Thursday 3 October 2013

4.50 CFW/Jailbreak Firmware released

As usual it was only a matter of days (for some probably just hours) before they started to see PS3 Jailbreak 4.50 downloaded on their favorite PS3 news sites.  It seems this update seems to be mainly concerned with trasfering data to and from a PS Vita handheld.  But it seems even this minor update is not going to pass without at leat a minor glitch.  Within hours of OFW 4.50 going public Sony released a hurried statement on their website
We have mistakenly announced in our PS3 system software update 4.50 blog post one feature that is currently unavailable, “Data can be transferred from PS3 to PC Vita using Wi-Fi and ethernet connection.”

This feature will become available when the latest system software update for the PS Vita system, currently under development, becomes available.The system software update timing is yet to be decided but we will announce when it is ready.

It also says that the data can be transferred via ethernet connection which is not supported on the PS Vita system. This is referring to the PS Vita TV system which will become available in Japan later this year and in Asia in January 2014.
We apologize for the confusion and appreciate your understanding.
So it seems if you are looking forward to this feature you will have to wait a little longer until the Vita firmware is released.  But what of the other features this new update brings?  Well there is now a function to hide some of your trophies from online friends.  Who would user or indeed why they would use this feature is a mystery though.  Surely the whole point of the trophy system is to show them off?
To be fair the other inclusion in this update is quite nice.  Now all PSN users have access to automatic downloads in the same way Plus users have had for quite some time.

I wont post the links to the ps3 jailbreak download site here as they were already in the previous post here