Overnight Sony – as we thought they might – pushed out the latest PlayStation 3 firmware. Switch on your console and you’ll be prompted to update to version 4.25.
The main advertised feature is an increase in the cloud storage limits – it’s now up at a much healthier gigabyte – but there’s always a few extra changes hidden away with these updates.
In this case, though, any changes really are hidden, or at least currently locked away.
There’s been a couple of things that we’ve wanted to see in the pipeline that might well be contained in 4.25, though. The first is a web store for the PS3, much like the Xbox 360 has, so that users can queue and make purchases via a browser, to be pushed through to the console.
The other is the apparently automatic (and OS-level) cross-buy system, which would allow users to buy software on one platform and have the other (PS3, Vita) automatically grab the relevant alternate version. We’d also love to be able to see what our Vita buddies are playing from our PS3s.
Or, of course, it might just be upping that cloud storage.
hazelam
i thought i’d upload all my saves now i’ve got a gigabyte of storage available.
and it turns out i’ve only got like 118 megabytes of saves anyway.
can you store minis and ps1 and 2 saves?
actually i might as well just try it myself.
trouble is uploading the ps3 saves is taking ages.
hazelam
and the answer is no. :(
chall5
this update sounds completely unnecessary to me (no Vita, no PS+)
CR8ZYH0RSE
It’s ideal for someone like me who’s always trying to find more space on a 40gb hdd,having to prioritise over which saves to keep and what not.
tactical20
Upgrade your hdd?!
CR8ZYH0RSE
Good idea but everytime i do have the money i tend to spend it on game related stuff.Top that off with no way of transferring the data,no external hdd,no pc and no extra PS3 and you get the picture. 8)
Sympozium
lol, way to small.
Jacko
I found something new*!
Under “System Settings” there’s now a “Control for HDMI” option. It’s completely uninteresting and pretty pointless, but whatever.
*Might not actually be new. Might be that my eyes had missed it.
Alex C
Not sure that’s all that new, but might make Bravia sets more interactive – http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/settings/ctrlhdmi.html
Jas-n
If it’s just an On/Off setting, then it’s been there since the Slim was released. Only on the slim mind, so if you just got one, that’ll why.
Jacko
That must be it. I only got a Slim a couple of months ago after YLOD, so obviously I just missed it. :P
TSBonyman
Here’s something new.
Now after you install a game – where the XMB usually temporarily freezes while the install file is deleted – you now get a “Please Wait” message which stays there until the PS3 is ready.
Alex C
MEGATON.
Jacko
BEST. FEATURE. EVER.
Pedromr
Noticed that once I install a PS Classic, the file no longer vanishes, allowing me to install in other device (vita, f.e.) without having to download again.