{"id":115973,"date":"2017-03-09T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=115973"},"modified":"2017-03-09T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:22:08","slug":"sony-releases-major-software-update-for-playstation-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/115973-sony-releases-major-software-update-for-playstation-4","title":{"rendered":"Sony releases major software update for PlayStation 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has released its latest major system software update for the PlayStation 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.eu.playstation.com\/2017\/03\/08\/ps4-system-software-update-4-50-is-out-tomorrow-heres-everything-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>System Software 4.50<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The software will allow for a range of new features, including external HDD support.<\/p>\n<p>The main features of the update are listed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>External hard drive\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 USB 3.0 or later hard drives are supported. 250GB to 8TB.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PS VR improvements<\/strong> \u2013 Support for Blu-Ray 3D discs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Voice chat for Remote Play<\/strong> \u2013 Voice chat for Remote Play on Windows or Mac PC, or an Xperia device.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Custom wallpaper<\/strong> \u2013 Set any screenshot as your PS4 home screen wallpaper.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GIF support<\/strong> \u2013 Share GIFs from Sharefactory to your activity feeds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boost Mode<\/strong> (PS4 Pro only) \u2013 provides better performance for legacy titles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/akfQDRZ9nrU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/202164-playstation-4-major-system-update-4-50-all-the-details.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/201808-new-logitech-g-pro-gaming-keyboard-south-african-pricing.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New Logitech G Pro gaming keyboard \u2013 South African pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has released its latest major system software update for the PlayStation 4, System Software 4.50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":112463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[1239,12163],"class_list":["post-115973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-playstation-4","tag-software-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}