PS3 PSP COnnectivity+New Firmware Release this thursday!

The San Diego Comic-Con is slowly becoming an important exhibition location for the video game industry as well - this year, lots of important companies are showing their games and make significant announcements. One of them is Sony, who have been talking quite a bit about the Playstation Portable's future. While none of the things mentioned are particularly surprising, all in all the news should make almost every PSP owner look forward to the next half of 2006.

First of all, Sony announced that the Playstation 3 will ship with features to interact with the PSP. Concrete details about the interaction between the two devices have yet to be revealed but it was said that the PSP will function as a remote control for the PS3. Sega and Nintendo have experimented with handheld-console interconnectivity before, we'll see soon how Sony handles this.

Sony's speaker also mentioned that the new firmware, due on Thursday, July 27th, will include a demo of World Tour Soccer 2, to promote the game's launch. Amongst other new features, the new firmware will add RSS Video feed support to the Web Browser. Sony is also trying to establish more WiFi hotspots to obtain downloadable content and make use of the PSP's WiFi features.

A bit of bad news, Sony announced there are no plans for an improved text-input system, or an external keyboard add-on.

But at least they're trying to beef up the multimedia component of the PSP. Video-out is being worked on, together with a portal to provide downloadable videos. Movie trailers will be heading to UMD, most probably to be packaged alongside other software.
And let's not forget the guys who actually use their PSP for gaming, as Sony wants them to look forward to hits like Ratchet & Clank, Fireteam Bravo 2 and Gangs of London, which are all shaping up nicely to complement the PSP's current range of great titles.

Of course, many of our readers will be wondering how this new firmware will fit in to the current age of Firmware emulation and homebrew. As always, only time will tell.
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Im just hyped up that ps3 wil be able to run linux.
But since psp will be able to be a remote controller for ps3 then ya I guess I like that idea too.

is it safe to assume that the new firmware is going to be 3.0? do you think a new devhook will br released for it?

NICCEEE DUDE i dont know if i wanna update yet tho should i wen it comes ouut ?

is it safe to assume that the new firmware is going to be 3.0? do you think a new devhook will br released for it?

There isnt one for 2.7+ and with that a downgrader either so I highly doubt not anywhere in the near future.

well we just hae to have hope that those programmers can Decrypt the new firmware....

lol heck 600$ better be worth to buy it!!

it will be with all the homebrew that comesz out for it!

well we just hae to have hope that those programmers can Decrypt the new firmware....

Thats what you said abuot the fake 2.7 downgrader practicaly

lol yeah thats what I said about it but still with Dark AleX and frieds behind the wheel we will be there in no time!

We don't need to worry about having to decrypt the firmware, as BOOSTER is working on NAND flash emulation, among other things. Hopefully he will have it by the time of or soon after the release of the new firmware. I wonder if SONY i actually going to release their 3.0, when they do I hope the Dev's and hackers get going and work feverishly, so then us 1.5 users get to play PS1 games! By that time the games will hopefully be available for P2P transfer too . So don't get your hopes down about waiting forever on a firmware decryption, lets just wait patiently for BOOSTER to finish developing. I myself cannot wait until I can play PS1 games on my PSP, the same goes for almost everyone else.

yeah very true lol

Its so awesome how the PS3 is gonna be able to run homebrew now I can finally play some
MAME and arcade games on my tv. Will the psp usb connector able to work?

lol with the power of the PS3 don't be surprised by a XBX360 Emu lol, the roms will be huge tho lol

We don't need to worry about having to decrypt the firmware, as BOOSTER is working on NAND flash emulation, among other things. Hopefully he will have it by the time of or soon after the release of the new firmware. I wonder if SONY i actually going to release their 3.0, when they do I hope the Dev's and hackers get going and work feverishly, so then us 1.5 users get to play PS1 games! By that time the games will hopefully be available for P2P transfer too . So don't get your hopes down about waiting forever on a firmware decryption, lets just wait patiently for BOOSTER to finish developing. I myself cannot wait until I can play PS1 games on my PSP, the same goes for almost everyone else.

3.0 will not come out soon. Thats all I can tell you.
Believe it or not, those pics that devilsadvocate gave out, they were screen shots of the PSX console(in game)
so dont get your hopes up.
They are not going to release it for a while.
IGN doesnt have any news back up on it.