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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it really is poor of sony to straight up Ignore this huge issue… ps3’s crashing 4,5 times a night because it cant load the same web pages as the humble Wii is just embarrassing. i angers me more that they Never comment about it at press confrences or even huge international conventions. i honestly think sony have no plans to fix there crippling and enragingly sloppy excuse for a web browser. Sort it out cheapskates
when is the update coming out and fix up da users on da ps3 i have pictures on my profile and on my brothers profile its there to fix up
i would like to be able to put videos i bought from itunes to my ps3, be able to send videos from my ps3 libary to my friends, add more friends in friend list up to 150 or 200.
The Wii scores HIGHER in the ACID3 test than the PS3 does - 33% to 25% respectively. Sony stuffed up big time by not giving the PS3 mor RAM. I just pray Sony can find a solution. The broswer needs Ajax…I’m always getting javascript errors!
If nothing else it must get improved flash and a “insufficient memory” fix.
I want to easily be able to transfer music from my ipod to my PS3. Right now I can transfer my ipod music to my ps3, but I have to rename the tracks since they appear in some kind of code. But first I have to identify which song it is and I have thousands of songs, so yeah, it’s a pain.
some of the things people are asking for are already available. You can play music from the XMB while surfing; Playstation Life is already available (go to Folding@Home and download the update); you can play your music while playing a game (NOT all games allow that though).
More codecs for videos
Feedback page in XMB for comments/ideas
Show all trohy capable games in trophy list, not just wants on your machine.
A pop-up display for new messages
]Sending more than just pic in the mailbox
USB device better capabilities: instead of just clicking the drive and opening the contents and seeing that there are no files on it and having to go into the options menu and clicking display all to access the files on it.
There should be a place on the XMB to send Sony these messages for neccessary improvements.
Better video codec support. It’s supposed to be a “MULTI media hub”? Half the common codecs most people use are not supported! It’s things like this that hold the PS3 back and help Xbox sales.
We need Flash Player for the web browser. If adobe refused to update it for the cell, then make it yourselves, or have someone else make it.