There were high hopes for firmware v2.70 for the PS3. Sadly, almost none of those features have made the cut as Sony announced the official release of firmware v2.70. Here’s all you’ll get:
- Text chat with up to 15 friends
Friends list on the XMB (XrossMediaBar)
- Sort your friends via their online status
- Attach larger files to the messages you send to your friends (file size will increase from 1MB to 3MB)
Video delivery service on PlayStation Store
- Video files you’ve purchased from the PlayStation Store can be backed up to an external storage device and then restored to PS3’s internal hard drive for playback – so you can clear up space on your hard drive and then restore the video anytime in the future
- Videos you’ve purchased for PSP (PlayStation Portable) system can now be transferred to PS3 for playback
Not that big a deal. I was hoping for more, but I guess we’ll have to wait. Maybe Sony will announce a huge v3.0 update for E3 that will blow the doors off this bitch. Maybe? No?
Text Chat: Nice idea – mostly poor implementation. The 20-30 character limit is hugely annoying – you can’t even form a complete sentence without flooding the channel…
Also in a normal stream of conversation I was absolutely baffled by what it chose to censor out by replacing the text with asterisks… I type in “lulz” it censors the “lul”, or even 1234…etc… to count how many characters are allowed and it censors out the numbers. It’s not like people can’t get around it by typing the word with spaces in between anyway.
I like how the state of the is persistent and the fact that it can be used in game, but the oppressive character limit and censoring has got to go!