Facebook arrives on PS3 – TODAY!

Yup Firmware 3.1 drops sometime today.

You have to imagine that Microsoft are thinking WTF at the moment.  Each new item they drop to their Dashboard Sony seems to bring out the same pretty soon after.  So in this latest round of “Me Too!” we see Facebook app added to the XMB and the integration of Twitter in to system notifications.  This basically means if you win a trophy, complete a game etc then it will automatically update your Twitter feed with this information – provided it has been added by the game developers that is (think of it as like the YouTube support added in past updates).  You have to imagine this is part of the reason PSN went down for maintenance last week (that and to stop the network breaking with all the MW2 demand), so we will see what happens later today.  I would imagine it will be like the Xbox 360 app, loaded once and then left untouched.

Sony’s own Eric Lempel had this to say earlier today when confirming the release :-

“I’ll just say that it’s been in the works for quite some time.  It’s never been easy to just integrate new content into the PlayStation Network. We’ve had this planned for a while now.”

{UPDATE} Check here for more information and screens now that the Official EU PS Blog has posted up their coverage.

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