ManShowBoy Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Firmware update available on the 8th for North America/Japan and Asia. European PS3's will be preloaded with this latest update. Features of this latest firmware include: More refined PS Store frontend Playstation Network integrity enhanced Wallpapers from pictures Ability to change background colours Sony Connect Store for music and movies added to the PS Store. Hundreds of trailers/full films/song videos and mps3's available for download. Playstation Card option in PS Store enabled. Playstation Lifestyle- Similar to my space/youtube. User generated content and experiences are the key. + more. Removal of Emotion Engine chips in PS3's in NA and Japan to follow in April. Reason for this is to reduce costs and focus on enhanced opportunities via software. Benefits include the ability to upscale selected PSone/PS2 games to 1080i/720p. Lots of development talk. Release dates for key games. Warhawk in June/July 2007. Heavenly Sword delayed. Killzone and MGS4 in late 2007. New content on PS Store available on the 8th: Tekken 6 trailer Lair demo & trailer Rainbow Six Vegas demo EA: Skate trailer Battlefield Bad Company trailer Warhawk demo Virtua Fighter 5 demo Virtua Tennis 3 demo & trailer GRAW 2: trailer Mortal Kombat 2 game Killzone trailer Killzone demo for May. More details. Stay tuned on the 7th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 More refined PS Store frontend OK. This is good. The current interface isn't too bad compared to webstores, but is especially clunky compared to Microsoft and Nintendo's console stores. Playstation Network integrity enhanced OK. Wallpapers from pictures Why this wasn't available out of the box, I'll never understand. They already knew from the PSP that people wanted to set images as wallpapers. Ability to change background colours Like the wallpapers, this isn't really a big deal, but customization is good. Sony Connect Store for music and movies added to the PS Store. Hundreds of trailers/full films/song videos and mps3's available for download. They should have had this available from the beginning as well Playstation Card option in PS Store enabled. OK. Playstation Lifestyle- Similar to my space/youtube. User generated content and experiences are the key. Doesn't float my boat at all, but someone will like it. Removal of Emotion Engine chips in PS3's in NA and Japan to follow in April. Reason for this is to reduce costs and focus on enhanced opportunities via software. Benefits include the ability to upscale selected PSone/PS2 games to 1080i/720p. The first part seems worthy of booing and hissing, especially if backwards compatibility becomes a mere token effort like on the X360. If future PS3s are going to be gimped, then I'm glad I got mine when I did. But, it would be nice to upscale the games. The X360 shows that much of a benefit. New content on PS Store available on the 8th: Yay! Tekken 6 trailer Yay! Lair demo & trailer OK. Rainbow Six Vegas demoEA: Skate trailer Battlefield Bad Company trailer Warhawk demo GRAW 2: trailer Killzone trailer Killzone demo for May. Not anything I give a damn about. Virtua Fighter 5 demo Cool. It'll save me a rental to remind me of why I hate Virtua Fighter. Virtua Tennis 3 demo & trailer Pong 2007 Mortal Kombat 2 game Yay! I'll be downlading this puppy next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Whoa thats huge news! I like all of it but the emotion engine thing is a slightly puzzling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendon Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Hmmm... nothing about background downloading?? Oh well... Mendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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