Upcoming Playstation 4 Firmware 2.50 – Its changes and new features!
Note: we’re getting in the middle of a flame war for not properly quoting Neogaf as our source. Our source is *not* Neogaf, and is different than the one that’s been circulating on mainstream sites, and we have other screenshots, that we promised not to publish to protect our source. If anything, our source’s screenshots confirm what originated from Neogaf.
The next firmware for the Playstation 4 is already being tested by some trusty testers, and offers some neat new features, that no one actually asked for.
The upcoming Playstation 4 firmware is going to be firmware 2.50. The new system software 2.50 will be a mandatory firmware, required for accessing the online services offered by Sony.
Version 2.50 will also require the PS Vita and PSV TV to update to a newer mandatory firmware, one which is higher than 3.36 (3.35 in the changelog, but we all know what that means), to use the various remote play functions between PS4 FW 2.50 and the portable devices.
But what does the PS4 firmware 2.50 offer (next to the usual system stability improvement)? Well…
It does neither offer DLNA, nor does it offer local MP3 playback. Sorry, then 90s called and wanted their features back. How sad. But who wants those lame features, if they can have the following ultra kewl features?!
It pretty much offers 2 new main features, and a few other smaller ones (available in the linked source).
The first new feature will be some Accessibility. Various zooming related functions and the ability of button assignment will be present as of firmware 2.50.
The second, more important, feature will be an improvement to the stand-by mode. The new stand-by mode does not enforce you to terminate running applications anymore, and pretty much allows you to re-enter those suspended applications.
It is worth to mention that these changes are already present in the preview version of the PS4 system software 2.50.
But keep in mind that those preview versions can not be used to restore the PS4 system. If you have to fully restore your system, then you will have to wait for a newer (or the very same) publicly available firmware (2.50 public, opposed to 2.50 preview), which can then be used to recover the system.
Due to legal reasons, I am not going to link directly to some juicy photos of the firmware 2.50 changelog, but I am so kind to tell you that the linked source might have what you are looking for.
Source wishes to remain anonymous (also via KingX.de)
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Dang it! I i came here too early.
It’s just typical isn’t it. They ignore everyone asking for features and add some other features that are not wanted or needed that nobody asked for.
I do like the suspend current app on sleep and restore when you turn on again but it’s still no DLNA playback which I guess is on the top of everyone’s wish list.
PS4 supports local MP3 playback via USB. DLNA still hasn’t arrived though.
>local
>via USB
Not what I meant, and not what people actually want from Sony.
via USB playback IS local playback. and i said nothing about what people actually want. Yes people want DLNA, yes i want DLNA.
O_o wow…more useless features…and i don’t like suspended application, but it niffy when i have to temporary shut it down when i have to leave and not want to worry about starting it up when i come back
“The 90s called and wanted to features back”lol
Seriously though, my wife will enjoy this feature she left the PS four on so she could continue in Lego marvel superheroes
i am just done with sony after they banned my PS4, PS3 and Vita in one shot i dont want to deal with them anymore
Why?
They never ban without warning. You either have a cfw PS3 or you *** someone off by calling them racial slurs. They send an email warning, so you did something bad.
no email what so ever i had to call them
It’s an account ban, right? I can’t imagine how would one manage to get 3 console bans simultaneously. Did you call them? What did they say?
Go physical-only (preferably used if you don’t want to pay them a single cent anymore).
account plus system banned. sony said i was modding and exploding on the PS4
Well, were you?… Wait, on PS4?! Did you mess with your PS4 – butthere is no hacking for PS4 yet, is there?. also, exploding = exploiting?
sorry for the bad spelling error. but yes that what sony told me and i even said there is ZERO hacks for the system. they even said its not your account anymore its gone.
boooring,no stability improvement
“It does neither offer DLNA, nor does it offer local MP3 playback. Sorry, then 90s called and wanted their features back. How sad. But who wants those lame features[…]”
Z, do you actually own a PS4? If you actually searched the web you would see millions upon millions of pages of people asking for this as well as video, photo and music playback via internal or external HDD. Heck, even having external HDD support would be a good start…. It’s good to see they are doing something with Rest Mode and button assignment (whatever this does) but Sony are seriously slacking. Sony = quick to promote their products to potential customers but are in a snail race when it comes to actually listening to customers…
Your sarcasm detector is turned off it seems
clearly
Nope. Just thought I would have a little rage xD
I’d say they had some kind of deal with plex, hulu, netflix amazon… someone at this point. Sony hears people… sees this site and most intresting threads. For whatever reason it is that we do not have these functions, it is behind closed doors. Mabey video unlimited is yeilding profits and as that is rare these days, its too crucial to stay in the green during cooperate meetings. Point is, I gave up on this. If it happens eventually, great…. but it obviously wont come when we want.
I’m still waiting for the day you can change what the effing power button does… Change it from put console to sleep to actually do what a power buttons supposed to do and turn it off…
I am sorry to NOT burst your bubble but SONY has ceased to invest in consumers’ needs, wants, pleasure or productivity while trying to persuade the consumers that need only those cheap stuff they offer. Common sense is also absent from their Feature List too 😛 However, in the end, the buyers are the only ones left to get the blame because they keep supporting SONY while the company shamelessly keeps on staying cheap, dysfunctional and minimal in its products.
Well, no one asked for it, but the suspend app was just one of the features that was promised and never delivered. I can’t remember if it was during the E3 or before, but I’m glad they finally remembered the PS4 was supposed to do that.