7 features we hope to see in PS4 firmware 4.0

GameFans: "A new PS4 update is on the way so we've come up with a list of what we want to see."

[USMC_POLICE]

I agree with everything on this list!!! Folders is a must especially with all the digital games and a 2tb drive. I lose games in the shuffle.

[badboyz09]

•Copy and paste
•Friend Management ( for example a custom comment to let you know how you met that friend or what game we played)
•Bigger party chat!!!
•Folders
•Bring Back What games we played (The feature that showed if your friends own that game)

[sinspirit]

I want to hide items more than anything. I have so many old betas that I don't need to see launchers for.

[NukaCola]

Yes! Or how the YouTube download advertisement is at the top next to NBA and other stuff I don't use in the TV section but the actual YouTube app is the last thing there.

[LOOK_AT_THIS_I]

Folders,the PS3 style keyboard layout, and for the love of god a quick controller power off option like it was on PS3.

Controller stays on for longer than the 10 minutes I have set when watching vue/Hulu/etc... Powers off when it wants.

[KeeseToast]

You can shut off the controller by holding down the PS button until it turns off

[LOOK_AT_THIS_I]

@keese

Thanks. Always brought the screen up but didn't turn off, just figured it was problems with apps. Guess I just needed to hold a bit longer. Thx again.

[jwk94]

Glad to see you agree!

[destroyerz1]

#Folders
#Two-Step verification
#Pinning Games
#Friend Sorting
#Custom Backgrounds and music
#External hard drive support
#Change Your PSN Username (once every six or three months at least)
#No more LEVEL 100 cap
#Better multitasking
#Option to disable DS4 light bar definitely
#Option to disable gameplay recording definitely
#Full information of "total time played" in every game
#Party limit to 12

[OpenGL]

I agree with most but custom music already works via USB and DLNA using the media player app, it just needs to be improved. Not sure why you want to disable gameplay recording, it's a feature that uses hardware that is not used by games and would never be used by games.

[senorfartcushion]

*Checks watch*

[DarkZane]

Two-Step verification is apparently on its way.

I hope the thing works on even older ios versions because all I have is an ipod touch 3g. If you're planning for this, don't leave people with older mobile devices out. FF14 authenticator and Battle.net authenticator both work on old mobile devices.

Or at least, have Two-Step verification via email as well.

[dragonaught007]

Backwards compatibility.

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

Here, have new games

- Sony

[uptownsoul]

@sleepless_gamer - "so we shouldn't be playing demon's souls, uc3, resistance, gt5 anymore?????"

Nobody's saying don't play them anymore. Just fire up your PS3 & play them. Sony should focus all their attention & engineering power on the 8th generation.

[uptownsoul]

@Yww3xff -- "Yeah but to be fair, PS4 games are so bad that I would rather play last gen consoles. I did the math and Sony's average Metascore for it's "exclusives" for this year was a 68.1"

Wow there are SO many errors in this statement I don't know where to begin...

1) "Sony's average Metascore for it's "exclusives" for this year was a 68.1" -- Wrong...
Street Fighter Metacritic = 77
MLB 16 Metacritic = 85
Ratchet & Clank Metacritic = 85
Uncharted 4 Metacritic = 93
Sony's average MetaScore for its "exclusives" for this year was an 85

2) Lets say you still personally thought Sony's offerings in 2016 were bad...Okay...Wouldnt that be all the more reason for them to focus all their power & resources on this generation & not last generation.

3) Lets say you still personally thought PS3 is better than the PS4, whats stopping you from plugging in a PS3 and playing those games. (Has a law passed that bans PS3s where you live?)

[JasonKCK]

New games like Uncharted Collection, GoW3, LoU, Ratchet, and Infamous?

[HAHAHAHAHAHAHA]

Should have kept your consoles and games like i did, wouldnt be asking for bc then ;)
But kidding aside bc isnt needed. It seems like its a big hit on xbone due to 1 major game coming out what? once every 6 months or so? Just like the game line ups are apprently the best coz they bring all the games out at the end of the year and has had nothing for the first 3/4 of the year.
Not saying its a crappie feature at all dont get me wrong but i dont see the need for it

[uptownsoul]

@sleepless_gamer - "I don't want to spend 200 to play old games that i no longer have."

1) Spend $200??? A used PS3 cost $70...

2) "old games I no longer have" -- Even if Sony does PS3 BC on PS4 you'd still have to buy any PS3 games that you "no longer have"

3) "im in college in a small dorm and have no room for multiple console set up" -- If playing PS3 games are that important to you then you can figure out how to make playing 1 console at a time work.

[dboyman]

@sleepless_gamer Wrong there is no way ps4 has power to emulate the ps3, since the Cell processor is too difficult to emulate with the current ps4 hardware. The Cell processor works very different in the way it processes than the x86 processor the ps4 uses...

[HAHAHAHAHAHAHA]

Hahaha @trolly413 nice try troll

[CrimzonRazor]

Sony is not smart enough to figure out how to make it bc because of the poor choice to use the stupid cell, its not hard to figure out but they dont have the people that can.

[DragonDDark]

@uptotown: SFV isnt exclusive so its higher

[nitus10]

The most you could hope for is software emulation for playing PS1 and PS2 games although that can be done now for selected games but only via digital download which you have to pay for. It would be nice if we could put our original PS1 and PS2 game disks in and be able to play them via emulation.

I don't hold out much hope for a PS3 emulator though.

Still IMHO backwards compatibility and/or software emulation is great at the beginning of a console generation and does sell hardware, however, if implemented later on it is still a nice value-added feature, but definitely not a console seller.

[Gwiz]

Being able to copy on webpages themselves,showing someone a piece of text is so much more convenient than giving them a link and maneuver them trough the text.You know?like you could on the PS3!!!!.

Also let people signing in from other devices pop up as notification.And most importantly to me is make more content and features available for EU countries.

[kaizokuspy]

Screenshot:send

[Gwiz]

lol you clearly didn't understand what i was saying.

[ILostMyMind]

@Gwiz
I think no one did.

[FletbedZA]

External storage to load games onto please!!

[ziggurcat]

this is the one feature i think the PS4 needs.

[FletbedZA]

Back on the xbox360 my friend next door Couldn't download games fast he had to wait 2 days for a big download to finish but for me it took 2 hours so i would load the game onto a flashdrive and plug into his console, That's also the reason i liked about that feature

[luckytrouble]

Replacing the HDD is really, really easy though. Xbox One needed it because you would have to tear the system apart to insert a higher capacity HDD. With the PS4, it's a plastic cover and a few screws, with a flash drive on the side to load the PS4 firmware on initial boot up.

[ziggurcat]

that's true, but you're limited in the capacity you can add without buying a bulky, 3rd party add-on. giving people the ability to plug in an external HDD would allow them to free up the internal HDD to be used for things like music, photos, videos, etc...

[ILostMyMind]

I have 3 HDD-500GB and is no advantage to me exchange one for another. Can use them by USB port would be very helpful .

[dantesparda]

@Ivan

Did you know that you can swap between them? So in other words, fill one up with whatever games you then when its full put the other drive in, fill that up with what you want, then you can switch/swap between them.

[ziggurcat]

@dante:

wouldn't that force you to reformat the drive every time you insert a new one even if you've had it in the console already, though?

[HAHAHAHAHAHAHA]

Only 2 really for me is folders and pinning games. But if in folders no real need for pinning them. Unless want them at start of folder.
But will see in next couple days or so im sure they will send me beta without me putting name to it like normal.

[Aenea]

8. for the love of all that's holy, please make the icons in folders like Videos constant! am always looking for the Plex app and it's always in a different spot...

[rainslacker]

Think the pinning in the article would solve that. Or folders.

[GreenUp]

SOCOM 2 Remastered coming in the update? Oh, that's not how that works? :(

[TheColbertinator]

Sorry,BattleAxe

Games not features. Maybe someday.

[WickedLester]

Accept chat invites without having to go out of our games

Update browser to support latest version of plug ins.

[ILostMyMind]

Sony should make the menus were executed in the windows mode so we did not have to leave the game in any way.

[Doomster1971]

Better quality video streaming for remote play. The president video steaming quality is awful.

[GrubsterBeater]

Damn you, President Video Streaming!!!

In all seriousness though, I do wish they would make the remote play quality a little more stable. That is my only gripe with remote play. I lose connection even right near my PS4 and router, although I may need to do some tweaking to my routers location...

[formanbradley]

I've been praying every night...

1) System stability improvements
2) System stability improvements
3) System stability improvements
4) System stability improvements
5) System stability improvements
6) System stability improvements
7) System stability improvements

[TheGamingArt]

Wtf? I can't tell if you're trolling...

[formanbradley]

I am

[KTF26]

No one ask for that because apparently the system is stable
but it'll be the first thing they put in the update note

[opinionated]

Folders would be nice. No ads in the folders lol. If you want to keep ads then let psn be free again. Add more for all I care. They shouldn't be on a paid service.

[DragonDDark]

The UI has ads?

[StormLegend]

I agree with everything!!

[jojo319]

Please don't be 7 more ways to share video or screenshots.

[ILostMyMind]

7 more System Stability Improvements

[DJPois0n]

I want them to remove the playroom. Like seriously every damn time I'm receiving an update for thegame that says it takes up 10GB. I don't use it, why the hell do I need it installed there? PlayStation home didn't even come on the PS3, the icon was there you press it amd it started downloading it, but it was neber like useless playroom that came installed already. I know some may say to just upgrade to 4TB drive but even so, we're talking about loosing like 15GB or even more coz the updatethat shows up for me alone takes up to 10GB and the game is already installed on the console. I also wamt to be able to pin my games, have folders and that Netflix, Hulu, and every other streaming all that I have appear at the top of the streaming apps location instead of the apps I do not have or actually do have but are being "promoted" and still appear to "get it/download it now!"

"A what's new" would also be good. I remember I liked it a lot by the time I got my PS3 because it showed the new games that were available. That's how I knew PSone Classics existed as well lol I remember seeing crash CTR and went to GS and bought 2x $20 psn carda to buy all the Crash games and a few more. Also allow already to have music in your console as well...

[nunley33]

The Playroom on my PS4 says it just uses 667.7 MB,I don't why it would say that on your PS4,it's the same program and I even got it's free DLC too. I can't delete it but it's small so not a huge deal.

[MagicBeanz]

Good list but I'd be surprised if we got one of them.

[Brettman2008]

Not having proper game folders and the ability to pin games yet is a joke and typical of Sony's inexplicable firmware choices this gen.

[Rhythmattic]

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[DragoonsScaleLegends]

I'm ready for a OS redesign.

[Knightofelemia]

The ability to add my own backgroud picture and avatar photo.

[ion666]

Video chat and custom wallpapers. I caved in recently and purchased the power rangers theme. But yeah I needs that video chat. Since that oovoo fell through what are we left with? It's been 3 yes since I've seen my online buddys. They live so far away.

[dparente74]

um CDs!

[dparente74]

yea Ps4 is not capable of emulating the cell architecture. would require too much horsepower, even most pc probably couldnt do it.