Firmware news. It’s been a while since we’ve had any but don’t expect anything earth shattering this time. As more and more elements get slotted onto the XMB Sony must be running out of things to add without venturing into that bulging suggestions box. This time, according to examiner.com it’s a performance based update that will be bringing one mystery feature with it that won’t be useful until further down the line.
What is it? Who knows? And how do they know about this anyway? Regardless, as we tweeted about yesterday, Firmware 2.80 is now up on the Sony press site, and whilst it’s a dead link for now it looks like we won’t be waiting long. All signs point to tomorrow as an ETA so set aside some time to give your fiber optics a workout. So, mystery feature, what do you do and will you be relocating my battery signal?
Update 1: We’ve been told to “not expect anything significant” by an anonymous reader.
Update 2: The EU Blog has told us that “playback quality of some PS3 software has been improved”.
Update 3: The Update is now live for download.
KillaScorp | 23/06/2009 22:36
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Surely Sony cant be listening to almost every message board on the web asking to move the battery indicator.
Wonder if its gonna be support for the new controllers?
Manorhowze | 23/06/2009 22:37
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PLEASE move the damn battery indictator.
Thats all I ask.
Averna | 24/06/2009 00:32
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Do you know how much time and money would need to go into R&D to pull that kind of thing off?! Youre MAD man! Do you want to brankrupt the company?!?!
BoyDay | 23/06/2009 22:37
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I bet it has the word “Go!” in it.
BoyDay | 23/06/2009 22:38
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In fact, write 2.80 on a piece of paper with a pencil then rub out the top right part of the 8 and you’ll see it says “2.GO” – coincidence?
Firewarrior706 | 23/06/2009 22:54
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Actually it says 2.60
Tom Lord | 23/06/2009 22:38
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My guess is the mystery feature will be another new feature that will require the developers of games to make it work e.g. In game music is not universal, it require developers to implement it (I need it in Worms!)
Tom Lord | 23/06/2009 22:39
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IF this is actually happening.
Manorhowze | 23/06/2009 22:40
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Like the screen capture feature that is only used in one game that I know of and I cant even remember which one it is.
BoyDay | 23/06/2009 22:50
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Wipeout I think?
Phil_Kil | 23/06/2009 23:29
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Ghostbusters has screen cap feature when you press PS button anytime in game.
Severn2j | 24/06/2009 08:54
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Doesn’t Midnight Club use it as well?
kevatron400 | 24/06/2009 19:14
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Flow has the little screen grab cells.
Lorcan | 23/06/2009 22:38
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I’m not sure I want a relocation of the battery signal.
I enjoy it’s silliness and the in joke it’s become.
Gives it charm
Alex_Assassin_08 | 23/06/2009 23:11
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same
DarthSharkey | 23/06/2009 22:39
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I hope that the battery indicator does get moved, it really annoys me.
YOURMUMANDME | 23/06/2009 22:41
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It can only be a relatively small update because i’m sure we should be due the big 3.0 by now .
Anyway if that damned battery is still there we should bombard them with a mass angry email scheme !
makibah | 23/06/2009 22:43
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I’m ok with the battery indicator but I do want to be able to play my music while playing games at some point. skate 2 and burnout are the only two i have that support it at the mo.
Colinbarr66 | 23/06/2009 22:47
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Killzone 2
Pookinator | 24/06/2009 14:26
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Killzone 2 doesn’t have in game music, does it?
Manorhowze | 23/06/2009 22:47
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There are quite a lot of games with the feature but still not enough.
The ones I have that support it are PAIN, LBP, Burnout and PES 2009.
In fact I am gonna boot up LBP put on some heavy metal and get on with my competition entry.
cc_star | 24/06/2009 00:17
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Agreed,
Sony should enforce it (like Trophies) for games that are about to start to go into production.
BryOnRye | 23/06/2009 22:51
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That’s all down to the games not the firmware.
Gamoc | 23/06/2009 23:49
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Bejeweled 2 supports it, too.
djdustb | 24/06/2009 09:26
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Really? How do you get that to work? I have had to put up with the rubbish they have by defualt.
Withnail | 23/06/2009 22:50
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Wow that Examiner article is terrible.
So there might be an update and it might add something, but that something might not be useful yet. And this isn’t for certain. The update is just a typical update (WTF does this mean?).
I suggest finding a better source because Examiner don’t know anything about whether or not there is a firmware coming and they certainly don’t deserve the page hits.
nofi | 23/06/2009 23:03
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They don’t know a damned thing, they just picked up on the fact that FW 2.80 was on the press site, which we did yesterday but didn’t want to pre-empt Sony’s reveal. Shame that others don’t respect the same sort of levels.
matty | 23/06/2009 22:56
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i don’t know why every one goes mad of the battery indicator doesn’t bother me one bit waiting 2 seconds to check the time
BoyDay | 23/06/2009 23:01
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I don’t wait – I use a watch or my alarm clock, or the clock on my PC, or the clock on my phone, or the clock on my video recorder……
In fact, my PS3 clock is set by the internet because a game I have (I forget which) says I have to have it that way. And the time the PS3 sets via the internet is nearly 10 minutes out, so I never use the clock on my PS3!
matty | 23/06/2009 23:06
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you have to set it again every now and again loses time for some reason
BryOnRye | 24/06/2009 07:42
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It was GT5 prologue.
fid | 24/06/2009 09:48
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video recorder … how retro
djdustb | 24/06/2009 09:28
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Seconded, I have never worked out all the fuss about this. Yes it looks like a child thought it through but there are bigger issues to worry about.
Colinbarr66 | 23/06/2009 22:59
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Maybe they saw our thread and poll? Only one feature that we want, hopefully party chat or making those bloody notification messages smaller
AllTheApesEscaped | 23/06/2009 23:03
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Do people really care that much about the battery indicator position? I didn’t think they did but some comments on here prove me wrong!
I just play till it randomly interrupts me saying the battery is low and swap it out for a differen’t controller while that charges – I have a nice rotation with my 6 controllers: sixaxis, white ds3, sixaxis, silver ds3, sixaxis, black ds3 and repeat… maybe I am the odd one ._.
Nathan-I | 23/06/2009 23:22
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Odd is spot-on, why do you have SIX controllers?
Gamoc | 23/06/2009 23:52
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I was going to give a reason for him, but I can’t think of one. I can’t think of a single game that uses 6 player local coop. I have no clue what kind of new insanity this is…
Maybe he’s a collector?
TURNER-F1-42 | 23/06/2009 23:03
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if you double click the ps button, the battery indicator goes off a fraction of a second before the time, so you can see what time it is
Snebjnr | 23/06/2009 23:12
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Oh yes, a new update will do nicely
GTOWN | 23/06/2009 23:14
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When are we gettin the video store?
TURNER-F1-42 | 23/06/2009 23:28
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i’m sure the sony guy said this summer, heres hoping…….
Watchful | 23/06/2009 23:40
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No, he said by the end of this calendar year.