PS4 Firmware Update 12.52 Out Now, Features 'Security Fixes'

“Improved stability” - PsVita & Ps3

This is a welcome update because I felt really insecure while using my PS4.

I find articles about PS4 firmware updates more interesting than about games with weird halfnaked Anime characters.

Sony need to make a "how to use the console" and charge £10 for it.

I've moved on to ps5 but it's nice playing ps5 and ps4 games on the ps portal.

I gifted to my 6 year old with a copy of Doom and Leisure Suit Larry.

@colt45z Which one? Wet Dreams Don’t Dry or Wet Dreams Dry Twice?

both of course

that just means they are patching exploits for modding

Well, I shall be booting up my old Pro tonight and installing the latest update. Hope it doesn't affect the stability though!

"The PS4 was jailbroken quite some time ago" - but it still took a lot longer time to break it than it did for the PS5 though...

still have my ps4 pro hooked up with my psvr setup

still have my ps3 connected up as well

Still weird hearing people call PS4 a retro console. Hell PS3 still seems modern to me. I have a backlog of unfinished games even now.

@Truegamer79 Anyone who calls the PS4 ''retro'' is wrong and probably about ten years old.
The official figure for what constitutes ''retro'' is 20 years. The PS4 release date was 2013.
The PS3 was released in November 2006 and thus has a little over a year left before it becomes the next old man on the block.

Oh, I will check my PS4 machine to get updated.
Since I have PS5 machine, I rarely play my PS4 machine as half of my PS4 games collection (30+ games) moved to PS5 machine to get better performance.

It's always with modders/hackers these days, understandable why but many will stay on old versions and prevent the update.

Other then the PS store or updates for any games I put the disk in I don't really have a need for PS4 updates. So I'm happy to update my PS4 as I still use it, many games will use that firmware and I would need to update it to play them or else can't or the firmware could be on the disks like Wii/PSP did, but I don't know if they do as that was more a if people didn't connect their consoles to the internet thing then (no interest in PS5/Series X at all, no games I want, performance is fine but game design is boring, so pass, even then Xbox layoffs I mean the games were eh but well the AI or other aspects make it clear to care even less) as I don't care for hacked consoles at all. PC/phone emulation for homebrew or otherwise is fine then messing with a console anyway.

Then again the PS3 update removed PS Vita connections (and many others do over time for security reasons or to make people upgrade or because no one really used them, but it also makes things annoying as well for those wanting PS Vita folder/PS1 or PSP game transfers with PS3 eshop and from PS3 to Vita or PSP I think now) and I have refused to update that. Always got a 2nd PS3 just encase, problem is I have a broken wifi chip in my current '1'st' one (Slim), got a 2nd as a Super Slim 500GB for disk install data. My 1st PS3 was a back compat emulated one (PAL only had that, no hardware PS2 support in EU consoles).

I don't mind, I'm happy on PS4 and updating as many games won't be available or the PS Store (of course they always restrict it with updates, network features sure but also updates).

Till anything is actually compelling on PS5 I won't upgrade. Besides PS4 Playlink games don't work on PS5 either so why would I sell a PS5 if I can't access those.

@Truegamer79 I flip flop between retro aesthetic (aka analogue like then digital, even then I liked the Invisible's aethestic because it was the first time in a while we got analogue looking tech in a game besides Fallout or others and from a new IP but using it in interesting ways I think it was. Never played it but still

Or I guess 6th gen and under, more AV/Composite and otherwise or CRTs and anything HDMI or HD or otherwise focus on LCDs/Plasma/etc. as modern style) and retro in years time.

I more so prefer years time of the like 15-20+ years.

Anything that is used is just that used PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, etc. games then 'retro' term thrown around. Second hand or used game stores/places are just that used, old, but not retro.

@tofuman86 Did the original PS4 have rear USBs? The Pro definitely has one rear USB as that's where my extended storage hard drive is plugged in but I don't remember the original having any?

The PS3 is still the only PS console to play CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray and yes, that was the console that got stripped of the good stuff the most. From my original fatty 60GB to the Slim I have now did seem like a bit of a downgrade. Still, could be worse, I could have kept the Super Slim (shudders!)