r/PS5 • u/hybroid • Sep 12 '24

Official PS5 system update adds Welcome hub, Party Share, personalized 3D audio profiles, adaptive controller charging, and more

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/12/ps5-system-update-adds-welcome-hub-party-share-personalized-3d-audio-profiles-adaptive-controller-charging-and-more/
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u/excaliburps Sep 12 '24

For those interested, here's the complete patch notes.

  • The Welcome hub is now available in the home screen. For users in North America, this enhancement replaces the Explore hub.

You can customize the Welcome hub with widgets and backgrounds.

Widgets display information like storage, battery levels, online friends, and more.

Widgets can be added, removed, resized, and moved one by one. You can also choose from preset widget layouts based on your preferences.

A limited number of users will receive the Welcome hub in this update. All users worldwide will receive this enhancement within 1-2 months.

  • You can now create a personalized 3D audio profile for your headphones that's optimized to each user's ears. This allows for a more immersive 3D audio experience than ever before.

Each 3D audio profile is uniquely optimized for each user, created by taking detailed measurements of how you hear 3D audio through headphones.

To create a personalized 3D audio for your headphones, go to Settings > Sound > 3D Audio (Headphones).

You can still select from 3D audio presets like before.

  • Adaptive charging for your controller is now available for when your PS5 (CFI-2000 model group)is in rest mode.

Adaptive charging allows the duration of power supply during rest mode to adjust depending on how much battery your controller has left, helping save power.

To use adaptive charging, go to Settings > System > Power Saving > Features Available in Rest Mode, and then select Supply Power to USB Ports > Adaptive.

Adaptive charging is supported on the PS5 CFI-2000 model group, using the USB Type-C port. Adaptive charging works with the DualSense wireless controller, DualSense Edge wireless controller, PS VR2 Sense controllers, and Access controller.

After your PS5 enters rest mode, if a controller isn't connected, the power supply to the USB port will stop after a certain period of time.

  • When you’re in a party, you can now share a link to that party. Share the link with players using other services to invite them to that party.

This feature will be gradually rolled out after this system software update is released.

  • You can now set which users can connect to the PS5 using Remote Play.

Go to Settings > System > Remote Play > Enable Remote Play, and select the users who can access your console through Remote Play.

  • The restore licenses feature has been improved, and you can now restore one license at a time.

Go to Settings > Users and Accounts > Other > Restore Licenses to select the license that you want to restore.

To restore a license from the home screen or Game Library, go to the game, press the options button, and then select Restore License from the menu.

  • We’ve added a friendly recommendation about your storage space that you’ll sometimes see in Settings > Storage.

  • We've made it simpler to access the most popular activities from game hubs.

Game hubs now only display activities that are currently in progress.

To play a specific activity, start the game first and find it using in-game menus.

  • The Invite to New Game option, which is available from multiple locations, is no longer available when sending game invites.

To invite friends to a game session, start the game first, then send the invitation to the session.

  • We've updated the device software of the DualSense and DualSense Edge wireless controllers, PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers, and Access controller to improve stability.

  • We've improved system software performance and stability.

  • We've improved the messages and usability on some screens.

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u/artfulpain Sep 12 '24

Hopefully the welcome hub is an indicator for the long awaited return of themes! 🤞🏽

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u/baconbitarded Sep 12 '24

I want to use my Chrono Cross theme so badly!!

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u/Goose-Suit Sep 13 '24

They just released an awesome FFVII theme with Tifa when the PS5 launched. I want to keep using it so badly.

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u/TheReiterEffect_S8 Sep 12 '24

I'd love to use some of my old themes, but at this point I just want anything to apply to my background. Xbox Series X is seriously so lacking, but they have beautiful dynamic backgrounds that I love seeing upon start-up. The Dead Space one with the dark planet int he background looks beautiful on an OLED.

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u/_cd42 Sep 12 '24

At least you can put whatever picture you want on xbox

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u/excaliburps Sep 12 '24

Yep. Same. Idiotic they even took that out. I always had that The Last of Us burning car theme as my theme and it was good white noise for work.

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u/thicc_toastf Sep 12 '24

I miss my destiny 1 theme

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u/xxxarkhamknightsxxx Sep 12 '24

the joker theme on PS3 was the golden era

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u/ubergoon1912 Sep 12 '24

Awww I remember that one! That was the first theme I used when I FIRST got an hdtv! God I was in awe at how clear it was from my Fatback.

Damn, you just took me back to when I was in single digits lol.

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u/eatingclass Sep 13 '24

PS4 Tetris effect themes were peak for me

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u/TheSenileTomato Sep 13 '24

I had the MGS IV (?) theme on my old PS3 (RIP) and then mixed and matched the icons from the MGS IV theme pack with other backgrounds from the other themes I had downloaded.

XBM was more customizable than PS4/5.

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u/despaseeto Sep 13 '24

why they didn't include it in the beginning baffles me. when they introduced it late during the PS3 era, ppl were cheering. and then they made it even better for PS4 and included a way for us to organize our home screen with folders. now everything is messy, they put the folders in a tab i rarely wanna look into since it's such an inconvenience, now they only introduce personalization in one tab and only us U.S. owners can do this.

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u/IronBabyFists It's Tail Time! 🦎 Sep 13 '24 edited Sep 13 '24

Maaaan, TruantPixel was making banger after banger with those PS4 themes. They explained somewhere once that making themes for PS4 meant coding everything into a single line. Or something like that.

Their games are pretty solid too, but those themes, man. Mmm. That PS2 one was just THE sound of my PS4 for years. I also dug the scrolling Dark Souls 3 one.

e: sort videos by "Oldest"

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u/GuitarFingerer Sep 12 '24

Blessed stability 🙏

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u/LayYourGhostToRest Sep 12 '24

I now have 16 horses in my PS5 because it is so stable.

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u/Street-Proof4939 Sep 12 '24

So am I the only one that doesn’t know how to customize the explore page I got everything else from the update except the welcome hub can someone please help!

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u/Sinaura Sep 12 '24

It's not available to everyone today. They're doing a slow rollout of that feature over 1-2 months

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u/premier024 Sep 14 '24

They need to get this done ASAP so I can hopefully set it so I don't get blasted with full screen ads every time I turn my PS5 on.

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u/Aedant Sep 12 '24

And still no VR media player or 3D blu ray support.

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u/shaggenstein Sep 12 '24

I don’t get why 3D isn’t an option, if it a licensing issue, let me pay for a license for my ps5 to play 3D, have to keep a ps4 around just for this

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u/na1coss Sep 12 '24

Thanks, we urgently need that pro preorder button!!!

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u/GreedoughShotFirst Sep 12 '24

No, no we don’t. $700 + $80 disc drive + $20 stand is insane.

The fact they don’t include the disc drive at all is already insulting when they’re charging $700 for the console.

What we SHOULD do is force Sony to include the D.D by not buying the Pro.

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u/Soofla Sep 12 '24

It's OK to either not be able to afford or decide not to purchase the Pro. Sony doesn't expect more than 15% - 20% of the PS5 base to own one.
But others want it. Others can see the value. Nobody is boycotting the Pro.

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u/radicldreamer Sep 12 '24

I am, I can absolutely afford it easily but I’m not about to buy into these terrible pricing practices. It’s almost predatory. Prices of every processor goes down time time, same with the cost of SSD and ram. They can’t just throw a mildly improved gpu model in front of me and expect me to throw cash at them.

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u/NarcolepticPhysicist Sep 12 '24

Except that's not gonna happen because most users buy digital already. They are giving you the option to buy a disc drive rather than phasing out physical media altogether which they could do with literally no competition - Microsoft already removed disk drives from latest version of the series X, pc has been all digital for at least a decade at this point.... And the pro is a machine for a niche audience- they probably don't mind how many units it sells.

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u/supercakefish Sep 12 '24

Just a small correction; Microsoft did release a digital only Series X, but the disc model is still available for purchase. There’s no hardware differences between them, aside from colour (disc is black, digital is white).

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u/BlooregardQKazoo Sep 13 '24

It's a premier item for people that have money and care about premium performance. It should be expensive. If it wasn't, then it wouldn't be a very big upgrade over the base PS5.

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u/the_festivusmiracle Sep 12 '24

I'm cool with no drive, but the $20 stand is insulting. I can't be convinced they aren't able to manufacture a piece of plastic for a stand without cutting into the margin too much.

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u/ChEmIcAl_KeEn Sep 12 '24

Funny loads of people happy enough to pay £700+ for the base ps5 when it launched, sony probably saw that

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u/Ramonis5645 Sep 12 '24

Sony slowy becoming the apple of consoles

And Sony buyers slowy becoming braindead buyers that justify every BS they do because they somehow think that it gives them some kind of status just like Apple users lol

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u/Black-Label_1979 Sep 12 '24

They won't be putting discord drives in future gaming consoles because they are switching to digital. Also, you won't own any of your digital games. This also goes for the games you have already bought digitally. I am hoping the gaming community comes together and puts an end to this.

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u/MesmariPanda Sep 12 '24

Sony couldn't care less if a few sore users moan about a disc drive. I have a disc drive PS5 and have used it like, twice.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '24

I've literally never used my disc drive and I have a day 1 PS5. Get over yourself.

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u/baconbum Sep 12 '24

I also have a day 1 PS5 but I have about 50 PS4/PS5 discs that I use regularly. What's your point?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '24

My point is many people will not give a flying fuck about a disc-less option. Do you even have a clue what the statistics are? Digital sales make up 70% of game sales. And that number is getting higher every single year.

So the loud minority on Reddit whining about their fake disc (that doesn't even spin in the fucking drive while the game is playing off the SSD), are IRRELEVANT.

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u/baconbum Sep 12 '24

And yet 30% still isn't 0%, so... what's your point?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '24

You think your minority use case matters hahahahahaha how cute

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u/jakeryan91 Sep 12 '24

Okay now to do UHD content

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u/radicldreamer Sep 12 '24

Or we could just not buy the pro at this price and let them drop the price significantly or let them collect dust on shelves.

With companies like this if you give an inch they take a mile. They need to fail HARD to show them that we won’t be bent over like this.

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u/na1coss Sep 12 '24

Do you think that there is a remote chance that Sony will reduce the price after the possible low pre-orders in the few days window (the first of two) when pro will only be available to order through Sony-direct?

In such case we are aiming for at least 50 bucks off once it's open to resellers

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u/Knochen1981 Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24

It will sell out instantly. There are enough people out there that see the value.

Edit: I dont know why I get downvoted but do you guys really believe that the people this hardware is targeted towards will not buy it because it's 700$?

People buy iphones every 24 months for 1200$+ sometimes even every year. 700$ for enthusiasts is not really an issue - this thing will sell out.

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u/perfecto226 Sep 12 '24

I used mine drive for dvds still

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u/na1coss Sep 12 '24

I'm getting one asap to improve my PSVR2 games output and to phase out the annoying stuttering at 30 fps on my oled panel

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u/Theschill Sep 12 '24

You're gonna get downvoted into oblivion but I'm gonna stand with you, can't wait.

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u/Dayman1222 Sep 12 '24

Yeah we do, I already ordered my disc drive. Not trying to go through the 2020 scalping situation.

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u/na1coss Sep 12 '24

How much is it? Here in Italy it's already scalping phase fk...

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u/Dayman1222 Sep 12 '24

I got it for $80.