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Sony Actually Listens to the Customer

Posted by: , 05:28 AEST, Thu July 26, 2007
Tags: PS3

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Sony will be releasing an updated firmware version for the PlayStation 3 console to fix various bugs and even new features
New features:

- Customization: you can now personalize the wallpaper on your XMB with a photo. When viewing a photo, simply bring up the options screen by pressing the triangle button and selecting "set as wallpaper" from the options displayed. Additionally, you can now change the order of the games displayed under the game icon on the XMB.

- Added communication elements: When you?re sending messages to friends on PLAYSTATION Network, you can now use emotions. Sony has added a bunch of emotions that can be accessed from the virtual keyboard. Also, another addition is, when an avatar is displayed during voice/video chat, the avatar will move in response to audio.

- You can now eject discs using your controller by selecting "Eject Disc" in the options menu after you push the PS button.

- Several other minor options will be included in 1.90 including a few new display options that will allow you to adjust your display while playing PlayStation, PlayStation2 and Blu-ray movies.

You can find out additional details at the Sony website...


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