Background patching on the way to PS3?

The ability to patch a game in the background is on the way to PlayStation 3, if an unnamed source of TSA’s is to be believed.

Normally, when a developer patches a PlayStation 3 game, you’ll start it up only to be greeted with a screen prompting you to download an update where after you will then have to sit and watch that update download. Some patches are big and take long to download, as well.

With this, you’d be able to grab patches for games that you’re not playing in the background as you play another game or do something else on your PS3. Very convenient.

We’ll keep you updated on this. For now, consider it a rumor.