Notice to owners of PS5 and PS4, Sony Interactive Entertainment has just rolled out a new update for the firmware of its two consoles, offering new features, but also introducing the arrival of VRR, the famous variable refresh rate. For this, you must have the appropriate and compatible equipment, since only HDMI 2.1 compatible televisions and screens will be able to use this new feature that PC and Xbox players have known for a while now. This allows the game refresh rate to be dynamically synchronized between the console and the screen, resulting in a smoother picture, sharper graphics, through the reduction or elimination of visual artifacts such as frame rate issues or screen tearing.
This new firmware will also allow you to create or join open or closed Parties, both on PS5 and on PS4. Not really a surprise since the option had been tested in beta for a few months already. Anyway, a lot of new functions are based on what is already done on social networks, such as pinning videos and applications on the screen during the game or screen sharing with friends, the idea being to be as connected as possible with the rest of the world. This is all the more true since Sony recalls that it is possible to use the PS App application to create or join these open and closed Parties with more simplified access for messaging, and an interface more consistent with that on PS5. We also learn that a “dark mode” based on their phone settings is now available on the PS Remote Play mobile application, that new languages for the screen reader on iOS and Android have been added too (Portuguese , Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Greek, Thai and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified).
