New PS5 Firmware Update Available from Today in Phased Launch

OK this is getting beyond ridiculous with updates that add nothing. I was in my hometown for a couple of days and whatever I tried to play had some sort of update. The console had an update, all Final Fantasy games had updates, Resident Evil 4 had update, the whole console had updates. After all those years STILL PS5 DOES NOT UPDATE GAMES AUTOMATICALLY for some reason. And to check every update by hand is a pain with the clunky OS. The same happened when I opened the PS4. It also updates nothing automatically.

PS4 does automatically update - at least last time I tried it. I had Diablo 4 and ESO downloading patches as soon as I booted the old stager.

In fact, the PS4 is still far ahead of the PS5 as it can download multiple updates at the same time unlike the 'queued' wonder.

@sanderson72 PS4 doesn't update anything for me for some reason. Still, it is true that PS4 updates the games faster.

I've been following rumors about a potential stability and performance update but was very sceptic about it until now when it was officially confirmed

The messaging side still seems woefully behind the curve. I would have thought they would have worked to integrate more discord features, or at least just allow me to address a specific person in a group chat?

How about they bring back the "continue where you left" activity? Where did that go?

They will add folders - one day.....

@belmont "After all those years STILL PS5 DOES NOT UPDATE GAMES AUTOMATICALLY for some reason"

Not true my friend, it updates all games on start page automatically, but if you have like me, almost 6 TB of games installed it will not update the games in my library unless I start that perticular game in question.
During the last week my PS5 have autoupdated AC Shadows, PoE 1 & 2, Diablo 4, GoW Ragnarök when I turned on my PS5.
Maybe it doesn't work if you put it in sleepmode, that might be a bug. But it should work even then.
TLDR: It works.

Edit: Have you checked under system Settings: Automatic Updates under Saved Data and Settings for games/apps??
You might have turned it off by accident?

@Voltan it became the game banner 😦 seriously tho they need to give us back our game logos that was a cosmetic change worse than Pete burns

@Zeke68 Pretty sure it simply only auto-updates the games that you launched in the last X days - not sure the value of X though

@Zeke68 Yeah, it only updates the games in the home screen. Save upload doesn't work either. It always says I am out of space in the cloud, although that is not the case. I have automatic updates enabled. Apparently there is a hidden limit in the actual number of PS4 savefiles you can upload!!!!!

@themightyant I get that, even though it is very bad for game presentation and AI and cloud backups of not useful data consume much more enery of a few MB of download. It is frustrating to always have to manually update all the Final Fantasy games. In Xbox you can check for all updates with the press of a button, you don't have to check one by one. In Steam it slowly updates all games in the background automatically.

Can believe you didn't lead the article by noting the improvements to software performance and stability! Was panicking that there was going to be no improvements

@belmont Yes I think the total savefiles your allowed is 1000. I had to remove a ton of Driveclub saves back in the day because they bloated up the cloud. Now I only have one plus the gameprofile with all the stats saved.
Check if you have some old saves you don't like and delete them for good, better to have new gamesaves then old that you will never use. (probably).

@Voltan Could be true, but funny enough my console updated Pinball FX3 for me a few weeks ago and I haven't played that since last summer.

@Zeke68 Yeah, but the limit is not clearly stated anywhere. It sure is a bizarre way to punish loyal customers that buy and play a lot of games. I did something better than deleting the saves: I cancelled PS plus and backed up the saves in two different USB sticks and two different consoles. I cannot do this in PS5 but the only games I have are the FF16 and 7 Rebirth and I can live without having those back ups. I also backed up the saves of PS3 and Vita with similar methods.

I have had this release in the latest beta and I have noticed nothing new

My ps5 pads used to charge from my phone charger but no longer does, it's such a simple qol upgrade that it's a bit depressing that they haven't fixed it.

@belmont Playstation consoles are hit & miss when it comes to updates. Sometimes it updates a few games automatically while not updating others. It can be a pain I know.

@themightyant I rarely play more than two games but this weekend I decided to revisit the fonal boss on all Final Fantasy games using my old saves. I tried Final Fantasy 1, it had an update, I moved to play 2 another update, in the end all had updates except 10 and 12, even the 7 Remake / Rebirth. I ended up playing nothing... If updates worked as they should I would have been ready to go regardless of what I wanted to play. And not updating the games is bad from the preservation point of view. I sometimes take my consoles in work trips and play offline

Ill sum up all PS5 update articles for everyone: They do nothing

@Zeke68 It does not automatically update every game on your home/start page. If you move any of those games to extra storage, whether internal or external, it automatically detecting an update is sketchy at best. I almost always have to do it manually. Games on the regular internal SSD? Sure, that automatically downloads 99% of the time.