I don’t know what it was but I just couldn’t sleep last night, you see it felt a bit like it was going to be christmas the next day and something good was awaiting, but it wasn’t the thought of christmas keeping me awake, it was Sony’s firmware 2.40 update.

It has been a long wait to finally get in game XMB and now it is here, however it turns out that this is not going to be the feature everyone is talking about, it’s the trophies that will be causing the biggest stir.

See it seems that I wasn’t the only person who couldn’t sleep last night, at about 5am (GMT) at least ten of the people on my friends list where already playing Super Stardust HD, trying to be the first to get the trophies which are now included in the game. All of a sudden this game (the only one that supports trophies at the moment) is going to be very popular again, and the sales will therefore no doubt recieve a huge boost.

Sony have done a clever thing by introducing this new trophy system, no longer when faced with the choice of buying a multiformat game will achievements win the day, not when Sony has a system which is just as good or in some people eyes better, due to the RPG feel of being able to advance levels.

What Sony need to do now and they are working on it, is to ensure that most new games being released for the system implement the trophy system and as many of the previous games also recieve a patch for it, if they can do this then the Playstation 3 may about to become a lot more popular.