Major PS4 System Update Out Tomorrow, Updates for PS Vita and PS App

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Major PS4 System Update Out Tomorrow, Updates for PS Vita and PS App

At PlayStation, we love hearing the great feedback we get from our passionate community of gamers. That’s why I’m excited to announce that our highly-anticipated system software update for PlayStation 4 (v1.70) will be released tomorrow, with a huge number of your demanded features, and expanding upon what we believe is the most socially connected console experience. One feature that I’m most excited about is SHAREfactory, our new rich video editing app. In addition, we’re launching updates for PlayStation Vita (v3.15) and PlayStation App (v1.70) that will deliver greater integration with your PS4 system.

Here’s a rundown of what you can expect with tomorrow’s software updates:

PlayStation 4 v1.70 Update

  • SHAREfactory: After you update your PS4 to v1.70, an icon to download our free SHAREfactory app will appear on your PS4 system’s home screen once it’s available. Once installed, SHAREfactory allows you to easily customize your gameplay videos with special effects, video commentary with picture-in-picture capability through PlayStation Camera, and custom soundtracks using the included audio tracks or your original music imported from a USB drive. You can then share your videos on Facebook or export them to an external USB storage device. The app is packed with plenty of cool, but accessible, tools. It’s simple enough to use for beginning editors, while functioning as a rich video editor for those with more creative aspirations. Check out our new SHAREfactory video that provides a walkthrough of what you can expect:

  • Automatic Pre-download: No more waiting until after a game is released to start downloading select pre-ordered games from PlayStation Store. This new feature allows you to get to your games faster by automatically downloading select pre-ordered games up to several days in advance of the release, so that it’s ready to play as soon as the game is released on launch day. There’s also a countdown timer prior to the release of the game so you’ll know how soon your game will be available for you to start playing.
  • Option to Disable HDCP for Games: This highly requested feature will allow you to have the option to turn off HDCP for games so you can capture longer gameplay sessions directly from your HDMI output and export them elsewhere.
  • USB Export Option for Captured Gameplay: It’s now even easier to show off your heroic gaming moments and the SHAREfactory videos you create with the world using this feature to export your videos and screenshots to a USB drive. Just click on the DUALSHOCK 4 SHARE button, save your gameplay on a USB drive, and then share your proudest achievements on other social networks and other video platforms.
  • Live Broadcasting in HD and Archiving Support: We’ve increased the resolution for live broadcasts so you and your friends can watch games livestreamed in 720p HD. You can also archive your broadcasts on Twitch or Ustream and watch them again later.
  • New SHARE Options: We’ve got a number of new SHARE settings that will give you better control of what you want to share with your friends. Here is what you can look forward to:
    • Change the default gameplay recording time in the SHARE menu under Video Clip Settings.
    • Save only the video clips and screenshots you want by selecting Upload Screenshots or Upload Video Clips for each capture. Also upload video clips and screenshots during your live gameplay broadcasts.
    • Select specific Facebook audiences to share each video or screenshot with.
  • New DUALSHOCK 4 Options: New light bar settings have been added for DUALSHOCK 4, allowing you to change it to Bright, Medium or Dim in the Settings menu. The touchpad has also been updated, allowing you to navigate the on-screen keyboard using the DUALSHOCK 4 touchpad.
  • New Friends Options: It’s now easier to find Friends and send requests with the ability to search Friends-of-Friends, view Mutual Friends on another user’s profile, and accept Friend requests directly from the Friends list.
  • New Trophies Sort Option: You can now sort Trophies by rarity in the Options menu.
  • PlayStation Store Payment Support: Similar to PS3, we’re introducing Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) for PS4 for content purchased on PS Store, starting with PayPal support.
  • More PlayStation Camera Commands: More voice commands are added to PlayStation Camera, allowing you to launch the apps installed on your PS4 with the sound of your voice.
  • New PlayStation Plus Icon: For Plus members, you’ll now have the PS Plus icon appear next to your SEN ID on the login screen, home screen and other areas across the PS4 system’s sleek user interface.
  • Music Unlimited SHARE Options: With a Music Unlimited subscription, you can easily share your favorite songs with your friends by pressing the SHARE button on your DUALSHOCK 4.

PlayStation Vita v3.15 Update

  • PS4 Link Update for Remote Play: Linking your PS4 and PS Vita together will now be easier with the 3.15 update for PS Vita. It’ll enable Automatic Device Registration, which will automatically detect and pair both systems when they’re both online and the same user is signed in to both devices. This makes it even quicker for you to get started on Remote Play or access other second screen features.

PlayStation App v1.70 Update

  • Push Notifications, Friend Requests and More: This new PlayStation app update will give you the option to receive Push Notifications for select PS4 updates you want to receive, such as gameplay Invitations, Game Alerts or Friend Requests. You can also receive Friend Requests via email or text messages with the app update. Also, it’s now easier to change your profile picture right from your mobile device by uploading an image from your photo library, or taking a photo using your in-device camera.

I’ve covered a lot of the key updates in the post, and additional details can be found here.

We can’t wait until the software updates are released so you can start enjoying all of these great features. In particular, I look forward to seeing your SHAREfactory videos and seeing all the creative ways you can make your gameplay moments memorable.

Let’s keep the conversation going – we love getting feedback from you and seeing what else we can come up with to continue making PlayStation 4 the best place to play. Please let us know and we’ll continue to always serve up great content and features to you – the gamer.

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  • Please add the option of being able to log in to multiple accounts on the Vita.

    I want to be able to share games across my accounts like on PS3 and PS4.

    It’s too annoying for me to buy digital games on the Vita right now. I don’t want to format every single time.

  • It’s been said a million times already, but maybe saying it again will help:

    DLNA support, please.

  • Wheres VIDEO CHAT? Multi Media support, created app folders to make screen look better,looks very cluttered right now. I also heard that we would be able to change our gamertag names so when will all that take place?

  • Dlna media server support , make that happen and ill be very happy.

  • Im sure someone has mentioned it but the trophy update is lacking behind what you did on the ps3. Right now it is just a jumble mess. I cant organize overall games under the trophy by alphabet? or for each game list the trophies by earned date.. really? you missed that? seems a little to obvious to miss. Unless im blind. Other than that some pretty good updates hoping dimming the the light will also save some battery :D

  • suspend/resume for games and downloads still not included? I wish in the future everything isn’t all about sharing like the video which was a missed opportunity

  • List of Features id like to see to PlayStation 4
    1: Ability to turn on or off the friends online and going offline notification like PS3
    2: Change PSN Gamertag would be nice
    3: When you hold the PS Logo button in on the menu and stuff add the time like 10:25 PM like that
    4: ability to appear offline but your really online
    5: support for Bluetooth Headsets like the PS3 one or others
    6: Change Colors to the PlayStation Home Screen like its blue now but like change it to orange or green or something
    7: Ability to invite a friend to a game like an opition to like it would appear on the profile you are on and it will be a invite to game button
    8: Touchpad use for the web browser or an option
    9: When a notification appears if you press the PS Logo button it takes you to whatever it is from a message, game invite (already there) or a trophy unlock with details
    Lastly: Keyboard support to where i can type stuff in quickly like on the browser or a gamertag or message im not sure if that’s already added but it would be nice
    Thanks for the New Update and hope you like these ideas

  • They Value our feedback, but only 10 replys taken from over 200 comments. Notice when we ask about wheres YOUTUBE app they ignore us . It would be heck of alot easier to have a youtube app and export them directly to it. I dont have a xbox1 but they did a good job with their sharing video support with youtube.Hopefully playstation will do so soon and add 1 of the most used site ever to PS4.

  • Private video party chat…ps3 could do it so the ps4 should be able to.

  • Great update. I’m mostly looking forward to the share factory. With that said… maybe i missed it but how come there hasn’t been any comment about the SHARE BUG getting fixed. The bug i’m talking about is where when you press the share button to SAVE the last 15 minute of your epic gameplay it saves a random clip. If that has not gotten fixed then the update is useless to me since i can’t save my last 15 minute and i rather not have the system recording/saving constantly just in case i do something epic. I rather the system work as promised. please please please say this got fixed.

    for the next update i would really like to see a more stream line way of checking my “just unlocked/earned” trophy. The way i do that now is i go back out to the home screen>> go to trophies>>select a game>>and then find the trophy that just unlocked. Along with a pop-up saying i earned a trophy i would also like an option like…”press X” to to view your new unlocked trophy and direct it to that game or that trophy.

    • Happy to hear it! SHAREfactory is a seriously cool addition that we’re all very excited about – as someone with 0 experience with editing videos, I was super pleased at how easy it was to pick up.

      Tips and tricks: double tap the SHARE button to start a fresh capture session.

  • This is great and all but I wanna see when my friends come online.Come on this should have been with the console since day one.

  • Great job guys! Keep the updates coming! I love that PlayStation really listens to what it’s gamers want. Now if only we could have some more customization options with the UI…then I’d need nothing else.

  • Can’t wait to take advantage of these awesome features. I hope you guys make it possible to upgrade sub accounts to master accounts soon because I really want to take advantage of all of these share functions and still maintain my high trophy count.

  • Wow, are you freaking serious? Sony/Playstation said “with this update, there will be something for every gamer”, in that case, where is the bloody music player? We keep asking for it, and you guys said it was coming early this year so where is it? If it is not in this update, you will seriously have made a lot of Playstation fans (including me) very angry. -__-

  • Question – the PS4 currently records the last 15 minutes of gameplay only – with this new update does that change? can you record an unlimited duration of gameplay yet?
    Is that a twitch issue?

  • It’s nice to see improvements made based on what the community wants, but I’ve been waiting 7 years to have the option to either change a sub-account to a master account or change the PSN ID on my master account. It’s even more of an issue with the PS4 because I can’t use the share button to capture and upload gameplay video while using my sub account, which is what I’ve been playing on since day 1. I have grown attatched to this account, and it would be a shame to have to make a new account and lose all of my trophies and games that Ihave purchased through th PS Store to be able to use the sharing features of the console. I just don’t understand why it’s so difficult for Sony to implement when I am the owner of both the master and the sub accounts.

  • Any chance of VIta TV or adding TV out to the VIta?

  • really stoked for pre-loading my games so i can play right at midnight. It’s cool to see the Playstation app getting some love but i really want to see an integrated PSN store in the app rather than be redirected to the mobile website.

  • I re-read the share factory section and saw that it said “you can upload your own music” now my question is, is that just for uploading or can you upload music to the ps4 and play it while browsing the xmb,store, playing games, etc, if so I take back my angry message, if not, I emphasize on my previous comment.

  • WOW! Nothing on the PlayStation Bluetooth Headset 2.0 -.- , hopefully they add it.

  • I wouldn’t mind paying 2.99 for music unlimited but to pay 9.99 plus 50 a year for ps+ is too much c’mon sony

  • I’m glad to see that light bar settings are being added in this update, but I’m sad that it doesn’t include the ability to change colors. I think it’d be really cool if we could customize which color our controller’s light bar uses when our profile is loaded. It’d add a touch more personality to the experience.

    What do you think? Could we see that feature added soon?

  • Missing

    Media Player, with music visualization
    Photo Player
    DLNA
    Audio Settings
    Upsampling audio

    Thank you.

  • I honestly cannot figure out how to upload my own profile picture from the iOS app.

  • how about a facebook app for PS4 to share the edit videos or youtube..

  • If our feedback is important and you listen, where is DLNA, mp3 playback and a Youtube app? Stop doing PR, then coming up with this weird stuff, then saying “we are listening” for the past six months.

    ALSO…

    You can upload music via USB to the Sharefactory app, yet you still can’t just play music? Whether you are going to do media playback of our own or not, just tell us. I keep getting directed to tweets from last Fall that say nothing.

  • At what time can we expect the update to go live?

  • WHAT ABOUT HAVING A NOTIFICATION THAT SHOWS YOU WHEN YOUR FRIENDS COME ONLINE. SO THAT WAY YOU DONT HAVE TO CONTINUOUSLY CHECK THE FRIENDS LIST TO SEE WHO IS ON AND WHO IS NO LONGER ONLINE.

  • Come on guys

    what we need have a option for when friends come online we might be playing and not see them online how im a supposed send them invite to a game or party if i want to chat with someone about something important check my friend list evey match?

    for people with 2,000 friends just make a option to turn notifcation on or off when friends sign online

    for trophies i want sort them by the date and earn them so i can look at the ones i got left all the ones i earned be on top and all i havent be on bottom

    even im disappointed in this update it still has few cool features im excited about

  • WHAT ABOUT HAVING A NOTIFICATION THAT SHOWS YOU WHEN YOUR FRIENDS COME ONLINE. SO THAT WAY YOU DONT HAVE TO CONTINUOUSLY CHECK THE FRIENDS LIST TO SEE WHO IS ON AND WHO IS NO LONGER ONLINE.

  • How about letting sub-accounts become master accounts already. This is a huge deal and many people want it to happen so we can finally be able to do everything the Playstation user is capable of doing.

  • Sounds good, here’s my wish list:

    1. Physical games should not leave an icon, just like in the PS3, please make this possible on the Vita as well.
    2.Take off HDCP from PS3 as well, I still stream PS3 since the PS4 has not that many games worth streaming.
    3. Make notifications universal please!!! Meaning that if I read a message on my PS4, the notification should be gone on the Vita/PS3/iOS app, I am getting tired of getting rid of the notifications manually on each device.
    4. Show when a friend gets online, and when I get on a game tell me if someone from my friend list is also in this game (second one is a ripoff from the xbox, so I can understand if not possible)
    5. Make more use of the touchpad on the menu and apps
    6. Not really part of an update but try to get in touch with app developers to fix their apps (Netflix/Crunchyroll/Hulu) to be more smooth.
    7. If you are feeling generous, let us use PS3 controllers for multiplayer games, Nintendo did it (Previous gen controllers that is), I can’t see a reason why Sony wouldn’t.
    8. Look into a fix on WiFi on the PS4 being so bad and slow, a single google search would suffice to know what I am talking about.

  • Any plans to bring the PlayStation app to Windows Phone 8?

  • thats great and all….but i still cant see when my friends sign on or off. this feature was on AOL in 1996. i figured theyd at least have it or something better on on gaming console 18 years later.

  • Hell yes! I’m excited! I cant wait!

  • Excited!

  • Awesome update!!! really liking the paypal option! Now if I can only turn on my PS4 from standby with my voice, that would be kind of awesome.

  • STOP…….TIME OUT……YOU ANNOUNCED WHAT’S NEW, BUT IN YOUR ANNOUNCEMENT YOU ALSO STATED A NEW FEATURE, AND YET, THAT WASN’T LISTED AS A “NEW FEATURE………….

    DID YOU FORGET TOO LIST THAT 1 VITAL AND KEY FEATURE YOU ADDED WAS IN-FACT .MP3 SUPPORT?

    The SHAREfactory: states…

    ” After you update your PS4 to v1.70, an icon to download our free SHAREfactory app will appear on your PS4 system’s home screen once it’s available. Once installed, SHAREfactory allows you to easily customize your gameplay videos with special effects, video commentary with picture-in-picture capability through PlayStation Camera, and custom soundtracks using the included audio tracks or your original music imported from a USB drive”

    ” and custom soundtracks using the included audio tracks OR, YOUR “ORIGINAL MUSIC IMPORTED FROM A USB DRIVE!”

    THAT LINE SAYS, YOU CAN UPLOAD YOUR “ORIGINAL MUSIC IMPORTED FROM A USB DRIVE”

    IF that is the case, THEN THAT MEANS THE PS4 NOW HAS .MP3 SUPPORT. YES?

    if I am wrong, PLEASE, BY ALL MEANS, EXPLAIN how the PS4 recognizes the USB Stick, and ACCEPTS the uploading of “IMPORTED MUSIC” how does it NOT have MP3 SUPPORT?

  • and umm, changing names… I was 15, I really don’t want to be Man_DuDe anymore… please feel dilemma, lemme manage to regret another name later.

  • Wow the smile on my face just continued to grow as I kept reading this. good job guys keep up the good work and Im sure you are working on even more updates! keep them coming I cant wait to use share factory in a pretty original way to make some interesting videos soon. =)

  • How bout 3d blu ray playback…. That’d be great, feels like features on the ps3 were greater than on ps4 just sayin

  • NOW THINGS I STILL WANT AND HOPE AND PRAY TOO THE LORD ALMIGHTY…

    When it comes to PS1 games, PS2 Games and PS3 games on the PS4. The PS2 was MASSIVE! From when it came out too the PS3, thousands of games were bought, and in the next-gen system, everyone wanted PS2 emulation. For that giant catalog you came out with, you made the 60gb PS3 w/ emulator chip. Great. But then you dropped it and said no more, and stop making those editions. I still use my day 1 60gb model plus the day 1 PS3 in my bedroom & a day 1 PS4 in living room.

    I get what your doing on downloading w/ PS Now, but at the same time, EVERY single one of us who bought those PS2/PS3 games, should NOT be forced too pay for a game we already own if we want too use it in the PS4.

    You had the PS3 to PS4 cross buy, which is a great idea. BUT, it can be made so much better if the OWNERS of those previous games, could put that in the PS4, since we already own it, we should be able to access the cloud just like we did w the PS3/PS4 Cross Buy since it would work the same exact way.

  • I hope this update fix this CE 34878-0 problem.

  • This update is gonna be a blast!

    Future stuff I would wish to have would be

    – folders to organize the games.
    – Pause / Resume option for the downloads.
    – Another “app” (or folder like the one that the “apps” icon have) to add all icons of the games that have gotten screenshots & video that have been recorded & in each game icon to link them exactly to they’re appropriate Folders that have all the screenshots & Videos recorded in the game.

    One optional I would also like would be, to be able to play music, or movies via a usb drive at least & for it to support NTFS format coz’ I don’t really like to make an extra partition on my exHDD with Fat32 just for that..

    Thanks ^^

    #4ThePlayers

  • Honestly, im a bit disappointed. I was looking at some more useful things well at least for me. Like 3D bluray , be able to change psn id , music player with visualizerr, youtube app. 1.7 for me is not that much in term of new features

  • Dynamic themes,customs wallpapers, themes and fonts.
    Skype
    Youtube share app
    flash player update
    pause/resume option for organized downloads
    sort/organize option for download list
    friend sign in notification
    international PlayStation forum app that includs developer conversation threads like miiverse duh.
    names I came up with ( PSNCommunity,PSNPub,PlayNation)

  • Can you have them work on the Chat system some more I tried using the party system and it was constantly cutting out and it seems to be a constant issue I am a paying Plus member but not getting the Chat features that I pay for. Please have them include that in their next update I could care less about using my Share button I would love to be able to talk to my friends instead.

  • psn id name change plz!

  • Will there be more work on the chat system to make it more stable it seems very inconsistent and constantly dropping I am using the Gold headset but am not able to talk to fellow gamers because of it. Hopefully plus membership will be going towards making this better sooner that is probably the only thing that the competitor really seems to have down and has made a priority

  • Let me guess… no DLNA. Was I right?

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