A minor system was released from sony for the playstion 3 taking it to version 4.40. This update address only a couple of things, the first being unspecified stabilitby improvements (hopefully something to do with the reason why my PS3 crashes when playing Call of Duty so much recently) and the second is adding support for NFC (near field communication). NFC is currently the technology that is being used in order to pay for good on your credit / debit card by simply passing the card in the area of the card reader. It is currently limited to £20 and this maybe a new way to purchase items in the playstation store or in game purchases, We will wait and see. It was rumoured that this technology would be introduced in the PS4 so its possible thats its going to be trialed on the PS3 first on maybe a few parts of the store and then fully released with the new model later in the year.