Sony PS3 Firmware 2.44 or 2.50: What’s Next and Expectations
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: October 9, 2008 | 26 Comments
There have been a number of rumors that we could be seeing a Sony PS3 Firmware 2.50 by late October. This has not been made official yet, this might not be the case, and we could instead see a 2.44 update first instead.
You have to ask yourself what 2.50 will give us, let us hope that we get even more features to PSN as well as improvements in other areas. Sony has their work cut out for them if they want to try and close the gap to Xbox Live. However; Microsoft are about to make that a harder task once they launch Xbox Experience on November 19.
PS3 Firmware update 2.50 is needed very soon, as Sony has said that it is needed to work well with Home. Let us hope that Firmware 2.50 and Home 1.00 does get an October launch. As yet nothing is known about 2.50, but I am sure that there is a huge list of features that PS3 gamers would like to see, but what?
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” Sony has their work cut out for them if they want to try and close the gap to Xbox Live. However; Microsoft are about to make that a harder task once they launch Xbox Experience on November 19.”
I don’t see why, the new XBE offers nothing new, just a changed interface. Sure it has the game installation thing, but my 20GB 360 will hold only one game before the HDD is full (20GB 360 has 13GB free, and the games are 8.4GB).
Better organisation of music artists/albums/tracks - like iTunes, would be good.
Shortcuts to randomly play all tracks stored, or all tracks on an album or by an artist.
Better codec support for music.
Randomise photo selection in slideshow rather than sorting by date only.
@Simon
If you press Triangle (I think) you can change the order of the pictures by date taken, name, etc. (I think).
I would like to b able 2 play music while playing a game! or at least gt5 pro. there’s a couple of things the xbox does that I wish ps3 could or would do. I’ve been a playstation fan 4 a long time and I don’t think that will change but some new features would b nice.
I would like a flash player update, so i can watch hulu. I would also like somehow more web memory so i can use pandora.com
I agree with Adrian.
FLASH UPGRADE and more WEB MEMORY.
That will totally stump what ever Xbox has. We could watch tv, stream movies, and run applications and games via Flash.
An upgraded Flash Player
Ingame XMB whilst playing PS1 and PS2 games
And the rumored ingame screen capturing would be awesome - especially for LBP!
HOME would be great but if they held it back to November or December I think it would get a lot more hype since ALL the great PS3 games will be out and its near christmas and consumers would be ‘WOW’d.
some way to lock out the kids or anyone for that matter from music, pics or video that is inopropriate would be a great added feature. I agree with the others on better flash, that would be great, id use my computer less.
dont think sony works dat way they would rather add more apps then improve the ones they got
More Video Codec support, MKV, All profiles of AVI, WMV,MP4…hard to understand if my Archos 605 can play Nero Digital standard profile, why PS3 seems to have problem showing that. Subtitleds with neither DivX nor MP4 are supported and yes SEARCH option is very much needed..I have 120GB hard drive installed and lot of music, pics and videos..it becomes strikingly cumbersome to find out one that I may want to play…scrolling down and bottom doesn’t always seem to work.