Official Plastation 3 update v3.60 available 10th March '11

[DejaVu]

Tonight millions might have noticed the Playstation Network has been down for maintenance.

It has been announced that straight after the maintenance, v3.60 will be available to download and required to gain access to PSN.

Expect Playstation Update v3.60 to be ready for download 10th March 2011.

Online Storage Available To PlayStation Plus Members From Tomorrow



In response to overwhelming demand from the PS3 community, we are pleased to announce that Online Storage for Game Saves will be available to PlayStation Plus members from tomorrow, 10 March, allowing you to store your game saves for peace of mind and easy access from any PlayStation 3 system in the world.

After downloading PS3 System Software Update 3.60, Plus members will have access to 150MB of space and will be able to store up to 1000 PS3 game saves.

To do so, simply highlight the game save you want to store in the [Saved Data Utility (PS3)], press the triangle button to bring up the options, select “copy” and then select “Online Storage” as the destination. In turn, you can access your Online Storage list via [Saved Data Utility (PS3)] when signed into PlayStation Network on a friend’s PS3 and download your stored game saves to carry on your game from where you left off.

If the developer has chosen to implement copy protection on their game saves, you can still copy those files to Online Storage but there will be a 24 hour period, after each save, before you can then download them on any PS3.

If your PlayStation Plus subscription expires then you will no longer be able to access Online Storage until you renew your subscription. However, any game saves stored will be kept for six months and you will be able to access them as before when you renew the subscription, as long as you do so within that six month period.

Hopefully that tells you everything you need to know about this new, much requested service. If you do need any more information, the official PlayStation forums have posted a guide, and ask us in the comments as always.

Source - Playstation Blog


So now I guess we sit back and wait to see if Sony have filled the holes... for good?

Online Storage for Playstation Plus (Paid members) only is the main advertised reason for this update, but we all know a whole lot more is coming with this.


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Can a Mod please fix the retarded typo in the thread name please. Ta

[ant3b]

Sounds interesting but this would take ages to upload all saves..

also might of fixed my problem with the HDD upgrade grr lol

[gurry]

So now I guess we sit back and wait to see if Sony have filled the holes... for good?

Doing a quick bit of reading it would appear they have for now however reports are that it is still possible to gain access to PSN on "older" firmwares which is odd to say the least.......

[DejaVu]

Doing a quick bit of reading it would appear they have for now however reports are that it is still possible to gain access to PSN on "older" firmwares which is odd to say the least.......

Not really. I believe its a trap.
Giving themselves time to monitor access so the Ban Hammer will be an effective one!

[gurry]

Not really. I believe its a trap.
Giving themselves time to monitor access so the Ban Hammer will be an effective one!

Hmmm. I would have assumed they have been doing this since 3.56 so why bother after 3.60 unless they can't monitor properly at all.....

[EvilBoB]

If only I had friends that had PS3s this might be useful... but I don't - they all have 360s

Still it's a nice feature and kudos to Sony for implementing it.

Shame they haven't got it working so you can automatically save to the online server though. Seems you have to manually copy the saves up to it.

Still nothing exciting for me that would tempt me into PSN+

[coficont]

Having problems updating with this, it reaches about 50% then i get an error message (8008011 or something similar), anyone else had this problem?

[DejaVu]

Download it manually from Playstations site - put it on USB in folder /PS3/UPDATE/ and run it from there.

If you continue to have problems you may have problems with your Hard Drive and it might need to be formatted. Doing so will lose everything.

[baronvon]

still on 3.41 for obvious reasons

THE BARON

[ant3b]

Download it manually from Playstations site - put it on USB in folder /PS3/UPDATE/ and run it from there.

If you continue to have problems you may have problems with your Hard Drive and it might need to be formatted. Doing so will lose everything.

Be carefull with this I had the same problem and it wiped and could not update the firmware due to firmware 3.56v1 problems.