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June Update: PlayStation 6 and PlayStation Portable future visions

 The recent PlayStation video about the "simulated" technology in development, discussed between AMD and Sony engineers that will power the PlayStation 6 was interesting from a geek point of view. But from a gameplay perspective, there is - IMO - no need for a PlayStation 6 for another few years. Especially with the limp Xbox is-it-isn't-it launch .  June 2026 Update : The latest snippet of gossip for Sony's next-gen systems is a modular/external drive that will connect to both devices. Allowing installation on the portable of physical games, and reducing the cost of the PS6 by making the Blu-ray an accessory (like the PS5 Slim).  I prefer the idea of a dedicated dock on the PS6 that connects the next Portable to your entire PSN library, and they'd better make it work as an extra controller, but I'm sure there are practical benefits to the extra drive.   That should also boost sales of PS4 and PS5 physical games, especially on the second-hand market, as folk...

Firmware update 3.30 up and running, no themes though

Ahh, Sony giveth, Sony don't giveth. They give us the firmware update, moving us a couple of notches up the number ladder to 3.30. Then they don't provide any new themes for the major feature of the update, rendering it pretty useless, I mean, really Sony, how hard can it be to coordinate these things?

UPDATE: Late on a Friday night, the themes are finally up on the EU PSN store! The free crystal and stitch themes at any rate, at just a 5MB download each.

Additional features include adding Friends to events, checking trophy rarity and some PlayStation TV stuff, including the ability to use other-region accounts on the Japanese model for those early adopters. There's also a new version of Content Manager Assistant, also up to 3.3.0 if you need to copy data off to your PC - still slow as hell backing up!

Japan has some free and premium (330 yen) themes out and coming, with western themes coming soon! PSN has been reported as unexpectedly down today, perhaps the sheer weight of these new themes is causing problems! Hopefully we'll be able to make our own, too!



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