PS3 Firmware 3.10 First Reaction

The 3.10 firmware was supposed to be sweet Facebook integration. While it does have Facebook integration, it’s neat but hasn’t been some crazy thing. Basically you’re able to broadcast your trophy collections, some one-liners with games that have Facebook integration, and purchases that you make on the PSN network.

The whole one-way thing is okay, but it makes it a huge marketing thing for Sony and instead of really harnessing the power of social networks. Somehow, I think tying the statuses together would be interesting.

In this update, the Photo Gallery has also changed somewhat in the browsing, and the background colors for friend statuses now are customizable. Makes it interesting, but I think that if they’re starting to go down the path of user interfacing, then there has to be more feature changes than color codes. The 3.10 firmware was pretty interesting but I have to say that the upgrade process was sort of blech.

This is what I mean by it. The website for PC update wasn’t updated by the time the one from PSN was up. The PSN updating showed the versioning before the download server was up so you could see that there was a new firmware but couldn’t update it. The entire thing was actually not very smooth until it kicked off.

Definitely would like to see more improvement in the future.