An anonymous source was just nice enough to provide what appear to be a few screenshots from Sony’s new PS4 2.50 firmware that’s set to be launching “soon.” Sony have already officially talked about some of the new features that are on the way but the screens show a few of them in action.
For starters, we get a closer look at the new accessibility menu, and it appears we’ll even be able to paste this set of options on to the screen you see when you hold down the home button on the controller. We also get to take a look at what is now a slightly cleaner share menu, what the option for deleting trophies looks like, and how to access suspend/resume, as well as what it looks like when you resume from standby. Also, it appears the PlayStation Store icon has been moved to the dynamic menu.
Of course, these aren’t official so feel free to take them with the smallest grain of salt you can find.
Tony Cawley
They look official enough to me but I really can’t understand what that first screen is showing, what part of the ui is that?
Matt Wingler
I think that’s what you see when you resume a game from standby. It takes you right into the game and briefly shows the UI you see. Or at least that’s my guess.
Tienpawa
What I don’t like is that they took off the PS Store off the top menu and made it an app. Hopefully it doesn’t end up like it did in the PS3
Kennykazey
Yeah, that’s not a good idea. Why would they do that?
CrawFail
The store looks like it’s at the left side of the social bollocks dashboard thing so it might be a static icon.
Hopefully anyway!
Still doesn’t look like we can add folders which is so bloody irritating. The Library is an absolute mess of a system.
While you’re at it, Sony. Fix my Downloaded list on the PS3 and Vita. Theres no order to it at all.
Youles
I prefer the Store up the top, but if it’s going to stay along the bottom, I hope it’s static so you don’t have to go searching for it!
Regarding the PS3/Vita download list, Sony did say over a year ago they were thinking of sorting or adding a search function to your own download list (since some items don’t appear in a Store search), but since the PS4 is now well over a year old, I doubt we’ll see this. Bloody annoying since I have over 3,000 items in that list so searching can be an utter twat.
beeje13
Being pedantic, it was already an app :O
But I know what you mean, and I think I prefer it on the top menu.
TSBonyman
Yeah, the Store icon moving from the top doesn’t thrill me either. It’ll be stuck alongside What’s New premanently because Sony won’t want it shuffling off into your library.
It just adds to the inconsistency of the app/game area imo.
Two icons, What’s New and the Store in fixed position, then 13/14 icons which will shuffle about depending on when last used, including the TV apps which can apparently have their own folder despite folders not being available and which don’t follow the same ‘last-used’ ordering system that the main row uses, ntm all the icons for apps i will never use or install, then a ‘Library’ folder which shows you all of your content, including what is already on the main screen and all the stuff you deleted, and gives you no way of sorting demos from plus content from purchased games etc.
My ideal would be two folders on the main screen, one for apps and the other for games, each with user-assigned subfolders and the option to pin any subfolder/app/game to the main page.
beeje13
If you want to verify the images, people have recently discovered how to download it themselves using a loophole. Itime involves using a proxy to redirect the ps4’s search for an update to go to an external site that tells your ps4 that it can download 2.50 beta.
I can see Sony wanting to patch that out pretty quickly.
suli559
i was able to do it myself, it was such an amazing OS, the time it takes it to go from sleep mode into the game was maybe less than 5 seconds, but the reason i said it “was” amazing is because it bricked my system, corrupted my harddisk because of too many failed attempts to install it…. but all in all its an amazing OS and cant wait for the official one
MrYd
Good to see Sony getting quite serious with all those accessibility options. Not something I need, but it’s very important for some people. There might have been a better typeface they could have chosen though. I can see one potentially less than ideal aspect of that choice, but on the other hand, what I know about how to make text the most readable may well have suddenly become wrong in the past 3 minutes.
But it’s a good start for them.
TSBonyman
There’s an 8 min video floating about of someone going through all the accessibility settings one by one and i think there were between 6 and 8 different fonts available, the colour inversion and zoom will probably help additionally in those cases too.
MrYd
Yes, the dark background with white text thing probably helps some people a lot. (Which is weird, because for most people that’s really not a good option. I’m sure everyone’s come across a website that thinks a black background is a good idea. Which it isn’t after about 1 paragraph of text)
And it’s good if they’ve a choice of font. The one in those screenshots is probably less than ideal for some people. Very short descenders on the letter p. I think that might especially be a problem if you’re dyslexic.
It’s a complicated issue with lots of research (which doesn’t always prove anything one way or the other – like serifs or not). A lot more complicated than “make the text bigger”. But it really is good to see Sony making the effort there. Not an issue for me (currently) but making those changes doesn’t affect me either way.
It’s one area where gaming has traditionally not had a great record, especially not compared to businesses that might have a more obvious legal requirement for accessibility.