Sony is constantly trying to improve the user experience on the PS5, and the latest set of changes in the current system software beta is some of the biggest in a while. Some of the most significant changes for the PS5 are the support for 1440p resolution and the ability to make Gamelists.
New Resolution Options
If any game you are playing supports 1440p resolution, you will be able to output that natively onto your 1440p screen. If the game runs on a higher resolution, like 4k, you will get better anti-aliasing with it supersampling down to 1440p.
Organizing Games Using Gamelists
As the name suggests, Gamelists will let you personalize and organize how the console displays your games by making lists. For example, you can name your list by genre and make it easier to find the games you’re looking for. The Sony PS5 will allow up to 15 Gamelists and 100 games per list. You are more likely to run out of storage before crossing that limit.
The same games can also be added to multiple lists so that you won’t be “moving” the game to any specific list. The games you can add include games in the SSD, as well as disc and cloud-based games.
Other Minor Tweaks
This new audio setting will give you the ability to check the difference between normal stereo audio and 3d audio to compare the difference and make the selection from the same screen.
Another new feature that will directly impact how you play is when continuing a game you were already playing. You will now be able to “resume activity” to jump back to where you left off quickly. This feature seems quite similar to Quick Resume but still isn’t as robust as Microsoft’s offering.
New Social Features
Instead of messaging a friend to start a screen share, this quick prompt will allow you to send the request directly from your list of friends.
Whenever you join a party already playing a game, instead of joining manually, you will be notified that the game is joinable, and the prompt will take you directly into the game.
The newly added option to send emojis and voice messages in GameBase will put the microphone in the PS5’s DualSense controller to good use. Thank you, Sony.
While these changes are only available to beta users at the time of writing, they will eventually make it to the stable release software later this year if all goes well. Some of these features might change by the time they’re fully finished. In other news, Sony has provided more details on its upcoming PS V2 headset.
