Rumor: PS3 Firmware 2.60 Coming Tomorrow [UPDATE]

sev1512 of playstationlifestyle.net writes:

According to Eric Lempel on PlayStation.Blog, PS3 owners will be greeted to a new firmware update very soon.

There is no official release date, but one of our sources is telling us that it will be released January 21st…

This has now been confirmed via an official SCEA Press release. Here is a snippet of the official press release:

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) today announced details of the next system software update (v. 2.60) for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3), which includes several new features designed to enhance the PS3 system's entertainment functionality. The system software update 2.60 will become available on January 21and deliver a new Photo Gallery application, enabling consumers to better organize and view their photos stored on PS3 system. Other new features include DivX 3.11 video support and PlayStation®Store guest browsing.

[duarteq]

"version 2.60 is available to download from January 21, 2009 and comes with a host of new features that will give PS3 owners an even better experience."

[DavidMacDougall]

Divx 3.11 will be useful but that whole picture program thing is useless to me

[Sk8boyP]

I love my PS3, I love Blu-Ray, PSN, the games etc... but PS3 is a games console first, WHERE'S MY CROSS GAME CHAT!?

[pixelsword]

...PS3 people are so quiet in games (getting a little better) yet they want cross-game chat.

:D

[Sk8boyP]

yeah, it is getting better and more features involving chat would increase it even more. I can't tell you how many times I boot up GTA 4 and right when I appear in my house I get a "Chat Invitation". *Facepalm*

[thor]

Cross-game chat is hugely overrated. When I'm playing a game, I want to be playing that game. The reason that particular game has voice chat is so the players can communicate to each other, in terms of teamwork, or just in terms of talking about the game in progress.

If you are playing a game with a friend, there are practically no differences whether you are playing it on live or PSN. You can talk to each other, you can play against each other. When I'm not in a game with a friend, I send them an invite to come and join me. In Warhawk I could just send them a message saying "join me in wh". Motorstorm has this feature built-in. I can message as many friends/Motorstorm players I've met saying to join me in Motorstorm, and they need to quit out of the game they're in, load up motorstorm, press select and accept my invite. Now excuse me, but I don't see how a cross-game invites can be any better than that. You necessarily need to swap disks over, and the game necessarily needs to load. Once they're in my game, I can chat to them. Is a very hard to implement (on the PS3 as it is) feature worth doing so that I can chat to my friend for the 5 minutes it takes them to load the game? Is it worth doing so I can have a random conversation with my friend which I could just as easily do whilst not playing a game? It would be nice, but I don't see why it's so hyped up as the greatest feature that PSN doesn't have.

[OSIRUSSS]

"but PS3 is a games console first, WHERE'S MY CROSS GAME CHAT!? "

LAWLZ !!!! Cross game Chat? On a game console? I hope it never comes. Cause as you say its a GAMES console FIRST!!! Chat is not a GAME!!!These hardcore gamers make me lol!!

[TheTimeDoctor]

MKV MKV MKV

[Canidae]

I'm right there will you on that. MKV (with subtitles) support for the PS3 would be beyond awesome.

[Tempist]

Fools. MKV is an open source format. It's nearly impossible to supply a codec to run all verisons. Every few months it changes and becomes more of a complex beast.

And further more, a majority of people aren't going to download things to watch on the PC and move it to the PS3 to watch.

[Jamegohanssj5]

Nice Sev.

TGSI

[RedVsBlue]

Wow Divx 3. That would definitely be useful. Put this stuff on the PSP as well

[doctorstrange]

good catch sev