For those fans that enrolled in the PlayStation 5/PS4 beta program, February 10 serves as an important date. Not only does it serve as the launch date for some PS5 beta features, it will even see a new PS4 system software being rolled out. This will allow participants to test out new features on the consoles that the rest of the world does not have access to.

In a post on the official PlayStation Twitter handle, they reveal both the launch date for the beta and the major features that are being rolled out as part of it.

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In the post that went up on February 9, PlayStation informs fans about the significant new features that they are testing to soon be released globally. The first up is Party Chat options for both the PS5 and PS4.

According to a PlayStation.Blog post by Hideaki Nishino, Senior Vice President, players can now create ‘Open’ and ‘Closed’ parties, with Open parties allowing your friends to join instantly without an invite, and Closed parties being invite-only. Additionally, because of the beta, currently, Open parties are only accessible by players that are also running the beta software.

Notably, improved visual markers will now be available to players in order to better identify and report players using voice chat in a party. ‘Share Play’ is also available directly from a voice-chat card, but both features are currently PS5 exclusive.

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There are also UI enhancements for the PS5. With quality-of-life improvements like the option to filter your games by genre and improvements regarding the cluttered PS5 home screen. Players can now select up to five games and apps to keep on your home screen with the ‘Keep in Home’ feature.

These would be separate from the 14 games and apps that can now appear on your home screen along with the Trophy UI seeing some improvements overall.

PS5 players can now use voice commands with their console. However, this feature would see a limited release in US and UK pending further notification. Gamers can enable voice command from their settings, and use their voice to control media playback, open and find games.

But not everyone is happy with the list of announced features.

“What an embarrassment,” this fan says about the new beta features.

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Some fans have much bigger problems.

Fan opinion on the beta remains mixed, but one thing is for sure- ‘Team Blue’ is listening. With the beta, they intend to get fan feedback. So if you wanted to make your voice heard, now is the time.

The beta is available for users in the US, UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, and France.