Last week Sony released a video explaining what the Share Play was, and how it would work once it released on the PS4. Today the company has released another video this time showing how the other inclusions of firmware 2.0 will work, including the USB Media Player, Youtube uploads, and the improvements to the broadcasting options. One of the main additions in broadcasting will allow you to follow streamers, and see their archived footage as well as have them on the Featured broadcasts tab when they’re live. You can also select a specific game to see streams for.
The video also has a quick look at themes, which will be downloadable fro the PlayStation store, and also the fact that you will now also be able to pause downloads. The party system will also seem some improvements with less clutter on the screen, and the in chat menu now appearing on the right hand side of the screen. There will also be new voice commands to navigate the console too.
Firmware 2.0 will release tomorrow, October 28th.
Source: Youtube
Pixel_nme
Thank you Sony my wish of being able to pause downloads for people on super slow broadband came true ;),looks like a rather nice update.
2ofclubs
Still no inclusion of friend notifications yet? I hope they sneak it in there but I get the feeling it might not be coming yet.
Bornindafire
I really don’t like how Sony is treating ps4 customers … they should have waited another yr to release the Ps4
Pixel_nme
I bought mine to play games like all my consoles and that was a feature day one :),anything else is a bonus.
tonyyeb
Yup totally agree. Sony sold it as a games console unlike MS with the Xbox One. It already plays games exceptionally well. When buying a PS4 I knew what it could and couldn’t do. If I wanted it to do what the Xbox One does then I would have bought that.
I buy the best gadget to do the job needed, not buy one out of brand loyalty or other reasons and then hope they update it to do the job I need it for.
Bornindafire
Really its sad this system has been out 11 months n change n still has to be updated to support music playback n USB support….
The dollar is toooooo powerful in this day n age …our voices meant something in the past now its just about money money money $$$$$$$
bunimomike
Welcome to a consumer society. Probably best to get used to it. :-)
Andrew
Finally the option to pause downloads. I’m very surprised that it continues to download files while playing games online causing lag. Looks like there’s some really great updates. Looking forward to it.
MrYd
The update is there. It’s 218MB, which shouldn’t take long to download, no matter how slow your internet connection is.
Quick first impressions…
You can now have everything in one of 8 colours. That’s 8 colours you probably won’t like. I’ve now got mine yet to a “should probably see a doctor about that” type of yellow.
Plug in a USB stick and the music player pops up. It’s fairly basic, but then it doesn’t need to do much, does it? It plays music. And then vanishes once you unplug your device.
You’ll want to check the settings, especially the power options. If you’ve got the PS4 set to provide USB power in standby mode, it now only provides power for 3 hours by default. I’ve always got a USB cable hanging out of the PS4 to provide handy power for charging things, which it might not do now (until you change that setting).
The 15 items it displays (to stop you having to scroll sideways for a week) includes the “Live from PlayStation” and “TV & Video” icons. And for some reason “Music Unlimited” and “Video Unlimited” have popped up there for me too. So that’s only space for 11 games. But there’s an option to show them all (useful if the PSN goes down and the library stops working)
Themes and the YouTube app aren’t anywhere to be found.
Why do I get the feeling there’s a lot more to this update than they’re letting on? Has it done some groundwork for more features later? Will new features come quicker now?
tonyyeb
As I understand it there is no “YouTube app” yet. You can now share game footage via YouTube. Apparently the rumour to answer your last two questions is yes and yes but Sony have said ‘updates will not be as frequent but will contain plenty of improvements as suggested by customers’.
MrYd
There’s a YouTube app in the store now.
tonyyeb
Oh well that is a bonus I wasn’t aware of. Cheers for the heads up.