Sony can’t even seem to get the dates of its firmware updates right anymore, as the platform holder announced earlier that the system’s hotly anticipated v2.00 refresh will deploy later today – before clarifying that it'll actually arrive tomorrow, as previously expected. We’ve detailed the contents of this operating system overhaul in the past, but one feature that we didn’t know about previously is the ability to pause and resume downloads, which has apparently also made the cut.
You can peruse all of the new features and functionality courtesy of the video embedded below. Don’t forget, the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation TV will also be getting updates imminently, which add the Live from PlayStation application, among other things. What are you most looking forward to in PS4 firmware update v2.00? Let us know in the comments section.
[source blog.eu.playstation.com, via blog.us.playstation.com]
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You do great work, Sammy! Any word on themes that'll be immediately available to apply, paid or otherwise? I know we'll be able to change the background color, but it'd be nice to apply an awesome theme day one! Thx!
Now this is one of the feature I am actually very proud to have besides being able to change the theme of the PS4.
I just gotta say - woot woot! (this is a welcome feature)
(not trying to be a jerk at all but just trying to understand) what is the point of pausing downloads and why is it so exciting? wouldnt you want it done asap? also does anyone know if we will be able to use our own screen shots as backgrounds?
@Gmork___ I'm glad they're adding a pause button for downloads because when I play games online or using Playstation Now it'll go a lot smoother. I was so frustrated trying to play Dead Island (PS Now) while Warframe was downloading. Some have a strong internet connection, so they don't have to worry about that. But this is perfect
I CAN UPLOAD TO YOUTUBE, SONY I LOVE YOU!
my laptop broke so I have no way to put my videos up at the moment so this is a much welcome thing for me as I was just starting a gameplay channel when it happened
@Gmork___ well I live in the countryside and the broadband internet speed here is only about 3mps so being able to pause would mean I can play games online smoothly because at the moment I can't do both at once
HALLELUJAH!! About time...
@Gmork___ you are downloading something and get a request from a friend who wants to play online, you pause the download and play so the download doesn't eat your bandwidth then you can resume it later.....
my question is what about share play and game organizing are the features not going to be in the update after all?
Yahhh mannn!!! Best feature evarrrr
@Dual-shock-spok Judging from the screenshots Sony's been showing off, there should be some available. No word on what the selection actually is, though, but we'll know tomorrow!
And thanks for reading - Sammy's a busy man, otherwise he would have replied to this himself!
Also, THANK THE GODS
@Dual-shock-spok @ShogunRok Too busy reading NeoGAF, innit! Thanks for the kind words!
@Dual-shock-spok a destiny theme and cod advanced warfare theme are announced and will be free the first (few) day(s)
Would be beat to be able to use some captured screenshots. Those photo modes in games would get useful for once!
@Gmork___ For a guy like me who has other devices from his family on wifi, the internet speeds slow down in my house. So being able to pause downloads in an occurrence of multiple downloads will speed up another download.
@darkswabber what! !!!???, sweetness! !!!! fingers crossed for a second son theme!
@everyone who replied to me: Ahhhhhh i see, that all make total sense now. WOOHOOO for download pausing! im happy for you all
@iSolipsistJudas I wouldn't say I'm proud to have it...what does that even mean? But it is about damn time we were able to do this! Now if they can just let you adjust the download queue to just one download at a time, it would be great.
Yay! That has been really annoying.
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