Themes Coming to PS4 and Vita, Live from PlayStation App Vita-bound

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Themes Coming to PS4 and Vita, Live from PlayStation App Vita-bound

Early this morning, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia (SCEJA) held a press conference in Tokyo where some new features were announced for both PS4 and PS Vita. In case you missed it, I’m happy to confirm that Themes, one of the most popular features from PlayStation 3, are coming to PS4 and PS Vita this fall with system software updates coming to both platforms.

With these two updates (v2.00 for PS4 and v.3.30 for PS Vita), you’ll be able to reflect your personality across all your PlayStation systems — PS4, PS3, and PS Vita! Themes are among the most requested features from PS4 owners, so we’re eager to offer them and will share more about the feature in the coming weeks. Here’s a sneak peek of what the PS4 & PS Vita home screens will look like with customized Themes.

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These are images of themes announced at the SCEJA press conference. Designs are subject to change without notice.

We’ve also got an exciting update for PS Vita owners. Since the launch of PS4 last November, watching livestreams of what the PlayStation community is playing through the “Live from PlayStation” app has been a big part of the PS4 experience — in fact, 150 million livestreams have been watched as of the end of May.

This fall you’ll be able to watch PS4 live streams from Twitch and USTREAM on your PS Vita through the “Live from PlayStation” app. I’m particularly excited for the “Live from PlayStation” app’s arrival on PS Vita so I can catch the most epic PS4 live streams when I’m away from my PS4.

Stay tuned for more information on these upcoming updates.

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  • Can we PLEASE just be able to pause downloads?

  • Oh and can you please stop with all the lame indies. Their is a ton of us gamers that want triple A titles more than boring lame indies I can play on my iPad for free. Its a laughing stock of gaming to use powerful machines like ps4 and vita to play stupid iPhone games almost weekly now at how much you’re throwing the junk at us.

  • YAY!!!

  • Remove 100 apps limit for Vita, or don’t sell 64 gb memory cards this doesn’t make sense.

  • Please give us the ability to play MP3 music on our PS4 and play games at the same time. The Vita has this function, why not the PS4?

  • They removed the 100 app limit months ago. It holds a thousand now. Um someone didn’t pay attention to vita updates lol.

  • Its a thousand or 500 but its more than 100 now that vita can have on it in apps.

  • I am so VERY excited for this. I can’t wait to see live themes on the PS4. However, the ability to create static themes is perfectly fine by me. I’ve been wanting themes for the Vita since it launched! So, all in all, this is a GREAT piece of news for this guy!!

  • Well this news is certainly fantastic! The blue waves always gave me an uneasy feeling.

  • PS3 themes and Avatars should be available on the
    PS4. I have some great ones on the PS3… should be cross platform from day 1.

  • Still waiting for sub-account to master account upgrade, so I can finally use the share functionality of my PS4… This has been requested since the PS3 days.

  • @HATE_REPUBLICANS
    They didn’t, they added folders but limit is still there. People assumed that folder counts as 1 app, but its not, every app in folder counts as 1 app, so folders make sense if you want organize your 100 apps.

  • Awesome news! I hope to see the last of us, metal fear solid V and uncharted wallpaper!

  • Alright yeah! Another nearly useless feature that hardly anyone asked for!

    Where the hell is the damn name change feature?!

  • @ IIL0YDII: Uh, no, they upped the app limit to 500 earlier this year. Folders were around long before they did this.

    blog.us.playstation.com/2014/03/24/ps-vita-system-software-update-3-10/

  • @HATE_REPUBLICANS@AizawaYuuichi
    You are right, I was wrong, I really should have keep my eye on updates. Thanks for letting me know.

  • Themes are nice and all, but it’d be great if DLNA support would finally be added…

  • Alright!! I’ve been wanting themes on Vita!

  • FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    And thank you.

  • GREAT NEW! Looking forward to this :)

  • Will the avatars and all the cool features from the PS3 version of themes also available soon on PS4?

  • Can I please get a larger Vita memory card!

  • Yes! Can’t wait! great update

  • Please just give us custom wallpapers with our own images.

  • Twitch streaming of Vita gameplay when? Kappa (Actually, that’d be pretty cool, considering PSP, PS1, and PSminis games, as well as the PS TV…ita.)

    But OH!, I’d love to see the Leap Year theme come to these platforms; it even beats out the PS 15th Anniversary themes (on PS3 /and/ PSP!) for solid, crisp, colorful shapes working well with the XMB. Maybe the PLAY ’14 games’ pre-order themes as well.

  • PLEASE LET US MAKE OUR OWN THEMES! I would love the power we had over PS3 and PSP themes again. I hope the option to set our own photos as wallpaper on PS4 will migrate over from Vita, as well… Love the idea of a dynamic Vita theme, but I can set a static theme with the image viewer myself, so static themes will be a hard-sell.

  • YEAH! WOOOO!!!!
    :D

  • pretty excited for the ps4 themes. the one in the photo above looks really nice. i’m thinking a resogun ps4 theme would look awesome. i know most of the themes on ps3 made text difficult to see, and some of them seemed overpriced. i hope we don’t have that same problem again, and can’t wait to see how the themes look on the new console.

    i figured we would get the theme colors first. i wouldn’t mind changing my ps4 screen to purple =]

  • @130 Husteen – Ohh~, could you imagine if the power-is-on light bar on the PS4 changed color to match your theme?

  • ” I’m particularly excited for the “Live from PlayStation” app’s arrival on PS Vita so I can catch the most epic PS4 live streams when I’m away from my PS4.” PS Vita is becoming a mere peripheral for the PS4.

  • Yes to themes! I want a Destiny theme that includes the music from Destiny.

  • Nice vita update! But PLEASE fix the bubbles layout and pages background issue when swapping memory cards on the psvita. Please! :p and thank for not abandonig this awesome console! Long live sony and long live psvita!! Haha cya!

  • CANT friggginng wait THX SONY!!!

  • I would like to be able to alphabetically order my trophy list. My OCD is starting to go insane every time I get a trophy and that game pops up at the top of the list.

  • release date

  • Can we expect a Freedom Wars demo soon?? I’m itching to play!!

  • I’m really happy and I think 2.0 will be fantastic but…but I still want MP3 support movies support and DLNA. Plus we need folder or a way too find our games faster than rolling all the way to the last one in the menu.

  • Another PS4 Theme related question: Will they replace the home screen music that plays? I almost find this doubtful, but it would be a nice touch.

  • Background music is a must have for this update too I hope!

    Also, can we please get some updates on Planetside 2?

  • @ TJF588:

    ooh, that would be very cool. on that note, i’d like to change the default color of the controller’s light bar, too. i’ve only seen orange, white, and blue for the ps4 light colors, but i know the controller has more than that. all things that will come eventually, i’m sure.

  • I just thought about the vita streaming and here we are talking about it , it’s real alright!

  • Cool can’t wait!

    BTW PERSONA 5 on PS4!!!

  • I didn’t mind about PS4 interface, but Vita’s…… I’m really excited about this news! :)

  • I recently got my ps4 3 days ago and i’m loving it. Hope they add a proper Twitch App though. I can’t watch fighting game tournament steams from “live from playsation” Also can we make the themes?

  • also mp3 music playback while playing a game would be so awesome!

  • Now all I personally need is folders and mp3’s and I’ll be solid. Ps one classic playback will be beautiful but unlikely

  • This is awesome news, id love an lbp theme. Now when are you adding that notification to tell me when my friends get online?

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