PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off - eviltoast
PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off - IGN
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The PS5 now has an advert system built into the dashboard user interface you can’t disable without disconnecting from the internet.

Wow, this is awful. Some people reported that these ads are also very petty and not necessarily related to the game, like apparently Elden Ring shows an ad for a licensed mousepad when you hover over the game now…

Edit: Playstation Product Manager says this is actually a new bug. I really doubt it but they do seem to be “fixing it”.

  • Aielman15@lemmy.worldEnglish
    711·
    3 months ago

    Sony looking at the rotting corpse of Xbox and taking notes. But only the wrong ones.

    • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      They are doing this because a rotten corpse doesn’t force them to compete, they can do whatever they want. If MS didn’t shit the bed with the Series X/S, Sony would be trying harder to please customers, or at least not actively screwing them (see also: 800 EUR PS5 Pro without disc drive or vertical stand).