PS4 Update 4.5 is coming tomorrow, details inside

So given a complete lack of PS4, is there a distinct must-buy between ps4 pro and slim?

PS4 Pro is the stronger one and has the boost mode everyone is talking about, Slim is the old PS4 model made slimmer.

Also the Pro has an optical audio out port, the Slim does not - this is required for most wireless gaming headsets in the market.
 
I stand corrected.

I thought one of the beta users tried taking his external round to a friend's house and trying it on his system and it wouldn't work? Must be misremembering.
Pretty sure they had the same account on both PS4's in the house and just brought it back and forth, but that's been almost a month now. I could be misremembering, too.
 
Yeah I looked and I didn't see the option. Maybe I missed it. I'll try again later.
Do you have a PS4 Pro? It might seem silly to ask but a few posters already showed they had no idea what boost mode actually is. It's under System category, in Settings area if you're on a Pro.
 
SSD upgrade is very noticeable!

Even though it's a 250GB. I can just move games I'm playing off my external.

HZD loads noticeably faster. AC:Unity is stupidly fast at loading. The PS4 dashboard is very snappy no hang ups.

Worthy upgrade. Especially because you don't need to buy a 2TB SSD to store all your games.
 
After all the numerous complaints about the notifications area throughout the beta, they went through with the updates for that anyways.. Man...

What's beyond mind-boggling is the fact that they don't use the "hover the notification icon" area for displaying active downloads (similar to the friends online showing up while hovering the friends icon).

Would be such a neat QoL update.
 
Did anyone ever compare the internal vs external SSD speeds with the beta?

Thinking of getting a 250GB Samsung T3 as a currently playing drive
 
SSD upgrade is very noticeable!

Even though it's a 250GB. I can just move games I'm playing off my external.

HZD loads noticeably faster. AC:Unity is stupidly fast at loading. The PS4 dashboard is very snappy no hang ups.

Worthy upgrade. Especially because you don't need to buy a 2TB SSD to store all your games.

Yep, combine this with Boost Mode and WItcher 3, for instance, becomes the definitive console version. My god the loading times are improved so much.
 
Still having the bluetooth issue with the PDP Universal PS4 Media Remote that I had in both 4.5 Betas. Basically the bluetooth paired remote wouldn't work even though it was showing that it was paired to the system. When I tried to remove it from the bluetooth devices section it would just error out. I contacted both PDP (said it was a Sony issue) and Playstation (said it was a PDP issue) and rebuilt the database like both suggested and still nothing. Any suggestions? It's annoying to have this device on my PS4 that won't work and I can't remove.
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I actually grew to like the new notification area. I suspect they minimilized it because they plan to stick it in the quick menu soon
 
Finding an appropriate wallpaper with the right resolution and aspect ratio has been a pain in the butt, I wish we could crop images.
 
God, I forgot how bad the framepacing in Bloodborne is.

It's going to take awhile to get used to this again, boost mode or not.
 
The transfer speed to take a game or two from the internal drive to the extended storage how long does that process take? If I had 60gb to move to extended storage.
 
can i get details while i'm stuck at work?

They basically condensed the entire thing into one long list, sorted by most recent. You know in the notifications section there was one area that stored all of your notifications, none of which could be deleted? It's basically just that now, with a history of all your notifications going back to the first one you ever got (or in my case, when I upgraded the HDD two years ago). And of course, there's no way to delete notifications!
 
They basically condensed the entire thing into one long list, sorted by most recent. You know in the notifications section there was one area that stored all of your notifications, none of which could be deleted? It's basically just that now, with a history of all your notifications going back to the first one you ever got (or in my case, when I upgraded the HDD two years ago). And of course, there's no way to delete notifications!

So you have to READ all notifications to get rid of the number/notification?
 
Format it to exFat on your PC

Thank you but after digging a little bit online I changed cables and turned the ps4 on with the HDD already connected and it did the trick.

Sending everything I've finished already to external. Leaving the stuff I'm still going to play on the ps4.
 
So you have to READ all notifications to get rid of the number/notification?

I think it marks them all as read once you go to the notification area. It's just really cluttered. As I said on the last page, I have a notification messages going back to two years ago about someone posting in a group I am no longer part of. Why do I need this? No idea.
 
They basically condensed the entire thing into one long list, sorted by most recent. You know in the notifications section there was one area that stored all of your notifications, none of which could be deleted? It's basically just that now, with a history of all your notifications going back to the first one you ever got (or in my case, when I upgraded the HDD two years ago). And of course, there's no way to delete notifications!

Wow, how did they screw that up so bad.
 
Thank you but after digging a little bit online I changed cables and turned the ps4 on with the HDD already connected and it did the trick.

Sending everything I've finished already to external. Leaving the stuff I'm still going to play on the ps4.

I'd recommend playing your currently playing titles on whatever drive is faster, regardless of internal or external. Unless you are on a base PS4 you will likely see better performance on an external drive.
 
About the notifications thingy.

I really hated it at first.

Then I learned to live with it.

I'm used to it now.

I guess it won't matter anymore, they can keep it like that, it's not a big deal.

The old notifications were much better.
 
Slim is weaker.

PS4 Pro is the stronger one and has the boost mode everyone is talking about, Slim is the old PS4 model made slimmer.

Also the Pro has an optical audio out port, the Slim does not - this is required for most wireless gaming headsets in the market.

Well, yeah, I was aware of the power increases. But is the PS4 Pro now the to-go PS4 to buy, or is there still a reason to buy the PS4 Slim? I think there was talk about the PS4 Pro maybe not living up to the promised performance increase and it might not be worth the extra money.
 
Well, yeah, I was aware of the power increases. But is the PS4 Pro now the to-go PS4 to buy, or is there still a reason to buy the PS4 Slim? I think there was talk about the PS4 Pro maybe not living up to the promised performance increase and it might not be worth the extra money.

Anyone buying a PS4 now, I would suggest a Pro.
 
im curious, for the external hd, could you move that same ext hd from ps4A to ps4B and still be able to access those content? given that both ps4 has the same psn login?
or is the formatting process ties the ext hd to that one and only ps4 that formats it?
 
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