PS3 1.90 Firmware On Its Way

It seems like we were just treated to the 1.80 firmware upgrade, and then the 1.81, and then 1.82, but here we are with 1.90 in our sights. At the time of writing, this update is not available on our shores, but reports are saying that we should be receiving it at “any time”. Some interesting additions include an eject disk option, emotions, CD output to 44.1/88.2/176.4kHz, the ability to change the video settings once in a game, ability to add bookmarks in the browser, new XMB backgrounds and more.

Last month, it was noted that a future firmware update would include further refinement to the upscaling feature of the console, but there hasn’t been a peep out of Sony since. Hopefully that is still in the works and will be seen in 2.0.

Plus, we’re looking forward to doing some serious testing of in-game video quality now that it’s easier to swap settings and you can toggle upsaling. But we’re most excited because this puts us closer to firmware 2.0, which we’re guessing will be announced at Leipzig next month and be a pretty big deal. Look for firmware 1.9 Stateside soon.

Source: Gizmodo