Confirmed: PS3 Firmware v2.40 to be released July 2nd, 2008!

[boricua5150]

SCEE have just announced that PS3 Firmware 2.40 will be made available on July 2nd, bringing PS3 owners some excellent new functionality. Read on for SCEE’s press release...

Get more from online gaming on PLAYSTATION®3 with the Free 2.40 Firmware enhancement

PS3™ to give online gamers the features they’ve been requesting: XMB™ (XrossMediaBar) access in-game and trophies available in this free, automatic system upgrade

June 30, 2008: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today announced new online gaming functionality for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™), which will become available on July 2, 2008 with the 2.40 enhancement, an automatic firmware upgrade that delivers several of the features most requested by gamers. Combined with PLAYSTATION®Network’s unique service of free* online gaming, the enhancement makes PS3 an even more attractive platform of choice for the online gamer.

Firstly, the 2.40 enhancement allows XMB™ (XrossMediaBar) access in-game. This means that you can access the PS3 menu at any time while playing most games, simply by tapping the PlayStation button on your controller. With 2.40, you can check if any of your friends are online (thanks to their own user profile), read and send messages, change some settings for games, all without having to quit the game you are playing. While you can’t pause an online multiplayer game involving other people, you can rejoin play at any time when you’ve finished browsing. Along with these enhanced communications features, the Friends list capacity will double to 100 Friends.

2.40 also delivers trophies to recognise players’ achievements in the online arena. Other competitive activities recognise winners with trophies – so why not gaming on PS3? Many online games will have gold, silver and bronze trophies – with platinum available for those who snag all three – all displayed on the XMB for everyone to see.

Super Stardust™ HD, a PLAYSTATION Network-exclusive released last year, will be the first game to leverage the Trophies system and will offer a variety of trophies**. The following first-party games are also slated to offer Trophy support:

• BUZZ!™ Quiz TV
• LittleBigPlanet™
• MotorStorm™ Pacific Rift
• NBA 09 - PS3
• PAIN**
• PixelJunk™ Eden
• Resistance 2™
• SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation
• Warhawk™**

The 2.40 enhancement is just one more reason to join PSN, the online network for PS3 users that lets you game online for free*. All you need to do to join is connect your PS3 to broadband and register, or go to the connection guide at to find out more.

Once in, you’ll find online matches and leagues for all of your favourite games – whether that’s MotorStorm™, Resistance™, Warhawk™ or Gran Turismo™5 Prologue – absolutely free (although users are responsible for paying their broadband fees) and at any time of the day or night. You’ll also find PLAYSTATION®Store, where you can download entire games as well as extra levels, content for your existing games plus internet browsing, video chat thanks to PLAYSTATION®Eye and much, much more.

There’s never been a better time to join PSN. Sign up now to make the most of the 2.40 firmware enhancement - see to find out more.

* No subscription required, broadband fees apply
** Requires a game update to be downloaded and installed

[USA4LIFE]

This will get hacked two weeks later.

[sterling]

This will get hacked two weeks later.

why is that?

[Liaison]

I'm intrigued by the achievements, looks a lot better the Microsoft's system...

[msagrain]

why is that?

People will put fake trophies and scores up ect......... it is very complex tho if you do not know what you are doing and it world just be easyer to get the score youself.

[USA4LIFE]

why is that?

Along time ago when the PSP first came out some unknown hacker or hackers the most famous known as DarkAlex found some sort of code within a firmware. He used his hacking ability and discovered that the PSP can do loads more than what Sony told the public. For example being able to burn your old playstation games on your computer and then putting the burned file of that game into the PSP and thus being able to play that game on your psp. (This isn't a very accurate version of how it all happened just the jist of it)

This was a big deal because sony told the public that the only way to play your old PSX games on the PSP was to buy them off of the playstation store when the PS3 came out. Basically being the billion dollar industry that sony is, they wanted the public to re-buy there old playstation game when they didn't have to. Other things you could do is play nintendo, super nintendo, sega, and even N64 roms on your psp. Ever since then you can now do almost anything on the PSP besides the usual stuff, you could actually make your psp act like a japanese psp so you could play imported games, some people have a sort of mapquest type of application on there psp to get directions, I have even seen videos of people somehow having windows xp on there PSP. Basically these hackers opened the Pandora's box of what is the Sony PSP

This of course annoyed sony so what they do is they keep creating new firmwares that try to stop you from hacking your PSP, in order to stop this people like DarkAlex work on these firmwares to try to find ways around it. Now many may think, well I just won't download the new firmware but sooner or later you'll have to because the newer a game the newer your firmware has to be. Basically if you still have the very first firmware when the PSP came out you can't play any of the new games that are currently out.

That's pretty much it. So every time a new firmware comes out it gets hacked, it used to take long but now these guys are so good it takes weeks sometimes.

People will put fake trophies and scores up ect......... it is very complex tho if you do not know what you are doing and it world just be easyer to get the score youself.

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I'm talking about PSP hacks.

[Nicky_Hatton]

The ps3 in theory won't get hacked to the extent that the psp did. That was something else.

Reasons for me believing this;

Blu ray disc - a new media type, really large, can you even copy blu ray discs yet?

Whnever there is a new update you can't sign into psn until you download it.... I'd rather have psn and copies of real games than no psn and a bunch of discs.

[USA4LIFE]

The ps3 in theory won't get hacked to the extent that the psp did. That was something else.

Reasons for me believing this;

Blu ray disc - a new media type, really large, can you even copy blu ray discs yet?

Whnever there is a new update you can't sign into psn until you download it.... I'd rather have psn and copies of real games than no psn and a bunch of discs.

I'm an idiot, I thought it said PSP firmware not PS3 firmware, damn big brain fart there, or maybe I should read it all instead of jumping the gun.

Forget what I said sterling, it has nothing to do with the PS3.

[sterling]

I'm an idiot, I thought it said PSP firmware not PS3 firmware, damn big brain fart there, or maybe I should read it all instead of jumping the gun.

Forget what I said sterling, it has nothing to do with the PS3.

lol thats why i asked why i was wondering wtf u was on about.