducing a little bit of Facebook integration, changes to photo viewing and friends list tweaks. We wrote some more about that the other day, and now the European PlayStation blog has pictures and stuff.
PSP, meanwhile, is up to version 6.2, again detailed by the Euro blog, and the principal additions are options to transfer video and photo playlists to the portable either from PC (using Media Go 1.3) or PS3.
The latest PSP firmware also introduces the Digital Comics reader, but the store to go with it doesn't launch until December, so there's not much you can do with it. When it does go live, it will do so first in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, with other regions to follow.
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A slightly less attractive cross symbol (the new extras category) for the comic book reader (and TV streaming in some countries) in the middle of the XMB.
Despite the service not being scheduled for launch in Portugal yet, I downloaded the english version of the reader.
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I hope they change that icon soon...
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I never even wanted it on my PC.
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Oh and full screen gaming when the psp is connected to a tv.
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On Darren's mention of themes, I'd like a preview mode for themes. Don't want to spend money on a theme to find it's a bit crap.
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Are you gonna say that about every firmware updates from now until the end of time?
"I hope firmware update 50.1 doesn't eff things up! Remember when 3.00 broke Uncharted? Wah wah wah wah!"
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Restarted the PS3 and they didn't come back. There's no sign of facebook on the XMB either.
WTF just happened? Did I somehow *magically* roll back to 2.8?
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Judging by the comments and positive feedback for those comments, I'm guessing it isn't terrifically popular. So why are Sony adding it to the PS3... is it because Microsoft added it the Xbox 360?
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Seriously? You never heard of it?
Roughly 300 million active users (details). No one cool uses it though, obviously.
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Facebook has millions of active users hence why both platforms are integrating this into their systems.
Most complaints are because there are other features that gamers (or people on this site at least) would like instead of facebook integration and colour changing of XMB stuff.
We are but a small percentage of PS3 and 360 owners though and I'm sure these features will still appeal to a lot of people.
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