Sony is rolling out PS5 system software 26.06-14.00.00, and it’s a more substantive patch than the usual stability release: voice chat can now show who is speaking, the Welcome Hub gets a Community Activity widget with two popularity views, and — the technical headline — Enhance PSSR Image Quality is now the default on PS5 Pro, applying even to games built for the older PSSR version.
What changed: PS5 firmware 26.06-14.00.00 turns on enhanced PSSR by default on PS5 Pro, adds speaking indicators to voice chat, and brings popularity widgets (Trending Now, regional Top 10) to the Welcome Hub. Why it matters: It’s the first time PlayStation has surfaced what people are actually playing natively on the console — and the PSSR default quietly upgrades image quality across the Pro’s back catalog. Who should care: PS5 Pro owners, and anyone who uses the console’s party chat or cares about discovery on the platform.
What the patch notes say
| Feature | Detail |
|---|---|
| Enhance PSSR default | On automatically after update; enhanced PSSR applies even to games supporting the previous PSSR version. PS5 Pro only. Reversible: Settings → Screen and Video → Video Output → Enhance PSSR Image Quality |
| Display Names | Voice chat speaker indicator: voice chat card → More → Display Who’s Speaking → Display Names, with a Position option |
| Trending Now | Welcome Hub widget: ten multiplayer games or modes “surging in popularity” — surfaces new releases and big content updates |
| Top 10 | The ten most popular games in your country or region over the last week |
| Bluetooth change | Turn Off Bluetooth (esports venues) no longer puts the console into rest mode; HDMI Device Link stops while active — region-dependent |
| PS4 | Simultaneous 14.00 update: “improved system software performance and stability” — that’s the entire note |
The PSSR default is the quiet upgrade
PS5 Pro’s launch pitch included PSSR, Sony’s machine-learning upscaler; the “Enhance PSSR” mode is the improved model that shipped later in the console’s life. Until now it was opt-in per game support. Flipping the default means the sharper reconstruction pipeline now runs on compatible titles built for the older model too — a back-catalog image quality bump that costs the player nothing. It pairs with the site’s PSSR deep dive: if you’re comparing frames on a Pro, re-check titles you’d already benchmarked.
The discovery angle
The Top 10 regional list is the more interesting long-term play: Sony has never exposed platform-wide popularity data natively, and the widget gives the dashboard its first honest answer to “what is everyone else playing right now” — something previously only the PlayStation Store’s charts approximated. Whether it’s player count, concurrents, or playtime is unspecified; either way, it’s a live signal, not a marketing surface.
The honest read
This is a quality-of-life patch, not a platform event — but two of its changes have lasting value. The PSSR default is the kind of setting most owners never would have found, now applied automatically and reversible for the purists. The popularity widgets are a small step toward the console treating its own community data as a feature; whether Trending Now ends up surfacing genuinely surging games or just amplifying whatever marketing already pushes is the thing to watch over the next few weeks.
Next read
- For how the Pro’s upscaler works, see PS5 Pro PSSR Upscaling: How It Works and Where It Beats FSR.
- For the enhanced-title roster, see PS5 Pro Enhanced Titles: The Running List.
- For the hardware itself, see PlayStation 5 Pro Hardware.