Tue, Jun 29, 2010 | 07:58 BST
Reminder: PS3 firmware 3.40, PlayStation Plus now available [Update]
Update: For all Euro members who got a year’s sub to PS Plus, LittleBigPlanet is now on the PS Store for free. It comes in at a hefty 2039Mb.
Original Story: Remember that thing Sony tried to fit around Kevin Butler’s speech at E3? We think it was called a “press conference” or something like that. Anyway, at some point after Butler left and our hearts went with him, Sony toted out some videogame thing called PlayStation Plus. That plus, though, isn’t just a boring old math symbol. Instead, it’s like a pinata, which is the opposite of math. Just take a swing at it with your £39.99 subscription bat and all kinds of goodies spill out.
The best part? It’s available right now.
The PlayStation Blog sends word that firmware update 3.40 has officially gone live. In addition to PlayStation Plus, it’s also packing a networked photo gallery, a video editing tool, a PlayStation Store five-star rating system, and a power save setting for your PS3.
Just log on to PSN and it’s all yours. Enjoy!
Thanks, Monk.
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Tags: firmware 3.40, PlayStation Plus, PS3, PSN, Sony
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#51
Aimless
29/06/10, 3:47 pm
@46 Servers can’t track that the game crashes if you try to bring up the scoreboard whilst selecting a loadout. Logistical data won’t let the developer know how player’s are getting outside the map, or that destroying a bit of fence will spontaneously cause the house it’s near to collapse.
I’m part of SCEE’s community Beta testers, and whilst the input we give isn’t all that influential there are still bug report threads, surveys and NDAs to deal with. By comparison the vast majority of public Betas are just less accountable multiplayer demos, any developmental benefits they incur being transposed from post- to pre-release.
To be honest there’s a long history of people paying for demos anyway. No one used to buy official magazines for the amazing journalism within, it was the jewel case on the front everyone was laying their £5 down for.
#52
Blerk
29/06/10, 3:55 pm
The servers can’t track that stuff but the clients can and that information can be communicated to the servers next time the user logs in. I don’t work in games but we use exactly that mechanism for our beta testing to track exactly where the problems are arising because we know full well that we can’t rely on our users to give us accurate reports on what they were doing when it keeled over.
That said, I’d agree that calling them ‘beta’ is probably not quite right in the case of console betas – they’re more like release candidates.
And while I take your point about the magazine cover discs, I still don’t think we should be directly paying for demos or access to betas now that it’s possible to deliver them to us without a physical medium being involved.
#53
DrDamn
29/06/10, 3:55 pm
Ah I remembered incorrectly. £3.33 – which is the right ballpark for a decent pint when out no?
#54
theevilaires
29/06/10, 3:59 pm
Aimless said: I’m part of SCEE’s community Beta testers
OMG quick someone warn SONY there’s a Nintendo fanboy spy who infiltrated HQ asap!
#55
xino
29/06/10, 8:30 pm
who ever supported this year’s PSN+ are retarded!
everyone already have Wip3out HD and LittleBigPlanet, why support a rip off?
#56
theevilaires
29/06/10, 8:34 pm
I agree with you Xino but they might just throw in a surprise here and there from time to time.
#57
Galactic_Barret
29/06/10, 9:02 pm
I like the games, I like that you get discounts, I also that not much is being held back from regular PSN users, feature-wise.
I still don’t like paying for anything I could get for free. I wouldn’t pay for this just like I wouldn’t pay for Live. At least Live backed you into a corner, feature-wise, so there is an excuse for paying it; Like the Go, this just isn’t worth anything now.
I don’t expect that to last for long, though. Like Home, I assume things will only get better from here.
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