PS5 firmware 26.06-14.00.00: Community Activity now live in the Welcome Hub

• The Community Activity widget is now available in the Welcome Hub, with Trending Now and Top 10 views.
• In the final release, Top 10 no longer shows player counts, even though Sony had been testing the feature since May.

What happened

Sony has released system software version 26.06-14.00.00 for PlayStation 5 to all players. According to the available reporting, the rollout began worldwide on 16 September 2026, following around a month of beta testing. The update is part of the same firmware line in which Sony also made other Welcome Hub adjustments, but this version puts Community Activity front and centre.

The update adds Community Activity to the Welcome Hub. The widget includes two views: Trending Now and Top 10. Trending Now shows ten multiplayer games or modes that are rising in popularity across PlayStation, while Top 10 lists the ten most popular games from the past week and can vary by country or region. In the supplied context, Top 10 is described as a list that may differ by region, meaning the lineup does not have to be identical everywhere.

Notably, the final release no longer shows player counts in Top 10. Those numbers were still visible in the beta, but they have been removed from the finished version. The sources do not give a reason for the change. As a result, only the ranking remains, without any extra numerical context for each game.

According to the reporting, Sony has been testing Community Activity since May. The SpawnPoiint source also says the widget is now available for all players to add to the Welcome Hub. That lines up with the broader firmware rollout on 16 September 2026, although the supplied sources do not provide separate technical details about a staged or regional activation of the widget itself.

The available reporting also says the beta for this firmware first went live in August 2026. That means the feature’s test phase ran from May until the final release in September. Version 26.06-14.00.00 is therefore the first public release in which Community Activity is presented not as a test feature, but as a permanent Welcome Hub widget.

Background

Community Activity is a new Welcome Hub widget for PS5. The feature has two parts: Trending Now, with ten rising multiplayer games or modes, and Top 10, with the ten most popular games of the past week by region. The source description explicitly says Trending Now focuses on multiplayer games or modes gaining popularity across PlayStation, while Top 10 provides a weekly overview of the most popular games.

The removal of player counts from Top 10 is the biggest difference between the beta and the final release. No official explanation from Sony is mentioned in the supplied sources. An earlier interpretation in the reporting suggested the beta numbers resembled how Steam displays player counts, but that remains an editorial comparison rather than a Sony statement. The available information therefore only confirms that the figures were visible in the test version and are no longer present in the final one.

The SpawnPoiint source also supports that Community Activity is now available for all players to add to the Welcome Hub. That description says Sony has been testing the feature since May. Together with the reporting on the worldwide firmware rollout on 16 September 2026, this points to a multi-month test period followed by a public release in the same firmware version.

The supplied context does leave a few questions open. For example, it is not confirmed whether the Community Activity rollout itself was activated worldwide at the same time or phased by region. It is also not stated why Sony removed the player counts from Top 10, and there is no confirmation that those numbers will return in a later update. It remains unclear whether Trending Now and Top 10 will have exactly the same setup in every language and region, although the source does note that Top 10 can differ by country or region.

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Sources

• Eurogamer: PS5 firmware update 14.00.00 / Community Activity
• SpawnPoiint via YouTube: "NEW PS5 Update: Everything You Need to Know"