Hello everyone it's SpawnPoiint and last week playstation released a new update for the ps5
that brings 1440p support, folders and a few other extras as well now at the time of uploading this
is a beta that means it's not available to everyone yet so any questions you've got about
this video just let me know below but today i wanted to show you what we've got in this new
update and how some of these new features actually work now of course if you want to
sign up to the program yourself you can head to the playstation website or click the link below
okay so this feature which i've actually been waiting for since the playstation 5 launched and
that's called game lists now these are kind of like the folders that we had back on the
playstation 4 where you could organize your games into categories but it's not quite the same so if
you head over to the game library then tab across to your collection you now see this new icon on
the left hand side tap that icon and you can now create a game list from here you can essentially
add any game you would like to your list or folder simply by scrolling through your library and
ticking the games you wish to include you can add up to 100 games to each list now the first issue
i see with this is these are all of your games in your library not just those installed on the
console there's also no option here to search for the games you wish to add so scrolling through the
list might take you a while the first time that you do it and once done just press add and you'll
be able to name the list whatever you need and now when you return to the collection screen you'll
have a new folder or list showing at the top you can actually go ahead and create up to 15 game
lists in total so you could maybe create lists for the games you're currently playing or for your
family members i've actually got one here for call of duty for example and once you've created four
or more lists they will then show horizontally not in a grid layout so you just scroll left and right
and what's great with the list is you can actually add the same game to multiple lists and that's
something you could not do on the ps4 you could only add the same game to one folder at a time now
there's also a quicker way to add games to lists and that's by going to the game itself pressing
the options button on the controller and adding it to an existing or a new list this is probably
the best way to do it for the games you've already got installed and the lists already exist but this
will only work if you do it from the library not to the home screen yet oh and from what i can see
you cannot organize the game list into different orders it just shows the newest list first
unless even if you add new games or you rename it it will still keep it in the original order that
those lists were created so these are definitely a nice addition to have but if we could arrange the
list into different orders and have them on the home screen these would be perfect because having
them hidden in the game library or even worse in the second tab of the library just seems like a
second of thought and what do you think would you use these to organize your games or are you just
happy to scroll and search instead okay so this feature is probably one of the biggest requests
since day one and that's the 1440p support we know that out of the box the ps5 can support
1080p and 4k resolutions but there are a lot of users with a 1440p monitor that are missing out on
that native resolution plus some users just prefer gaming at 1440p even with that 4k support well as
part of the new update we now have the option to enable 1440p under the resolution settings this
is in the screen and video options in the system settings now when you do select it it will run
through a few checks just to ensure your monitor and tv can support it you just need to select yes
to each one if it works and this shows you can get 1440p at 60hz and 120hz both sdr and hdr
it's worth mentioning that at the time of recording this vrr has to be disabled for 1440p to
work you cannot have both the new resolution and vrr on at the same time now of course this could
change and it could then be available at launch but i guess we'll find out within the next month
or so now i went ahead and played a few games just to test out the new resolution and i have
verified that it does work on my tv with the game optimizer mode and as you would hope or expect the
games i tested were absolutely fine now if the game supports native 1440p rendering well we'll
obviously see it in 1440p but let's be honest it will probably be some time before the majority of
games will add this as a native resolution failing that if the game supports 4k it will then sample
it down which will improve the overall picture quality at a lower resolution but playing games
at 60hz and 120hz at 1440p i know will be a huge bonus for a lot of users but let me know if you
will benefit from this new feature or if you will stick with another resolution instead we've got a
slight user experience improvement on the 3d audio screen first up they've split the 3d audio for tv
and headphones into two separate tabs so you can measure and adjust all of your tv or your speaker
setup and if you've got a 3d audio compatible headset you're now able to compare the difference
between 3d and stereo audio on the same page and then same as before you can adjust your 3d audio
profile and save it here another improvement that we've seen is the quicker access to in
progress activities so when you go to a game on the dashboard now you'll see an option to play the
game or resume an activity this is more prominent to what we've seen before and it means you can
jump straight back into the game or task as fast as possible is this as fast as quick resume on the
xbox i'm not so sure but it's definitely a step in the right direction it now means instead of just
hitting play game waiting for it to load and then selecting a game save this will load far quicker
but again this is a feature that previously existed they just made it a little bit more
prominent on the screen well you can now request to watch your friends or party members screen so
if you've got a friend online playing a game that you're interested in like i have here with my mate
Ryan just click on their name and you can press the request share screen option they will then get
notification and they can decide whether to share their screen now this did exist before but the
person sharing the game had to instigate the share rather than just simply accepting a request now
this might not sound like a big deal but it means that the person who's already playing doesn't need
to mess around trying to share their screen they can just accept the request and carry on gaming
we've also now got a joinable game notification so if you join a party and someone in that party is
playing a joinable game you will now get a pop-up notification it'll make it far easier and quicker
to jump straight into a lobby you can now send stickers and voice messages in the game base or
the party chat now the stickers are okay they can be selected from a drop down by selecting
the game you wish to use now i'm not too bothered about that it's the voice messages that are pretty
cool so it now means if you cannot be bothered to type out a message you can just send a voice
message instead you can either do this via the game base error on the playstation 5 or you can
actually use the ps app on your phone and that will allow you to send the voice messages straight
from your phone to a party that's already online well that was a quick look at the new features
that we've got on the latest ps5 update again this is a beta so it's not available to everyone just
yet but these are features that will be rolled out soon any questions about what i've shared
today just let me know below and which was your favorite feature from today's video drop a "ps5
1440p" or "ps5 folders" in the comments and i will give you a thumbs up for staying right
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