
Related: All 18 PS4 Games Included In PlayStation Plus Collection Thanks to a long-awaited system update, PS4 players once again seem to drawn the short straw. More recently, Sony made the weighty and wise decision to migrate all Sony accounts under one PlayStation banner, which had the likely adverse effect of making PlayStation Video services nonfunctional for some viewers. It's been a rough few months for PS4 online services, with players having already endured a huge Cloudflare outage that took down PSN and Xbox Live just weeks ago. However, users would likely be wise to hold off on downloading the new update until its worst problems are fixed. This is likely to be the last major update to the PlayStation 4's software in the short term, with Sony gearing up for the release of the PlayStation 5 next month and ending support for older PlayStation hardware.

Firmware update 8.00 has launched for PlayStation 4, adding an array of new quality-of-life improvements, but the new update is also causing major issues for core features, including social functions and general system stability.
