I bought the PS3 last year to use as my DVD/BRD player and have generally been happy with it. I’m not a big gamer and didn’t think I’d be using it for games any time soon (maybe some day) so I tossed the game controller thingy into a box and stashed it away… somewhere. I use the blue-tooth remote to control the PS3.
This morning the device has apparently contacted the mothership and been informed of an important system update. Poking around Sony PS message boards, I find out that this is the 3.21 firmware update that is primarily intended to piss off anyone who doesn’t use Sony’s o/s on the device. Not a big deal for me. I just wanna watch a movie, m’kay?
But now I am looking at the system update message on the screen, which says at the bottom “press the PS button to use the controller”. OK, that’s what I’ll have to do since my game/joystick thingy lives in a box in some undisclosed location within my house. So I grab my bluetooth remote and press the PS button. Nothing happens.
wheels in head start turning
I can’t use the controller until I press the PS button.
The PS button is on the controller.
grasp
There must be a PS button somewhere on the device itself!
searches
Nope. No buttons at all.
I conclude that I must now connect the wired controller in order to press that PS button, in order to be able to use my wireless (i.e.) bluetooth remote control.
Can this be right? The message makes no sense. If the wired controller is the only way to interact with the unit in this system update mode, why even both with a message telling me to press the PS button? Why not just press X to ENTER or O to CANCEL as usual?
I’ll turn the house upside-down and find that wired controller if I must, but I’m hoping there’s another way to just acknowledge this message and get on with my movie (Legion: Heaven will Unleash Hell on Earth!)
I feel like I’m the butt of the old MS Windows joke: ERROR: KEYBOARD MISSING. PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE.