Sony has mentioned that it nonetheless has loads of “interesting, exciting, fantastic ideas” it needs to convey to the PS5 via future firmware updates.
This comes from SVP of Platform Expertise at Sony Interactive Entertainment, Hideaki Nishino, who mentioned the console’s system software program in a current interview posted to the Official PlayStation Blog.
This month, the PS5's second massive firmware update went reside, introducing some highly-anticipated options like inner storage upgrades and 3D audio help for built-in TV audio system. Even after this, Nishino says, there’s nonetheless “a lot” that the crew needs to do.
A few of the concepts for options to implement come from group suggestions that the crew has obtained because the launch of the PS5 and Nishino says they’ve been “receiving a bunch of feedback from the community through social networks or system telemetry, as well as the media, my family, my friends. We have tons of lists of the feedback”.
However the crew’s learnings will also be traced again via to the PS4, with Nishino explaining, “we learned a lot through PS4 and continue to learn about how players are using the system and how games are behaving. We know what is most accepted and most popular; what features are not used.”
Consequently, that they had “a gigantic list of things before PS5 launch that we wanted to do” and even now, he says, there are ”attention-grabbing, thrilling, unbelievable concepts on the checklist.”
Nishino didn’t reveal any specifics relating to he and his crew’s plans for the long run however between their very own checklist and what the PlayStation group is asking for, he says “there’s a lot.” Nishino guarantees that he's “diligently working on these lists and there will be more coming out in the future.”
Evaluation: what’s coming?
It’s perhaps not fully stunning that Sony nonetheless has a lot that it needs to do with the PS5 given the console solely launched lower than a yr in the past and this month marked its second main firmware update.
The query is, what does it have deliberate? Nicely, Nishino famous that group suggestions is being taken on board, saying “we are not just whiteboarding our desired features. We work for customer needs.” Scrolling down into the feedback beneath the interview provides some indication as to what PS5 gamers are at present in search of, from VRR help, to 1440p monitor help, to help for folders, and more in addition to.
Sony has beforehand mentioned that VRR help will likely be added “after a future system software update”, although there is not an actual timeline for once we ought to count on it. Nishino identified within the interview that updates are "more dynamic now" and that whereas there are main firmware updates, "if you carefully look at the PS5 system, over the network we are changing the UX behavior quite often. Sometimes we do some customization for a certain group of people to see how these features are used." Within the meantime, the current main update has launched a number of long-called-for and much-needed enhancements, with an added slight efficiency increase, too.
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