1.11: Japanese PS3’s get a firmware update
If you managed to get a Japanese PS3 unit (some of us here at QJ did), you’ll notice that you can’t log into the PlayStation Network anymore. Well, you can, but you’d have to do a system update. The image above is a screen capture of the Google Translate of the Official Japanese page.
From what we can gather from the rough translation, they’ve made the “Account Management” feature to the friends section more accessible. However, IGN already has a news post announcing that we should be prepared for the update. This particular paragraph stands out though.
However, there is speculation among PS3 users that the updated fixed something else, since the browser seems to load pages faster, and the actual download itself takes more than a minute to download. We’ve heard of reports of up to 10 minutes for the entire update to fully download, and we experienced a 5 minute wait ourselves. Unfortunately the only documented change was the AMS, so we’ll have to take Sony‘s word on it for now.
The official site has a series of update procedures in it, but so far the most comfortable method it seems would be to use the PS3 “system update.” Anyways we’ll be providing download links to the firmware here if in case you want to install it via USB. Pretty much what we did with Firmware 1.10.
As of this posting we still can’t find a Firmware 1.11 page in the North American section of the official PlayStation site so we’re just going to provide, for now, a link for the Japanese update. As with the 1.10 update, save it into a PS3/UPDATE folder.
Keep checking us back, we’ll update this page if we get any more details on what exactly 1.11 does.
If you managed to get a Japanese PS3 unit (some of us here at QJ did), you’ll notice that you can’t log into the PlayStation Network anymore. Well, you can, but you’d have to do a system update. The image above is a screen capture of the Google Translate of the Official Japanese page.
From what we can gather from the rough translation, they’ve made the “Account Management” feature to the friends section more accessible. However, IGN already has a news post announcing that we should be prepared for the update. This particular paragraph stands out though.
However, there is speculation among PS3 users that the updated fixed something else, since the browser seems to load pages faster, and the actual download itself takes more than a minute to download. We’ve heard of reports of up to 10 minutes for the entire update to fully download, and we experienced a 5 minute wait ourselves. Unfortunately the only documented change was the AMS, so we’ll have to take Sony‘s word on it for now.
The official site has a series of update procedures in it, but so far the most comfortable method it seems would be to use the PS3 “system update.” Anyways we’ll be providing download links to the firmware here if in case you want to install it via USB. Pretty much what we did with Firmware 1.10.
As of this posting we still can’t find a Firmware 1.11 page in the North American section of the official PlayStation site so we’re just going to provide, for now, a link for the Japanese update. As with the 1.10 update, save it into a PS3/UPDATE folder.
Keep checking us back, we’ll update this page if we get any more details on what exactly 1.11 does.
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