Sony just took its latest PlayStation 5 update out of a weeks-long beta period and made it available to everyone. The PS5 update focuses on the DualSense, the console’s new controllers, making them better. In particular, it improves both controllers’ speakers and microphones, making in-game sounds and voice chats clearer and more immersive. The enhanced speaker volume and advanced noise cancellation through a new AI machine-learning model minimizes background noises like button presses, ensuring a more focused gaming session.
Additionally, the PS5’s Screen Share feature now includes pointers and emoji reactions, enabling interactive participation from friends. This feature allows viewers to highlight specific areas or objects on the screen or celebrate gameplay achievements with emojis, fostering a more engaged and communal gaming experience. The improvements aim to make communication and interaction during gameplay beter but users can disable these features if they find them distracting.
Finally, the update also caters to user comfort and preferences by introducing the ability to adjust the brightness of the PS5’s power indicator. This adjustment, accessible via the system settings, offers three levels of brightness: dim, medium, and bright, with the latter being the default setting. While the option to completely turn off the power indicator is not available, this customization feature allows gamers to tailor their console’s appearance to their liking.
🗣️ The new PS5 system update is rolling out globally today
Details on DualSense audio enhancements, Share Screen interactions and more: https://t.co/1CAiUFCRuV pic.twitter.com/5sMI9XkpYo
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) March 13, 2024
The DualSense and DualSense Edge controllers, along with the PlayStation VR2 headset, have received firmware updates aimed at improving stability. These updates are part of Sony’s ongoing effort to enhance system performance and ensure a seamless gaming experience.
A PlayStation App update, scheduled for later this month, will extend the new Screen Share interactions to mobile users, further integrating the PlayStation ecosystem.
Nearly four years into its lifecycle and its former stock issues now resolved, the PS5 has now found itself at the center of attention – and not in a good way. Sony’s cadence of exclusivity releases have, so far, left much to be desired. It doesn’t help that the next fiscal year will not include a big release from its best-selling franchises. Instead, Sony is relying on third-party releases, starting with Stellar Blade, among others. But, as they say, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Rumors suggest that a PS5 Pro model will come out later this year with Sony positioning it as the go-to console for Grand Theft Auto 6 , which comes out next year.
The PS5’s last exclusive for the fiscal year, Rise of the Ronin, is coming out later this month.
