The PS3 2.70 Firmware update has just gone live. Amongst its many super-amazing new features is text chat. Truly next generation stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Full list of additions:

Friends list on the XMB

• Sort your friends via their online status
• Attach larger files to the messages you send to your friends (file size will increase from 1MB to 3MB)

Video delivery on PlayStation Store

• Video files you’ve purchased from the PlayStation Store can be backed up to an external storage device and then restored to PS3’s internal hard drive for playback – so you can clear up space on your hard drive and then restore the video anytime in the future
• Videos you’ve purchased for PSP (PlayStation Portable) system can now be transferred to PS3 for playback

Along with releasing PSP Firmware 5.00 details details, Sony have also released information on the next firmware update for the PS3.

Addition include support for the PS3 Official Bluetooth Headset, improvements to the Trophies interface and friend status screen, video scene search, and the uber cool addition of screenshot-capturing.

Full details after the cut.

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Sony has just released details for the next PSP firmware update, 5.00, and this one comes with a very significant and frankly well overdue addition; a PlayStation Store with the PSP.

The PSP has always been a very functional little device; access to the PlayStation Store on the PSP will finally give gamers the means to directly download official content for the machine onto their handheld, including demos, themes, and game videos.

Best of all, you will be able to buy first pary Sony titles directly from the store and download them to your SD card, which is great if you’re having trouble finding them in your local game store… or you’ll simply too lazy to go and get it.

Confirmed titles that will be available for digital dowloading include Bleach Soul Carnival, Ratchet and Clank, Patapon 2, LocoRoco 2, Remote Detective, Diamond and the Sound of a Gunshot, Sarugetchu Piposaru Senki, and Resistance Retribution. No prices have yet been revealed.

The penned released date for the Firmware Update is “soon”, so make of that what you will.

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According to a tipster at PS3 Fanboy, FW 2.50 and Home v1.0 is due to be released sometime next month (fixing a network connection issue in Home v0.98).

According to CVG, this may not be the only update in the upcoming firmware update. Their source alleges that it will include the ability to take screen captures. Some games, such as Metal Gear Solid 4, allow the player to take lo-res screenshots from the game’s camera.

It is unknown if they will go on the HD of the PS3, or uploaded to a online server where you can show off your screenshots.

It is important to note that in the last couple PSP 3.x firmwares, Sony began including the building blocks for a screen-capture option (much like how the PlayStation emulator appeared in some of later 2.x firmwares). So Sony may be planning on rolling out this feature on both systems in the same timeframe (since the PSP-3000 is launching next month).