PS3 2.70 firmware Released

***wraggster*** · April 2nd, 2009, 07:40

Sony's just released the details for its upcoming PlayStation 3 2.70 firmware update, and while it's nothing that'll knock your socks off, they are some goodies here to look forward to. Additions include text chat for letting you make the best of that new Wireless Keypad -- or some other physical / on-screen keyboard -- with up to fifteen online friends and / or three chat rooms, in-game or out. Speaking of online friends, those can now be sorted by online status to see who most recently logged on, and the file attachment size cap has been upped from 1MB to 3MB. Additionally, you can now back up your PS Store video purchases to an external drive and restore later for playback, and similarly your PSP video purchases can now be transferred to PS3 for a larger-screen experience. No word on the release date for now, but in the meantime, check out video demonstration after the break.

Update: Well that was fast. Firmware's available now, let us know what you think.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/p...-video-backup/

**Mc_Logical** · April 2nd, 2009, 13:42

As with any ps3 update, people from that source page in the comments complaining! why? I think its a good update, and people wanting .mkv support? Uh! Duh! that will open up more piracy, which is probably the reas6n sony won't, posting on my nokia N95! What a pain lol

**Ultima Chocochu** · April 2nd, 2009, 23:43

Tons of people complained about it lol, I was like...This is free, so why be so angry or whine?
It just puts us a step closer to cross-game voice-chatting if you ask me so sheesh, people are annoying X]