Life With PlayStation Available Now

Sev1512 of PlayStation LifeStyle writes:

Load up Folding@Home and it will tell you that an update is available, proceed with your download, and restart Folding@Home.

The Folding@Home icon has been replaced with Life With PlayStation

Videos coming soon.

[cahill]

good work SEV

[Sev]

http://i5.photobucket.com/a...

[alanjp25]

just got it. this story is true.....its downloading Life with playstation right now...cant wait to see wat its about..

edit - i like what i see...just finished installing..thank you sony:)

[PoSTedUP]

this really suites my needs, its really convenient and they have a really nice set up going on, but i do think they need to add more locations (mine is there) for every body. alot of info though so thats a really good start.

does this count as using folding@home to donate?

[Sev]

Yes it does ^^^^

[PoSTedUP]

aww : (

ive already donated a **** load of power to stanford and i cant afford another 200$'s added to my electric bill, i was unaware of that in the first place. maybe when i start making more money but right now i am not in the right position to do that.

is their any way i dont have to use folding@home and can still use LWP? (probably not..)

[juuken]

I went to sleep after the update was done so I'll check it out when I come off of work.

Sony may be late with their deliveries but when they deliver stuff, it turns out really good. :3

[LinuxGuru]

=D

[Sev]

:)
Where the hell are all your bubbles?1?!

Thank goodness Ava went to sleep in time for me to break the story.

[Sev]

My PS3 sounds like a Jet Engine running this app.

[LinuxGuru]

Fans of the "other console" took them away from me =(

[Michael Jackson]

We all know that the other console needs a lot more "fans"..
..since it tends to over heat from time to time. :D

[Sena Kobayashi]

And you need to stop hanging around childrens Micheal dont you ever get it?

Im dodging your Pervert hands with my DEVIL BAT GHOST!!!

[maggotmx]

even DLed the new (japan only) firmware but still nothing... maybe in the morning wellsee GL all

[Sev]

Others are downloading now, maybe its only on my region's server.

I am on the East Coast...

Post here if you have it and your location..

check here for more info
http://boardsus.playstation...

[Siesser]

don't know if it's coincidence or not, but I can't even log into the playstation network (I'm east coast as well). I'll keep trying though.

[Qbanboi]

Damn u Sony. If you have it, why don't just release for everybody. :'( I want LWP now.

[aceitman]

what is btw please

[Siesser]

btw typically stands for "By The Way"

[UltimateIdiot911]

Gahh, 2 hours ago, it was a leak. Now that I'm in class, it's out. =[ I want to try it out so bad.

[whateva]

I go to sleep for 3 hours things go crazy over at sony!
goes to download F@H

[Jamie Foxx]

alot of us me included went straight to folding at home first and did the download,i think thats why we havnt got lifewithplaystation

do your firmware 2.43 update first then do the folding at home update an see if that works

as i sit here with a sad face

[uie4rhig]

updated first.. then went to F@H.. nothing.. then went to the US account.. went to F@H... nothing...

[Raoh]

downloading now...

[Sev]

BTW ANYONE who doesn't believe me, can add me to their friends list and I will show you me running the app. You can highlight me on your friends list, to verify what I am playing.

[shelbygt33]

Genuine Question - what does this do?

[TheColbertinator]

It better be good

[Panthers]

lol AAA title and you know it

it just gives you weather and stuff...

[pwnsause]

lololol thats what the update is all about.

[pwnsause]

BTW SEV, you are our HERO! XD

[Sev]

Thanks man, just looking out for the PS fans.

[PoSTedUP]

cool

cant wait to see whats inside!

[gano]

Good job sony.

[solidsnakus]

you do know this was promised at E3 to be out before august ended? yea great job indeed ;)

[JD_Shadow]

Better to be out when it's ready than rushed out and have a whole bunch of hardware reliability issues, now is it?

And how do you KNOW that this wasn't released in August? We may have just discovered HOW to get it now (which is, by the way, a really clever way to get people to download the folding@home app to boot).

[Why o why]

*cough* *live anywhere*

[TheExecutive]

Welcome to my ignore list Solid. I have come to the realization you are a pain in the a$$, little brat of a troll.

[Drekken]

God forbid it was 2-3 weeks later than expected. Solid go back under your bridge.

[Solid_Snake666]

cool...now ppl can complain aobut something else..lol

[PopEmUp]

mean the 360 gangsters :P

[solidsnakus]

ok, give us home!

oh and also some games while your at it! for gods sake the last game i bought on my ps3 was mgs4!!!

[Final_Rpg]

Give us fanboys that don't rely on metacritic to decide whether a console games are good or not.

[Narutone66]

Have more games than any console out in the market now. Aside from PS3 games, it can also play PS1 and PS2 games.

[poopsack]

its sad that you only enjoy games above 90% metascore, other people with real brains have been enjoying a great library until now.

[Final_Rpg]

For the last time, Metascore doesn't define what a triple A title is.

[Oner]

Funny how certain types don't talk about how many MORE titles are in the red and low yellow on the 360...

[ZombieButcher]

Hmm Interesting I started up Folding and nothing happened just took me to the normal program. No Update

[Fishy]

Same.

>.>

Things better change.

Soon.

[pwnsause]

same here, i updated the PS3 to firmware 2.43 BTW

[INehalemEXI]

Same here but I assume it was because I did not download the optional system update yet. So im doing that now.

[Kleptic]

its US only currently according to comments at the source...not sure if that applies to you guys or not...

[ZombieButcher]

I am in the US

[Sev]

Here you go guys, there are plenty of others downloading as we speak.
http://boardsus.playstation...

I don't know what the issue is for you guys...

[INehalemEXI]

Im in US just did that system update. Still nothing going to go check that forum thread listed up there in update right quick.

[Tsalagi]

I just installed Folding at Home and now have Life With PS. I didn't get the 2.43 update either.

[INehalemEXI]

WTG Sev I go peep this. Hmmm not working for me yet.

[SacT0wnF1n3st]

I didn't get the update yet.

[gano]

Can't download sev u sure.
Look its too early for this chit, sony.

[Sev]

I am sure and so are plenty of others...

http://boardsus.playstation...

[gazo69]

Nothing happening here either, started folding at home, it just loaded up normally, no update.

[jpod]

No luck for me, no update :(

edit: did anyone who got it install the optional firmware update?

[LinuxGuru]

Hmm....I'm not getting an update =(

[whateva]

I love it

[PoSTedUP]

and its really neat the way they set this thing up. world wide news and weather, their is alot of stuff on this man its crazy, it totally suites my needs. good job sony : )

BTW do i automatically use folding@home wile i use this??????????

[Blackcanary]

do you download it?

[PoSTedUP]

when i went to folding@home it said that their was a new update.

[aceitman]

can someone tell me please

[Blackcanary]

Its not out in the UK yet that sucks.

[jams_shop]

"btw" = by the way

[Voozi]

I'm from the US, and no update for me (on 2.42)

Updating to 2.43 now and see if it changes anything

[mattnz]

It wont do anything if your outside of Japan, it's for some rental service they are setting up over there, it's on the PS Blog.

[Voozi]

I understand that, but what I'm saying is, is that maybe if I update to 2.43 it'll somehow trigger F@H to update

But it's odd how like majority of the people here are saying it's not working lol yet for a select few it is

[mattnz]

Wonder if it wasn't supposed to be released yet and has been pulled. I can't seem to get it either.

[Voozi]

Yea that's what I'm starting to think now too, it was released then pulled, and if it was pulled then well...this article is kinda irrelevant atm lol

[Fishy]

I actually thought that it might have been because of me updating my PS3 to the next firmware that I couldn't get LwP.

I guess not. I delete F@H and am reinstalling to see if anything changes.

[Blackcanary]

didn't work.

[Solid_Snake666]

this guy is just BS

yea buddy BULL SH*TTING!

[PoSTedUP]

i already got it.

edit: : P

[Sev]

Wow, I am BS?

It may have been taken off the server, or mistakenly released.

Regardless I downloaded it TONIGHT, and so have many others, check out the link.

http://boardsus.playstation...

Check out the video I made for proof...
http://www.n4g.com/NewsPend...

[INehalemEXI]

Thats possible I guess I wait awhile and try tommorow. Hopefully I get my Socom beta email too....still waiting for that qore day 1 annual subscriber too.

[remanutd55]

i've got lwp installed on my ps3 already btw i live in NYC, sev can you answer postedup question , you think we use folding@home while we use lwp?

[Drekken]

Fernando, go waggle your way back to Joystiq...

[pwnsause]

if you delete folding at home, can you get Folding at home back and update it?

[Solid_Snake666]

yea i just did that but nothing

[Qbanboi]

mmmm.... something is wrong. I get not message of update.

[Raoh]

i'm using it no problem

installed the 2.43 update, went about my business after that..

then i saw this post and updated my folding@home and bam

works great very cool

very very cool

____

or those using it, it works with your blu ray remote control. having a mouse and keyboard of course is better.

clicking on more news takes me to google news. all obviously in real time.. what you see on the net is what you see on your ps3's Life with Playstation.

just looking at it a glance, you see basically the planet.. with dots showing locations (oslo, stockholm, berlin, paris, dublin, new york, denver, hawaii, tokyo, ,kuwait city etc etc etc), with weather above each city.

once a city is highlited you you get a picture of the city (manhattan in the night time in what seems to be real time)

a list of current news

more news takes you to google

so far so good...

you can select your own mood music, calm/upbeat etc and your own playlists

when left alone the map of the planet spins around slowly showing you other locations around the world with same info, weather, news, pic of the city etc.. _

[remanutd55]

i didnt know it works with blu ray remote and a keyboard , thats kool , do you know if i use folding@home while a use life with playstation?

[pain777pas]

I will say that this is an informed post that does not seem like BS. I believe that you have truly downloaded this.

[CrashSpyro123]

I'm not sure what's up with this story, but there was no update to download.

[Raoh]

i wonder if someone hit the release button by accident

i'm reading alot of people dont have it either..

i went to it fast and am running it now, teh screensaver brings up gamertag like window with the song playing, time, and folding at home percentage

[TomMcBaum]

No update to Folding@Home is available to me here in the U.S., even after updating to Firmware 2.4.3. :-(

Has anyone in the US been able to DL LWPS?

[Sev]

Yes, I have it, Boston, MA here.

[pwnsause]

they must of pulled it, im from the US, Currently in Buffalo, NY i downloaded the 2.43 update, and tried to see if i can update Folding@home into life with Playstation, but no go apperently.

EDIT: post here if you are currently downloading it

[remanutd55]

i have it and i live in NYC

[inFAMOUS_KRATOS]

yeahh i havent got it either i try to go on my euro account still nothing!! lol

[n4gzz]

everyone give bubble to sev.

[Ro11z]

ans still nothing thats UK , USA . JP and HK

WERE IS IT???

updating my firmware now to see if that will help

[Raoh]

they asked if we who have LwP have a japanese psn account

i did create one the other day to try and download some demos not available in the states..

i wonder if that has anything to do with it.

[Sev]

I have a JP account. But I don't think that is the problem.

I think the problem is that they pulled it off the server until an official announcement.

[villevalorox]

im in st. louis and i dont have it.! :(

[Yipee Bog]

be out by the end of the week. btw good band ville

[CrashSpyro123]

Tried it again after updating to 2.43, as the current rumor has morphed into, and still nothing. This is a this a rumor that's most likely false.

[JD_Shadow]

It seems as those F@H only tries to connect to the internet when a work unit is done or something and is trying to upload.

My guess is, like someone said on that board, try to stay in it for a little while until it seems to want to actually work (maybe until it completes a work unit and tries to upload it to the main servers only to find that there is something completely different there, which may take a bit to finish said work unit).

And yeah, F@H is kind of picky of when it actually wants to USE that network connection. It never seems to actually use it as much when you DO watch it then when you go about your business while it does something. I'm not surprised that some people didn't get prompt to update yet.

(Note that I am not sure about any of this and this is not wishful thinking, just something based on observation).

EDIT: Not sure how I got a disagree for this. Guess it's that phantom disagree.

[DrWan]

.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Me neither

[Ro11z]

iv tryed mulitiple time o all my acconts on both firmwares yet STILL NOTHING

am in the UK btw

[DrWan]

1213AM still no update, u guys?

[TitanUp]

heres a couple more links with people who have it and don't have it
http://boardsus.playstation...

http://boardsus.playstation...

and of course the linke sev added

[ismailazim]

hey for the people who downloaded it what time was it when u downloaded it or how long ago?

[Dogswithguns]

Cool stuff. awesome.

[Brixxer600]

I've got folding @ home to update and i've got the 2.43 update for the PS3 but no Life With Playstation.

I'm in the UK

[Neo604]

is it cause of different time zone?

[Rob0g0rilla]

I live in the US, I tried it before downloading 2.43, and I tried it after downloading 2.43.

[VMAN_01]

I live in Australia and I have nothing.

[KiddyBrownTurd]

but still no games

[Blackcanary]

Dude stop acting like an ass hole with the no games crap.

[pwnsause]

dont listen to him, poor guy got an RROD on his console, just let the poor soul be.

[joebahrjoebahr]

i figured i was gonna be the first one to say it to them but you beat me to it.

you got to sh!t on the parade first lucky!

for real, why dont you guys ask for more games and not the weather channel and a news site,

[KiddyBrownTurd]

lmao :D

[Freezingduck]

...

But still RROD

[cr33ping_death]

wow people still saying the PS3 has no games...in denial much? kids these days. remember to knock on wood, throw salt over shoulder, carry a rabbits foot with you, keep a horseshoe in your pocket, and say your prayers before you turn on your 360 or it might get the RROD.

[MvmntInGrn]

Ok I got it. I am in the US EST Timezone.

I am on 2.43 and when I tried to update I would get to 2% and then it stopped, despite the internet working fine (tried the web browser and PS Store) So I grabbed my modem and connected it directly and I got it.

Worth a try if your not hooked up directly.

Its alright, doesn't have many features yet but it looks nice. Also it replaces folding@home on the XMB.

EDIT: I got it awhile ago, may be down now.

EDIT2: Not too clear, got 2.43 then went to F@H Icon and updated.

EDIT3: I'm surprised not many people can get it... some more info, I got it (or started trying to get it) as soon as the news went up here on n4g, as it was waiting for approval. It works fine so I cannot see why it would be taken down.

[Re-versed]

im from Greece...Europe...

[bkjrock17]

Ha RROD sucker never turn ur back on ur ps3 for to long any ways I've tried it 3 times nothing sony always finds some way to screw with first no HOME beta now this sony is so lucky to have dedicated fan boys

[BrunoM]

Well i saw that there ws a new FW a fewww time ago (yes didnt get to sleep tonight) but becasue it said it didnt do anything for me i was like humm W.E didnt donwload

now i saw that theres LWP and well downloading the new FW right now then trying to go to folding see what hapens hope i get it !!

[Markh2001]

i aint got it and i updated damm u sony u suck with everything

[Jamegohanssj5]

Thanks Serv.

TGSI

[cellfluid]

I don't know what this is about but if its commin from sony it has 2 b great....

[crackfactor]

Just dl'd it in Western Canada. Didn't realize the volume was turned up so loud on my tv and probably woke the neighbours with the bass from the Starlight Theme when it started playing.

Edit: i did not install the 2.43 update

[TheExecutive]

This sounds more like a slip-up then anything else. I will await official word from Sony.

[Drekken]

Sev said it, I believe it. What is it with you nay saying haters? It was out, it might not be now... Dont the pics prove it? You guys are so desperate to prove all good things PS3 wrong.

[MrNegativity]

because THEY ARE WRONG. IF SONY DIDNT MAKE ANY EMPTY PROMISES THEN THERE WOULD BE NO BASHING.

[Drekken]

IT WAS AVAILABLE - WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME?????

[VMAN_01]

Is it up in Australia yet?

[gundamx]

im from south australia and i can only get the update of folding home not life. im sure it cant be far away:D

[mindedone]

were you in the middle of a work unit?

[Adriana Lima]

i'm dling it right now

[Daver]

well i guess Canada wont get this like the video store, i just tried and nothing.
Lets wait and see, there will probably be something on playstation blog today

[bkjrock17]

I've tryed every thing to get this update and got nothing wtf

[Joesyuh]

It does not work for me. I uninstalled f@h and reinstalled it. I let it run for a bit and it still did not update.

I live in MI, if that makes any difference. I also did not update to the new firmware.

[magikmark8]

Whats up guys? for the people who already have it are basically beta testers. here's why . . .

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/20...

[fafoon]

That puts an end to that !!

[Premonition]

like someone stated I think sony took the program offline cause it wasnt suppose to be rleased yet, I dont see why they cant release it.

[Re-versed]

THATS no good...

[Vip3r]

Apparently Sony uploaded it to their servers by accident.

lol...

[Chapulin]

Gonna try to update to 2.43 I hope it works. No not yet :(

[olLANDSHARKlo]

This here will always be a great example of the kids on PSN, no body will ever again convince me that xbox live has more kids than PSN after this. Mommy, timmy got life with playstation and I didn't. Who cares it's worthless.

[maxim47]

Funniest comment ever

[SolidWolf]

For some reason, when I re-enter Folding@home I don't get the updating notifications. In other words, I can't get Life with Playstation

[HighDefinition]

It came up by mistake.

[MAGNUM-RAM]

multiplatform games!
exclusives for the holidays!
qore!
Internet downloading from the ps3!
now life with playstation current news & weather!
eventually we will have home!

What does a 360 have? Xbox news with the fugly twins
major mike & trixie! Ha ha ha ha ha hah!

Laydown & staydown punk! Ha ha ha ha!
I got room on my ps3 for a whole lot more applications!
you probly dont even know what that means & I aint got
no time for you.

Time is money. You keep spending & I'm investing in ps3.
xbox360 is crushed. Soon to pull out of the race. Spin that.

[lewis]

thats awsome.

[stuntman_mike]

has anyone outside the U.S downloaded this??

[Wii60Fan]

No more folding@home? I am confused.

[FURY__UNLEASHED]

Its almost 3:30pm Central Time and I just DL'd it and it's SWEET!

[Pedobear]

This is a big HOAX.

[Squamden]

Why is Folding@home being replaced? It was a really nice little project, and PS3 seemed to have quite an impact.

[Squamden]

Oh nevermind, it looks like Folding@home still runs with Life With PlayStation. Cool.

[PimplePopperMD]

what a useless...thing

[Armyless]

-

[Close_Second]

...Armyless once again has nothing useful to say about the article but just about someone else who has made a comment.

As for Life with Playstation it looks like a nice way of making the Folding for Home application a bit more useful and therefore likely to get CPU time on the PS3. I will be interested to see how New Zealand is represented in terms of headlines and weather.

[Phoenix17]

where is at i live in central US & i entered folding@home & there is no update on there
how did yaw ended up getting it im lost here o_O????

[Wii60Fan]

From the wii it looks like- they already had a weatherglobe.

[aiphanes]

There is a lot in the life with playstation....folding@home running in the background along with the globe and news and weather...only possible in the PS3...all other consoles would choke..

[NanoGeekTech]

just downloaded...2.43 update...no Life with Playstation

[Kassanova07]

This is no longer available as sony was testing it and accidentally released it to the public. At least we know the release is nigh.

[djroberts]

I don't see it.

[ezcex]

Hi guys. I just opened this account so I can let you guys know that it is still up because I am downloading it as I am typing. I have a US account and never downloading F@H. Decided to download today to see if I would get the update for LWP and to my surprise it updated. So it is still up for grabs...for me at least. Time stamp is Sept 17 @ 10:30PM PST

[xdragonelite]

same here was about to go to sleep and let f@h run and then it prompted me to update. guess its up and running now, no mistake this time.

[UltimateIdiot911]

I just grabbed it, and it's absolutely amazing. Earth is so beautiful.

[NipGrip]

Like, officially live and everything! Go grab it by opening Folding.

[ezcex]

I was wondering. Since they use weather channel for the weather, do you guys think that we will be able to enter our address or zipcode to get a better weather forcast closer to where we live. One day right.