This week’s launch of PS4 firmware 7.50 has seemingly not gone down nicely for some gamers.
Judging by the patch notes for PS4 firmware replace 7.50, which went live yesterday following a couple of weeks of beta testing, it appears to be a minor replace like the various others we’re used to.
These often come and go together with little fanfare, but it surely appears 7.50 made adjustments behind the scenes that at the moment are inflicting points for some gamers. Multiple reports on the PS4 subreddit describe a few issues that occurred after putting in it.
The points seem like the identical for plenty of gamers posting in these threads, which may level to a standard drawback. The greatest appears to be that the console fails in addition after taking the replace. Some obtained an infinite boot loop, the place their PS4 would begin up, solely to shutdown once more and repeat, with out permitting the person any enter.
Others can see that the console is turned on, however not transmitting any sign. Despite restarts, the display screen stays black, even when the PS4 seems to be working.
There’s additionally a distinct drawback, which appears to be associated to the Bluray drive. Some gamers are getting error code SU-42118-6, which isn’t new, nor particular to this replace, but it surely prevents the console from putting in it nonetheless. Judging by these stories, not less than, it appears to be associated to a defective Bluray drive.
The solely drawback is, after all, with so many PS4 homeowners going digital, many could not even realise there’s one thing mistaken with their drive to start with, which is what’s inflicting this confusion. There’s positively one thing occurring with the Bluray on this replace, as others have additionally reported failure to read the disc and even eject it.
This is especially irritating as many worldwide are in lockdowns and should not be capable to ship their console for repairs for a couple of weeks.
For now, all you’ll be able to actually do is eject any discs inserted earlier than updating. If it fails, attempt beginning PS4 in protected mode, which you are able to do by holding down the ability button for ten seconds, and putting in the safe mode version of 7.50 through USB.
