TechGamingGaming ConsolesThis PS5 upgrade is beeping brilliant – but there’s one major feature still missingBeep off! That’s right: Sony’s new PS5 update means the console’s beep can be silenced… but why no lighting control?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechGamingGaming ConsolesThis PS5 upgrade is beeping brilliant – but there’s one major feature still missingBeep off! That’s right: Sony’s new PS5 update means the console’s beep can be silenced… but why no lighting control?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Beep off! That’s right: Sony’s new PS5 update means the console’s beep can be silenced… but why no lighting control?
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(Image credit: Sony)
(Image credit: Sony)
But that’s not all, as this firmware brings a beeping brilliant upgrade to the PS5 that I didn’t see coming: control over theactual beep soundwhen switching the console on/off or putting it into rest mode. Ideal for late-night play sessions, aye?
No longer do your ears have to suffer the infernal fixed-volume beep sound each time, as you can either mute it or adjust its volume as you please. To do so, simply go toSettings > System > Beep Sound >the selectVolumeorMute Beep Sound. Job done (well, if you have access to the firmware, which is coming to UK, US, Canada, Japan, France and Germany first).
(Image credit: Future / Mike Lowe)
(Image credit: Future / Mike Lowe)
Much as I appreciate this bleeping brilliant new feature, I can’t help but feel there’s also one major PS5 control feature still missing. Do you, like me, love yet loathe the PS5’s lighting? Yes, it looks lovely when it pulses white or blue (no blinking red, thank you very much), but it can be overly distracting in some circumstances.
As part of my job I test outthe best TVs, and when it comes tothe best OLED TVsin particular – which are exceptional at black-level handling – when I’m using the console to deliver a 4K Blu-ray movie I find its emanating light too distracting. I’d want to turn it off, ideally, or certainly dim it down.
But, no dice, that’s not possible. I doubt it’s even a case of ‘yet’ either, as historically – i.e. throughout the previous PlayStation 4 series' existence –Sonyhasn’t allowed for lighting control, with ‘no light’ simply meaning the console is powered off. There’s a whole list ofwhich light colour means what on the company’s official website.
I get it: accessibility is key here. But I still pine for PlayStation 5 lighting control to complement the new beep sound control. It’d make my movie-watching and gaming experiences better. So I live in wait and wonder whether such a pipedream will ever come true…
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