Your eyes don’t deceive you: Sony’s practically decades-old console has acquired a brand new replace. Model 4.93 of the PS3 firmware is now accessible for anybody nonetheless kicking round on the corporate’s decidedly retro house system, although you should not anticipate lots from the replace.
This replace is the most recent in an annual pattern. Annually for the final a number of years, Sony has up to date the PS3 firmware and each time, the system’s patch notes have trotted out the identical line: “This method software program replace improves system efficiency.”
In actuality, the corporate is doing a little bit of upkeep on its beloved console. As others, like Kotaku, have famous, the transfer is a shrewd one on the company’s half, and is a little bit of a double-edged sword for gamers nonetheless getting use out of their PS3s.
For one, it’s probably that these annual patches are updating the PS3’s Blu-ray encryption keys, that are pivotal for the system to have the ability to proceed studying and supporting this disc format that it helped popularize and develop into a normal. In any other case, it would not be capable to play video games or learn the overwhelming majority of films it’s meant to play.
Then again, these updates are additionally meant to curb the work of jailbreakers who modify these techniques to perform in methods they weren’t in any other case constructed for and play video games they won’t have initially supported.
The PS3 is not the one Sony console getting some love of late. The PS5 additionally acquired an replace earlier this week, enhancing PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision) capabilities on the PS5 Professional whereas additionally offering some quality-of-life fixes to all base fashions.