Gamescom 2014: PS4 System Update v2.00 brings Share Play

<p>Sony&comma; like Microsoft&comma; had a successful press briefing today&period; There were announcements around new games&comma; previously announced games&comma; betas&comma; DLC&comma; exclusives&comma; channels&comma; and more&period; Sony also took the time to announce they&&num;8217&semi;ll be releasing a rather large system update called v2&period;00&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Included in this update will be a feature called Share Play&period; Sony describes this feature as a &&num;8220&semi;virtual couch&&num;8221&semi;&period; Players will now be able to experience the local co-op experience online&comma; with friends&period; The beauty of this feature is the other person does not need to own the game&period; Yes&comma; you read that correct&period; Players can play the same game as long as one of the players owns the game&period; In theory&comma; players will now be able to play with friends in games that already feature co-op or online play&period; For example&comma; Towerfall Ascenion has couch co-op only&period; With Share Play&comma; Sony takes this limitation away and will allow friends to set off and finish quest mode together&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Share Play doesn&&num;8217&semi;t stop here though&period; For gamers who like to share or are having a difficult time in certain sections of the game&comma; Sony has now given players the ability to pass the controller to a friend so they can have a turn to help the other player out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>System Upadate v2&period;00 is due to be released this fall&period; Other features to be rolled out in this update are&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8211&semi; Dedicated App support for YouTube<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8211&semi; Upload gameplay footage to YouTube<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8211&semi; What&&num;8217&semi;s New will see real-time activity<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8211&semi; Real name search capabilities<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sony plans to have more features included in the update&comma; which they&&num;8217&semi;ll announce closer to the release date&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;blog&period;us&period;playstation&period;com&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;12&sol;upcoming-ps4-system-update-to-v2-00-to-add-share-play-youtube-and-more-to-come&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">PlayStation Blog<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;