The big thing I’ve run into is regular use vs occasional use. I only use my PS4 as a Blu-ray player these days, and each time I turn it on, it has to figure out if it shut down correctly last time(of course not). Then, after a memory check, it boots. I sign in, and then it yells at me that it has a mess of OS updates to install, which I don’t want to wait for because I just want to watch this damn movie. Plus, my controller barely holds a charge anymore, and if I don’t use the right USB controller plugged into the PS4, the controller doesn’t pair and control the damn thing. If I were using the PS4 every day like I did back in 2016, a lot of these problems wouldn’t be there, but because I boot it once every 3 months, it’s a hassle.
I would love to be able to just slide in a disk and watch in the rare cases I’ve decided to. As it is, I’m about to buy a dedicated Blu-ray player instead of using the hardware I already have.
If you’re genuinely not using it as a gaming machine, you could take it offline for use as a blu-ray player. That would at least let you skip the OS updates. And mine only complains about the shutdown if it comes unplugged or we lose power while it’s on or in rest mode. It never complains if I fully shut it down from the menu.
Yeah. I booted up my PS4 for the first time in months a few days ago, to play a free game. I had to sit through fifteen minutes of software updates for both the OS, and for God of War that just happened to be in the drive that I’ve completed and didn’t want to play.
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The big thing I’ve run into is regular use vs occasional use. I only use my PS4 as a Blu-ray player these days, and each time I turn it on, it has to figure out if it shut down correctly last time(of course not). Then, after a memory check, it boots. I sign in, and then it yells at me that it has a mess of OS updates to install, which I don’t want to wait for because I just want to watch this damn movie. Plus, my controller barely holds a charge anymore, and if I don’t use the right USB controller plugged into the PS4, the controller doesn’t pair and control the damn thing. If I were using the PS4 every day like I did back in 2016, a lot of these problems wouldn’t be there, but because I boot it once every 3 months, it’s a hassle.
I would love to be able to just slide in a disk and watch in the rare cases I’ve decided to. As it is, I’m about to buy a dedicated Blu-ray player instead of using the hardware I already have.
If you’re genuinely not using it as a gaming machine, you could take it offline for use as a blu-ray player. That would at least let you skip the OS updates. And mine only complains about the shutdown if it comes unplugged or we lose power while it’s on or in rest mode. It never complains if I fully shut it down from the menu.
Yeah. I booted up my PS4 for the first time in months a few days ago, to play a free game. I had to sit through fifteen minutes of software updates for both the OS, and for God of War that just happened to be in the drive that I’ve completed and didn’t want to play.