Sony's getting its act together with all its system software, isn't it? For PlayStation 5, the company currently has a huge update in beta which will make a large number of changes and improvements. However, PS4 is not to be left out — firmware version 9.00 is now in public beta for participants, and has one or two interesting additions of its own.
In an email to beta testers, Sony has confirmed some of the main features of PS4 system software 9.00. The main point this time around concerns Trophies. Currently, you cannot view Trophies you've earned in PS5 games while you're signed in on PS4. With this update, you can view your PS5 trinkets on PS4, making things that little bit more cohesive across consoles. Neat!
Additionally, firmware 9.00 will introduce a couple of other noteworthy things. If you own a message group, you'll be able to delete it (for yourself and everyone in the party). When you block someone, you can choose to also automatically leave the message group containing just you and the person you want to block. Finally, if a child account wants permission to play a certain game, the parent account will be notified on the PS4 and via the PlayStation app.
All these things seem like sensible improvements to us. There's no word on when firmware 9.00 will release for all PS4 users, but we'll of course let you know as soon as it happens. Are you happy you'll soon be able to view PS5 Trophies on PS4? Admire your Trophy cabinet in the comments section below.
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They should update the PS3 like this too, you can't view PS5 Trophies on PS3.
Seems like a whole lot of nothing
@Snake_V5 yeah it’s a shame. A friend of me is still rocking his PS3 and it was even hard to add him in my friend list.
There are some extra details you have to deactivate when you want to add a user with a PS3 profile.
@Reeneman It is a shame, still love the PS3. In fact, I upgraded a few days ago my PS3 HDD to a 1TB one.
Would like to view ps5 trophies on vita too please!
@Snake_V5 I'm thinking of doing this myself. Games take AGES to download, even with my moderately fast internet.
May I ask what hard drive you went with?
And was it a pain in the butt to install/reinstall the firmware?
Wow, some real cutting edge features rolling out in these beta firmware updates.
This annoys me! I sold my PS5, so now I’m going to have unfinished PS5 games on my trophy list!
Sounds nice. I hope the beta testers work out all of the kinks before it goes live for the rest of us. There's seems to be quite a bit they are adding with this next update which means more things could go wrong. Hopefully that won't be the case.
@Bentleyma- so you sold your PS5 but kept a PS4? Kind of a bruh moment, no?
@crashb648 No it was quite easy to do. The brand I went with was a Samsung one.
So how about options to actually sort the games in your trophy list? Be that in various predetermined ways or gasp dare I say it, manually?
I would think that's a no-brainer. Even Vita allows you to sort games by progress percentage, for example.
@zupertramp I had a digital PS5 and for some reason it wouldn’t stay connected to my router, so I sold it. I was mainly using it to play PS4 games, so it was no big lose. I’ll grab one with a disk drive when they become easier to get hold of.
@Bentleyma- Ah, I see. Though I'm the type that would rather run a 100ft Ethernet cable across the floor than use wifi, I get it. Also, is it possible it was the router?
In any case, guess it'll stop being annoying when you're able to snag a disc edition at least.
This is a definite improvement. I dont own a PS5 (By choice, not from the lack of them), but it was annoying seeing someone's PS5 trophies on the app, but not the PS4. Like someone said previously they should push an update to the PS3 for this...but they won't.
@zupertramp I live in a college owned flat and use their visitor wi-fi, so I don’t have access to the router, which means using an ethernet cable is out of the question. I also have the same problem with my PS3 and PC not staying connected. PS4 stays connected Perfectly fine though. 🤷
@Bentleyma- Ha, admittedly I did not think about that situation. Yeah that sucks. Or is a tad limiting anyway. Alternative would be getting a hotspot maybe but then that's pricey and still a little shoddy. Weird that the PS4 works fine when the other systems don't.
I'd love to be able to view my gaming history on the PS4 like they say you can on the PS5. Such a shame they've only given people with access to the new console that power.
The only thing I want in a future update is to have a simple message system. No creating a group just to message someone, but still having the option to create one for pals etc. It's an odd system, but maybe things will change when their Discord app drops.
The update I'm looking forward to is likely the 10.00 update that will add Discord feature integration to PS4. That will basically give us back a feature similar to communities, plus loads more interesting features like emote support for messages on console, etc.
I'm guessing Discord integration will replace the messages and party apps on PS4 and is likely why Sony dropped messaging support for PS3 and Vita and limited party's on Vita to only allow communication between fellow Vita players.
@Snake_V5 It should be across all the PS platform that have trophies i totally agree with you.
@Flaming_Kaiser True 👍
I don't even have a ps5 so this feature is useless to me, nothing noteworthy in this firmware update 😕😕
Now how about folders on PS5?
@TowaHerschel7 Also looking forward to the inevitable Discord integration, but sadly that's not releasing until 2022.
Wonder how this will affect performance and stability??
@huyi As a fellow non-PS5 owner, I concur that this really is a meh update (unless it somehow affects performance and stability).
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