Sony PS3 Users Ask: Flash player update, web memory, and more
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: October 11, 2008 | 30 Comments
We asked the Product Reviews community a few days ago what they expect from Sony PS3 firmware 2.44/2.50, and we had some great feedback.
The most common request was for the next Playstation 3 software update to include a Flash Player update so users can stream video and other content, this was followed up by PS3 users asking for more Web Memory.
You can see what some gamers asked for below, have a read of these firmware update requests and then feel free to leave your own in the comments. Lets hope Sony Listen to the gaming community.
Better organization of music artists/albums/tracks. Shortcuts to randomly play all tracks stored, or all tracks on an album or by an artist.
Better codec support for music.
Able 2 play music while playing a game!
Ingame XMB whilst playing PS1 and PS2 games
Ingame screen capturing would be awesome
Some way to lock out the kids or anyone for that matter from music, pics or video that is inappropriate
The ability to mute the background music that starts playing when scrolling through your demos/games would also be very appreciated.
I would like to see 16:9 aspect mp4 actually displayed 16:9 on a 4:3 screen
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Updated backwards compatibility for PS1 and PS2 games for 60GB and 80GB owners
Again i would just wan’t more web memory and a flash update to watch hulu online.
the ability to play music from your xmb list in all games would be great and so would in game xmb for ps1 & ps2 games but aarons comment sounds the best all ps1 & ps2 compatibility plus an improvement on the running of the old games for example the films in FFX run extremely bad
- I would like to have Region Free on ps3 that can play PS1/PS2 and Blu -ray movies around the world.
- Video on demand and Music for free,
- Watch TV live via Internet in HD.
- All PS2 games in PlaystaionStore.
- Flash player update and more memory.
- Real player and WMP11 on ps3 internet.
- Skype on ps3 as well MSN messenger.
- PS3 Home and Life.
THERE SHOULD B IN GAME MUSIC 4 EVERY GAME INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR A PATCH THAT WILL NEVER COME OUT FOR THE GAME U WANT IN GAME MUSIC FOR
yeah i realy would like to have flash player 9 so i can view some vids in ahh website you know what i mean , dont judge me its my life
a different web browser (probably asking for too much). something like opera or firefox rather than what sony already have.
play music from ur xmb while surfing.
i would like to be able to leave voice messages to friends , add more poeple to friend list , add psn id to the psp , and now that they are adding dual shock 3 support to the psp i would like to steam and play ps3 games saved on the hard drive but dont think that can happen.
The broswer is constantly freezing and running out of memory. Sony need to spend some serious time with the broswer; locate its faults and FIX THEM!
I had the broswer freeze SIX times last night…needing a manual shutdown which was followed by a “Incorrect hard disk” error message…requiring the unit to be turned off at the back. On one occasion it took three goes to get it to start.
I’m not alone! many people have the same problems.
The broswer is totally inadequate (even for a game console) for a web 2.0 world in 2008.
As for the flash player…!? It is a disgrace. Every day websites make flash 8 or 9 their minimum requirement making the PS3 broswer useless. Not a single game / gaming website works with the PS3’s flash! Even links in Sony’s own PLAYSTATION network to other websites don’t work due to inadequate flash or lack of memory. So much for compatibility and integration?
I really hope Sony pay attention because the broswer lets the PS3 down…BIG TIME!
I want to see
the ability to use the keyboard typing without pulling up the text entry box in 720p/480p/480i (as of now only in 1080p)
the ability to play your music in game for all games (regardless of weather or not it goes with the curent music because it can be muted in game)
flash player 9 and more web memory
full keyboard support so we can play flash games that use more than just the arrow keys and clicking. (with WASD keys, shift, control etc)
a fix to the problem where quiting a game causes you to sign out of playstation network.
the ability to keep downloading stuff during a ps/ps2 game
the problem with in game XMB for ps1/2 is that the 60/20 versions use hardware. you would have to run ps3 and ps2 systems simultaneously. possible sinse the ps3 XMB uses only 90 MB ram ad 1 core and ps2 goes as high as 32 MB and 1 core
we cant expect an updated flash player since its adobe’s decision, not sony’s and adobe has allready said “its too hard” meaning they are ust lazy and wont give a rats ass about us.