Life With PlayStation is really live, really
by Andrew Yoon 
{ Sep 18th 2008 at 2:03AM }
At last.
Life With PlayStation was leaked yesterday, but now it's officially available to download. Simply go to Network -> Folding@Home. You'll be prompted to download two update files. Once you're done, Folding@Home will be replaced on your XMB with Life With PlayStation. Don't worry -- you can still cure cancer. But now you'll be able to check the news, listen to music, and research the weather all from one app.
[Thanks, Random1448!]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
toppdogg @ Sep 18th 2008 2:09AM
downloading now...first post...maybe
defpoet1790 @ Sep 18th 2008 2:09AM
woo! finally been waiting for this.
Remix @ Sep 18th 2008 2:09AM
You can no longer access folding at home through remote play tho. Hope this is fixed soon
Tom @ Sep 18th 2008 12:53PM
The help said something about Remote Play working, or do you mean just folding@home and not the LIVE app?
toppdogg @ Sep 18th 2008 2:10AM
ok second...fail
NipGrip @ Sep 18th 2008 2:14AM
Grabbing this now!
(Also grabbed Haze today from GameFly: https://www.gamefly.com/member/buy.asp?tp=b&p=122415
Did I make a mistake? I hope not.. )
Maverick Saturn @ Sep 18th 2008 6:55AM
Was about to say you made a mistake, then I saw price and figured, maybe its not so bad. Still not sure whether its worth even THAT price. Anyway, play for yourself and see, form your own opinion on it :)
NipGrip @ Sep 18th 2008 2:09PM
Yeah :D
It was only $20 after tax so I figured it *should* be able to deliver that much entertainment in some form.
I didn't mind the demo and didn't think it was as bad as it was made out to be. I'm also working on collecting the exclusives so eh.. We'll see. :D
toppdogg @ Sep 18th 2008 9:14AM
So what i'm really waiting for is trophies for folding...i mean seriously can you imagine the trophy for curing cancer...that would be one to brag about...f#$% platinum that for losers...trophy for cancer cured...i'm waiting...titanium bitches
DeforMAKulizer @ Sep 18th 2008 2:22AM
OMG!!! MY EYES DONT FAIL ME!!!! =D
toppdogg @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:00PM
Ok so i'm waiting on the trophies for life with playstation...can you imagine the trophy for "cancer cured"...thats gotta be better than platinum...i will be the first...thats one to brag about
chimaera2008 @ Sep 18th 2008 2:48AM
I was actually trying to cure cancer tonight while I sleep, thought two consecutive updates was strange, then I got the "replaced by Life with Playstation" memo, then came here to make sure I wasn't dreaming.
Tyba @ Sep 18th 2008 9:14AM
I'm going to assume that the new firmware I'm dl'ing now has something to with this as well.
chimaera2008 @ Sep 18th 2008 10:23AM
The new firmware fixed major issues with the Japanese PSN store and I have no idea what it really did for us in the U.S.
Popfrogs @ Sep 18th 2008 7:20PM
Yeah the latest firmware wasn't intended for the world market, just for Japan to fix store bugs.
I installed it a few days ago hoping it was a patch for the Bluetooth headset problems. Guess I'll keep waiting like usual.
Peter @ Sep 18th 2008 9:14AM
Is it me ... or is this not nearly as useful as the Wii one?
I mean, the Wii one gives me local weather, not the weather in the capital, and doesn't just use web browser.
It seems a bit ... crap.
Tim Parsons @ Sep 18th 2008 10:15AM
if your in the middle of nowhere like me it wouldnt matter the closest weather i can get is Toronto, Canada that goes for the Wii and Life with Playstation,
gotta agree on the usefull part because the Wii one you can cycle through what info about the weather you get whereas with this all you see is temp and a pic representing the current weather, but considering I have TheweatherNetwork installed on my comp anyway i only have to make one simple click in the icon in the Tray and I got all the info i need , i find neither usefull in that respect
Tom @ Sep 18th 2008 1:10PM
I'm in Milwaukee and I have to go off of Chicago weather. They didn't even bother doing my states capital (Madison) which would be just as useless.
Version 1, though. Mainly I want text zooming.
Ian @ Sep 18th 2008 3:36AM
It looks very slick, well presented and the nice touch being that whilst viewing the 'LIVE' channel, Folding@Home is still running. The screensaver has also taken a slight upgrade.
Two points for improvement -
1. A slightly fiddly thing is that when you select your area on the world map and then click on the news items, there's no zoom. So even on today's large LCDs it's still a little tricky to read the detail.
2. It would be cool to be able to filter the new news channels so that instead of getting banking news (I'm depressed!) I can feed sports news through the LIVE channel for my region.
rich_jammer @ Sep 18th 2008 3:38AM
They say Life with PlayStation is a rip-off of the Wii weather and news channel. But the Wii doesn't help cure cancer.
Peter @ Sep 18th 2008 4:20AM
I wish it was a cancer-curing, HD, rip off of the Wii version.
Devin @ Sep 18th 2008 10:59AM
Wii Weather isn't HD. Doesn't have up-to-the-minute news. No cloud formations. No custom music. No curing cancer.
I would like to ask them what other way could Sony have made this app NOT be like Wii Weather in some fashion or form?
Remix @ Sep 18th 2008 3:38AM
Nevermind, spoke too soon. After I reset remote play works fine with the new Life With Playstation, very pleased with this. Good job Sony, keep up the great work.
Rahul @ Sep 18th 2008 3:43AM
This is a really good feature, but i think you should be able to access f@h separately as well.. that would solve remote play problems as well..
Chris @ Sep 18th 2008 8:28AM
Automatically powering down your ps3 has disappeared
Sony, this needs to be added ASAP!!!
uh-oh polio @ Sep 18th 2008 8:38AM
what are you talking about? no it hasnt.
tung lashor @ Sep 18th 2008 8:42AM
On the Folding@Home channel press Triangle then select Current Channel -> Settings -> Automatic Shutdown
mutleymcladd @ Sep 18th 2008 4:18AM
Nice.
Do agree need to be able to zoom in the browser window as i can not read Sh*t on my 42" too small.
Would also be nice to 'filter' channels to sport , gaming etc as mentioned.
interesting concept if they feel to expand on this. some ideas
-Channel for game release date, each capital could give a list of games comming in the near future.
-PSN / home type channel for tournements etc
-PSN numbers, give details on the number of people online in each counrty, most popular game etc?
-everyones going to mention this but if it could be linked to google earth / multimap is some way
Echnaton @ Sep 18th 2008 4:30PM
It's a nice start, but sony needs to do fix some details
- you can't even read the news on a 46" flat
- why only english news ?
- switzerland is small but well ... we've got the black holed cern, forgot that ?
- remote play is very nice, but pointless, as you cant read the news
- what about weather forecast, i can look out the window the see what the weather's doing ;-)
- what about a rss-feedreader ?
but after all a nice start, the devs just need some time ...
Jonathan @ Sep 18th 2008 4:19AM
No trophies? WHAT?!?!? No trophies = No buy!!! Freakin lazy developers, is it so hard to put in trophies for this? Sheesh.
devilmaker @ Sep 18th 2008 5:02AM
Are you serious?!
dantrimble07 @ Sep 18th 2008 9:19PM
lol I hope you didn't buy it. If you did you got screwed, because its free!!
Phantom @ Sep 18th 2008 7:55AM
It not a game , and it's for free .
Justin @ Sep 18th 2008 8:23AM
I think you guys missed the joke.
heypaul @ Sep 18th 2008 1:28PM
Whoa, you guys see that thing flying right over your heads?
TJ @ Sep 20th 2008 11:31PM
Well, you can't really put trophies for the Life channel. Whats the trophy going to be? Bronze: Read over 25 news articles. Also, you could have trophies for the Folding @ Home channel but you can really only have 3. One trophy each for a certain amount of protein folds completed (for example: 50 completed=Bronze, 100=Silver, 250=Gold). Other than that, there arent too many trophies to give. But yes, it is funny that you thought of buying the app. lol
Steve Childs @ Sep 18th 2008 4:26AM
Are the cloud images real-time? It should be possible for them to do that now, as you can get a Google Maps overlay for clouds. OK, its not real-time, but its usually only a few hours old.
Looks good though, will have to download it.
Kspraydad @ Sep 18th 2008 1:55PM
Yes...the clouds are 'real time'...
From official blog: "live cloud movement courtesy of the University of Wisconsin"
Evi1d33d @ Sep 18th 2008 4:28AM
It's kinda hard on the eyes when you are looking at a dark globe and then a bright white page pops up. Black background with white text would work better.
Vince UK @ Sep 18th 2008 3:06PM
Bang on Evi1d33d.
I can hear my irises contracting, it's almost painful.
uh-oh polio @ Sep 18th 2008 4:51AM
is it just me, or does the music that plays, really, REALLY relaxing whilst browsing around the earth reading all the bad news.?
uh-oh polio @ Sep 18th 2008 4:54AM
on another note,this should be able to zoom all the way in like google earth.
With a flight sim incorporated in as well.
Maff @ Sep 18th 2008 9:14AM
looks crap, only has London for England, Scotland & Wales, nothing that happens in London affects or bothers me and the weather is never the same, what's the point?
ryan @ Sep 18th 2008 5:03AM
Man, with this and Home, i'll never have to use TV, telephone, internet, ipod or any other media device ever again!
Thank you PS3 for giving us what we already use and condensing it to one single outlet! you are a 'Life' saver!
Archon @ Sep 18th 2008 5:39AM
Good luck with carrying your PS3 in your pocket just as you do with your iPod!
themizarkshow @ Sep 18th 2008 5:44AM
thats what the psp is for Archon. duh.
themizarkshow @ Sep 18th 2008 5:32AM
I actually had to update to firmware 2.43 for the update prompt to show up. Maybe it wasn't just for the Japanese afterall?
pocon @ Sep 18th 2008 5:37AM
just hold down square button to choose f@h or lwp.
Ves @ Sep 18th 2008 5:32AM
It's like I thought, once it slipped out they had no other chance.
mike @ Sep 18th 2008 5:44AM
and burnout paradise bike update is out. woo hoo!