SCEE President, Shuhei Yoshida, has indicated that his aim with PS4 is to ensure the console is updated in the background, and that all future firmware updates will happen without ever having to interrupt a player’s gametime.
In a conversation with Eurogamer, the President discussed the possibilities and answered the questions in an interesting way.
Here’s some of that transcript…
Eurogamer: So does that mean we’re not going to see firmware updates in the way that we’ve seen them in the past?
Shuhei Yoshida: I hope not. So the work is still going on…
Eurogamer: So it’s not 100 per cent decided, but it might change.
Shuhei Yoshida: It’s about the implementation phase. It’s all about how it gets implemented. So we have to wait for the final product, but our goal is always like that. So there will always be firmware updates, but what we want to achieve is —
Eurogamer: — Put them in the background?
Shuhei Yoshida: Yes! So it’s already been done. Like the PS Plus service actually does it, where it’s downloaded but it doesn’t install. So it’s kind of half-baked. We wanted to make it so people don’t have to wait for anything. If you have one hour of your time, you want to spend one hour playing games, and that’s our goal.
That would certainly be a god-send for many gamers. Firmware updates and installing games have been a massive bugbear for PS3 gamers. It seems PS4 will address many of those concerns.
Would this make you consider buying a PS4?
(Source: Eurogamer)