PS3 Hits Firmware 3.66

TSA Staff 78 Comments

Anyone switching on their PlayStation 3s this morning will notice that there’s a mandatory update to the system software.

The update, which takes the PS3 to version 3.66 is a “minor” update, improves system stability during “use of PS3 format software” and, apparently, does some magic with the “network services”.

Wonderfully vague and only a tad annoying.

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78 Comments

  1. With any luck PS+ will have auto downloaded this for me by the time I get home from work.

    • It has for me, the reason i booted up the pc to see what it does, which seems more of the same we’ve been getting recently, although the mention of netowork services sparks some curiosity :O

  2. XGC chat is coming…

    *spreads rumour

    • That’s amazing!

      I’m away to put this on all the forums now…

      • It’s gonna feel so wonderfully weird when crossgame chat finally arrives… Suddenly, the feature everyone’s been on about for years will be available, and I’ll never, ever use it.

      • If they can just come out and admit that its impossible on the PS3 then that would be epic.

        The Playstations forums and blogs will be full of rage though I mean people posting in CAPS AND HAVING ONLY ONE POST OR TWO!!!…the horror.

  3. Tedious updates are tedious

    • i don’t know why, but that made me laugh.

      kudos for managing to find some humour in what is otherwise extremely boring, nay tedious, news.

  4. Didn’t we just have one of these…?

  5. Jeez Sony, stop wasting our time with pointless system updates that improve “security”. Give us some features! An equaliser, X game chat, NTFS support, MKV support – anything! 1 year, 8 firmware updates with 1 new feature, 3D Bluray for the 10 people that own a 3DTV. TBH, the only 3D movie worth watching is Avatar, and that’s £70 on its own!

    • Yeah, because security is pointless…..:/

      • And waiting those few extra minutes are such a drag, damn you sony ive got games to play.

      • And sarcasm is cool…:/

    • Hopefully now the 3D is there & the PSN is secure along with major titles on playing on the latest secure firmware they can get to work on stuff like advanced lobby features with game launching, cgc, more codecs, better jukebox features… and ffs a useable browser & other stuff you’ve mentioned.

      Additional features have certainly slowed down over the past year or so

      • I wouldn’t hold your breath on these features, I’ve come to think of the PS3 as a learning curve for Sony. As you are now seeing a lot of these features already there for the PS Vita and so you will see them at lunch for the PS4.

      • mmmm. PS4 Lunch. ;-)

      • No sauce on the burger please.

      • Jem Alexander mentioned on the FutureYet podcast, he knew from his time working at Sony, that the team in the Japan responsible for firmware development had been scaled back / reallocated to work on Vita…

      • In fairness, the browser is better than the browser on the 3DS!

      • I just want one feature to return, I don’t know why they took it away – Videos used to keep playing while you accessed the XMB. They removed it when sequential playback was introduced and I miss it!

    • yep NTFS support would be very welcome, also when are we gonna get smaller updates that just give us the new stuff ?

      • Microsoft owns the NTFS filesystem, it will never be supported on PS3.. ext4 support would be nice tho.

    • You can thank the idiots that have been trying to DDoS and hack the PS3 because Sony removed the OtherOS feature that nobody cared about.

      Sony have been rather busy with other stuff to add new features, if you want to complain, complain to Microsoft’s army of Sony haters.

  6. In the interests of balance, i’ll put a positive update message: I don’t mind as it’s improves stuff, even if it hasn’t got new features :P

  7. YAY!!!

  8. I dont mind these updates, making psn slighty better everytime. About last week i looked in system updates and there was an update available so i dwnloaded it, it wasnt manditory, so is it same one?

    • Probably – I think 3.66 was there as an optional update for a week or two.

    • I think it was 3.65…

      • 3.65, optional – improved system stability & added psp, to minis saved data.
        smoother running system, can never be a bad thing, now update the browser to chrome & give me a current flash player ffs.

      • yep was 3.65, had to update, didnt take long :)

  9. Unless my internet has crippled itself (not unusual) it seems like quite a big update. If this is the price to pay though for keeping the network safe, I don’t mind.

    • Taking forever for me, too. Ten minutes in and only at 4%. :o(

    • It’s very small, took maybe 5-6 min to download and install.

      • Hmm, everything else is going smoothly on my broadband connection….

    • People seem to have confused console security with network security. These ‘security’ updates are to try and stop people copying games etc, not to stop hackers from taking down PSN. To try and ‘secure’ a console that is pretty much fully hacked is pointless IMO.

      The PSN wasn’t hacked using a PS3!

    • Aren’t all firmware updates the same size ~180mb

      Pretty sure the firmware update is a download of the… firmware

      • I remember a previous post which said that Sony had changed the way firmware could be updated and we would have a few smaller faster updates that just patched the firmware we currently use to save time downloading everything again..

        Only remember one small update though so not sure if this is actually being used.

      • I’ve definitely had a few that take a few seconds to download, rather than a few minutes. That was the only distinction in size I was making.

  10. I’m sure I updated to this already?

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