PS3 OS Wasn't Final at TGS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 9, 2006 @10:19AM from the doing-the-update-dance dept.

LifesBlood writes "The PlayStation 3 operating system used at the Tokyo Game Show was apparently not final. Sony confirmed to GameDaily BIZ that the company has been in the process of finalizing it and that just like the Wii's OS, it will be upgradeable in the future." From the article: "We were told that this should not affect PS3 production whatsoever. Moreover, SCEA does not believe that the state of the OS at TGS had anything to do with the system resets or other glitches that some witnessed. Sony reiterated that it was the confined cases and other unfriendly trade show conditions that caused problems with the consoles. In addition, Sony said it has the capability to upgrade the PS3's OS after the console launches through its online network, memory stick files or Blu-ray discs."

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Good news to me. by dannycim · 2006-10-09 21:14 · Score: 2, Informative

I expect the upgrades are going to work just like those on PSP. Select the Update option on the crossbar, hit OK, wait for download to finish, click OK, machine reboots, and you're done. Very simple, very monolithic so even your grandmother can deal with it. No questions about drivers or libraries, it just works.

As far as the games coming out while the OS isn't set in stone, don't worry. Typically games come with all the software they need to drive the hardware directly, so they interact with the OS firmware very little. On PS3, I think they'll just plug-in into the firmware API through standardized calls for networking stuff, like chatting and other online services.