Last Friday, Brian Crecente over at
Kotaku put up a story speaking of a rumor — sent to him by “an informed UK reader” — regarding version 2.0 of the PS3’s system software. According to the internet matlock/source, the update will hit tomorrow, October 30th, and it will contain the following additions:
• PS3 power control through PSP Remote Play
• new PSN category in XMB
• new PlayTV category in XMB (SCEE only)
• music & photo playlists
• content groupings for Video & Game tabs
• custom XMB themes (one will be included; others will be available for purchase)
• Trend Micro™ Web Security for the PS3’s browser (parental lock that will initially be free, but will eventually cost money)
Like Brian, I doubt that the date is accurate, considering that v1.94 is just now being released on the
Ratchet & Clank game discs. You’d think that they’d have one or two more minor updates (like, say, v1.96 and v1.98) between now and v2.0. Anyway, frankly — if this is the actual content of the much-ballyhooed v2.0 update — I’m extremely disappointed. This is the kind of minor stuff I’d expect to see in an interstitial update (you know, one that looked like
x.xx), not a major software revision. Plus, this only includes two things that PS3 owners have wanted for a while now: playlists and the ability to group content in the Video and Game XMB tabs. Everyone just assumed that v2.0 would include the one huge thing that everyone’s been clamoring for:
in-game XMB access. But perhaps they’re delaying that until they launch Home? Who knows...but either way, I don’t see how this could possibly constitute a major software update. I mean, if anything, in case in-game XMB access isn’t quite ready yet, they should just call this v1.9
x...because everyone’s expecting that feature to be a part of v2.0. What do you guys think?
(# 0) on 10/29/2007 14:53
In game XMB would be sweet. So when someone sends me a message and I'm in a game I can pause, check it, and reply if necessary... say for instance someone needs the server password for FNF or WNW or something.
1.94 has Rumble doesn't it?
Yeah, this update is pretty tame really. There's got to be more than this to a full point release. They're either hiding something cause they don't know if they can get it out in time or they really have nothing. I'm hoping for the first one.
(# 1) on 10/29/2007 15:36
Everyone would love to have DivX/Xvid support, but sadly, it’ll never happen because of piracy concerns. I’d settle for WMV HD playback so I could watch IGN Insider’s HD-quality videos on my HDTV (instead of my laptop, which maxes out at 1024×768), but obviously that’ll never happen either, because WMV is a Microsoft format.
So far, you’re the only one who has commented on my first three blogs...thanks for that, bhive. I posted about this in the Community Blog Support forum: I find it really annoying that the blog software sets the time of your post as the time you create it, not the time at which it is first made live. I start blog entries, but a lot of times, I don’t get to finish them for hours, and by the time I put them up, they’re not even in the top 10 or 20 “new” entries...and then no one sees them :(...
(# 2) on 10/30/2007 08:57
If you're blog isn't at the top of the list it doesn't get seen. Sad but true. Essentially, your blog is timed from when you start it and not when it goes "live." I think they do that to prevent people from switching back and forth from live to hidden to get their shit at the top.
You're right though. Divx/Xvid support has about as much of a chance as WMV seeing the light of day on the PS3. Sad but true. I say the more codecs and container types supported the better. Sony would really win some major internet support if they implemented Divx/Xvid. Then again, they're a major movie studio too and wouldn't want people copying their shit and playing it on a PS3. I bought my movies though and transfered them out of convenience.
I'm pretty sure that MS said they were going to support it at some point. I wish there was an easy way to convert the files that didn't take a century and re-encode the movies from one compressed format to another. *sigh
(# 3) on 10/31/2007 13:04
(# 4) on 11/08/2007 16:42