PS4 3.50 Update is out, brings Remote Play support for PC and new social features
As announced, the latest PS4 Firmware, version 3.50, is now out. Those of you lucky enough to be on a 1.76 Firmware should of course probably not update. For the rest of us, firmware 3.50 actually brings some interesting features.
PS4 3.50 Update – Remote Play
To me the most awaited improvement is of course the support for PS4 Remote Play on PC. This support actually has some limitations compared to the work done in the unofficial client by Twisted89, but it’s free and officially supported, so no doubt that many of us will go that route (note: a free version of Twisted’s app now exists as of March this year). Sony’s official announcement say:
Remote Play on PC / Mac is compatible with the following system software:
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10 or later
- OS X 10.10
- OS X 10.11
You’ll be able to select from the following resolution and frame rate options, depending on your Internet bandwidth.
- Resolution options: 360p, 540p, 720p (Default: 540p)
- Frame rate : Standard (30fps), High (60fps) (Default: Standard)
You can use one DualShock 4 as the controller for Remote Play, which needs to be connected to your PC / Mac via a USB cable.
It will be interesting to see how the unofficial Remote Play client compares to the official one, in terms of performance and features. If we get to this, we’ll document it in our PS4 Remote Play page. Maybe such a comparison could be a cool guide for one of you as part of our tutorial contest? 😉
You can download the official Sony PS4 Remote Play client here.
PS4 3.50 Update – Social features
Other big changes in PS4 3.50 include a bunch of social-related features, such as the long awaited option to appear offline, a “Friend online” notification option, a User scheduled event mechanism to schedule gameplay sessions with friends, and a “Play together” screen to make it easy for you to see what your friends are playing, and join their games.
Hey, a pretty exciting update overall.
PS4 Firmware 3.50 should be made automatically available and installed to your Ps4 the next time you turn it on, assuming you are online.
What are your thoughts on this latest 3.50 PS4 Firmware? Excited? Disappointed?
Where on Earth is all of the PS Vita news at? Anyway, I think it’s time to continue and finish the NULLDC builds for the PSP because we all know Dreamcast on PSP is possible.
But for real, what happened…
Disappointed. No Windows 7.
What low firmwares exploits does it fix?
What? There weren’t any aside from that “it’s all for 1.76!” thing? Oh, silly me.
I have to improve my stability.
Pointless and uesless update for me, and yet im still forced to download this ***.
It’s a good update if you use online social functionality a lot. I sure don’t. I would have loved ps2 bc… hopefully they release something for the loner demographic soon 🙂
Sucks to be you
and vita OFW 3.60
have they brought back NTFS and Ext format support? I know NTFS was working till I updated to play batman arkham knight.
As far as I know it was never supported. You sure you don’t have two partitions, one fat32 one ntfs?
Dead sure, i always format new flash drives and externals to ntfs and it worked out of the box. Unfortunately I don’t know what version i was running at the time. I updated to version 2.xx and lost support, will check what was available last year November. Ps my device is now 2 versions behind.
I think it was 1.76 and I’m currently on 2.50
update or don’t update wololo?
google ps4 3.50 issues and problems then decide
Looks like Brazilian method patched
Its great! little bit of lag but won’t affect your gameplay unless you are playing highly competitive games
So all of this is sums up to be just a catch up, to what steam supports for years now?
Steam: Remote play… check (steam link or remote desktop…)
Steam: Appear offline… check
Steam: Friend online / friend playing notification… check
Steam: Watch your friends game… check
Steam: Join game… check
Steam: Win XP to Win XX support / Mac 10.7 / Linux Ubuntu,….
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what about official rppc on x64 ? or is that only a limitation for xp x64 and beyond x64 except win8 and win 10 x64 ?.?
Still no usb music…
What are you on about?? usb music has been on the ps4 ever since they added “media player”
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How long do you think it’ll be before someone manages to get pc/keyboard, DS3, X360, and XONE controller support for the PC Remote Play?
I will say, while DS4 is always preferred, it would be much more convenient to be able to access my PS4 from pretty much anywhere, and play with my friends anywhere, regardless of the controller options they have, and yet we would still be able to play most games together.
Especially DS3, I mean, it’s already supported with the PSTV, so why not. The only problems I’ve ever had with Remote Play are when it involves the touchpad in any form. Although if it was on a laptop, that touchpad pretty much solves that little problem. Heck, even a desktop mouse would do the basic trick.