eli5: how does a PS4 know when to update?

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when a company releases a new version of software, like a game or a ps4 or a phone, how does it know that it has to update? how does the company tell the PS4 that it has to update now, and how does it tell every PS4 this?

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The company doesn’t tell the PS4, the PS4 checks *every time* it connects to the internet and at multple intervals while it is connected.

Essentially it compares a value hosted onl;ine at a specific location with a value stored on the PS$, if that value is different then it knows an update has been rolled out.

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