The curious incident of the 3.0 UMD?
In the sunny shores of the magical land of Teh Int3rw3bz, a tsunami of pics washed up across various websites about a UMD containing a 3.0 firmware update. It’s everywhere. Surely, you’ve heard about this already, right? Everyone and their grandma’s dog probably has. If you haven’t, then there’s no reason now.
The story goes that a member of YourPSP was sent a copy of this beta UMD firmware update. Sony wanted them to try it out. Supposedly the update supports PSone emulation, .mov, .gif, .wmv, and .flv files. Boy was that a mouthful. Excited? Err, don’t get your hopes up. Ever since February, this “3.0 update” was already rumored about, and quite frankly, debunked with a vengeance. (Somebody named MadSoul even put his foot forward and claimed that he was the one who started this “joke”.)
Why ditch this as a fake, you ask? For one thing, most of Sony’s firmware updates have happened via download. Not through UMDs. Also, it’s not in the nature of Sony to go around getting people to beta test their update. “Mass marketing” a beta test of a firmware update could likewise harvest a “mass bricking” of PSPs (thus, bad PR for Sony).
What with the recent FW2.81 PSP from the Sony factory, all these rumors are already starting to get blown out of proportion. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, ok? We’re just hoping beyond hope that Sony would finally say something about all this and release whatever they have up their sleeve.
Hurry up, Sony! Before more people send in the clowns…
In the sunny shores of the magical land of Teh Int3rw3bz, a tsunami of pics washed up across various websites about a UMD containing a 3.0 firmware update. It’s everywhere. Surely, you’ve heard about this already, right? Everyone and their grandma’s dog probably has. If you haven’t, then there’s no reason now.
The story goes that a member of YourPSP was sent a copy of this beta UMD firmware update. Sony wanted them to try it out. Supposedly the update supports PSone emulation, .mov, .gif, .wmv, and .flv files. Boy was that a mouthful. Excited? Err, don’t get your hopes up. Ever since February, this “3.0 update” was already rumored about, and quite frankly, debunked with a vengeance. (Somebody named MadSoul even put his foot forward and claimed that he was the one who started this “joke”.)
Why ditch this as a fake, you ask? For one thing, most of Sony’s firmware updates have happened via download. Not through UMDs. Also, it’s not in the nature of Sony to go around getting people to beta test their update. “Mass marketing” a beta test of a firmware update could likewise harvest a “mass bricking” of PSPs (thus, bad PR for Sony).
What with the recent FW2.81 PSP from the Sony factory, all these rumors are already starting to get blown out of proportion. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, ok? We’re just hoping beyond hope that Sony would finally say something about all this and release whatever they have up their sleeve.
Hurry up, Sony! Before more people send in the clowns…
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