PS4 Firmware Update 2.04 Prompting Plenty of Problems

so the update itself doesn't cause any problems just problems downloading, that's good because the title of the article makes it sound like the update is breaking ps4's

There's always the fear though, after it happening in the past, that a problem will be introduced by a firmware update itself. I need to go root through the settings and see if there's a way to disable automatic updating without also disabling the other automatic stuff like save-game syncing - I'd rather spend a few minutes waiting for a manually initiated update to complete a day or two after its release after seeing no reports of problems than have it auto-applied and break something.

any word on new features heading our way. all i want for christmas is an mp3 playback facility

I'm so disappointed with the lack of decent firmware updates so far on the PS4, Sony never seem to release anything exciting in their updates, I'm no fan boy and am very lucky in that I own all three of the latest game consoles and I have to say the Xbox One has greatly impressed me in this area with constant and mostly worthwhile firmware updates.

I actually got hold of a PS4 on release and held off of the XO for quite a while but I feel Sony is doing a their very best to help MS catch up with all their recent problems.

I swear if they brick my system again and I have to wait another month before I can play again I will do something I will regret.

Sony is in first place so that means f*cking up all the time.

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@get2sammyb for now...

I had this issue last night at about 11pm. Got kicked from destiny when I almost finished a strike. Aaaarggghhh. Anyway did anyone find at Xmas when psn was down they had a lot of fun with offline games? My fifa career has never lasted a season before, its 5 seasons now. Also don't forget Sony is primarily a hardware provider, Microsoft has always been a software provider first. So the infrastructure for the xbox online is better. But the PS4 offline is awesome (but its online is pants).

Soo, should I download this now or better to play on the ps3 for the day?

I'll like to see them let us use our external hard drives to save full games onto.

@get2sammyb Just feel a lot of people were put off of getting an XO at launch (myself included) and PS4 was an obvious choice for many, but IMO MS have done a lot of good things to improve the XO situation along with many requested firmware updates, meanwhile Sony have had many problems with PSN down and hardly added any new features for ages or even since launch, obviously Sony can turn things around but I'm just surprised that they've not pushed on more, they had a really good chance to get miles ahead but I feel they have let MS back in quite a bit.

@mikey85 Mikey plug a usb drive into the PS4 with music files on it and the PS4 Music Player will open.

@BloodyBill yeah iv tried but i cannot for the life of me set the usb up.i bought a new usb stick and tried to make a mysic folder which i was succesful in doing,however i could not get music to go into the file instead it kept sitting in the usb outside the music folder so i got peed off and gave up. just want a normal music player which is east to use. cus im not good with pcs and techy stuff

@themcnoisy who plays destiny anymore?

Jk

@THEundying27 loads of people, only set destiny up 10 days ago. was pleasantly surprised tbh, Ive never had to wait longer Than a minute for the pvp to load up. Even the strikes and stuff load up pretty quick. That said ive hit a ceiling at about lvl 25 and the grind has now set in. Been a great game really, but I can see the problems and why you wouldn't still be playing this endgame is far too grindy. I'm going to stick around for a bit but if a legendary set of armour doesn't show soon it will be traded.

@mikey85 Here is a vid on how to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ySHMb8Fh-Q

@get2sammyb Agreed. The reason the XO has had bigger improvements is that there was so much more to improve. Like the screenshot function, it's all been catch-up stuff.

That said though, Sony do need to start adding some much requested stuff now, or they certainly will begin to lag behind. Though I don't personally need them, DNLA would be the best place to start I think, followed by USB video playback.

I'm not convinced backup to external drives is necessary (a feature which many have requested, and I myself thought would be useful), given the speed with which games can be removed and re-installed. Although it might be nice if digital games could be backed up, for those with slow internet speeds.