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Rumor: PS3 software v2.0 won’t include anything that PS3 owners care about
Samit Sarkar | 12:44 PM on 10.29.2007 5 comments


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 v1.9x...because everyone’s expecting that feature to be a part of v2.0. What do you guys think?



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bhive01's Destructoid Blog
I want native Xvid/Divx support so I can play my DVD backups from my NAS in the other room without using a computer. I spent a lot of time encoding all that shit, I want to be able to use it easily.

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.
Samit Sarkar's Destructoid Blog
Yeah, v1.94 is the rumble update, but that’s inconsequential for anyone in NA or Europe, considering we won’t have the DualShock 3 until next spring.

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 :(...
bhive01's Destructoid Blog
Best thing to do is to make the entries in Notepad and then Copy pasta the BBcode when you want it to go live. That or create them in the cblog editor take a look at it. Edit it. Eat a pizza. Then copy pasta that into a new blog and make it live.

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
Samit Sarkar's Destructoid Blog
Yeah, right now I’m using Red Kawa’s PS3 Video 9 program for reconverting, but on my slow-ass three-year-old laptop with a 1.6 GHz Pentium M processor and a gig of ram, it just takes too long. Plus, I converted an HD-quality video once and it really did a number on the quality...it barely looked like it was HD anymore, so it wasn’t even worth the trouble.
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I agree wholeheartedly


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Hey everybody, I'm Samit Sarkar, and I'm a 22-year-old lifelong gamer from New York (short answer). What's the long answer, you ask? Well, I'm from a bunch of places, actually: I was born in Calcutta, India, and I moved to the States when I was ten months old. I've lived in New York ever since (Queens until I was eight, and Long Island since then). So I figure that 20+ years of living in and around New York City is enough for me to be able to call myself a New Yorker.

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I've been into video games for as long as I can remember. In 1989, when I was three, my parents got me an NES, and I've been hooked ever since. I often tell people that I'll play video games until the day I die, and I truly believe that. So here's my gaming history (date in parentheses is when I got the console):

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As you can see, I'm a big fan of sports games, action games, shooters, and platformers. Some of my favorite games/series, in case you don't feel like going through my entire collection, are: God of War, Grand Theft Auto, Guitar Hero, Madden, and Prince of Persia. Also, though I've never played any prior games in the series at length, I plan to get into the Metal Gear Solid series in this generation.

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