PS5 update brings Community Activity charts to every player
Your PS5 can now tell you what everyone else is playing.
Sony released PlayStation 5 system software version 26.06-14.00.00 on 16 September 2026, after about a month of testing Eurogamer. Firmware is the core software that runs the console. This release is now available to all players.
The main addition is Community Activity. It is an optional widget for the Welcome Hub, the customisable home-screen space where players pin panels with news, storage details and other updates. Once added, it works as a live guide to what is busy on PlayStation.
It has two views. The first is Trending Now. It lists 10 multiplayer games or multiplayer modes that are rising in popularity across PlayStation, from stand-alone online titles to online modes inside larger releases. Each tile carries a short explanation for its place, such as a surge in matches played or a jump in total hours logged. The idea is simple. You see not only what is climbing, but why.
The second view is Top 10. It ranks the 10 most popular games of the past week. The order varies by country or region, so players in the Philippines will not necessarily see the same chart as players in Britain or the United States. One detail has changed since testing. The final version leaves out the per-game player counts that appeared in the beta, so there are rankings but no published totals alongside them.
That testing path was unusual. Community Activity was not part of this firmware's beta, even though the rest of the update spent about a month with testers. Sony had been trying the feature separately since May, giving it a longer run outside the main test.
There is more in the update than charts. PlayStation 5 Pro owners get a toggle to enable PSSR by default. PSSR stands for PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, Sony's image upscaling system for its more powerful mid-cycle console. It produces a sharper picture from a lower-resolution base image, which can mean cleaner visuals without extra work from the game itself.
The firmware also adds an option to turn on display names IGN, the names shown to other players across the system. In certain regions, there is also a console-level option to turn off Bluetooth entirely, a system-wide switch rather than a per-accessory setting.
For players deciding what to load up next, this means less guesswork. A quick glance shows what is climbing, what is holding firm, and what is drawing crowds closer to home.
