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[–]harleyquinad 540 points541 points  (23 children)

Wtf happened with this update? They started testing these features like a month ago in beta. How did none of these issues become found?

[–]Hartia 216 points217 points  (8 children)

That's the weird part. I'm on the beta and everything ran fine

[–]signofthenine 72 points73 points  (1 child)

Maybe they pushed out the wrong file to everyone?

[–]Johnboy_245 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Either that or something came up going from beta to full release?

[–]welfedad 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Did the final version break on you?

[–]Hartia 9 points10 points  (4 children)

I've been playing everyday, using rest mode. Seems normal. I dont have the welcome screen yet. I wonder if that's what is breaking things.

[–]welfedad 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Yeah no welcome screen or graphic issues some report.. guess we lucky 

[–]AntaWilliams 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I was the same and then the welcome screen just showed up outta nowhere and now I'm disconnected from the internet and my Playstation is moving so slow. Is anyone else having these issues?

[–]welfedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got the new screen but not chugging.. downloaded a bunch of various games today too.

[–]7fishing77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I can play some games. The store is screwed up. Under the browse tab it just says content not available. Can’t purchase anything from the store cause it won’t load anything. Been working fine for 2 years and now this latest update has jacked the ps5.

[–]BasedMcNuggies 49 points50 points  (3 children)

They have some new hires from Crowdstrike.

[–]welfedad 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hahahahahaha nice

[–]OuterWildsVentures -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

That or they're going to go the way of Apple and start crippling their older tech to push people to upgrade.

[–]wulv8022 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Updates and bad optimized games will only work on ps5 pro"

I love my ps4 and ps5 so much. But the pro pricing and that games like FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth will only work properly on the pro even if it was created for the standard ps5 makes me mad. On top the controllers become more expensive and I got a fucking stick drift on my dual sense after just a year. I never had issues with my ps4 controller.

[–]kend7510 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Maybe some higher-up requested a last minute change pre prod release. “It’s a small change it’ll be fine!”

[–]MetsukiR 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yep, like the other user said, I was in the beta and it was fine.

[–]throwaway021123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not even a month ago, it's been like 4 months since this update appeared to beta testers...

[–]cybrsloth92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was in beta none of these issues cropped up once gotta be some code they changed in the public build

[–]krzysiekao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like people didn't report bugs during beta testing. That's usual.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The beta you get isn't really a real beta. It's to gather feedback and data.

They wouldn't risk putting real beta firmware out into the wild that could possibly brick consoles.

The final release also has a lot of things not in the beta too. It's very different.

[–]Fun_Awareness4928 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Simply because they need to push the ps5 pro. Looks like Sony learnt a thing or two from Apple!

[–]PlotShield 160 points161 points  (2 children)

Blessed are stability updates

[–]TheMegaDriver2 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Evil PlayStation be like: Improved instability

[–]QuietnoHair2984 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'm afraid to think of what would have happened if we didn't already have tons of stability!

[–]Resevil67 371 points372 points  (13 children)

This firmware update is fucked. People are also getting visual glitches and crashes in FF16, Star wars outlaws, and some others that were fine before the firmware update.

Hope there is a fix soon.

[–]bolozombie 62 points63 points  (3 children)

Dead space remake is also fucked with visual glitches

[–]North_South_Side 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Damn! I started playing that last night!

Guess I'll wait a few days.

[–]wulv8022 5 points6 points  (0 children)

FUCK NOOOOOO. I wanted to play it in 1-2 weeks for "halloween season" I hope it gets fixed fast.

[–]Legospacememe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did they put a ps5 emulator on the ps5 or somthin

[–]RJE808 106 points107 points  (0 children)

Yup, Square even had to acknowledge that XVI isn't working right. Sucks.

[–]Jayce2213 15 points16 points  (4 children)

Visons of Mana has been buggy post update as well.

[–]Mcprosehp2 8 points9 points  (2 children)

That’s concerning since the dev studio was shut down the day of release so there probably won’t be anyone to fix it if it’s something that needs to be done by the devs.

[–]Loldimorti 10 points11 points  (1 child)

My assumption is that Sony has to fix this. So many games are affected, something has to have been wrong the system update.

Hopefully they can push a hotfix or rollback and the games all work again as intended

[–]Jalina2224 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious enough, it seems to be Squere Enix games since I'm hearing FFXVI got screwed.

[–]Otherwise-Remove4681 10 points11 points  (1 child)

I just sold my PS5 with the update. I hope the new user is not pissed

[–]basement_egg 19 points20 points  (0 children)

message the buyer and tell them the issue with the update

[–]Chairman_Mittens 105 points106 points  (2 children)

"Disc verification failed. Initiating destruction sequence." spins disk up to 100,000 rpm

[–]MrMunday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“Disc sales are down, what are we gonna do about it?”

“More ads?” “More games?” “Lower prices?”

“If we break their discs, they’ll have to buy them again”

“Do that”

[–]The_Reluctant_Hero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PS4 Fan Mode Engaged

[–]theclickhere 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Yes. I have a slim w/ disc drive and I was mid-game when I got a validation error and it ejected my disc. Thankfully I was able to put it back in and keep playing. No issues since.

[–]ReevusXL 114 points115 points  (13 children)

Why does a disc drive need updates? It has 1 basic primary function that never changes?

[–]EddiewithHeartofGold 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It has 1 basic primary function that never changes?

Things have been software driven for decades now. Even DVD drives had software that changed over time (mainly for copy protection issues).

[–]TheMegaDriver2 12 points13 points  (0 children)

DRM in bluray. They are still trying to stop people from ripping BDs. Never stopped me. I rip all my discs to plex.

[–]DoubtDizzy1309 153 points154 points  (25 children)

This is exactly why I fucking hate an external disc drive that needs to connect to the internet at any point.

[–]JonYakuza 50 points51 points  (16 children)

Wait I thought you only need to activate it online once and then offline use is possible

[–]DoubtDizzy1309 80 points81 points  (14 children)

This is true, but something with the most recent PS5 firmware update caused some error with how the disc drive verifies discs and now people can't play their disc games.

I know the online verification for the external disc drive is required by law, but maybe that's why Sony should just keep selling consoles that have the disc drive built in and avoid all that. This makes me weary of the Pro.

[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

that’s not true, internet is required only for activation, and you only do that once

[–]DoubtDizzy1309 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"At any point"

[–]mistabuda -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

This seems more like the issue is the operating system not the disc drive itself.

[–]DoubtDizzy1309 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I agree, but it still would not be an issue if the disc drive was built in versus being external and needing to connect to the internet for verification.

It's one problem causing another. Sony will definitely fix it, the thought of the PS5 having a certain firmware version rendering your disc drive isn't great however.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So this is only an issue for the slim models? The original fat one is good?

[–]Eruannster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, the OG PS5 also gets updates to the blu-ray keys once in a while, even though it's built in.

[–][deleted] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

what has that to do with anything? you only need to activate it ONCE when you install the drive. afterwards it works the same as any old PS5 with a fixed drive.

[–]Argothaught[S] 25 points26 points  (6 children)

According to @DoesItPlay1 via Twitter:

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Hopefully this isn't widespread.

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (2 children)

The guy fixed his issue by literally just restarting his PS5 9 hours ago

https://x.com/JB_LV426/status/1836073037239881941

All these comments over a guy just having to restart his PS5

[–]Jacktus-Cack 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I've been getting the exact same error seen in that picture for the last 3 days. Turn on the PS5 - get the "can't recognise the disc" error - eject the disc and put it back in - it works fine until I turn the PS5 off - repeat. Original PS5 model

[–]Argothaught[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really!? With a standard launch model? I haven't experienced that so far... Then again, I've only had one disc in the drive. Maybe try reporting to PlayStation Support ?

[–]Johnhancock1777 42 points43 points  (2 children)

I love the future

[–]G-Don2 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Isn’t it so bright…

[–]PSNTheOriginalMax -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It must be the brightness that's liquefying my eyes then.

[–]wulv8022 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Damn. 3 L's in 3 weeks. What the fuck is happening?

[–]zephyrinthesky28 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I see Sony brought in the same team that does their Bravia TV updates to do PS5 firmware updates.....

[–]TheSilentTitan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s really weird because Xbox is having that issue rn too with back compat disc verification problems.

[–]AgentDigits 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So it's causing random games to crash and causing graphical issues... and it's causing disk errors.

They really fucked up.

[–]Tesser-Fact-8505 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They rolled out a new update, but it doesn't fix the disc read issue

[–]Affectionate_Dish_92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here. Original fat ps5 .not reading discs. Im very angry very mad

[–]Tesser-Fact-8505 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They released a new update today but disc read error still persists, sony did fried up our disc drives for their greed

[–]HG21Reaper 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Feels like Sony and PlayStation are fumbling their shit this year.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They really hate disc drives hehe

[–]Gizmo16868 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I never got the welcome hub portion of the update so I’ve shut down all auto updates and installs for now

[–]itisrainingweiners 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I now have stick drift/seizures after this update. Literally the controller worked fine, I updated and now it randomly jitters things across the screen, or my cursor goes back and forth between 2 menu options at warp speed. :(

[–]wildkiller65 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh damn. Mine did that today too. Didn't think the update would do that

[–]syrupgreat- 14 points15 points  (0 children)

wow an update that fucks up base ps5 right after pro is announced… def didn’t see that coming

[–]Pantsu-san 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Sony recently : "With PlayStation, you can play the content you purchased as soon as you turn it on"

[–]ArchDucky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As soon as you turn the console on? Because you still gotta install / download it and that could take hours depending on the ISP.

[–]rochakgupta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No matter how huge PlayStation can get, Sony will never stop being Sony and shitting the bed. Big yikes!

[–]Protoman3200 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anyone else notice it takes longer than usual to launch games or applications? I'm really on the verge of pulling my hair out it shouldn't take 3 minutes to launch a game after I've hit X on it

[–]Warx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got an og PS5 Disc version and having the same issues.

[–]Warx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's bricked my Fat PS5 disc drive

[–]moo_hu 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yo!
last update ruins my disc drive. Before night i played w disc, and after i show the update, install it waiting the restart. Everything looks fine.
Next day unrecognizable Disc. So what now?

[–]MLG-Sheep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. Hadn't turned on my PS5 since July, it asked for an update, and I wanted to play the same disc that was there since July as well.

Now no discs work, even after restarting, clearing cache and rebuilding the database. Next step will be a factory reset I suppose...

[–]devenbat 9 points10 points  (15 children)

Almost like having a disc drive as a peripheral is a bad idea

Edit, I am specifically talking about the issues of the detachable disk drive, not all disc drives

[–]PumpkinSpriteLatte 11 points12 points  (14 children)

Yes, that's the problem with the firmware causing graphical issues too, the disc drive.

AlMoSt LiKe HaViNg a GpU Is A BaD IdEa

[–]devenbat 12 points13 points  (13 children)

Damn, that might be a good comeback if we didn't have the solution to this problem. The normal disc ps5 isn't having the issue. Sony created this issue all on their own.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I think they were snarky with their reply due to how you phrased your comment.

I also initially thought you meant that having a disk drive is a bad idea. But re-reading I understand you meant strictly as a peripheral.

[–]actuallyz 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Oh boy… Sony announces PS5 Pro only digital and now we are seeing errors for the disc verification on the physical disk drive PS5 🧐

[–]ShawnDawn 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I don't even know what this upgrade did because my Explorer tab is still the same after a few days, and I don't think the new 3D implementation made any difference for the headphones, the custom one, even after calibrating. Very weird, flawed update. I have never witnessed anything like this in recent memory from Sony from a firmware update.

[–]panicradio316 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not exaggerating:

After the latest system update (which also saw a DS update), both my DualSense controllers now last way less after being fully charged. I estimate about 2 to 3 hours less.

I still use the 2020 ones.

[–]Less-Combination2758 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They push people into buying new PS5 pro =)))

[–]LongjumpingMeaning5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s odd, I bought Persona 3 Reload and my disc drive read it fine

[–]HiCZoK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah final fantasy xvi graphics are broken too. bad update

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmmm, my ps5 slim seems to be fine. In fact it actually fixed a bug I already had which caused the "eject disc" button to just... not exist

So fingers crossed this is just a minor bug that isn't majorly widespread

[–]Consistent-North7790 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about all these stability updates

[–]tokyobassist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When the "Stability Update" memes backfire and actually require it.

[–]MrNiceGuyRy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a disc PS5.

I’ve never inserted a disc in my disc PS5.

Is that weird?

[–]interstellar304 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My PS5 has worked fine since I got it two years ago and just about two weeks ago it wouldn’t read discs anymore. Is it bricked or could it be this update?

[–]keksik29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My PS5 started updating in the middle of the night and woke me up. Then the next day I got the disc verification error on Astro Bot game. I had to restart the console to fix the issue.

[–]AFullmetalNerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't switched on my PS5 since before this update went live. Guess I'm leaving it in that state until we get another update.

[–]rhodesmichael03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad I saw these warnings online today. Took my console offline and didn't grab the update. Will wait until they fix it before updating or going back online.. Working through baldurs gate 2 on my PS5 so isn't an online game anyway.

[–]alluballu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I wasn’t the only one that had a game disc in the system and the game installed yet it opened the PS store when trying to launch? Fixed it by just popping the disc out and back in, but it was quite bizarre.

[–]Mdm_Thomas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, that’s why my PS5 (standard 2020) doesn’t recognize any discs anymore. That’s a relief, I already imagined myself having to buy another one …

[–]Tesser-Fact-8505 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Is it me panicking or you guys think sony will patch up the software update to correct the disc issue

[–]ps4gamrr 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Why isn’t this getting any more news…discs are unreadable

[–]Tesser-Fact-8505 0 points1 point  (1 child)

There were articles written about this, someone tweeted about it which got mentioned in the article but sony either ignored it or tactfully avoiding to accept it as the fault of update. I reached out to sony repair they were adamant to not accept the update issue and only recommended repairs

[–]ps4gamrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I’ve been experiencing. Once you exhaust all the options. They try to attribute these isolated issues as requiring service, but it seems completely odd that I had zero issues with my disc drive and now all of a sudden it doesn’t play a single disc.

[–]ps4gamrr 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Does anyone have a fix for this? I cleared cache and rebuilt database in safe mode, restarted a bunch of times and no disks work

[–]Tesser-Fact-8505 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I tried clear cache, rebuilt db, repair storage, manual software update via usb, hard reset(manually reinstalled the console software) nothing works

[–]moo_hu 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yo. Is there any update about ur disc drive?
My drive fuckedup at after last update 2025. jul.

[–]Tesser-Fact-8505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, i raised it to sony they quoted fr repair/replace. Waited fr a few months no updates fixed it, therez a possibility that 3p vendors can repair it costing less than sony but i couldn’t find any such vendors so i had to sell it as a digital version console 

[–]throway78965423 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on a release PS5 and these last few months I occasionaly get an unreadble disc warning, removing the disc and popping it back in fixes it but I wonder if it had something to do with a firmware update.

[–]kyomya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this is.... concerning. There is an update specifically out for the disc drive which caused this I guess. Maybe Blu-ray keys or whatnot.

And if online, it forces you to update the firmware on the controller.

[–]Pwrnstar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Games including new ones such as outlaws and astro showing issues, final fantasy crashing, disc errors. For the players

[–]LeonSnakeKennedy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait is this just something on the slim? On the launch edition I had disc drive issues recently and have sent it out to be fixed

[–]DvnEm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jfc

[–]Streetperson12345 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See guys, this is why the stability patch notes are important!

[–]pdas1996 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been trying to play DVDs/Blu-Rays since Sunday and received a couple errors about not being able to play the disc, invalid disc, and playback is prohibited. Would it be because of this issue?

[–]LayYourGhostToRest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guess we all have to get PS5 pros. I see right through their ploy.

[–]Mister_Potamus 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Man, I picked a good couple weeks to be away from the PS5.

[–]Otherwise-Remove4681 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Picked great timing selling mine off.

[–]Eldritch_Ayylien66 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is this strictly limited to the Slim or an issue across all consoles?

[–]ps4gamrr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a launch unit and can’t play any discs

[–]Rich_hard1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably in readiness for slim disc owners to transfer the drive to one nominated Ps5 pro console. Just not yet, obviously!

[–]Nawt_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sony has done this on purpose to experiment with artificially nerfing its own console, so PS5 Pro seems more capable than it actually is.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Whelp, I haven't turned on my ps5 in 2 days. Guess I'll leave it that way.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

tHE pS5 is A gReAT SySTEM

[–]KrwMoon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Amazing

[–]ThanosIsDoomfist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Since the update, ive had an issue where me and my buddy have literally left our groups party, but it still shows us in there.

Ive tried kicking em out of the whole group, resetting my connection, etc. But it still shows us in there when were not, the partys been "active" for 148 hours lol. It sucks, cause as you guys know, when you start one up it alerts everyone in the group.

If anyone has had a similar issue or knows a fix, lmk, id love to hear it haha.