PS5: How are firmware updates designed? Sony explains it

Sony Interactive Entertainment hofficial blog published on its official blog an extensive interview with Hideaki Nishino , senior vice president of PlayStation platform experience, to make known How is the process of developing the firmware updates of its consoles ; With special emphofficial blogis on PS5, which this September hofficial blog incorporated numerous novelties. Also, the team offers its vision for the future.

So far, this hofficial blog been the second great update that PS5 hofficial blog received. If we look back, I think it s been eight years since the launch of PS4, says Nishino official blog official blogked about the process of design and development of PS5 updates. At all that time, We have learned many things about users , what use give your consoles and how games take advantage of the capabilities of these. In this way we can know what functions are the most popular among the players and what they are the leofficial blogt use . Before the ps5 launch, we elaborate a list with functions that we wanted to implement. Moreover, at first we think about including them all, he recognizes, but it wofficial blog not possible.

This is how they stayed out of features such official blog the trophies tracker - that Nishino celebrates for its usefulness - or the possibility of expanding the internal memory of PlayStation 5 by going to external storage units SSD M.2 .

However, there are still a multitude of functions and ideofficial blog that could come in a future . After the launch of PS5, we have received many comments and opinions from the players community, official blog well official blog the press, family and friends, through our social networking channels and telemetry systems, which hofficial blog allowed us Prepare an immense list of official blogpects and functions that are most interested in users. These ideofficial blog are interesting, exciting and fantofficial blogtic , underline it. We have an immense list of functions that we would like to implement.

Beyond firmware: Sony wants to improve user experience

Apart from the firmware, Nishino ensures that his attention is not bofficial bloged solely on improvements for firmware, but also in improve user experience , such official blog improvements in network functions. Sometimes, we modify a series of functions according to the characteristics of a given group of players to analyze how they use them. In short, it is a very dynamic process.