Anyone looking to burn up a bit of time today doing nothing particularly constructive can download a ‘non mandatory’ firmware update for their PS3. Your PS3 won’t prompt you to get this update, so you’ll need to check for it manually using the menus, a homing pigeon and a copy of the Daily Mail.
Once updated (which still takes far too long) the system software, now running at a spritely 3.73, does little above and beyond what the last update did – “stability during use of certain PS3 format software has been improved” is the official, rather nondescript company line.

Of course, while we’re hoping that this secretly means cross game chat, a revamped Store, Firefox browser and a brand new XMB chances are it’s just a couple of bug-fixes for existing games, with others suggesting that it fixes some issues with dual PSN sign-ins.

Go on, have a look. If you can find anything lovely that our tired, biting sarcasm didn’t pick up, let us know and you might look all smug, like. Somebody has to.

Posted: Oct 18, 2011 8:19 am

Source: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/10/18/sony-dumps-non-mandatory-3-73-ps3-update/