PS3 3.0 Firmware Adds Xbox Beating Features
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Sep 5, 2009 02:57 JST
- Tags: Bugs, Controllers, Microsoft, PS3, Sony, Technology
Sony is clearly not content to rest on what is left of its laurels, for it is apparent the latest 3.0 PS3 firmware, which has supposedly been shown to increase speeds, adds several notable yet unannounced features sure to challenge the Xbox 360’s infamy.
Users report inexplicable freezes in several games, sound problems in others, and that the update actually breaks certain models of PS3 controller.
Many who have bought the newly released PS3 Slim only to have their controllers rendered inoperative have expressed grave dissatisfaction, though for now the problems do not seem hugely widespread.
If Microsoft’s record for introducing new unexpected features and improving the design of their console is anything to go by, Sony will still have its work cut out catching up…
Via Ore-teki.
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Welcome to new age. age of non test product
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With the record shared in part by all 3 consoles, any tech savvy person who downloads the updates right away is a little dumb. console updates that do things like increase speeds or any other spec altering capabilities tend to screw with your system a little. It's better to wait for these things to be beta tested by the fanboys.
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I miss the days of the NES. You could fix any problem by blowing on the cartridge or forcefully tapping the console.
Those were the days.
i had to beat the hell out of my xbox and ps2 to get them to work
Or fail trying.
or more, destroy your console...>.<
"i had to beat the hell out of my xbox and ps2 to get them to work"
dude next time try sticking the xbox games in the xbox and the ps2 ones in the other console XD makes things a lot easier ^^
And you could throw the controller at the tv and nothing would break.
Because the controller didn't weigh as much as a small child.
And the TV was made out of insanely thick glass.
You could throw totally random shit at those all day and you wouldn't break them. You'd just scuff the glass. Which could be fixed, if you really had the time and know-how to do so.
and the controller was on a safety tether.
and you could have 8 or 16bit fun all day long without running the risk of an epileptic seizure...
I misread by fapping the console.
oh i thought i was the only one who did that
Woa me too....
yeah, good old times. My SNES got a few beatings back then and it still works after almost 20 years. lol
cant imagine doing that to my other consoles now D8
fixed a red ring error by beating it, the red ring dispaeared
> the red ring disappeared
yep, the red ring disappeared, because it wouldn't turn on.
what an hilarious comment Anon XD
that just made my day ;)
the locked controllers in question have been revealed to actually by knock offs. but as to why sony is locking out knock offs, we may never know... at least it's only a software issue...
well it means that u can throw the controller and actually reach the tv
Dude you just made my day *laughs hard*
Oh, how I miss those days. That's why I stick to mainly 8-16 bit games if I can help it. Nostalgia. That and a great hated for 3-D 'animation' because the shit is ugly, but that's another subject altogether.
And I can pretend throwing my controller/handheld won't break the thing. Ah, the good old days when a system could fall four feet off a shelf when you yanked the controller for some reason and all you'd have to do was cut it off, pull the cartridge out, blow on it, and stick it back in to be guaranteed the thing would still play.
99 games in 1
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The products are tested, by the customers... -_-
lol like freeware you have to buyO_O
We live in the age of digital ripoffs.
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I'm a software test engineer for a major network equipment manufacturer, and stories like this always amaze me. In the enterprise realm of Cisco, Foundry, F5, etc, things have the shit tested out of them and even then some things can slip through. It sounds like entertainment software gets minimal to no testing. Haven't they ever heard of BVT, automation, and regression testing?
hardware compatibility tests in such wide hardware base are almost impossible. but apart from that one would think that os for consoles, which is updated much less frequently than os for pc, should get comparatively more testing. but no, it looks like they just made a few basic positive tests and thats all.
i would understand if they announced sth like "we have a new software update but its not throughly tested. we would like you to help us. load this update and give us feedback. you are updating on your ow risk. consider yourself warned." but crap like we have atm... sigh.
as i said before the race between m$ and s*ny to release updates first can result only in an incomplete products.
Bug reports are fun.
And no one has problems with the Wii.
I do, it's a piece of gimmicky shit, and has no good games
Rune Factory Frontier?
no good games that gamers would like
I take it your an xbox fanboy who bashes games like Call of duty?
No More Heroes
Typical microsoft ball licker. I love to play my Xbox, but I'm not shy in saying it's defective as hell, and inferior to PS3. Hard to enjoy allll those games when I have to send it away for a month at a time every year. >_< (on my third system, a friend of mine is on his 6th)
I second No More Heroes. It's good.
What about Madworld?
NMH >>>>> Madworld
WII because the only good game it has is Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
"No good games. BAAAAAAAAW."
Look harder. Seriously. I could find good games on the XBox if I didn't treat the thing like a radioactive monster, and I have no interest in the majority of the genres it caters to.
While I'm a Nintendo Fangirl and will say it is superior in almost everything (without proof) I'm more than happy to admit that the other gaming companies have redeeming features, games, and other such nonsense. It annoys me to hear people who won't admit that the Wii has its own plus points, just because it doesn't cater to people who feel that 90% of a game's challenge should be learning how to use the fucking controller and call themselves hardcore.