Sony Rolling Out PS4 System Update 5.0 Beta

Heads upwardly, gamers: Sony today started rolling out its next major PS4 system software update, version 5.0, to beta testers.

The update is loaded with new features, including a new family management system, 1080p 60fps broadcasting with PS4 Pro, the ability to disable popular-up notifications while y'all're watching a movie or Television receiver show, and more, co-ordinate to Sony Interactive Amusement America's Andrew Kelly. If you lot signed upwards for the beta and were selected to participate, you'll receive an email from Sony with instructions on how to download information technology and get started.

With Family on PSN, multiple adults can be role of a unmarried family unit. This new system volition likewise go far easier to set up PlayStation Network accounts for kids and customize parental control settings.

Meanwhile, you'll also exist able to create and edit custom lists of your friends. This way, "you can create a custom listing of your Destiny teammates and easily send them raid invites," Kelly wrote.

Also on tap are a bunch of broadcast feature updates, including the ability to pin your community to your circulate, so spectators tin jump correct to your community page to find out near it. There'southward also a new setting that lets you view spectator comments in VR mode, which should make it much easier for VR broadcasters to communicate with viewers. And, as we mentioned before, the update will let PS4 Pro users stream on Twitch in 1080p at 60fps.

If you're listening to a song y'all think a friend would like, you'll exist able to send it to them via messages. If they're also on PS4, they can boot up the Quick Card and listen to the track right inside the message. If they're on a mobile device, they can jump to the Spotify app to check it out.

Sony is also adding support for a couple more languages, including Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Romanian, Thai, and Vietnamese. There's also a new bracket viewer that makes it easier to see the tournament standings. Finally, yous'll be able to access Notifications from the Quick Carte, so you lot don't accept to jump away from your game every time yous want to run across what's new.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart dwelling products. Teaching yoga for nearly ten years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fettle trackers, center rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, forcefulness training machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela too tests smart dwelling house devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, merely to name a few.