What’s happening with Sony PSP firmware update 4.01?

Just last week Sony released the PSP firmware 4.00 update, and right away Sony were talking up their next update 4.01. Many people will be wondering what is happening with the new 4.01 update, well we can tell you that the software update in now available via the Japanese PlayStation site and should hopefully be available to the Sony Playstation blog in the next few hours. The news of this update has sparked rumors that the Sony PS3 2.40 update will also launch today, whenever you have a PSP firmware update, the PS3 update is never far behind.

The new firmware release 4.01 only features some minor updates, the display of search results under the new Google Search for some languages has been improved, as well as playback of video content for certain file types seeing a minor improvement.

It seems that Sony PSP firmware update 4.01 is getting some mixed reactions; ok they are happy that this new update has only taken a week since the previous, but this update does not go far enough. Many people would like to see another update where they will get the chance to connect to the PlayStation network from their PSP’s. What they mean is being able to send/receive messages from the PSP.

We mentioned that this new firmware will have improved playback of video content for certain file types, but many people have been posting on the PlayStation Blog as to what those improvements will be. Hey just realized something else, this new update will feature in game xmb to the psp, is this something that is important to us all though.

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