PS4 Firmware Update 2.02

Who doesn’t love a good stabilising? As announced overnight, PlayStation 4 firmware update v2.02 is ready to download right now – and it weighs in at 217.2MB. The update is mandatory, so you’re going to want to set aside a few minutes to grab this if you’re planning to play online tonight. Obviously, it’ll download automatically if you’ve been brave enough to leave your system in Rest Mode.

There’s no real official documentation on what this fixes, aside from the customary “software stability”. Polygon reports, however, that the digital download has corrected a slew of issues with pre-release copies of Dragon Age: Inquisition, which were caused by PS4 firmware update v2.00, and weren’t fixed by last week’s incremental upgrade. We’ve heard Assassin’s Creed Unity was suffering from similar problems, too.

Let’s hope that this is the end of this sorry state of affairs, then. PS4 firmware update v2.00 was a great upgrade, and it added tons of functionality to the next-gen experience – but if the whole system’s going to break every time that Sony deploys an operating system overhaul, then we honestly think that we’d rather go without.