It seems Sony has taken a page out of EA's page playbook with updates. PS3 has had a firmware update already.
There's nothing like a new update for a system; you never know what you're going to get! When I downloaded the version 1.11 update from Sony this morning, I was excited. Would they fix the issue with HD scaling? Or maybe make the browser faster? Or give me a better music player? Oh, the suspense was killing me. Luckily, the update only took a few minutes to download and install, and then I rebooted, and of course for some reason the system didn't recognize my Sixaxis anymore so I had to reconnect with a USB cable—clearly THAT problem hasn't been fixed. Then I looked around to see what wonders were in store for me.
Okay, the Blu-ray playback still looks mangled, so scaling still hasn't been fixed. The browser is still incredibly slow. The store doesn't look or react any differently. No background downloading... Hrm. Time to check the 'Net to see if Sony provided any details on the download.
Nope. Nothing as of this writing. There is an account management tab, so I can add more money to my virtual wallet to spend online without having to go to the store. Is that what the update did?
There is a funny thread on PS3forums where people each wonder if a bug that has been bothering them has been fixed by the update, but no one seems to know what the update has done. We know from Sony of Japan that the account management has been added, but no information other than that has been released about the patch.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs. … 11/28/6100
There's nothing like a new update for a system; you never know what you're going to get! When I downloaded the version 1.11 update from Sony this morning, I was excited. Would they fix the issue with HD scaling? Or maybe make the browser faster? Or give me a better music player? Oh, the suspense was killing me. Luckily, the update only took a few minutes to download and install, and then I rebooted, and of course for some reason the system didn't recognize my Sixaxis anymore so I had to reconnect with a USB cable—clearly THAT problem hasn't been fixed. Then I looked around to see what wonders were in store for me.
Okay, the Blu-ray playback still looks mangled, so scaling still hasn't been fixed. The browser is still incredibly slow. The store doesn't look or react any differently. No background downloading... Hrm. Time to check the 'Net to see if Sony provided any details on the download.
Nope. Nothing as of this writing. There is an account management tab, so I can add more money to my virtual wallet to spend online without having to go to the store. Is that what the update did?
There is a funny thread on PS3forums where people each wonder if a bug that has been bothering them has been fixed by the update, but no one seems to know what the update has done. We know from Sony of Japan that the account management has been added, but no information other than that has been released about the patch.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs. … 11/28/6100
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