Sony adds facebook to PS3, fails

I think most of you can still remember that it was a reasonably big deal when Microsoft announced that facebook will launch on Xbox 360 at this year’s E3. 1 day after that became available, Sony quietly released their facebook implementation, which clearly shows why Sony has been so mum about this: It is a total train-wreck, a literal waste of everyone’s time and (Sony’s) money.

Instead of doing the smart thing, and adding Photos, Videos and a Live Feed into the XMB, Sony decided that all the console does is mini-blog anything of note you do on the PS3: buy items on the PSN Store, publish what Trophies you have earned and inform the world about certain actions you have performed in game.

In order to actually look at facebook, you will still have to use the PS3’s built in browser — which is a far cry from awful, but not exactly the smoothest implementation yet.

Firmware 3.10, which includes the facebook implementation, launches today adding a few other features not really of note. Watch Eric Lempel give you a guide after the break, courtesy of the PlayStation.blog.

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