First major PS5 console update lets you store PS5 games on USB extended storage, share gameplay across PS5 and PS4 consoles, and more.
The first major system software update for the PS5 console is rolling out globally tomorrow, and it’s packed with new features and improvements. Our team is passionate about enhancing your experience on PlayStation in every possible way, so here’s a glimpse at what’s coming for PS5, PS4, and PlayStation App:
PS5 Storage Expansion and Management
- Store PS5 Games on Compatible External USB Drives.* With this feature, you can now transfer your PS5 games to USB extended storage from your console’s internal storage. It’s a great way to extend the storage capabilities of your PS5 console, and you can seamlessly copy your PS5 games back to the console’s internal storage when you’re ready to play. It is faster to reinstall PS5 games from USB extended storage than to re-download or copy them from a disc.
- Because PS5 games are designed to take advantage of the console’s ultra high-speed SSD, PS5 titles can’t be played from USB extended storage. PS5 titles also cannot be directly downloaded to USB extended storage. However, games that you transfer or copy back to internal storage will automatically update when applicable. In addition, you can select which game modes you want to install (such as campaign or multiplayer) for select titles that support the option.
- For tips on using USB extended storage on PS5, including storage device requirements, please visit: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5-extended-storage/.
As previously announced, the PS5 console will support storage expansion via M.2 drives in the future. We’re currently working on this feature and will keep you posted with any updates on PlayStation Blog.
New Social Features for PS4 and PS5 Consoles
- Cross-generation Share Play. PS4 and PS5 players can now Share Play together while chatting in parties. This means PS5 console users can let their friends on PS4 consoles view their game screen, or even try out the PS5 games through Share Play, and vice versa. Options include the ability to share your screen with a friend, pass your controller virtually to a friend, or pass a second controller virtually to play co-op games together.
- Request to Join Game Session. A selection of your friends’ joinable game sessions will now appear on both PS5 and PS4 consoles, allowing for more gameplay opportunities together. The “Request to Join” option also serves as a shortcut to sending a game invite, reducing the time it takes for you to get into games with friends. Through the Privacy Settings menu, you can modify who can interact with you through parties, games and messages.
Enhanced Control and Personalization Options for PS5 Consoles
- Improved Game Base. The Game Base menu has been improved for quicker access to important content and features. You can now easily switch between Parties and Friends to start chatting with your existing parties or see what each of your online friends is up to. In addition, you can turn notifications on or off for each of the parties you’re in.
- Disable Game Chat or Adjust Players’ Volume. You can now quickly disable in-game chat, which turns off your mic audio and the voice audio of other players. Additionally, you can easily adjust the individual voice chat volume of other players in the same chat so you don’t have to ask your friends to lower or increase their mic volume each time.
- Game Update Pre-download. Once it’s enabled by developers, title updates for games will pre-download to your console if the “automatic updates” setting is enabled and your console is on or in rest mode. This will let you start playing the latest version of a game immediately after the update’s release.
- Customize Game Library. With the ability to hide games from view, it’s now easier to find content and personalize your view of your game library.
- Screen Zoom. You can now adjust the magnification of the screen to suit your preference from the Settings menu.
- New Trophy Settings and Stats Screen. The level of trophies that results in automatic capture of a screenshot or video clip can now be customized — so you can now choose to only capture and save images/videos of moments when you earn higher-grade trophies, like Gold or Platinum. We’re also introducing a new player Trophy Stats screen, where you can check out the summary of your trophy level and status at a glance.
Image cropped to showcase new Trophy Stats screen
New Features for PlayStation App
We’re also introducing a myriad of new features for PlayStation App to make it easier than ever to connect with your console experience remotely. Recently, we introduced the ability to save products in a wishlist, get notifications when your friends are online, and change your console online status. In the coming weeks, we’ll be rolling out even more, including the ability to join a multiplayer session on PS5 from the app, manage your PS5 console storage, compare trophy collections with friends, and sort and filter products shown in the PlayStation Store. You can download PlayStation App for free from Google Play and the App Store.
We’re only scratching the surface of the many updates and improvements we’ve made across PS5, PS4, and PS App, so check them out and let us know what you think!
*For external USB drive compatibility requirements, visit: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5-extended-storage/.
DEAR SONY PLAYSTATION, I HAVE A WINNING IDEA FOR YOU!
Why don’t you create and invent an App on Ps5 that works like Tamagotchi? It could be as ” MY PS5 TAMAGOTCHY ” As if the PS5 became a being or a virtual animal (up to our choice..) to take care of! And that he interacts with us, and we with him! For example: When we play a video game, it is as if we play with him… He could compliment us when we perform correct and precise actions while we play or compliments when we get a trophy. He could give us game advice while we play, etc, etc … He could support us when we ask for help in voice commands, or to do a search on internet for the solution of the game, etc, etc. In other words, we will no longer ask Ps5, but we will ask our “Ps5 Virtual Friend” This would be a winning idea, which would attract and make happy many children, teenagers, and also adults like us and would create new potential buyers, attracted by the idea and about our virtual friend to take care of!
For example, when the PS5 has a problem or an error, our virtual friend will indicate as if he is sick., etc etc.. Or our virtual friend, could give us some advice of his own volition, such as watching a movie together on Ps video, or maibe he wants to listen to music through Spotify, (so, thanks to this trick, it will increase the sales or subscriptions of the Ps video and / or Spotify) and at the same time we will make ourselves and our virtual friend happy , increasing its “Mood Points” Also, for each new game purchased, it is like we are doing a gift to our virtual animal. (Also increasing in this case, the sales of video games! ) People will almost make it sick, and spend money to make their “PS5 virtual pet” happy! Especially children and teenagers!!! In addition to being able to call up a screen, dedicated to your virtual companion., Where it functions as a real Tamagotchi! Where we can view the image of our friend while moves and devote time to him, playing simple minigames, dedicate to him… Plus caring andocleaning him, feed him, to increase his happiness and mood, etc.. Also we could continue to interact with them on the mobile through the Ps App, when for example Ps5 is turned off or we are not at home., and identically, he could do with us, both on Ps5 and on mobile., sending notifications when he needs something! In case of our friend’s low mood, because we didn’t care too much, he would no longer interact with us, not giving us advice and any compliments in our favor, etc, etc, Things don’t end here, this would be just a taste, I have many other ideas about ours “Ps5 tamagotchi” which it could do improving the app and features over time… You could create and invent everything, but writing it is too long and complicated to explain… It will be an app and technology that will have to grow and improve over time, because it will have to act as a true friend! Will have also to recognize our favorite games, our difficulty level and if necessary ask us which level we prefer, etc etc. Knowing our favorite game genres, and notify us (by appearing with an animated icon) that there are discounted games that might be right for us… or if we have forgotten to redeem the free games on the PS plus, etc, etc. Or If we haven’t played PS5 for a long time, it might get angry and sad, and it might remind us to go back to play or use the PS5! Or when we have a birthday, let us know and give us a wagging of his tail for the good wishes!
Another example, If the ps5 gets too hot and the fans are spinning very hard and it is too hot, our virtual friend could tell us that he has a fever or it is sick!!! And in addition we will be able to socialize our console puppy with other Ps5 of our friends! In addition, find him face to face on Virtual Reality, where we can caress him or interact through the move and the camera… Take him with the vr in open spaces to make him do the needs like poop and pee, etc etc. (This would also help the sales of the VR) because everyone would become attached to their Ps5 Animal! In a nutshell he will be our helper, advisor and company… ❤❤❤ In order to use extra features for our virtual pet, everything must be connected to the PS plus, which would further push sales and make Ps plus more sense.
Ps5 owners, will no longer see the console as an object, but will learn to see it as a living being, to interact with and care for! All this by implementing a simple App directly on Ps5 and also on the mobile phone. I am writing this on all Sony Playstation contacts as Email, Facebook, Twitter, etc, etc. Hoping someone will listen to me and read my comment. Hope you ll consider my idea, that if used well and better, it will give a big profits!
Best regards
I like this idea so will it be like google assistant and siri because if so this is a great idea