Morning, everyone. Morning for us, at least — we shouldn't assume anything. On behalf of the Push Square collective, this author's just had a bowl of Cheerios to see in the day, but Sony wasn't going to let this breakfast go by peacefully. No, a PlayStation 5 firmware update needed to go live, and it needed to happen right as we were enjoying some multigrain hoops.
So, yes, there's a brand new PS5 firmware update, and it's available to download and install right now. Version 21.02-04.50.00 is ready to ruin your breakfast, or perhaps your dinner. It might not even interfere with any meals, which would certainly be ideal. We hope your appetite is met without interruptions. What does this dastardly system software update do for PS5, then?
Everybody say it together: "This system software update improves system performance."
Well done if you did say it. You get some points for joining in. Those who didn't, you get points taken away. That's right: your figurative points tally is slightly lower because you weren't willing to participate. We're not angry, we're just disappointed. Have a think about that while you download the latest PS5 firmware update, which is 914MB in size.
Sorry, we're slightly cranky because of the whole breakfast thing. What's your ideal breakfast? What gets you going in the morning? Do you have a favourite cereal, or maybe you treat yourself to some scrambled eggs? Make us hungry all over again in the comments section below.
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Nothing beats a good breakfast than a dose of.....stability.
Jokes aside, my favorite breakfast is always the good old half boiled eggs with a cup of coffee. Great fuel to start the day.
This morning I had three pieces of buttered multigrain toast with a fried sunny side up egg on two of them and two large pieces of streaky bacon on the other piece. I had Valentina hotsauce on the eggs and HP sauce on the bacon 👌
The main thing that gets me going in the morning is a sip of a hot medium sized very strong espresso, right after the smell of freshly ground coffee beans lights up the senses.
Frosted Shreddies for me. I like them so much I only get them once a year for Christmas as a treat.
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Hope this improves the experience in iPlayer
I love any improvements bigger or smaller, dont understand that tone of this article. You cannot make everyone happy
Breakfast is for wimps.
@Shinnok789 I'm usually up between 5 and 6am, coffee just smells so much better in the morning, it's one of life's pleasures!
Does nobody except me drink tea anymore !
Don’t really have breakfast. Have a big early-ish lunch instead.
I save breakfast for weekends when I pig out. Full English- with the works, all the way.
That’s how I justify it anyways 😋
@hypnotoad That’s all I have M-Friday! Camomile tea, no sugar.
Vrr when tho sony
@hypnotoad I cannot survive without a cup of tea
When we've gone to the U.S, their breakfasts are lovely.
The only thing I can't get over is when the locals mix savoury with sweet ! and then pour syrup over all of it.
Not nice.
@Quintumply Same here.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a cuppa coffee now and then - especially since the mrs bought one of those coffee pod machines, the Galaxy hot choc pods are lovely, but I'm English and tea is our drink !
Well and India's and China's...
It was a treat today, nearly a week overdue our 2nd child, so I quick drive to the brunch bus, and 2 bacon and egg baps for myself and the other half
Thanks for this article Stephen - made me smile! The breakfast comments are a close second 🤣
@hypnotoad You aren’t alone. I drink copious amounts of tea and coffee throughout the day. For breakfast though I usually try and get a cup of tea in before and a coffee after.
It's all about the performance - but what about the stability? Or does that come later like it did in the PS4's lifecycle (not dead yet)
What's the opinion on bubble tea ?
Pretentious nonsense in me 'umble.
@hypnotoad Fear not, boyo, we’re a strong if dwindling tribe! Keep fighting the good fight and resist the coffee oppression to your last sip-aaaah!
Tell you what, a breakfast I fondly remember every now and again was the chicken and waffles I had in Edinburgh a couple of years back. It was divine.
@HUMPERDOO Damn right !
My ideal breakfast are the ones where I don't have to wake up at 8 am
No breakfast for me, neither lunch. I only eat One Meal A Day and feel great. Doing OMAD is a huge system update for me.
@Quintumply Edinburgh !
Followed by a gallon of Buckfast no doubt.
Nearly a GB for performance
Regular maintenance update with security updates. Nothing special here.
I guess we won’t see VRR before the next large update in April.
They won’t release it so shortly before the Christmas holidays.
@Bentleyma- scary to hear this with amount of people that go missing all the time…
Lol well written piece Stephen and thanks for the heads-up.
Hope one day Sony integrate Picture in Picture for Netflix etc while gaming. That'd be awesome.
@hypnotoad Pints of the stuff
Edit: Loose leaf Yorkshire Gold, made in a pot
Does the 914MB download eat into your SSD space? Or does it auto delete after instal?
No breakfast, just coffee. First food after work in the evening. Once a day, but a lot 🙂
@hypnotoad Had to actually look up what bubble tea was. It's definitely as far from Yorkshire as you can get!
Rice Crispies Multigrain. They're like Cheerios but with much more yumminess. Wash it down with some Yorkshire Tea. Lovely.
@render I'd never heard of it either mate if not for the fact that my big sis and her daughters (my nieces) set up a little coffee/ice cream shop on Hastings sea front that sold this bubble tea lark.
I had one from them - on the house, natch.
Didn't like it. Too many bubbles, not enough tea.
Holding on to my older firmware versions for that eventual jailbreak release.
@hypnotoad Sounds like a great slogan for the anti-bubble tea campaign. Just need to sign up Monkey and Johnny Vegas now 😂
Rest mode fix any time at all would be really cool. Crashes about 50% of days here when playing AC Valhalla now, just stopped using it.
A substantial serving of smoked salmon or sausages to supplement the successive supply of the superlative software stability series.
Come on now, the only breakfast is a roll and square sausage with tattie scone. Glad that's settled.
@Quintumply PS4 update just dropped too
@kingbreww Valentina is amazing and hugely underappreciated.
French toast is always a winner
@hypnotoad it’s cool to do the full machine gun action thru the straw with those weird lumps. I see no pro’s other than that
@DiddyWahDiddy it really shines on anything Mexican but is also great on anything you’d put hotsauce on. Glad I tried it on a whim when I saw it on ebay. I’m in Australia and it’s not on any shelves anywhere over here
Also a PS4 update too...for those sitting at the back
@sanderson72 Thank you!
Starting the morning off with an egg on toast and Starbucks coffee. Cheers everyone.
This update could be related to the new EU firmware dropping today on Sony 2020 Tv's. It includes PS5-centric features like Auto HDR Tone Mapping (based on HGiG) and Auto Genre Picture Mode (based on ALLM).
More on that here: https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1635333726
i had a bowl of christmas rice krispies with a sprinkle of brown sugar on top was gonna make some maple bacon and eggs but slept in this morning. is it true that you guys across the pond got some snow?
@kingbreww I'm in Texas so you can get it everywhere for super cheap, but I never noticed it until I went to Mexico City and had some street potato chips with salt, lime juice and Valentina.
I'm over here in the States and I have unsweetened fresh brewed tea every single day.
@hypnotoad Aye, tea is the b*ll*cks!!!
@frabbit The Scots are showing their head 😝🙈
@hypnotoad I think the issue with bubble-tea is that your trying to sell flavoured air...to the taste buds. 🙈
Good to see VRR still is inexistent 👍
My breakfast minimum for system performance is fresh dark roast coffee, black, fresh fruit, and with whatever i have and feel like eating. A favorite is leftover pizza rejuvenated in a skillet with some butter.
VRR and 1440p will happen one day but not today. Today we get a bowl of stability for breakfast.
2 egg omellette with coriander and spring onions..a cup of green tea with lemon..
@hypnotoad sir, do you have a Twitter account? I'm a fan of your sense of humor!
And no, there is absolutely not enough tea in a bubble tea. Also, I don't need bubbles in my mouth.
@blackndark I love being called sir.
@hypnotoad LOL
I had Pop-Tarts for breakfast. This made my wife and probably my doctor unhappy. Where is a PS5 interruption when I really needed it?
Hope for VRR & Discord in the next big update in April 2022.
And please 1440p support - I personally don’t care about it but to calm down all this 1440p talking…
I guarantee vrr is coming within the next 6 months, book it.
@blackndark You don't wanna know me. I'm a proper c**t.
@TeapotBuddha Haha I'm fine, thanks. But Sony better think twice before getting between me and my cereal again.
I'll eat your breakfast for breakfast 😕
But yeah, I don't eat breakfast, just have 2 cups of coffee.
Aah improved system upgrades, the true crossplatform content...
@hypnotoad lol, I can take it. I'm here for the show.
Bacon sarnie, toast slightly cold so the butter doesn't fully melt....no sauce.
@frabbit no Mother's Pride?
IDK about breakfast but I'm pretty sure Stephen has been hitting the sauce...
These system update threads are the best part of the site!
Cup of tea first thing, a comforting way to ease you into the day. Breakfast is over rated (mainly cause I'm never hungry enough for it).
What's not over rated is those stability updates. Love the smell of my tea mixing with some stability in the morning.
@NEStalgia Haha no sauce, just Cheerios!
I love that everyone's talking about their breakfast choices
Black coffee, while I think about my poor choices from the night before.
@Ridebird
Same for me with that game. Whenever I put it in rest mode then try to wake it up, it boots and goes into rest mode again so I have to wake it up twice to start playing. Odd
@hypnotoad I drink tea! It has to have very little sugar though because the milk is sweet anyway...
@theheadofabroom Nah not with the sausage but maybe throw an outsider in the toaster for a mid-morning snack. Covered in butter. Ooft that sounds good haha I've actually not had Mother's Pride in ages.
Lets hope that Discord integration is as they say, early 2022, and not just 2022.
@Cambrius I remember those days well. Sadly they are no more 😂
I like breakfast …. And improved performance.
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@frabbit My in-laws up in Glasgow would call you a heathen for that, it's the only loaf that's the right shape! The mind boggles!
Tea (sweet and milky), glass of orange juice, weetabix or shredded wheat with hot milk, the two bits of toast (marmalade).
My fave breakfast is a stack of pancakes (or 1 waffle) covered in butter and syrup, with a side of scrambled eggs, sausage porks, and bacon. Drink would be orange juice.
Ah Cheerios,
The breakfast of choice at Dignitas.
The article was interesting but the ending was a little odd. Other than that, I enjoyed it. This seems to be a good site. Happy to be part of the community. Have a good holidays and a great 2022.
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