When you acquire your shiny new PS4 last Friday, you were prompted to download system software version 1.50. This present day one update enabled a number of the features that Sony promised will be available at launch, akin to game streaming on Twitch and Blu-ray playback. Now a second software patch is already at the way, but it’s decidedly less impressive.

Sony announced this morning that an update will hit the PS4 today that upgrades the console’s system software to version 1.51. Because the number indicates, it’s a minor update that brings the standard system software stability and “minor refinements to elements of the system UI.”

What refinements will we hope to determine with this update? Sony isn’t saying quite a bit at moment, but it surely does reveal that the system will now “clearly indicate when a user downloads a game and a game patch whilst.” That’s definitely a pleasant little improvement as my day one download of Contrast told me that i used to be downloading the sport twice rather than alerting me that probably the most downloads was merely a patch.

As for other features, like MP3 playback and DLNA support, those are presumably still coming at a later date. Sony has repeatedly said that it excited by the gaming side of factors for launch and may update the console with more media capabilities over the following couple of months. Let’s hope the MP3 playback comes sooner in place of later then as many folks don’t desire to pay for Music Unlimited simply to hearken to our own music while playing games like Need for Speed Rivals or Madden 25.

While we stay up for upcoming updates with some heft, Sony says that you just wont ought to lift a finger to put in the system software update 1.51. The PS4 will download it automatically once it becomes available, despite the fact that the system is in standby mode. While we may never be freed from Sony’s ought to constantly release system updates, the PS4 no less than makes the method more bearable.

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