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Everything you need to know about PlayStation5's 7.0 Update, plus Starfield's delayed new release date, Direct, and Xbox Showcase.
By Tom Caswell on
PlayStation 5’s latest 7.0 update brings some long awaited features and quality of life improvements. Here’s everything you need to know.
The headline feature of the update Discord support. Originally tested in beta, Discord's integration into PS5 consoles will allow for voice chats across hardware platforms and Share Screen functionality.
One of the other new features in the update is variable refresh rate support at 1440p resolution. Variable refresh rate, or VRR, is where a screen can actually change how often it is refreshing an image, ideally syncing with how many frames are being generated a second by a game.
Without it, for example, you may have a game that is generating frames between 30 and 60 per second depending on what’s happening in the game, but a screen would be locked to 60Hz, meaning that no matter what, the screen is refreshing the image 60 times a second. VRR, in syncing the screen’s refresh rate with the fps output of the game on display, allows for smoother visual performance.
Just keep in mind that not only do you need a display that supports VRR, you need to be using an HDMI 2.1 cable, which, if you are using the one that came with your PS5, you are.
A «join game» icon in Party Chats, a «friends who play» tile so you can see which games are active in your social circle, and the option to manually upload game captures to the PlayStation App are also
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