NextGN.com: 11 Things I Wish to Get on the Next Playstation 3 Firmware Upgrade

Here are 11 things we are probably NOT going to get on the next firmware update, but would sure love to get…

1. Background Copying/Installing/Downloading
2. MKV, SRT, SUB Support
3. Video Store Open for Everyone
4. Screen Capture Feature
5. Surf the Web While I'm In a Game
6. Ability to Create Folders
7. Background Folding@Home
8. Ability to Invite Friends for Online Gaming
9. More Countries in Life With Playstation
10. Faster Trophies Servers
11. Why do we need the View All

Each item on the list is discussed in this article.

[meepmoopmeep]

i would like a sleep timer

k,thnx

[iHEARTboobs]

Me too. I want my PS3 to sleep after i download and install something while i'm sleeping.

Oh and if it had my coffee ready in the morning when i awoke that'd be great. haha ;)

[meepmoopmeep]

nah, the PS3 can't make coffee.

only the 360 can produce that much heat and MS has a patent for that.

:)

[Ateanboy]

No question about it... The author of this garbage is an imbecile.

1. Background downloading already exists.

2. Support for MKV, SRT, and SUB will most likely NEVER be implemented. Those formats are nowhere near mainstream enough for them to want to waste their time implementing it. Although, I must agree, support for MKV WOULD be nice... But, there's always 'PS3 Video 9' to convert those MKVs into MP4s. Which is what I do.

3. I'm not sure what he meant by that... Maybe he meant "open for all regions"??? Either way. No comment.

4. A "Screen Capture Feature" has already been implemented. It's up to the developers if they want to use it. The game "Flow" has a screen capture feature.

5. Again, you can already have a web-browser in games, it's up to the developers if they want to add it.

6. We already have the ability to arrange media into folders. It already exists.

7. Background Folding@home??? ......Are you serious? There is NO chance of that EVER happening... Lol. I'm still baffled this was even part of the list... Background Folding@home????? Lol...

8. Game Invites. Finally, the first good request on the wish list... I agree, Cross-Game Invites are probably the only thing missing from the PS3s features... And I am almost POSITIVE that it'll all come very soon. PlayStation Home will be only the beginning.

9. More countries in 'Life with PlayStation'? Yea, I'd be nice, and I'm almost definite that they're working on it as we speak.

10. Faster Trophy Servers? Yes. The problem is when people have 40+ trophies, that's when it starts taking more than 5 seconds to show up. "Faster trophy servers" WOULD be greatly appreciated.

11. Why do we need the "View All"???? Perhaps you should investigate for yourself. I, for one, use "View All" almost daily. Imma let you figure this one out by yourself. The greatest method to learning, is hands-on exploration. Go. Do it.

As a side note, if #4 and #5 he meant that he would like those features added to the XMB so that you could hit the PS button in a game and access the web browser, i am almost certain they will NEVER add this.

[SPECTRUX]

You can arrange stuff in folders already. Press triangle on a file, go to information, and type in a name for "Album." Put the same name on other files albums, and they will be arranged in a folder under that title.

[Frulond]

just select file the use triangle and then click on information, then on album type whatever you want and the system will create a folder with that name including the file/game/whatever

could be more simple tho, but PS3 already has it

this can be done for images, games/demos and music

all others are good and i'd love better flash version for internet browsing and MORE memory, hate when i get "the page can't be displayed / memory full" or something like that... to be honest i dont browse the web much on it anyways

[Stryfeno2]

WTF! That feature is last gen.

[shadowghost752]

PS3 does support game invites for the majority of games.

You mean last-gen as in DVD-9?

[King_many_layers]

that would about folding seems a little ridiculous to me, I thought that folding pretty much uses the cell completely to process the data ( something like that I believe ?? )

[shadowghost752]

Yes it does

[shadowghost752]

5. Surfing the web while i am in a game. What is the point of that, do people not know how to pause a game and wander over to their PC and go on the internet from there?

2. Video store open for everyone. This is inpractical and silly, Sony cannot do it now because they have to get a wide variety of LOCAL content for each company and then pass approval in each country, for Europe that is around 50 countries. Some people are impatient

[Peow]

About your surfing web while in the game thing, you have a few factors to consider.

1. Laziness. Before I got a computer in my room, the only computer we had was down 2 flights of stairs and on the other side of the house(a very very big house) from my room. To find one little thing, quickly, on the internet and have to go that far is annoying. I used to be exhausted all the time from running back and forth.

2. What if(for some odd reason) the person has no internet capable computer, or its a younger kid or something and the parents have a password set on the only available computer?

I think that pretty much covers it.

[Brixxer600]

Number 4 would be quite cool, for a while, then the novelty would probably wear off.

[Bren86]

Yes we can create folders...just about but we need to create sub folders also.

Everything on the list I agree on specially with the background installs and the friends invite features.

[PS3ROCKS]

ok

[LevDog]

Im super happy with what Ps3 offers right now.. After In game XMB.. Im content.. Anything else is just an added bones..

[NewSchoolGamer]

want custom soundtracks

[enjoi187]

Ability to Invite Friends for Online Gaming lol that should be number 1.....and it should of had it to begin with

[Panthers]

Its amazing how far these lists have come. Sony really listens.

I would like in game XMB to be a bit faster and smoother but that is about it. The PS3 already does everything I need. In game chat would be nice too, but that is because I dont have a keyboard hooked up to my PS3.

[PirateThom]

Doesn't the console already do background downloading, only stopping when you play online?

[godmoney]

Not when you are downloading Themes and Games Updates

[PirateThom]

Themes take a few moments and even 360 doesn't allow you to background download updates.

[godmoney]

I don't want to wait those 10-20 seconds...
And why do I have to wait while downloading an update for Rocket Man (it asked me to download an update when I was testing the demo - crappy game)

[Ryangp]

I would love that imagen all the killzone 2 videos and littlebigplanet videos everyone could make it would be amazing especially for clan matches aswell it could bring alot of people to the ps3

[meepmoopmeep]

yeah, like they do for PixelJunk Eden.
i wish it was a platform feature and not game specific.

screenshots & video capture would rock.

[schmeidenkamp]

Screen capturing would give me a chub!

[Ryangp]

NO.1 ON MY LIST IT WOULD BE AMAZING

[LevDog]

Actually Now that I think about it.. I would like a Clan friends list.. That would cool.. Maybe even to clan transfers from game to game.. Ex. Your a clan in WarHawk.. and alot of your Clanmates get Socom.. The PSN will reconize all your friends that now have Socom.. and will add them to your clan on Socom from Warhawk.. Cut down on sending clan invites from game to game all the time..

[TwelveGauge-GT]

Google Earth on Life With Playstation!!

[Skynetone]

Custom sound tracks / and a few links to radio stations
A sleep timer and a custom sountrack alarm clock
Screen Capture Feature / video capture

[pwnsause]

if theres anything that the PS3/PSN needs as a priority its Cross game invites and Cross game Chat via a Microphone.

[juuken]

The XMB could be faster and smoother like LevDog said. I'm not too fond with the surfing the web while I'm gaming thing but it would be cool if Sony could implement something that allows you to do it.

Either way I'm satisfied with my PS3.

[strotee]

1. Download/install demos, then auto shut off the console once done (much like firmware updates).
2. Turn off controller when watching videos/DVDs.
3. Ability to copy the AVCHD emulator (and ROMs) to the hard drive, as opposed to needing to use a thumb drive.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

I totally agree.

[jlytle1234]

1. Background Copying/Installing/Downloading
i assume its done to keep from another process corrupting the copying and installing. I assume it can be done.
2. MKV, SRT, SUB Support
.divx has sub support. mkv is not a licensed codec which means piracy to companies. also try using tversity to stream stuff. it streams subs. but mostly your problem is mkv being open source.
3. Video Store Open for Everyone
for every country you have to make another contract to the rights of movies and shows. that takes time. be patient.
4. Screen Capture Feature
can be done. dont really care.
5. Surf the Web While I'm In a Game
i would like this as well. very resource intensive butbased on life with playstation having access to a browser, this might be able to be done.
6. Ability to Create Folders
yes. folders within folders. psp too. my music takes forever to get from acdc to zz top.
7. Background Folding@Home
all resources are being used to play your games. this isnt necessary.
8. Ability to Invite Friends for Online Gaming
yeah this needs to be taken care of within the xmb instead of within the games themselves. much needed.
9. More Countries in Life With Playstation
it just came out. give it time.
10. Faster Trophies Servers
i imagine its a work in progress.
11. Why do we need the View All
because some morons try to run a video file in the music section and wonder why it wont work. so sony makes it so you can only see what can be run in that particular section of the xmb.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

I agree with each one of those.

By "Create A Folder", he didn't mean re-naming them. He wants a better file organizing system, like with a PC or Mac.

[xaviertooth]

i want my PS3 the ability to RRoD!

[Toixer]

Yeah, a sleep timer! Maybe a timer, which either turns off the system or switches to folding@home automatically.

[LevDog]

They do have a auto start for folding.. Its like 10-30 min.. once you go into sleep mode.. Folding will turn on

[KiddyBrownTurd]

...Functionality up to what 360 had at launch a whole year before ps3 launched.

father, forgive these poooooooor droids, for they know not what they don't have.

[Final_Rpg]

How many of these damn lists are going to be made. They all list the same features. It got redundant after the second list.