This has to be some of the worst writing I've ever come across in my life.

Can we do a new filter to stop people from trying to drain hits from this site onto their own? Its very pathetic. It gives all of these idiots an outlet for their brain farts. Everyone with a blog now thinks they are Walter Cronkite, and that their opinion in some way matters more than someone who didn't spend the 5 minutes it takes to get a wordpress blog up.

This guy has an opinion, great. Its clear he isn't an educated journalist, nor does he know how to form an objective opinion.

Its just a fanboy crying because Sony said "4d" and that Killzone2 was real time. Everything thats wrong with 2.4 is obvious. I doubt anyone at this time is calling the 2.4 firmware upgrade a success, seeing as how Sony themselves took it down. The main success is that Sony is finally working on it, they gave us a taste, and I'm sure they will perfect it soon.

I feel sorry for the morons that think Sony tried 2.4, and that was it. As if they are never going to work/upgrade it in the future.

Thanks Captain Obvious! Enjoy the 100 hits you are going to get from this site.

not even going to read that article...

HOW BOUT Y THIS ARTICLE IS BS >> PURE BS << who wrote this article and y did it get posted, how the hell is adding in game XMB and trophyes a failure. looks like some people just want to bash sony no matter what they do ! very poor and dumb post ! =I

I'm lovin' it right now.

Its a giant step in the right direction. How do you call that a failure....

hyping consoles, hyping games, hyping firmwares, what next? hyping controller cables? maybe we should hype power adapters too

"Now this is not just something that everyone on PSN wanted, it is something that PSN needed"

- I'm not included, because I could really care less if I could send invites or chat with you people. Leave me alone and let me enjoy the games I want to enjoy and don't try to make it seem like just because the 360 does things it is something people have to have...because it's not.

If I really cared about these features I would have already sided with Microsoft, but since some/most people annoy me, I could give a sh1t.

Thank you but no thank you.

WTH? WTF? is this? what kind of article is this?

"in my eyes" should of been added to the title. The "author" certainly doesnt speak for everyone, at least not me.

Edit: A disagree... yeah your right, he speaks for me... I'm a sheep for internet blogsters, it's my cross to bare o_O

"Launch directly into another game from the one you’re currently playing

At first I thought this might be from retail game to retail game."

What a n00b...like...never mind, i'm not even gonna elaborate on this, what a N00B. Never mind I can't help it, why the hell would you have an option to launch directly into another retail game if they're disc based? You're going to have to get up, eject the game, put in your new game and play it anyway. I swear...did he think you can install retail games to the hard drive like PSN games on 2.4 now? I guess he did...

"But I guess Sony thinks I don’t deserve trophies for the games I’ve already completed seeing as Trophies aren’t retroactive."

*facepalm*
What an idiot, does he not understand it is to prevent people from just going to GameFAQs and downloading save files for every game to get the Trophies without earning them?

No matter how much you flame, hate bait, want sony to fail, they wont. It might take time, but the life of the ps3 is progressing very well, I'm amazed as to how much additional functionality has been added since I bought mine. Sony will succeed, and if you want to enjoy the ride I suggest you dont do what I just did and read naff articles like this. Pathetic. and to clear one point up, which someone else said, it DOES show when you get a message in game.

well maybe you should go to settings and turn it on, even before in game xmb came out , tehre was a message in the upperright corner whenever u recieved one.

Whining, that's what it is.

2.4 is merely the beginning of what's to come. I don't think it's a complete failure because I see it as being very successful. Once Sony gets to the root of the problem with the update and fix it for those who were having problems from the start, everything will work well.

i can see a post coming up saying "y 360 achivments is better than the trophyes system" -_-

in-game music with dvd/BD
that is pointless if you ask me
why the F would you want to be watching a movie and have music playing in it. That just stupid i want to watch the movie not listen to my stored music and hear absolutly nothing in the movie but the music.

If the author was trying to pass as a third grade student he succeded. There is so many false information in this article makes you wonder why they approved this in the first place? Also what did they expect this update to do everything right all at once?

Hell even the 360 has updates but they have not fixed the Aspect Ratio for those who use there PC monitor to play games but MS keeps telling us it is coming. THis article is an Epic Fail.

The only lazy, incompetent software developers out there is...

You guessed right it's Sony. Sony's software department are terrible

(cue Sanford and Son music)

Ghettooo wannabe

it wasnt a faliure its just everyone assumes that sony can just give us everything we ask and its not like that we have free online play everything else is a bonus

idk how many people will agree with me, but how can you complain that something is a failure when it's for free! who does he think he is, the only way you can complain at something that is for free is if it hurts you or ne thing in any way, this dude is dumb@ss

I love my Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. The Playstation 3 is kind of the red headed step child in my collection of video games. However, the PSN is making progress and I'm more interested in PS3 games than ever before. However that interest is pending the implementation of trophies.

Well, I've better get back to unlocking achievements in Ninja Gaiden II and Soul Calibur.

This update is already 2,5 years behind
so WELCOME TO THE NEXT GEN :)
ENJOY UR LAME UPDATE :)

Wow, this guy complain much?

People asked for In-game XMB, they get it....now they complain that it doesn't have cross gaming invites. Sorry your getting what you asked for...geeze. This article should read, Sony sucks because I love my 360. Why cant PS3 be a 360, WHY?

Well, because its a PS3....sorry its not a mirror image.

i do not think hes a fanboy of any part.

he do have some valid points, like him i ti was disapointed when i poped in mgs4 and was looking forward to hear my own soundtrack, then i got this message. This game is not suported for your music' or something like that. a weak moment for me ye :S

but ye we always could see that message when someone post you up in the cornor.

we could have gotton in-game XMB in dvd/Blu-ray that was kinda lazy not to apply. but i dont really care about that,

I just hope that the Developers starts rleasing those patch for IN-GAME XMB AND TROPHYS.

I keep hearing this a lot, but not having an 360 have no idea how it works. How is it different from me just sending a msg to a friend asking them to join a game?

update:
o the joy of google. looked up this "deal breaking" feature that i keep hearing 360 owners rave about.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/s...
unless i'm missing somthing this is basically just sending a msg to a friend.

They only thing I wanted more from was the in game music feature but they said it was gonna be what it was. As far as everything else ah I don't think he was on the right track. Hey i look at the bright side and i really like Sony they took it down are doing whatever they can to make it better right away thats good customer support. I don't know the numbers but they seem proactive to me.

He just got a PS3 this week. Some of the features he is complaining about were there long ago. If any has ever fully explored XMB they would know you can change wether or not message notifications were seen in-game/movie and so on.

enjoy prodding the dragon while it sleeps.

Is considered a dumba$$ and a failure themselves. Reason I say this is because for all those times people brag about achievements and in game xmb is the reason worth paying for xbox live, I just dont see why idiots would say free features are a failure? I am using the 2.4 update right now and I am enjoying the feature of just being able to message friends while playing a game. Yes sony has some things to add in but why argue about it when u aint paying jack sh!t to use any of these features? I dont see how anyone can complain about this if it is free. Only people I can see making an arguement are damn fanboys who own a 360 and are bullsh!tting as if they have a ps3 and whining about the feature. Grow up and stop whining about sh!t and be happy for whatever system u have. If u hate that the feature is free and u have to pay for yours then buy a damn ps3, or just shut up and stay with one console and cry about it to MS why xbox live isnt free.

All will be forgiven

The words "never satisfied" comes to mind

Who in gods name, has enough time to just sit around a complain about updates? I guess this Donnie B guy does. I Wonder if he has ever left his house before? Seriously dude, you need to find yourself a women or a career. Your life is headed straight into 50 years of living with your parents, and eating yourself to death from so many twinkies. How did the 2.40 update fail. It works perfectly for me. It may of had some bugs but their obviously going to get fixed very soon. Also, they are obviously going to keep updating the PS3! 2.40 isn't the last update douche!

To anyone asking why I am not going back and forth with the people posting paragraphs to hate on me. I don't want to waste my time arguing with fanboys. I'm not a fanboy and this is just my opinion. I'm not gonna argue with one angry ps3 nerd just so 70 others can jump on my back.

To anyone that has question about what I meant in the article. Feel free to PM me and I will answer any and all questions. Also..just because it's free doesn't mean it can't suck. I got Vampire Rain for free and if you say that is anything but a failure. Then you are a moron

Why is it that no matter what happens, someone always feels the need to complain? What happened to the good old days when people knew how to shut up and take it?

i love 2.40 so far
its the xboxfangirls doing all the talk
maybe because its $50 year for something well be getting free

it was a "start"- not a failure.

some people will never be happy. we came a long way since the ps3 first came out. i guess they forget

Sony sheeple, Someone please tell me why 2.4 doesn't allow me to do things that I could do on the Xbox almost 3 years ago.

Thats right November 2005

I could do the following:

1. In-game Voice chat
2. Cross-game invites
3. Access friends list while watching movies.
4. Voice messages
5. Text messages while in game.
6. Achievements(for all games)
7. Feedback on different users
8. IN-GAME SOUNDTRACKS for any game.

The list goes on...

Now,3 years later on PSN

1. No in-game Voice chat
2. No cross game invites
3. No voice messaging
4. No access to friends list while watching movies
5. Can do text messaging from in game
6. Trophies... FOR 1 GAME
7. Still no In-game soundtracks.
8. No feedback system for users.

How is this update not a failure? By the time sony has the features listed above, they will be over 3 YEARS LATE!!!

bad article...i wish i bought a gun and knew the authors address...

Hahahahahahah

this update is not a faliure, how can somethin that makes ur ps3 have new features be a faliure..yes u may argue that sony should have done this when they lunched the ps3 but u can also argue late is better than never!..people always find something negative to say, i just dont know y (-_-)

Well since that his opinion...that 2.40 is a failure..my opinion is that 2.40 is a success...

where is the support for trophies?? Just 1 Game?? The Update sucks until no more games support trophies.

That's my opinion

edit: I'm not a fan boy, i have wii, PS3, 360 and DS (Just in Case)

But there's some straight up bogus info in that blog.

2.4 rocks, and it's FREE and will improve. Trophies are better than a stupid score.

The 6 million active gold live accounts prove no one is paying for that nickle and dime, over rated garbage. :)

9.8 million users play for FREE. ;)

this bugs me and let me tell you why. Sony did not leave anything up for expectation on this update. they gave us a video walkthrough and explained which features the update would entail. they didn't leave anything up for imagination. they told us that in game music wasn't going to be available from day one, just that it was laying the groundwork for it. we can't honestly expect for just one magical update to include everything we've ever wanted from a firmware upgrade. the console has a lifespan and their trying to extend it as far as possible. i just wish someone would write an article thanking Sony for listening to us at all. they know what we want, and they're working on it. 2.40 was a huge step toward that direction. I am grateful.

Yeah, you can download crap with the silver membership. You cant play online though you moron! So whats the F-ing point of the silver membership if theirs no online? How is PSN falling apart? Its really good. I guess you wouldn't know though. Your 360 is too precious. Thats why you ram it up the butt every night :) Plus ketchup is free douche. That would be pretty funny to pay for ketchup. Unless you live in a 3rd world country than you mite have to pay for ketchup.

Hahahahaha

These crybabies are really annoying. They beg Sony for features for a year. Then they finally get the features and buh, it could be a lot better. It could do this or that. Well, if Sony wanted to delay the update another six months maybe they could have added a lot more features. But sometimes you do the most important features and release it. Then you work on the next update and keep adding to it. We're lucky the PS3 is so easy to update.

In the next 360 update, apparently users are asking for blu-ray playback, folding@home, MGS4.

Opps it's not going to happen.

games coming out in the future will have xmb and trophyes, devs are working on other titles thats y they could not work on a patch write now.the update only came out yesterday and every one expects sony to throw them with things like that, be patient. the future is bright with this update, in one month time if nothing happens about trophye support and in game xmb then u can bash it all u want but write now it is to early to trash talk.

This sh*t is getting out of hand again. It reminds me of the last 2 years when the fu*king 360 fanboys wouldn't let up and now its starting again.

Fu*king grow up the lot of you. It seems like the 360 fanboys are jealous or something and they have to rip apart everything Sony. Get a fu*king life sad ass wipes.

remember when your XBL got shut down for two weeks ?`right after New year ?. that is what i call FAIL. this update can be fixed. just like your XBL POS can be fixed

hey i can text cross game now! Whatever else you have to say is just plain fanboy flame

it took MS 5years to make XBL

Sony will match it in 2

and thats a fact chumps!

2 see ppl like bladestar and PPp talking about something they have never used!

they dont even own a PS3 and yet here they are. Telling us why 2.40 was a failure

it would be funny if it wasnt so sad

In so many levels.

what the hell? the 4th one saying that it doesnt let you know when you get a message while in-game, uh yes it does. it tells you who sent it and it comes up on the top right. must have his notifications turned off

wow some of these are BS

I stopped reading at speak my *peace*. Idiot.

Somebody call the wambulance for this gentleman.

Granted, had they never given these features (which have been requested for almost 12 months) then he would have continued to complain about the lack of these features.

The Open Zone reminds me of reality TV. I don't know why I read/watch but on some bizarre level it entertains me.

It seems Sony and it's fans are working hard and asking for features to make PSN better and FREE. Sony is doing one hell of a job. And PSN fans are not afraid to ask which is excellent. Trophies pwn numeric scores any day!

While Microsoft and their fans are making sure that gamers keep paying for a service that should be FREE. They need dedicated servers. They need to ban racist bigots. They need to make live cheaper. But just keep feeding their machine. I wish they announce that live will be $30 more at E3!

Only 6 million or so are actually active on live with gold accounts. That is a failure.

PSN has 9.8 million gamers playing for FREE in 1.5 years. Wake up.

but clearly, if you do not care about the other video/photo..etc updates then this firmware is broken.

Almost like Sony released it and Devs were in the grey about it. Like they had no real answers for the old games and trophies and the patches.

"We'll get to it when we do. Now stop bothering us."

hey thats what you get for FREE.... if anything is Good it cost.... The Only thing My PS3 has over my xbox 360, is the Built in Dust Collector.. Amazing Sony lol... yet people still follow you guy is beyond me

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Yeah, I gotta admit, Xbox live is far ahead of the PS network. Yeah the network is free, but live is only $50 a year. If you can't afford that then how do you buy $60 games? Every cross platform game released is played on my xbox, especially online games. I don't care what anyone states, everyone knows online games are hell of a lot better played on live than the PS network.

should had paid microsoft to help them with there online service;)

with some good points...i wouldnt say the update is a failure, more of a still-in-process thing...i like it, yeah maybe i cant play music and earn trophies, but i at least i can send messages, change bluetooth on the fly, and many others...i say conragts to sony for AT LEAST TRYING to make its fans happy, everything isnt perfect, but at least their TRYING...so give them their props when props are due...and again great article

Lets be fair and rate, step by step why the Author (while trying to get hits for his rather shallow blog) is a failure:

(beware wall of text regarding custom soundtracks)

((i added the whole text so people do not need to visit the blog and generate advertcash for the author))

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In-game XMB

Now this is not just something that everyone on PSN wanted, it is something that PSN needed. I mean to be honest I don’t see how this wasn’t included in the launch. I am glad I can use this now. But we still can’t do cross game invites which is a big letdown.

View Game-Specific Trophies
Like Xbox 360s Achievement system. A great idea. I’m a big Achievement whore and that fuels my gaming needs. It gives you a sense of accomplishment. I already accomplished a lot. But I guess Sony thinks I don’t deserve trophies for the games I’ve already completed seeing as Trophies aren’t retroactive.

Time/Date display
This is something that should have just came with the system. I honestly don’t see why this was shown off as a main feature. Although it is nice to finally have a time display on my PS3 this comes a little too late.

Send text messages to PSN users on your friends list
I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten a message in game that was important and didn’t know because it doesn’t show you when you get a message in game. This (along with the In Game XMB obviously) are the biggest features for me in the update

Access accessory settings, such as Bluetooth pairing and voice changer
I did some research and found out this was helpful to very few people. I’d have to agree. Maybe the voice changer is pretty helpful but pretty much I found this to be the least useful part of the update.

View and manage downloads
I know I’m not the only one that got tired of having to wait for downloads to finish when they could be playing a game. I’m glad they added this so I can finally play Metal Gear Solid 4 and watch my Demo, add on, PSP etc downloads.

Quit game directly from an icon under the “Game” section of the XMB
So, basically the same as holding down the PS button and going to quit game. Not really that big of a deal in my honest opinion.I do not see why they advertised this as a main feature of the update.

Search the web using the Google Search option under “Network”
I liked being able to do this. So I don’t have to go to the browser, then put in Google then search. It’s a lot faster for me. May not be a big deal to some but to others (like myself) it is.

Launch directly into another game from the one you’re currently playing
At first I thought this might be from retail game to retail game. Without having to quit the game I’m in. Then eject then start another up. I was disappointed to discover that it was only going from PSN to retail and vice versa. Nice feature but for someone like me who rarely plays PSN games it was quite useless.

Play music tracks stored on the HDD (in games that support this feature)
Okay, Now I was really excited for this. Thought I could run around blasting some of my favorite songs while blasting soldiers and bosses in MGS4. Popped in MGS4 and instantly my hopes were crushed like Godzilla wreaking havoc on Japan. I guess there will be one day for when I can use this happily but for now I am disappointed.

Now I’d like to talk about something that kind of bugged me about the update. This quote game straight from PSN Director, Eric Lempel.

Will In-Game XMB come up during playback of PS2 games, Blu-Ray discs, and DVDs?
Eric said that “The XMB is an exclusive feature for PS3 game titles. Accessing the XMB during gameplay was the top request from our users” and “However, we continually engage PS3 owners for feedback and will evaluate the opportunity to offer XMB access during movie playback in the future.”

Now I honestly think they could have gone that extra mile and done at least DVD/Blu Ray XMB. PS2 I see no point but not having XMB in the movies is kind of lazy in my eyes.

Closing Statement:

All in all I was impressed but I was unimpressed by the new firmware update. The pros don’t outweigh the cons.So that’s really why I think it was a “failure”.

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* In-game XMB
Ingame XMB is NOT a "PSN" feature, Please, if you so obviously fail to know even the BASICS spare us your blabber, The PSN, as in PlaystationNetwork, is a free network to play games against other users and to buy stuff online in the store for the PS systems that use it.

Ingame XMB was the main thing people asked for, and not because they wanted the nice interface, but because they wanted to access THE FRIGGIN TEXTMESSAGES. And guess what .. that part works without a flaw ..
And explain how something that was NEVER said to be there can be a "letdown" by not being there?
Following your logic the PS3 not being able to drive my car or do my laundry with fw2.4 is a big letdown... huh ? It is a letdown when something that was offered is NOT there, not when you do your best to find anything that might not be included and whine about it not being there. If you want to know what a letdown is, look at your blog, thats a perfect example.

* View Game-Specific Trophies

Thats exactly right, you don't deserve anything considering your bad article, but for once use the grey gibbery stuff that somehow ended up in the hollow shell that is sitting on top of your neck: The Ps3 allows you to store and load your savegames to backup them. The Trophys are awarded as you play. What would have stopped other nerds like yourself from loading fully played savegames from the net to cheat the trophy into the account? Exactly, nothing.

* Time/Date display

Sorry? People ASKED for this and Sony told them they consider it if its no biggy to implement, and voila, they did, its also working .. What is your problem with Sony delivering on their promise to include this? Ah, i see, you couldn't find something real to whine at .. thats different, you are excused, but please spare the above 10IQ people your articles in future.

*Send text messages to PSN users on your friends list

Epic Fail here, You where able to get a "new message" pop-up in the right upper corner from day one, strange how you whine about something missing that is already THERE. Better luck with the trolling next time.

* Access accessory settings, such as Bluetooth pairing and voice changer

You did some research? Really, after your research with the new message indicator you have to excuse me for not believing that. What research did you do? Did you manage to find the fact that the voicechanger was already PRESENT since 2.2 ? Or was your research more in the line of "lemme thing what i can make up now to make a negative statement"

Fact is: it is a good thing people can now access the HEADSET settings ingame. Before that you had to leave the game to activate your bluetooth headset, something that annoyed lotsa people with headsets. Now you can do it from within the game, great i say, but your "research" was certainly more professional and founded on facts , right?

View and manage downloads

* The downloads, like the new messages (in case you also missed this feature present since a year ago) would inform you after being completed with a popup indicator in the upper right screen corner .. you know, the corner where all the informative popups show, the ones you so far managed to overlook. the ones you not only overlooked but whined at not being there ... welcome to last year. Adding the Download manager is a nice touch, but not actually critical.

* Quit game directly from an icon under the “Game” section of the XMB
Its a replacement for the old "quit game" option of the popup menu that was replaced by Ingame-XMB, its NOT a mayor feature, Its just mentioned so you don't look and search the old option.

* Launch directly into another game from the one you’re currently playing

Oh bother, seriously, do you actually stop to think before you write your trash? Naturally you can only start directly into a game that is INSERTED IN THE DRIVE or located on the HDD. The PS3 can not know what games you have sitting on your shelf. Stop mixing up the features with made up fantasy features you put in place of the list Sony released.

*Play music tracks stored on the HDD (in games that support this feature)
There is your main whine. And unlike the rest of your garbage i can at least somewhat understand your frustration. But there is absolutely NO WAY Sony could have done this different. I'll elaborate:

Myth 1) Microsoft does NOT hold a PATENT on the ingame music as regularly falsely stated by people with close to zero knowledge of the patent system. Microsoft has filed an APPLICATION for a patent for it. The Patent though has NEVER been granted. Thats why the patent file does not hold an Patent issue number nor a date when the patent has been issued. Therefor there is NO patent granted = no patent.

Myth 2) But but but the Xbox360 OS enabled that without any games needing patches. WRONG, that feature was a LAUNCH feature of the Xbox360 OS. And imho a very good feature, shame that the PS3 only gets it now. But as it was there from the beginning you naturally need no patches, as all games are FORCED to support it. Same with the Achievements. You can not release a game on the 360 without supporting this feature, hence no one needs a patch. But if the xbox360 would NOT have had this feature from start, the titles released BEFORE the feature would also need patching to support it.

Why is that so?

Thats actually quite easy to understand: Ask yourself this: How would Sony be able to decide what part of the audio stream send from the game to the audio chip is music? The games so far only send a MIX of sfx and music to the io-chip. therefor you can NOT magically mute only the music part of it and keep the sfx part to play another music instead. It is not possible without a fixed api in place to handle the music to sfx mix. As of FW2.4 Sony has introduced a new API that handles the mix of music to sfx in the games. By that they will be able to mute the music on FUTURE games that use the provided api and insert other music there (i.e. the music YOU select from the HDD)

Don't believe it? just RECORD the output of a game on a PC, music and sfx mixed. Then try to remove only the music parts in the resulting audio file ... its impossible as the two are merged to ONE sound. You would also tamper with the sfx. Or maybe something you can try in your kitchen: take 2 cans, one with water, one with orange juice and one empty. Now pour juice and water into the empty can... the result is a) gross, and b) impossible to separate into just the water or just the orange juice. But if you add a main handler BEFORE you mix the stuff, like making it possible to switch the orange juice with lets say cherry juice you can now select what to drink, watered down orange juice or your own custom cherry juice.

Thats exactly what Sony added in the 2.4 firmware. A common library to handle ingame music for games. If devs use that library instead of their own developed ones you will be able to play your own music aka custom soundtrack.

So the firmware delivered exactly as stated before and still it is a "failure" when the most asked for features all got included(the ones that are possible at least)

The only thing thats missing now is cross-game invites via messages and ingame voicechat to friends. And the latter was already mentioned by Sony as being looked at.

Sadly N4G is seemingly flooded by people with low journalistic skills who only submit their flamebait blogposts to generate traffic for their sites. And sadly the flamebait not-news get approved by the usual people who yearn to approve anything negative for systems they don't own.

Like most users who have 2.4 i am more than happy that it has the features that where told to be included. Cause the features include the ones most people wanted to get. Ingame textmessages, "trophys" and the possibility for standard custom soundtracks in future games.

For me is the samething, As long as i get to play with my friends online i am good. in game xmb was a success to me cause now i can message a friend and tell him to join my room. So i am good.

-PS3 in a nutshell.

"But we still can’t do cross game invites which is a big letdown."

--lmfao.

"But I guess Sony thinks I don’t deserve trophies for the games I’ve already completed seeing as Trophies aren’t retroactive."

--lmfao.

"Although it is nice to finally have a time display on my PS3 this comes a little too late."

---HAhaahHAHAhah WTF? a FW update to show a CLOCK? LMFAO! TEH CELL!!!!!!!

"I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten a message in game that was important and didn’t know because it doesn’t show you when you get a message in game."

--LMAO. Got some geniuses over there at sony. "derrrr, let's make an overhyped movie player, then make it so you can't check your messages without exiting your games. then maybe we'll fix that in an update. derrrr"

"So, basically the same as holding down the PS button and going to quit game. Not really that big of a deal in my honest opinion.I do not see why they advertised this as a main feature of the update."

--lmao. TEH CELL!!!!!!!!!

"Thought I could run around blasting some of my favorite songs while blasting soldiers and bosses in MGS4. Popped in MGS4 and instantly my hopes were crushed like Godzilla wreaking havoc on Japan. I guess there will be one day for when I can use this happily but for now I am disappointed."

---So much for in-game music streaming.

"Now I honestly think they could have gone that extra mile and done at least DVD/Blu Ray XMB. PS2 I see no point but not having XMB in the movies is kind of lazy in my eyes."

---HAHAHahAHAhahah FOR REAL, SONY? HAHAHAHAHAH. WOW, YOU GUYS SUCK.

-final proof 360 had all this and more from launch 3 years ago. no wonder why I still don't want a PS3. maybe when the next FW update comes around? :)

how does cum taste like?
because i know that you guys have been sucking M$ d1ck!

it makes perfect sense for trophys not to be restroactive. so you cant go on gamefaqs and download a bunch of save files and get a tone of trophys without doing anything. that makes sense. It also adds some replay value to your older games.
Its easy to be some guy writing some article and complain that everything wasnt exactly how you wanted it. But when you have to actually design how it works and understand its limitations then you can talk about it. How can you cry about not having ingame music supported immediatley when you dont understand how custom ingame music is incorportated into games.
Why is everyone so quick to criticize? They said this is the first phase of their planned additions. That means more to come.
Stop taking 2.4 and comparing it to xbl. Its going to take more than one update to get all the features sony has planned to work properly.
And never forget this is all free.

I got what I expected from 2.40 which is a huge successful upgrade and i know i will get more features in the future. Why?? Because the ps3 can do this.

To the noob author of this story got get yourself a cookie you winey punk.

Its a sucess, in that its introduced some much needed features that people have been asking for.
Theres nothing been taken away, and we have extra features, many of them cool, how could anyone class that as failure?
No one promised it would bring world peace or halt global warming - it just added a bit more fuctionality to an already cool OS, so there no point in moaning 'yeah but it doesn't make my coffee for me'. LAME

If you need to point a finger and level some critism, its fair to give it some flak because some people have problems installing it. When I choose to install a OS update, I do so fully expecting that the company has a rock solid QA testing department, and that I'm not going to destroy my console. Given how long people have waited for these features anyway, a more thourough test before releasing it in the wild would be better!!

But the functionality is great - I enjoyed what I had, and they made it better. Whats not to like? Looking foward to some more games getting trophies - I've got three on SSD HD, but its rock hard that game, and I doubt I'll get more!

im glad this update is rubbish an then again im not!! im glad, because now you sony only fanboys can shut up about once update 2.4 comes out XBL will be history an the PSN will be ON PAR or BETTER than XBL all while being FREE. but then im not because MY PS3 still cant do all the things I take for granted on my 360!! this guy makes some good point but you guys wanna dismiss anybody that calls sony out on its missteps. I understand MS is a software company an sony is a hardware company an it SHOWS. 360 has sucky hardware(RROD) an the PS3 has sucky software(PS3 OS, PSN) but their both getting better!!

I can be watching a movie an if a friend wants to private chat or send a voice or text chat I dont have to leave my movie to check it, the same with games. I can be playing bioshock an if a friends wants to video chat, i just accept the chat it pauses my game an goes into video chat, when im done it takes me back into my game where i left off.

if im playing Gears of war an get an invite to play COD4 all i have to do is accept the invite an put the COD4 disc an the 360 handles the rest, why cant i do these thing on my PS3 2 years later!!

I can start up to 6 downloads on my 360 an put the system on standby an it will finish downloading then shut off, if I start a download on my PS3 an go to bed when i wake up the next morning it will still be on an if I dont turn off the controller it will be dead. theres no auto off on the PS3 controller, but there is on the 360 controller.

EDIT: just curious, why the disagrees. I didnt LIE an I didnt try an portray the PS3 in a negative light, I just stated thing that I can an cant do on the systems!!

Don't mean to sound like a 1970's peace making, hippie, on crack, but there is too many people arguing on these posts. The author like many others, clearly wants to get everyone's attention to read his article, These authors(unlike the decent ones) IMO are "fanning the flames".

"A discussion is an exchange a intelligence, An argument is an exchange of ignorance."-said by someone i can't remember.

I made myself look like enough of a loser today eh.

w/e i liked the update.

butt a B**CH ask him how many times he had to return his xbox 360 to M$ ...about 8

than the BOTS?

2.40 works for me, no problems, I already have a few tropihes. I'm happy.

Of course the Bots are going to comment about this, they wrote the book on FAILURE. the 3rd60 fails, they fail and they're always going to try to prove otherwise.

said XMB it here now what more do u want in game voice chat ...u ask for too much when we get all that you will probably be asking for something ridiculous like going i the TV and playing

Failure Failure Failure Failure Failure Hahahahahaha

2.40 JUST came out and its already a Fail? Puhleeze. It hasnt even taken full form yet. Imsomniac and other devs should stop work on Resistance to and COD5 to add Trophies right? Tsssk. Future games will be making good use of In Game XMB in due time. And as far as the complications go... a patch is on the way.

We asked for it and they(Sony) gave it to us. They cant make devs do sh%t and with E3 coming up I'm sure alot of devs hands are tied eith getting their product ready for viewing and playing at the big show which is probably why they said no, otherwise I dont think they would have mind. But expect great things in the near future.

Sony has a very close knit relationship with its community. Really the best I've seen. Just go to your respective region playstation3 board and you will see that they actually hear and respond to what we say and gives us alot of things we ask for.

That is all.

The opinions of a raving fanboy isn't news. It's the developers' fault for not adding trophies, not sony.

I am disappointed by the in-game music feature that doesn't actually work, everything else is a step in the right direction

There was just too many impatient people out there that forced sony to deploy it too early. At least 2.40 is a good base for the future upgrades from here.

The problem with this article was that he was one of the morons hyped for it. It is a firmware update what did you expect. Retard, getting hype is stupid for an update. Seriously what was he expecting to do pop in a game and then use the in-game xmb for nothing other than the purpose that it is possible to do. They said it would be a while for trophies. This is ridiculous, people were wining and complaining for it, then when you got it you complain some more. STFU!

2.40 = the start of a revolution. Key word mofo's - START

XBOX LIVE HAS BEEN OUT FIVE YEARS YOU DUMB INBRED CUNTS

SONY WILL PISS ON YOU AND YOUR FAILURE OF A CONSOLE FROM A GREAT HEIGHT WHEN ITS ALL SAID AND DONE, SO GO AND HAVE SEX WITH YOUR OWN SISTERS YOU MINDLESS TWATS, WHILST YOU'RE WAITING TO HAVE YOUR RROD FIXED, I'LL BE PLAYING MY PS3.

P.S. PSN IS FREE, I AM $50 RICHER THAN YOU, AND I DONT GET CALLED A NIGGER F4GGOT C0CKSUKING ASS BISCUIT EVERY TIME I GO ONLINE ON PSN.

over opinionated bellends giving their two cents in blog-like posts shouldn't be posted as news. The fact most of his arguments are "it's coming too late" or "it should have been a feature from the start" kind of defeats the point of the update... Likewise, people who read this and decided to retort with "Buh buh, RROD" need to grow up. It's childish, and microsoft have pretty much sorted this out. Everyone i know with a 360 have had no trouble. Likewise, as a PS3 owner and one of a fair few amongst my friends, we've had no trouble with this update. I welcomed it with open arms. Me and my housemates purchased one of the big 3 each and have had nothing but enjoyment from day 1. I guess we're either just really lucky or fanboy bias blows small issues out of proportion. Phew, glad i got that out of my system. *Dons flame shield* :)

P.S. i'm aware of the irony that i myself am being an over opinionated bellend by posting this :P

Sony gave us, you, and many what we wanted (in-game XMB) and yet it's a failure? I'm surprised they gave us more then messaging. Everyone is surprised the entire XMB is still up there. Quit cryinggg.

he's in his right to say this. everyone of us uses the dashboards in diferent ways and prefer some features to anothers. in this guy case, he just felt that his favorite features were lacking.
i was hyped with the custom music. i'm one of thoses who love to play forza2 with custom soundtrack

I don't see any problems with 2.40. Frankly i'm happy with it. More extras i ain't paying for and isn't riddled with ads. How does it feel to have to pay for things like this bots and be smacked in the face with ads? No cross game invites? Booo hooo? type a msg saying join me in CoD4 or MGS4 online. Is that really hard? Are you that lazy? This is a start. Unlike 3fixme we get more then one update a year. Maybe you all should be worrying about that 10 hr rgp that was 10 years in the making lol. Or waiting for your Mii's. I love how bots need to nit pick something like a bug in a update when MS is known to release everything loaded with bugs and issues. Windows and RRoD are a fine example of this. Go back to your NG2 20 fps and buy that addon tutu.

@juuken Relax this is only a start and a good one at that. You can relax knowing we don't pay month of Ad and lag riddled service and cheap pages. +bubbles for you.

This Donnie B. Darko is a f*cking retard.

Even if he feels the features that came with the 2.40 update were useless, it doesn't mean they weren't requested. This guy is seriously out of touch with the reality of it all. He's acting like the 2.40 firmware is the last f*cking firmware we'll get out of Sony.

I honestly think he doesn't even own a PS3, he's just a trash talking 360 owner who hates that fact that Sony is catching up to the 360 in features. PS3 is a revolutionary platform-- the 360 is not. So of course the PS3 is going to need to catch up (firmware-wise) to it's beefy PC-based counterpart. When it does though it'll be pretty sweet.

Even though Sony pulled the 2.40 firmware temporarily, I'm certain it'll be fixed and re-released. I updated my firmware to 2.40 and I haven't had any problems. The biggest feature I wanted was in-game XMB access and I got it. They could release a firmware that automatically does my taxes and I wouldn't care. As for the other features the new firmware has that I most likely won't use-- I'm sure there's other people out there that will be using it. I know Sony isn't going to waste R&D monies on features that will go completely or even widely unused.

Oh, and the jab he made about the clock. I'm happy they included that tiny feature. In case the room is dark and I can't see my wall clock in the wee hours of morning, it'll come in handy. Updating the time via the time servers on the internet was a nice touch.

When I sold my 360 out of frustration and bought a PS3, my initial thoughts were that I had made a not-so-good choice. However, seeing Sony's dedication to their customers and listening to them for ideas and new features, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy because I know things will get better than they already are. I've loved my PS3 not for it's faults but for the things it shines with.

Besides, apart from gaming it's an awesome Blu-ray player. Movies never looked so good on my HDTV.