When you receive a notification that you’ve received a message or friend request, you should be able to press the PS button while the notification is showing to go straight to the message.


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PS Button – Auto Read Message Upon Notification
Idea 222 | Posted in Hardware, PS3 by TheManick | March 17, 2010
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potatoboy8 | June 4th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
guest i ment
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austinite04 | June 7th, 2011 at 4:17 am
if u want auto message reading get a xbox. problem solved, NEXT!
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Darvious | June 11th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Greater Ideia!!!
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FAB426 | June 16th, 2011 at 3:09 am
this is a good idea
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stungaf | June 17th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
great idea
same with chat rooms. if you get a chat message in game or a friend request or whatever.
make the ps button go to the most recent notification
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Maxpower1096 | June 19th, 2011 at 7:46 am
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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Maxpower1096 | June 19th, 2011 at 7:47 am
@austinite04
bite your tongue!!!!!!!!
lol jk
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phantom2k88 | June 25th, 2011 at 9:24 am
people people,i have an idea.everyone go onto the playstation.blog and send am email to the customer service.if we have enough people complaining and demanding the things we want, then eventually we will get them. i sent a message to sony the other day about why we haven’t got any of the top requested features, plus why sony continually chooses to ignore us. this was the reply i got ‘we appreciate your enthusiasm and continued support for our playstation family line of products. as you may have guessed, sony computer entertainment america,llc (scea) receives great suggestions from our consumers, as well as from our own employees, and employees of our affiliates, on a daily basis,’ are they trying to insult my intelligence?if they regularly receive great ideas then why hasn’t none of those so called ‘great ideas’ been implemented?
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ericLBP | June 26th, 2011 at 7:03 am
I have been thinking of this for a long time now! It is such a good idea because sometimes people just send one word messages and it takes a long time to pause your gameplay, open up the playstation button, go to your message box, and read the message just for one message.
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h-m-h-ksa | July 2nd, 2011 at 3:24 am
just like the Xbox
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jakebearz | July 6th, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Thats how it works on Xbox. Why not ps3?
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wrodriguez1 | July 13th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Yeah this idea da best!!! I hate playing MW2 and getting killed while i read messages.
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darkaria2 | July 18th, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Great idea the people who put a down on this is probably people from xbox and they are scared that ps3 will over run them I say up this then in the future they will add it
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AllHope1sGone | July 19th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
I like this idea…. idk why Sony isn’t putting things like this in. Are there really that many copyright issues or do they not want to?
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rdmof6 | July 20th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
The XMB takes a long time to load whether you’re playing a game or not. I don’t understand this because the XMB is the simplest interface ever. And this idea is convienent
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lAllanl7 | July 20th, 2011 at 5:33 pm
This feature is on the Xbox 360 and it is pretty nice and handy feature. I would love to see it on the PS3.
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e-satt | July 21st, 2011 at 10:39 am
I agree man when im playing mag and when i recive a message i press ps and then i get shot it sucks playstation should do somthing about it.
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e-satt | July 21st, 2011 at 10:41 am
xbox sucks
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mgoad20 | August 2nd, 2011 at 1:38 pm
just press the home button and it automatic goes to the message
this would be perfect
i hate going through the xmb it take a while to
load
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alonzo4 | August 5th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
yeah you should do that so it can be much faster
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bren92 | August 12th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Out of all the top suggestions on this site, this has to be the easiest to implement, why not just add this and make it the firs idea off the first page to be added, since trophy auto sync doesn’t count.
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LittleBigWarfare | August 18th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
This would be really helpful.
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jimboiscool1 | August 20th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
YES! Great idea.
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jimboiscool1 | August 20th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
@austinite04 But xbox sucks… and the on-screen keyboard is abc… not qwerty so PS3 is easier to type on. (my bud has xbox I don’t)
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AarOn_Iza_SnipEr | August 22nd, 2011 at 2:58 pm
@austinite04
I’m not trying to be an azz or anything, but I hate it when people try to refer you to something else when they would like an option the competition has to offer. I have a 360, but the games aren’t anything I can’t play on my ps3, and I’m not a Halo, or gears of war fan.
So I decide to stay on my ps3. I would like some of the features my 360 does to also be on the ps3. The XMB is extremely slow, and I would love to have this feature, instead of waiting 15-20 seconds for the xmb to load, then wait another 8 seconds just to go in my inbox for the messages to show up. PSN was a spur the moment thing…extremely tacked on. 5 years into psn’s life span it still doesn’t have the basics of other online services…….just saying bro.
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Klentsz | August 25th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Shouldn’t this be in ideas in action?
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kdawg_4 | August 29th, 2011 at 11:00 am
2 thumbs up…this is innovation!
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materclobber | August 29th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
sony will probbably make a big update when playstation vita comes out, we’ll see.
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materclobber | August 29th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
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materclobber | August 29th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
sony needs to get on blog share and make it happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 PLEASE!!! Wimpers*
XD
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jakster643 | September 4th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
and trophies too
all the thing related when you have a notification
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XX_DEATHSTORM_XX | September 8th, 2011 at 9:39 am
can somebody tell charleswblum9 that switched over to xbox? i miss my ps3, it was in a housefire, my friend gave me his xbox… once i get enough money again, i will come back 2 ps3
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eseehchcnerf | September 9th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Amazing idea
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XPIayStationGodX | September 10th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
yh i agree, i hate waiting for the menu to load, then messages load and the message itself. make it happen bro. +1
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xxThe_Fuhrer-xx | October 20th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Couldn’t agree any better. I had a 360 for a couple of years and now I have a PS3. Having this auto read message will be awesome cause it does take a while to load the XMB
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mitcho2013 | October 22nd, 2011 at 11:35 pm
This isn’t really a problem for me, since i just wait til I can pause the game or finish the multiplayer game to read it.
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Twilight947 | October 31st, 2011 at 8:50 am
This is an amazing idea I would love if Sony does this. I would find it very useful and helpful for me.
Long Live Play!
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LazyShady | November 14th, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Im guessing the Down votes are xbox fans, cuss i dont see a reason why there shouldnt be this feature.
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baucom95 | November 15th, 2011 at 12:56 pm
i agree 100%
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soulless94 | November 15th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
this is a reasonable idea, but also of course the option to turn this feature off if we decide it annoys us (not sure why i mention that as it would make sense, but just making sure about it)
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DualShock73 | November 24th, 2011 at 5:38 am
Yep, one of the most convenient ideas Sony could implement with this generation of the PSN.
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BeatTrixs | November 28th, 2011 at 10:49 pm
I think is there should be a option to turn it on and off. Because I wouldn’t want that
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Sangetsu-II | December 14th, 2011 at 4:16 pm
They should add this, It would make reading a message that you just received so much easier while in-game.
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ZeroUnderOne | December 23rd, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Man… why hasn’t this happened yet?
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samuelthekiller | December 25th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
yea and that u need to 2x tap the ps button
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nomad_77_ | January 1st, 2012 at 4:13 am
Yeah, the current interface os time consuming and can really take away from a game. This would be really cool.
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Kyle_9100 | January 15th, 2012 at 10:37 am
I dont see why they cant do it. XMB does take a really really really realy really really really painfully long time to load
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deadkyo | January 30th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
I’m really hoping for this to be implemented soon.
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IceColdKilla44 | February 4th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Almost 2 years later and it’s still not implemented? Come on, Sony…
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KeNtUkYs_WiLdCaT | February 23rd, 2012 at 9:36 pm
yes it is annoying to hit the ps button and wait for the xmb to load but i have games that just hitting the ps button wont pause it which have this auto feature would be a big pain
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