This doesn't effect me at all. I'm literally playing Uncharted right now and the past two days. Actually I stopped playing to install the Firmware and continued afterwards. So no issues here.

I'll just play Shadow Complex until Sony irons these problems out.

I have no idea if it's a problem with the firmware, but I started playing Batman for the first time last night (fun game btw), and when I exited the game through the in-game XMB the PS3 crashed and I had to turn it off. Like I said, I'm not sure if it's due to the firmware or if something else messed up due to another game I also recently started to play, SOCOM: Confrontation. I've been playing it since last week and I've had it crash on me once or twice, before the firmware update, of course. I've read on the SOCOM forums that this tends to happen with SOCOM, but could SOCOM be affecting my PS3 somehow? Before SOCOM, I've never had an issue like this before with my PS3 in terms of freezing, so I'm a little worried, especially since it's a 60 gig PS3, and I do play PS2 games on it.

I also should mention that I popped in a PS1 game to play (Xenogears) and the ps3 did freeze for about 10 seconds before responding to my controller commands. I've never seen that happen before either. Has anyone else had this issue with ps1 games?

For a "big" round number update, this is one of the least worthwhile firmware updates thus far.

Basically nothing happened aside from me being able to pump sound through my TV speakers and my surround sound at the same time.

Oh, and also I have to look at scrolling "news" now when I'm on the XMB.

I don't see there being too much of a wait before a patch. I...hope? Regarding this firmware update, for a full number iteration, there aren't too many new features to speak of, it's all aesthetic, and I don't like the overlapping of PSN into the XMB.

That being said, I imagine a lot of these problems are to do with integrating the new hardware SKU into the firmware.

Funny. When MS puts links to the Marketplace and a big line of ads in every line of the menu people love it. Maybe it would be better if you could play dress up with little animated dolls.

This reminds me of that time Sony released a firmware update and it broke something.

wastedyears:

Except most people chewed Microsoft out for the ads as well.

Ziiing, Sterling, beat you to it. In about...400 more words...(hangs head in shame)

Seems to have messed up trophy percentages. After the update I noticed my percentage on Eat lEad jumped from 72% to 85. Burnout Paradise dropped from 70 to 68. Dead Space went up from 43% to 50. The only games on my trophy list that werent affected were the ones already at 100% with the Platinum.

I wish Sony would buy out Microsoft, or vice versa, so people wouldn't make uninformed mono-console comments ever again.

How ironic,I just started to play again right after my updates, literally. But I just woke up not long ago, so who know if it'll do it when I plan to play again.

@magnalon
Then their would be fanboy arguments about what sony(or ms) deparments are better. That would change the subject but woulnd fix a thing.

I still have not done this update, guess I need to get on it.

Don't know if it's related, but I had Batman: Arkham Asylum lock up to where it locked up the whole system. Had to turn off the PS3 to get it back. Shit happens, and the game played on afterwards.

I do have the 3.0 firmware and have never had my PS3 do that to me before, but I understand that correlation != causation.

Ok i just bought a PS3 slim and uncharted. I had this problem with the game freezing all the time. I tried the eject disc i tried restoring default PS3 settings and non of it worked. I took the system back to best buy and it is working perfectly now. not one freeze since i started playing it again. So these are not rumors just started by Xbots.

Just finished Uncharted again. I did a complete play-through after the firmware. No lock-up, freezes, glitches or whatsoever.

I've had no problems, and I even ran through the ending of uncharted again to be sure, damn that game is good. Controllers are fine too! Seems like the sky is falling, but hey, same thing happens when any console updates (remember the 360 NXE experience? red ringed so many consoles).

Just finished Uncharted a few days before the update so can't be bothered checking it again just yet. On the other hand I've had absolutely zero problems with my PS3 since the update.

I don't even mind the text size change. To be fair I didn't even notice it until someone started moaning about it on a forum. The internet has a lot to answer for.

It's not the firmware, it's the game. I had that happen to me on my first playthrough of the game a few months ago. Hasn't happened on my second or third playthroughs though.