PlayStation 4 firmware 1.60 adding headset support; new official cans announced
Firmware update 1.60 will boogy onto PlayStation 4 tonight, adding support for Sony's official headsets with 7.1 virtual surround sound, Pulse and Pulse Elite. Sony has also announced its new 'Gold Wireless Headset,' which will cost $100. A new companion app is coming too, offering special sound profiles created specifically for certain games.
Firmware update 1.60 will boogy onto PlayStation 4 tonight, adding support for Sony's official headsets with 7.1 virtual surround sound, Pulse and Pulse Elite. Sony has also announced its new 'Gold Wireless Headset,' which will cost $99.99. A new companion app is coming too, offering special sound profiles made specifically for certain games.
Through the app, developers will be release sound profiles "specifically tuned to enhance a game's audio," Sony explains on the PlayStation Blog. The first game to have its own profile after the app launches this month will be inFamous: Second Son. Supporting the new Gold headset and Pulse Elite, the app will also let listeners create their own equaliser profiles. Tough luck, plain old Pulse owners.
Sony says the headset, which will work with PS4, PS3, Vita, and anything else which accepts 3.5mm audio jacks or the wireless adaptor, will go on sale "early this month." Here's a trailer showing off its features:
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Firmware update 1.60 will boogy onto PlayStation 4 tonight, adding support for Sony's official headsets with 7.1 virtual surround sound, Pulse and Pulse Elite. Sony has also announced its new 'Gold Wireless Headset,' which will cost $100. A new companion app is coming too, offering special sound profiles created specifically for certain games.-
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Agreed
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Is Infamous: Second Son the first game that will use AMD's trueaudio tech?
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OMG can you explain how this is done?
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nvm plugged mine in and they dont seem to work :( . Other people have had some success though, hopefully after tonights update I can use them
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"You can connect the Gold headset to your PS4, PS3 or computer using the wireless adaptor for eight hours of straight gameplay."
Looks like you're good!
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Anything else coming in 1.60?
Seems kind of lame that we go three months without a system update and then get better headset support :(-
Waiting for our HBO go :(
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Coming soon to ps5
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I was just talking to Zakk about PS4 headsets. They are shiiiiiiiiiit. The inbox ones are only good enough to throw directly into the garbage. I bought the $30 ones from Sony and they suck too. The headband is pinchy on my big melon, and the mic is poop. For the all the shit wrong with the Xbox One, their pack in headset is perfectly fine.
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Yeah I bought that 20 dollar one and it fits fuckin weird. It's like the only points on contact are the ends of it where it pinches to stay on instead of resting along the top of my head like a regular headset.
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I'm hoping this is it. I have a PS3 in my bedroom and I like to play my Vita in bed so this could be cool, plus I only has a 5.1 SS setup in my living room and this would let me blast games loud and not make my wife all murderish.
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i have this one and it works really good up to a point, sounds great, the mic works well and and is very comfortable. this does bluetooth for the PS3 and for PS4 i hook it up through optical and the base uses 5GHz wifi which is crystal clear compared to my old turtlebeach ones for the 360 that constantly popped and crackled on 2.4GHz.
http://www.turtlebeach.com/product-detail/ps4-headsets/ear-force-px4/414
negatives:
waiting on a patch(?) for:
- mute button to work (currently i just unplug the cable from the controller when jen is asking me a question while i'm trying to kill dudes!
- can't adjust the voice volume independent of the game volume like I could with my old one for the 360
there are wheels and buttons for both, they just don't do anything. not sure if this is going to chalk up to false advertising (they did lie about xbox one support as it's audio only for xbox one if you dig and look at the fineprint) or whether they are waiting on sony to do something to make this work...
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Fix the game 3d-bluray support and I might consider it. Is the bluray playback good so far?
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They're NOT BLUETOOTH. They use a USB dongle. Nowhere in this announcement was support for Bluetooth support mentioned. None of the Sony 7.1 STEREO Wireless Headsets (the original, or Pulse Elite) for PS3 ever used Bluetooth, and neither does this new set. So, no, Sony didn't add Bluetooth support.
I don't understand why people keep demanding Sony add support for stereo Bluetooth headphones when their support for anything Bluetooth on PS3 was so spotty and poor. Mono earpiece BT headsets worked okay, but barely any games piped the actual game sounds to stereo BT headphones. Most of the time, all you got was voice chat. These official 7.1 headsets deliver both surround sound AND voice, and don't require pairing, you just plug the dongle in and turn them on. I've had the original cans since they came out two years ago and I would never be satisfied with BT stereo after using them...besides, you can plug just about any headphones into the controller if all you want is stereo sound, and the quality is pretty amazing.
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