Sony PS3 update 2.30: how has this update impacted you?
On the April 10th we showed you the video walkthrough of the new Playstation Store and what features the Sony PS3 update 2.30 would bring, if you missed that you can watch it here. Today many of you would of already downloaded the Sony PS3 2.30 firmware and are enjoying the new store and other features, you can read our full report on this update that we posted earlier today here.
Some gamers wanted the new PS3 Home in this update, but sadly that has not happened and you will have to wait a little longer, although I am sure HOME will be well worth the wait and will change the way you and I use our PS3’s. This update did add increased Blu-ray audio support in the shape of DTS-HD Master Audio and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio; you can now enjoy Blu-ray movies with high-definition studio-quality audio.
The PlayStation store has a fresh new design and it’s much faster thanks to being software based now instead of web based. If you have not downloaded the update yet, all you need is 130MB of free hard disk space and access to the net.
PR would like to know:
What impact this firmware update has had on the way you use the Playstation 3, will these new features make a big difference to you?
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I downloaded the update this morning. Very slick design - I like it. It’s comforting that Sony is adding these updates and making things better for PS3 owners. I am definitely feeling like I’m getting my money’s worth in the PS3 and more.
im quite glad that its easier to navigate but i find it extremely slow to load the images and my european version is different than the american one and i dont think that its fair, that one region gets a good version and the other region once again gets treated like the backside of the world. i want sony to sort this out. but the stre still looks cool
@ Will
What do you mean by different?
once the imagesand details are loaded they stay there. it was slow beacuse it had to download all new icons and details as this is software based, it will only have to download new icons and details when new stuff comes out which as there will only be a few each week it wont take long. hope this helps.
actuall no, i kept the store on for 1 hour on psp games tab, then i went to downloadable content and it still had no images downloaded, and different means that the icons are different and the american one is much ore user friendy and organised.
The PSN is/was getting hammered by the mass updates going on. I think that was hurting the performance of the store in terms of downloading icons and other images. I would expect that situation to improve greatly over the next couple of days.
@ will:
I haven’t had the chance to try it out myself yet but I have read somewhere else that parts of the store are still under construction so some images may not load at all. There are modifications still going on in the entire store. This may be why you don’t see some of the images.
arif mir: thanks for your help, we will see now if the store improves within the next few weeks