Sony Dumps ‘Non Mandatory’ 3.73 PS3 Update

[drop2]Anyone looking to burn up a bit of time today doing nothing particularly constructive can download a ‘non mandatory’ firmware update for their PS3.  Your PS3 won’t prompt you to get this update, so you’ll need to check for it manually using the menus, a homing pigeon and a copy of the Daily Mail.

Once updated (which still takes far too long) the system software, now running at a spritely 3.73, does little above and beyond what the last update did – “stability during use of certain PS3 format software has been improved” is the official, rather nondescript company line.

Of course, while we’re hoping that this secretly means cross game chat, a revamped Store, Firefox browser and a brand new XMB chances are it’s just a couple of bug-fixes for existing games, with others suggesting that it fixes some issues with dual PSN sign-ins.

Go on, have a look.  If you can find anything lovely that our tired, biting sarcasm didn’t pick up, let us know and you might look all smug, like.  Somebody has to.

60 Comments

  1. for me any reason to log on and have a little mess with some settings is a good one :) thinking about a new router for the uncahrted 3 and mw3 hammering I am gonna give it ove the coming months

  2. I’m glad nobody took any innuendos out of that comment :)

  3. Good, the white PS3 will match my white dual shock.

  4. sigh one day we will have a good update

  5. Smugmode engaged: the update removes the cloud storage prompt whenever you start up a game

    • but i liked that prompt, guess i must be in the minority and as such its a useless feature, or from another angle its a popular feature and useful to some so sony removed it to annoy everyone just like with install other os

      • I imagine it still asks if you got auto update on still

  6. Ok, i doesnt

    • I meant that as a reply above. The message is gone, you have to press triangle and choose save data auto upload. Better in my view as i’m not fussed about using cloud saves so it was just another annoying screen

  7. Woo, non mandatory, my favourite type of mandatory..

  8. Woke up today and PS+ had it all updated already for me.

    Good boy! *pats on head*

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