PS3 Standby Downloading

me227 · 20 Mar 2008 at 23:44

Just a quick question. I've seen people mention that their PS3 downloads on standby. Mine doesn't seem to. Just left it this evening on standby and it hasn't downloaded anything more.

I'm thinking standby is when you pretty much turn off the console bar the switch at the back. So does the PS3 download on standby or not? And if so are there any extra options I need to enable for this?

Memphis · 20 Mar 2008 at 23:45

Hmm, either I've totally missed something, or the PS3 can't download in standby.

me227 · 20 Mar 2008 at 23:49

Memphis said:
Hmm, either I've totally missed something, or the PS3 can't download in standby.

Yeah, I originally looked online to see if it could be done and seen many a random sights with people saying theirs did. So now i'm confused. Looks like i'll have to wait longer for that demo.

Inazuma · 20 Mar 2008 at 23:55

As far as I know, it doesn't download in standby. Same as a computer really.

Memphis · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:10

me227 said:
Yeah, I originally looked online to see if it could be done and seen many a random sights with people saying theirs did. So now i'm confused. Looks like i'll have to wait longer for that demo.

I mean, the 360 goes into a low power mode, then switches off while downloading, so I really can't understand why the PS3 can't do the same. With a future firmware update maybe it will.

Puzzled · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:33

Memphis said:
I mean, the 360 goes into a low power mode, then switches off while downloading, so I really can't understand why the PS3 can't do the same. With a future firmware update maybe it will.

Does it?

On mine the screen just goes dark, and the controller turns off. The console itself is on as normal.

Tobes · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:44

MonkeyMan said:
Does it?

On mine the screen just goes dark, and the controller turns off. The console itself is on as normal.

GPU switches off which results in fans spinning down. The power light should flash on the front of the 360. Pretty handy but mine keeps on downloading the crappy arcade games so might have to switch off auto download.

Salsa · 21 Mar 2008 at 03:50

PS3 can be made to go into low power state rather than standby/off where it turns everything off but keeps the WLAN/LAN active. Is used for remote startup with the PSP. Perhaps it has something to do with that? Havent tested it though as i havent used my PS3 for anything except Bluray for quite a while.

Wrathamon · 21 Mar 2008 at 10:42

MonkeyMan said:
Does it?

On mine the screen just goes dark, and the controller turns off. The console itself is on as normal.

You have to enable the standby downloading in one of the system blades, then when you switch off the 360 it'll go into that mode if it is currently downloading anything. The front power light will flash when it's in this mode.

Sounds like you are just leaving the 360 and the screen diming kicks in after a while and not actually switching the 360 off by either the front power button, or via the controller menu.