Needless opponents of Sony’s regular, incremental system software updates should look away now – there’s another awaiting your PS3’s next boot. 3.41 went live overnight, its main draw the ability for the PlayStation Store to sell you more stuff via an Amazon-like “you may also like” section next to each item on the Store.
Or, at least there will be when the new recommendations box goes live, firmware 3.41 is just to prep for the new feature which is slated for the “end of July”.
“This feature is a great way to discover new games that you may not know about,” said Sony’s Eric Lempel, “and it’s another step toward making the shopping experience easier and better for you all – similar to the five-star ratings feature we added in the last firmware update.”
Sony promise that the recommends are based on what people are actually buying, rather than any inferred relationship between the goods, like the way Apple do with their ‘Genius’ method. The latter idea makes more sense to me, something that would push Gravity Crash when you’re looking at PixelJunk Shooter, for example (and Vice Versa, of course) but we’re not fussy. Well, we are a little bit.
Firmware 3.41 is out now, the UK download link is here.
Mason_Mk
Does this update fix the issue where you can’t watch video on the web browser, and it only displays a black screen with sound? I can’t watch tv catchup because of this :(
Charmed_Fanatic
Could have just waited to include in a better update
Radiitz
Getting sick of seeing a comment asking for C.G.C in these comment boards on a topic like this, lol.
shakengandulf
……..yep………
And just wait for a kz3 post.. ” i hate rico, rico sucks, i hope they replace rico etc”
On topic- I personally believe they have a good reason to make this update public orrr maybe sony like fracking around because they have nothing better to do.
TSBonyman
I think in my case it might aswell be “You may already own or didn’t want to buy..”
Awayze
Need a better web browser for PS3
deezoned
“You May Also Like”? Please, give me a break.. I’d also like to get rid of that section again… Been studying some of it’s recommendations and they are total wild-shots some of them… and, being a PSN regular I haven’t seen releases slip away from my sight, not needing some half-baked advice.
Please Sony, don’t let your commercial profile slip into just ‘milking the cow’… Remember to let real services accompany boosted sales etc.