Sony already confirmed the new features that will be coming in the Sony PS3 Firmware 2.40. Today Sony published a video demonstrating in-game XMB access that will be coming in 2.40. Update: Now Sony has also published a video demoing the Trophy system. See it below.

The video shows how you can look at email or change settings while you are inside a running game.

The XMB menu is access by pressing the PS button.
One nice feature that is coming is that you can play your own music while playing a game in case you hate the game's sound track.

Sony will publish soon a video of the Trophy system.
See the video of the new PS3 firmware 2.40 features below. See also the Firmware 2.40 details Sony just released.





Via the Sony Playstation blog.