Stupid Question. Do I need to update to 3.01 to play Tekken or God of war collection?

[Rike255]

3.01 works fine. 3.00 had minor compatibility issues (with Uncharted) but nothing big. Don't worry about updating, you'll be fine.

[AutomaticDriver]

Originally Posted by Rike255

3.01 works fine. 3.00 had minor compatibility issues (with Uncharted) but nothing big. Don't worry about updating, you'll be fine.

Your not having any problems with 3.01? Blu rays, games, etc. work fine? None of it stops or freezes or has trouble reading blu rays?

[Skunkster]

I had to update to play CoD:MW2. No problems.

[Rike255]

Originally Posted by TheFatalPhenom

Your not having any problems with 3.01? Blu rays, games, etc. work fine? None of it stops or freezes or has trouble reading blu rays?

Nope none. Like I said, 3.00 had a minor compatibility issue with Uncharted, which was fixed in 3.01. All the talk about hardware failures due to firmware are false and/or coincidence.
Every time a firmware update is released there are a number of topics about how "FW X.XX killed my BD Drive" or whatever. If anything *actually* happened, their system just coincidentally broke after the update, NOT because of it. People's systems break all the time, with 26+ million consoles sold to-date it is logical that on any given day a number of systems will break, even at 1% failure rate (don't know the actual number).

EDIT: I should mention, this trend seems to have begun after firmware 1.40 (I think), where there was a small chance of peoples consoles "bricking" from the FW. This was confirmed by Sony, only affected a small percentage of consoles, and wasn't a hardware problem. After that though, maybe people became paranoid?

[jono_0101]

exactly, a FW update is not going to cause your hardware to fail, some had software freezing issues, but those have all been corrected, there shouldnt be any trouble updating to the newest firmware. OP, dont listen to anyone saying that it crashed their PS3, its either a coincidence or BS

[androvsky]

Originally Posted by Rike255

EDIT: I should mention, this trend seems to have begun after firmware 1.40 (I think), where there was a small chance of peoples consoles "bricking" from the FW. This was confirmed by Sony, only affected a small percentage of consoles, and wasn't a hardware problem. After that though, maybe people became paranoid?

It was 2.40. Like you said, it didn't actually brick any console, but it did prevent a few from booting until the hard drive was reformatted. My understanding is that newer firmwares have extra restore options now to help prevent that kind of problem in the future.

[Rike255]

Originally Posted by androvsky

It was 2.40. Like you said, it didn't actually brick any console, but it did prevent a few from booting until the hard drive was reformatted. My understanding is that newer firmwares have extra restore options now to help prevent that kind of problem in the future.

Yep that's true, good point!