Same here - just got around to it on PS Plus and it was a real WTF moment. I only found one Reddit thread about it at the time, so I’m glad it’s blowing up a bit. For those of us who play older single player games (i.e are PAYING PS Plus users), this is awful.
@@TheUniversalGamer87 yeah, it really sucks the PS5 updates are usually on a roll-out basis. On PS4 when a new update was out, everyone got everything day one. There was no waiting period for territories outside of the US
This change is so soooooo bad. I hated the way Xbox would push stuff like this on the dashboard and praised Sony for restraint and having such a clean design for game tiles with full bleed game art. This just ruins that so I hope this gets enough attention for them to take notice and revert back.
they could literally just add options under the [...] button next to the [Play Game] button. - Show Key Art - Show Official News - Show Activities let us check one of them and make that change apply globally, to every game we select. that's the solution and i'm baffled they're incapable of coming up with it...
@@CozyKoalaAnimations dont underestimate the power of greed, what if in some fcked up timeline you have to purchase ps plus in order to not get ads when starting a game, like youtube when you switch videos, if that ever happens that would be the death of gaming...
@@jakobetheanimevtuber4102 it wouldn't be the death of gaming, it would just be me switching to PC ;) but yeah, i wouldn't be surprised if this is some executive forcing the UI team to implement these changes, hoping to generate bigger numbers to advance his career. absolutely possible. i genuinely think this is such an affront against players that Hermen Hulst should personally fire whoever directed this decision.
@@jakobetheanimevtuber4102as much as I start to hate Sony nowadays, I stil strongly believe this had nothing to do with advertisment. This is just a fuck up pushing ”official news” to the top, which most publishers don’t even use, without thinking what implications or use it even has. The Horizon example is straight up ad, yes, but that’s just because Guerilla published that as news on all their games
@@That-Will-Do-It they could literally just add options under the [...] button next to the [Play Game] button. - Show Key Art - Show Official News - Show Activities let us check one of them and make that change apply globally, to every game we select. that's the solution and i'm baffled they're incapable of coming up with it...
Why are you blaming Xbox for Sony being greedy lmao? This is insane the mental gymnastics you're doing to make everything Xbox's fault and take all the responsibility away from PlayStation
@@k.23_02 I'm literally blaming Sony for turning into complete brain dead morons whenever there's no competition. Yes Sony is way more consumer focused when they're getting pushed by Microsoft so however you look at it Microsoft failing is bad for the industry.
@@KParks Buddy,It’s nothing to do with competition,The PS5 Pro isn’t Xbox or PCs fault neither are the decisions,I love PS too but they have been a trash company for a few years now
These are the people who thought custom memory cards, two touch screens, a front and rear facing camera, and 3G cell-service was the best idea for a handheld gaming system.
@@Jake-uv4sl LOL. Mate, listen. There’s always a comment like yours when I say something like that. My response to you is: There’s always a last straw. This ain’t it… yet, but we’re getting closer. Happy now? For context. I owned, and still own, every single PlayStation generation that came out so far. In case someone thinks I’m not invested in the ecosystem at all or something. Cheers. Enjoy your play.
Sony has a big head again. Just like in the ps3 launch era. That's why we need Xbox to compete to keep Sony grounded. But Xbox has continued to flounder and not give any Sony any incentive to be consumer focused
I liked the resume activity option as it just automatically loaded your most current save and got you back in the game a bit quicker. I thought I was going crazy when it wasn't popping up anymore.
Paid 600-800 dollars for PS5/Pro. Paid 80-100 dollars for the PS plus subscription. Paid thousands of dollars for the games. Paid thousands of dollar for accessories like VR2 & handheld. Still get ads🤦 Where does the greed stop? When do we say enough is enough?
Yeah, you're part of the problem if you're spending "thousands of dollar" and they're not giving you what you want and then you proceed to spend more. This is a business, this isn't like a necessity where if you don't get enough, you die. If you're spending "thousands of dollar" they'll look for ways to keep extracting you because they see you as a mark. If you're discerning, if you actually practice some self-restraint, they'll try to find ways to win back your favor. Why the hell would EA try to innovate when meatheads continue to buy Madden year-after-year-after-year with little innovation ever anymore? Want to send a message? STOP BUYING IT.
@@BlackSnake1602I don't know what they are doing. It's the same with Xbox. NXE dashboard was the last good one on Xbox, and since then it went nothing but downhill.
It's insane to me how Consoles are doing their very best to stop you from playing actual videos games. They want you doing everything else reading news, watching videos, be blasted with ads. Is like they want to make you waste as much time possible instead of focusing on the actual games you should be playing and the SOLE REASON WHY ANYONE WOULD BUY A CONSOLE. Why do we have news on a console? which MOST OF THEM ARE SEVERELY OUTDATED Why do we have developer videos?. Nobody gives a heck about those videos. Casual players don't care or bother to watch them. Why do we have community spotlights on a console? Why do we have videos about the game on a console?. I already own the game... why would i want to read an article telling me things about the game and spoiling it?
Most of what you said is absolutely right. But as for developer videos, speak for yourself lol. I love behind the scenes shit (so long as there’s a spoiler warning).
@@labiates Sure you can. PC gaming is in an awful state as well. But I made no comparison to PC gaming in my original post. Sometimes you can just laugh at the absolute state of things without being partisan to one side or the other. 😄
It's impressive how the PS5's UI was bad, and now it's worse. If you move between PS3/PS4/PS5 a lot you soon notice how the PS5 is by far the most irritating to use, and the most unintuitive.
We are back to PS3 release SONY. All the PS5 “features” ruined the experience. ODIN’s RAVENS IS SO DUMB! Same with DMC5 asking me to play the boring Bloody Palace. Or Elden Ring always showing Melina! AND I HAVE NEVER USED THE ACTIVITY CARD IN OVER 2 years of use!
Ugh. Playstation's turning into Xbox now. Ironically enough, even Xbox has been a lot better about showing less and less ads, especially after its last dashboard update, but Xbox from 2013-2022 had ads plastered everywhere on the dashboard and it was inescapable.
I’m so done with Sony. I was about to buy Sony oled TV and I’m glad I waited few days to let it sinking in. I will go for LG. No way I would ever buy anything from Sony. And after that ciecus around 30th anniversary “celbretion” I’m done with PS too. No way I will buy PS6 in future.
They are absolutely mugging off the fans and people are defending it 😮,I agree,Love sony i have their headphones and Speakers and a TV from years back,But ima stick with Panasonic they make just as good stuff if not better,Also if you want a supreme movie player go for a Panasonic,They have the best in the industry better than Sony,If you love movies 🍿
I wish Sony would just put out an update where you can choose a "Lite mode", where nothing except the game thumbnail and the achievements are on the bottom or top left (like the ps3/ps4 for example). Nobody would use the over cluttered UI that steals your attention to use your console just that little more anymore
It’s funny how some things bother some people but not others, and the other way around. What you showed here today is nowhere near as egregious as not allowing us to alphabetize our trophy lists or worse yet, not allowing us to delete ganes with partially completed trophy percentages from our trophy lists. That is so so so much more offensive, especially to trophy hunters. Server shutdowns? Glitched lists? Devs made bad decisions and made their game stupidly difficult? You’re screwed. Nothing you can do once you cross the 1% trophy completion threshold. That is infinitely user unfriendly and needs to be amended. There is zero legitimate reason why we should not be able to permanently delete (not just ‘hide’) games from our trophy lists, no matter how far along the trophy progress is.
Thanks for touching on this. What an absolutely awful change. The UI has gotten worse and worse since launch. I loved the minimalist look when it was just game art and music on the UI. I don’t even want to turn on my PS5 after this change. Good job Sony 👍🏻
Price increases, removal of features, locking PC content to signing into PSN. I love PlayStation but the decisions lately are just baffling. Glad I’m canceling PS plus. Ads on the Home Screen really?
Microsoft's Xbox one lost me as a customer when I had to sign in over 50% of the time online just to play an offline mode game. I got rid of it. I sold over 100 games and the system. Now this ads with Sony will lose me as a customer, too, if they don't do something better than this. No more BS. All I want is to buy the game and play it straight up.
This generation of PlayStation doesn’t feel fun at all. Lately been playing more indie games and retro classics than Triple A games; They feel more like video games.
So if you start planning a Microsoft game you might get an ad for gamepads. How long until it's gate raid, laundry detergent or gamepads? You have to assume Sony's getting an ad cut, don't like this either, I prefer the box art or the like
Need as many people as possible to speak out on this. Such a dumb update because what’s the point in me seeing an ad for a game from 3 yrs ago? First the new update caused FF16 to have sudden crashes and that game is legit the most bug free game to release in modern times. Now this nonsense smh
I literally sold my PS5 2 months ago, I'm going full PC now because i am tired of Sony's Censorships, Marketing, Ads, Greed, Bloated Store with $5 Indi games that look like mobile games, always paying a Subscription to play online with friends and everything else, I owned every PlayStations mainline system and now.... Now I Hate Sony and Sony just keeps getting worse and also woke... They've lost a customer who played their games and brought all their system since i was a little kid, They lost me forever and now they are trying to Force PC players to join their eco system by Signing in with a PlayStation account for Single Player games on PC like God of War Ragnarök. I'm Done with Sony and I'll never buy any of their products, Games, PlayStation, Mobile Phones or Camera's or even their TV's, I'm never buying another Sony product again
Like planned,Unfortunately you can’t escape the giant that is microsoft,They do what they want,Cloud gaming they pushed and now buying up all the studios the same way sony did,Lesson learnt.
Thanks for calling this out. This ad shit really pissed me off, especially when I was about to play Shadow of the Tomb Raider and it showed merchandise for the game rather than the damn game art.
It fucking baffles my mind why they would replace the beautiful background artwork, for ugly, outdated and unnecessary official news. What are these sony devs smoking???
I noticed this crap today, Playing The Last Of Us Part 1, after starting the game and going back to the XMB menu........... Interview with Naughty Dog about The Last Of Us Part 1, its the first option in the game tab???
I think the news thing could be ok but they'd have to do the following: 1. Make it an option - default it to on, if you must, but let us turn it off. 2. After a month, it goes back to the key art - until a new (relevant) news story is published 3. It must be relevant - only news articles that pertain to the game and its content specifically should be included (e.g., patch news, dlc, updates etc) 4. Don't make the news title look like it's the name of the game
Console platforms need to be regulated in the EU at least in the same way as gatekeepers like Apple's iOS and iPadOS are. The fact I cannot purchase applications from other stores renders the PlayStation Store an effective monopoly.
Sony getting so bad,Not only are they brainwashing fans with the Pro but asking for obscene prices with missing features and barley more power than let’s say a series x let alone a ps5,Ruining their games,Barley any IPs shown and now doing stupid tedious sh*t.
This is one of the big reasons why I don't like the Xbox dashboard, ads everywhere. Although, even this isn't as bad as that because Xbox would have ads for movies, TV shows, and other products other than games too. Still, this is a step in the wrong direction. I hope they change it back but I don't have confidence they will.
The Worst Example is any of the Tomb Raider Games. It literally gets rid of any key art, and just shoves Merch in your face with a message telling you to go buy it.
I thought and hoped Sony was better than Microsoft in this aspect. I turned my Xbox on and the first insufferable windows tile that popped up was an ad telling me to vote.
Anyway the best PlayStation interface will always be the PS3 one. So clean with our own wallpaper. Second is PS4 and PS5 is by far the worst one. So generic with no customization at all for any esthetic changes.
So they pretty much removed a feature in Resume Activity (that a lot of people i know used) and now you have to manually bypass menus and loading screens… cool
One of the more stupid ones is roblox where it displays news advertising a now unplayable elf themed game from last Christmas because it's the only news for roblox
It’s genuinely disgusting at first I thought it was cool on some games but the more I played the worse it gets it’s not fun seeing a game promotion in my 70$ game
My favourite example is Spider Man: Miles Morales telling me to get excited for a movie that came out 16 months ago
I noticed this myself 🤣
I just noticed this last night after i platinum the game😂
Same here - just got around to it on PS Plus and it was a real WTF moment. I only found one Reddit thread about it at the time, so I’m glad it’s blowing up a bit. For those of us who play older single player games (i.e are PAYING PS Plus users), this is awful.
Ratchet and clank rift apart is advertising the 20th anniversary pack that came out 2 years ago lmao
i booted it up for the first time, quit, and it genuinely baffled me that it was an old goddamn movie
We can't get dynamic themes, but they'll sure find ways to shove ads in our faces.
literally holy shit this company is so against consumers now like whattttt
@tecrowley they have copied xbox with the ads. Not enough people have kicked off about it.
Hope they fix this sooner than later. It's bad enough we don't have themes, but at the least we had game art, and now that's gone too
ps5 ui is absoilute trash
It's bad enough uk hasn't got welcome Tab yet it's OK for America they got it all.
@@TheUniversalGamer87 yeah, it really sucks the PS5 updates are usually on a roll-out basis. On PS4 when a new update was out, everyone got everything day one. There was no waiting period for territories outside of the US
If you are offline it reverts back to the game art.
Still waiting for real folders
This change is so soooooo bad. I hated the way Xbox would push stuff like this on the dashboard and praised Sony for restraint and having such a clean design for game tiles with full bleed game art. This just ruins that so I hope this gets enough attention for them to take notice and revert back.
💯
No need to cope with it, it’s all about them making more money via ads. They aren’t going anywhere
@@ChiBrianXIII Recouping that Concord money
@@ChiBrianXIIIThey’re losing money and making it back.
When Xbox starting doing it, I knew it was only a matter of time until PlayStation would start doing it as well.
You give them an inch they’d take a mile. I don’t want any advertising on my screen.
It’s 🐂 💩
Get over yourself
@@slapshotjack9806How does Sonys boot taste?
@@slapshotjack9806certified ad pollution lover
cry
Ad-narök is upon us! 😩
Underappreciated comment.
thank you for calling this out!
i HATE this look with a passion! just show the logo and the artwork and be done with it!
they could literally just add options under the [...] button next to the [Play Game] button.
- Show Key Art
- Show Official News
- Show Activities
let us check one of them and make that change apply globally, to every game we select. that's the solution and i'm baffled they're incapable of coming up with it...
@@CozyKoalaAnimations dont underestimate the power of greed, what if in some fcked up timeline you have to purchase ps plus in order to not get ads when starting a game, like youtube when you switch videos, if that ever happens that would be the death of gaming...
@@jakobetheanimevtuber4102 it wouldn't be the death of gaming, it would just be me switching to PC ;)
but yeah, i wouldn't be surprised if this is some executive forcing the UI team to implement these changes, hoping to generate bigger numbers to advance his career. absolutely possible.
i genuinely think this is such an affront against players that Hermen Hulst should personally fire whoever directed this decision.
@@jakobetheanimevtuber4102as much as I start to hate Sony nowadays, I stil strongly believe this had nothing to do with advertisment. This is just a fuck up pushing ”official news” to the top, which most publishers don’t even use, without thinking what implications or use it even has. The Horizon example is straight up ad, yes, but that’s just because Guerilla published that as news on all their games
Playstation have been putting Ryan to WORK lately
lol
I noticed that. Its awful. Atleast give us an option.
@@That-Will-Do-It they could literally just add options under the [...] button next to the [Play Game] button.
- Show Key Art
- Show Official News
- Show Activities
let us check one of them and make that change apply globally, to every game we select. that's the solution and i'm baffled they're incapable of coming up with it...
The Vita UI was so great. Not a single thing that could not be moved out of sight.
Why, you wouldn't switch to pc or xbox just because of this. You will continue to use it after crying for a while
Sony each generation becoming more and more corporate than players sided
Stop looking for drama everywhere.
This is what happens when Xbox is in the Garbage. Every time Sony is on top and have no competition they do literally the dumbest crap!
Why is Garbage capitalized? Is it the name of your city?
Why are you blaming Xbox for Sony being greedy lmao? This is insane the mental gymnastics you're doing to make everything Xbox's fault and take all the responsibility away from PlayStation
@@k.23_02 I'm literally blaming Sony for turning into complete brain dead morons whenever there's no competition. Yes Sony is way more consumer focused when they're getting pushed by Microsoft so however you look at it Microsoft failing is bad for the industry.
@@KParks Buddy,It’s nothing to do with competition,The PS5 Pro isn’t Xbox or PCs fault neither are the decisions,I love PS too but they have been a trash company for a few years now
Not exactly. Last gen was great. Really there was only 1 time xbox wasn't in the garbage lol.
Do many people use all of these features they’re constantly tweaking? I’ve never used a card or widget in all the time I’ve owned a PS5
These are the people who thought custom memory cards, two touch screens, a front and rear facing camera, and 3G cell-service was the best idea for a handheld gaming system.
Never
@@wrenboy2726Nintendo added 2 screens to one of their handhelds and made bank with it, Sony should be allowed to get a little gimmicky
For elden ring right now it's advertising a fucking mousepad. They better fix this ASAP.
That has to be the funniest one yet
"Get easier HS in ER now!"😺
XXL
It baffles me how this wasnt covered at all by gaming media outlets. What a horrible horrible change to the UI. PS needs to address this ASAP.
theyre just trolling us at this point
I feel that they are trying very hard to dissuade me from getting another PlayStation ever again.
@@DavideDavini this sucks but if the background alone deters you from buying a PlayStation console, then I don't know what to tell you
@DavideDavini sure the UI will turn you away
@@Jake-uv4sl LOL. Mate, listen. There’s always a comment like yours when I say something like that. My response to you is: There’s always a last straw. This ain’t it… yet, but we’re getting closer. Happy now?
For context. I owned, and still own, every single PlayStation generation that came out so far. In case someone thinks I’m not invested in the ecosystem at all or something.
Cheers. Enjoy your play.
@@1ajgtwm thanks for sharing your perspective. DF.
They’re getting desperate after Concord’s failure 😂
Will it get worse?
One step forward, two steps back. You're losing me, Sony.
PS6 Ad-free digital edition rumored at $1200 USD
Sony has a big head again. Just like in the ps3 launch era. That's why we need Xbox to compete to keep Sony grounded. But Xbox has continued to flounder and not give any Sony any incentive to be consumer focused
I liked the resume activity option as it just automatically loaded your most current save and got you back in the game a bit quicker. I thought I was going crazy when it wasn't popping up anymore.
Paid 600-800 dollars for PS5/Pro. Paid 80-100 dollars for the PS plus subscription. Paid thousands of dollars for the games. Paid thousands of dollar for accessories like VR2 & handheld. Still get ads🤦
Where does the greed stop? When do we say enough is enough?
Stop buying it....its an easy fix, wth is wrong with you ?
You are the one contributing to their greed when you bought a PS5 Pro for the prices they're charging
Yeah, you're part of the problem if you're spending "thousands of dollar" and they're not giving you what you want and then you proceed to spend more. This is a business, this isn't like a necessity where if you don't get enough, you die. If you're spending "thousands of dollar" they'll look for ways to keep extracting you because they see you as a mark. If you're discerning, if you actually practice some self-restraint, they'll try to find ways to win back your favor. Why the hell would EA try to innovate when meatheads continue to buy Madden year-after-year-after-year with little innovation ever anymore? Want to send a message? STOP BUYING IT.
Never realised how good the PS4 UI was until the PS5 came out.
Never realised how good PS3 xmb was until the PS4 came out.
UI progressively get worse. Rule of thumb
For real! I actually turn on my ps4 occasionally to see what my friends are doing /playing.
@@BlackSnake1602I don't know what they are doing. It's the same with Xbox. NXE dashboard was the last good one on Xbox, and since then it went nothing but downhill.
Never realized how great the PS3 ui xmb and stock built in Blu Ray movie player features were until PS4 launched. Lmaooo
It's insane to me how Consoles are doing their very best to stop you from playing actual videos games. They want you doing everything else reading news, watching videos, be blasted with ads. Is like they want to make you waste as much time possible instead of focusing on the actual games you should be playing and the SOLE REASON WHY ANYONE WOULD BUY A CONSOLE.
Why do we have news on a console? which MOST OF THEM ARE SEVERELY OUTDATED
Why do we have developer videos?. Nobody gives a heck about those videos. Casual players don't care or bother to watch them.
Why do we have community spotlights on a console?
Why do we have videos about the game on a console?. I already own the game... why would i want to read an article telling me things about the game and spoiling it?
Most of what you said is absolutely right. But as for developer videos, speak for yourself lol. I love behind the scenes shit (so long as there’s a spoiler warning).
Imagine paying $700 for a new console and $150 yearly for PS+ and still getting ads...😂
People with common sense buy their games physically and purchase only the essential tier at most.
Imagine not playing your games looking at ads, you sound slow. You think people are just going to stay on the homescreen
Couldn't you use this same logic for PC though, "imagine spending $600/$1k on a new GPU and still getting ads?"
@@labiates Sure you can. PC gaming is in an awful state as well. But I made no comparison to PC gaming in my original post. Sometimes you can just laugh at the absolute state of things without being partisan to one side or the other. 😄
But playing the best games...
How greedy can they get bruh. They seem desperate af always looking for ways to make money from the most minute & petty things
Ads are like being in public around people you're forced to tolerate
Guess this is why we can't have themes like previous generations. Sleazy
It's impressive how the PS5's UI was bad, and now it's worse. If you move between PS3/PS4/PS5 a lot you soon notice how the PS5 is by far the most irritating to use, and the most unintuitive.
They gotta make up for Concord somehow💀
What are they doing lately ? This company is really going to shit with this management
8:04 that's actually hilarious, just people laughing at you for starting the game.
Anything they can do to make up for the Concord losses.
Rise of the Tomb Raider is atrocious, I get a full screen about merchandise.
Turn off internet connection, no more ads 🙃
They still flicker on when you hover over the game. It's annoying.
How desperate is Sony now?
We are back to PS3 release SONY.
All the PS5 “features” ruined the experience.
ODIN’s RAVENS IS SO DUMB! Same with DMC5 asking me to play the boring Bloody Palace.
Or Elden Ring always showing Melina!
AND I HAVE NEVER USED THE ACTIVITY CARD IN OVER 2 years of use!
Ugh. Playstation's turning into Xbox now. Ironically enough, even Xbox has been a lot better about showing less and less ads, especially after its last dashboard update, but Xbox from 2013-2022 had ads plastered everywhere on the dashboard and it was inescapable.
People excited about the ps5 pro…shiiit I don’t even really want my ps5 anymore…this generation is an insult to gamers..Nintendo is the last hope
Me: who just scroll's past everything really fast to my games, wait this was happening?
It’s getting more and more challenging to justifying having a console nowadays. The PC revolution is coming
All went downhill since PS3 XMB, but PS4 is definitely better than this :(
Another common Sony L. Losing track at this point.
Im kinda done with Sony...unfortunately they have been going into a dark route.
Sure you are, see you next gen
@@1ajgtwm No next gen for me,PC or Xbox next gen,Deeming the rumours of their console with better features and maybe even a steam type library 📚
I’m so done with Sony. I was about to buy Sony oled TV and I’m glad I waited few days to let it sinking in. I will go for LG. No way I would ever buy anything from Sony. And after that ciecus around 30th anniversary “celbretion” I’m done with PS too. No way I will buy PS6 in future.
They are absolutely mugging off the fans and people are defending it 😮,I agree,Love sony i have their headphones and Speakers and a TV from years back,But ima stick with Panasonic they make just as good stuff if not better,Also if you want a supreme movie player go for a Panasonic,They have the best in the industry better than Sony,If you love movies 🍿
I wish Sony would just put out an update where you can choose a "Lite mode", where nothing except the game thumbnail and the achievements are on the bottom or top left (like the ps3/ps4 for example). Nobody would use the over cluttered UI that steals your attention to use your console just that little more anymore
It’s funny how some things bother some people but not others, and the other way around.
What you showed here today is nowhere near as egregious as not allowing us to alphabetize our trophy lists or worse yet, not allowing us to delete ganes with partially completed trophy percentages from our trophy lists. That is so so so much more offensive, especially to trophy hunters. Server shutdowns? Glitched lists? Devs made bad decisions and made their game stupidly difficult? You’re screwed. Nothing you can do once you cross the 1% trophy completion threshold. That is infinitely user unfriendly and needs to be amended. There is zero legitimate reason why we should not be able to permanently delete (not just ‘hide’) games from our trophy lists, no matter how far along the trophy progress is.
Thanks for touching on this. What an absolutely awful change. The UI has gotten worse and worse since launch. I loved the minimalist look when it was just game art and music on the UI. I don’t even want to turn on my PS5 after this change. Good job Sony 👍🏻
Price increases, removal of features, locking PC content to signing into PSN. I love PlayStation but the decisions lately are just baffling. Glad I’m canceling PS plus. Ads on the Home Screen really?
Microsoft's Xbox one lost me as a customer when I had to sign in over 50% of the time online just to play an offline mode game. I got rid of it. I sold over 100 games and the system. Now this ads with Sony will lose me as a customer, too, if they don't do something better than this. No more BS. All I want is to buy the game and play it straight up.
Someone justifying their job making needless changes.
Gotta recoup that Concord money somehow
I noticed it for Death Stranding Directors Cut and it’s like “COMING SOON TO PS5, DS DIRECTORS CUT”. It’s legit like “what” lmao
Wish i had the money for a gaming pc... :/
$700 PS5 Pro, now with more ads!! Did Roku buy Sony?
I don't like how when you go to customize your wallpaper for the new hub, it only lets you pick from RECENT screenshots. Why?
Sony are becoming Microsoft
*apple Sony is the apple of gaming at this point
More like blaming microsoft for sh*t they do themselves
This sucks, tired of PlayStation bs. I don’t even have the welcome home tab here in Canada yet & still they’re giving me these ads
This generation of PlayStation doesn’t feel fun at all. Lately been playing more indie games and retro classics than Triple A games; They feel more like video games.
So if you start planning a Microsoft game you might get an ad for gamepads. How long until it's gate raid, laundry detergent or gamepads? You have to assume Sony's getting an ad cut, don't like this either, I prefer the box art or the like
Need as many people as possible to speak out on this. Such a dumb update because what’s the point in me seeing an ad for a game from 3 yrs ago? First the new update caused FF16 to have sudden crashes and that game is legit the most bug free game to release in modern times. Now this nonsense smh
how do i tirn that off, i don't like it at all
Slowly turning into the Xbox Dashboard. Gross.
Sonys greed knows no bounds
I’m beginning to hate Sony
The Switch has boring as hell UI.
That being said, at least it has a seperate news tab for all fluff like this.
I don’t own a ps5 but I’m here for the video I guess😂
They have to make those 400mil $ back somehow.
$400 million is likely not the real number as it's been shot down by a couple of reputable leakers
There is a word for this kind of UI change: Shitification
I literally sold my PS5 2 months ago, I'm going full PC now because i am tired of Sony's Censorships, Marketing, Ads, Greed, Bloated Store with $5 Indi games that look like mobile games, always paying a Subscription to play online with friends and everything else, I owned every PlayStations mainline system and now.... Now I Hate Sony and Sony just keeps getting worse and also woke... They've lost a customer who played their games and brought all their system since i was a little kid, They lost me forever and now they are trying to Force PC players to join their eco system by Signing in with a PlayStation account for Single Player games on PC like God of War Ragnarök.
I'm Done with Sony and I'll never buy any of their products, Games, PlayStation, Mobile Phones or Camera's or even their TV's, I'm never buying another Sony product again
I hate them now too, but ps5 is all i have
The card for Spider-Man: Miles Morales is literally an advertisement for the movie, Across the Spider-verse! “Exclusively in theaters June 2nd” lol
Probably this was their main idea of pushing the change
Just give me an option to show the basic game art and logo
And yet again Sony following Xbox ...
Like planned,Unfortunately you can’t escape the giant that is microsoft,They do what they want,Cloud gaming they pushed and now buying up all the studios the same way sony did,Lesson learnt.
Thanks for calling this out. This ad shit really pissed me off, especially when I was about to play Shadow of the Tomb Raider and it showed merchandise for the game rather than the damn game art.
Even offline I still see the ad flicker for a second.
My console is disconnected from the internet. I would have never known.
Same.
This update ruined the UI
It fucking baffles my mind why they would replace the beautiful background artwork, for ugly, outdated and unnecessary official news. What are these sony devs smoking???
I noticed this crap today, Playing The Last Of Us Part 1, after starting the game and going back to the XMB menu........... Interview with Naughty Dog about The Last Of Us Part 1, its the first option in the game tab???
*Sigh* Sony California.....
I think the news thing could be ok but they'd have to do the following:
1. Make it an option - default it to on, if you must, but let us turn it off.
2. After a month, it goes back to the key art - until a new (relevant) news story is published
3. It must be relevant - only news articles that pertain to the game and its content specifically should be included (e.g., patch news, dlc, updates etc)
4. Don't make the news title look like it's the name of the game
Console platforms need to be regulated in the EU at least in the same way as gatekeepers like Apple's iOS and iPadOS are. The fact I cannot purchase applications from other stores renders the PlayStation Store an effective monopoly.
I really just want backgrounds! Give us dynamic backgrounds, or just let us make screenshots be our background.
Hell NO! they put some random guy over the background of my $120 game, gtfoh. Back to pc
Sony getting so bad,Not only are they brainwashing fans with the Pro but asking for obscene prices with missing features and barley more power than let’s say a series x let alone a ps5,Ruining their games,Barley any IPs shown and now doing stupid tedious sh*t.
This is one of the big reasons why I don't like the Xbox dashboard, ads everywhere. Although, even this isn't as bad as that because Xbox would have ads for movies, TV shows, and other products other than games too. Still, this is a step in the wrong direction. I hope they change it back but I don't have confidence they will.
I wish we could get our home screen folders back. The PS4 home screen was way better. The PS5 is a cluttered mess in comparison.
#Sony doesn’t have the gamer in mind, only the consumer. No disk drive NO DEAL!
The Worst Example is any of the Tomb Raider Games. It literally gets rid of any key art, and just shoves Merch in your face with a message telling you to go buy it.
I thought and hoped Sony was better than Microsoft in this aspect. I turned my Xbox on and the first insufferable windows tile that popped up was an ad telling me to vote.
This legit feels like a bug because Astro Bot doesn’t have this, but I guess it just doesn’t have “news” yet.
Anyway the best PlayStation interface will always be the PS3 one. So clean with our own wallpaper. Second is PS4 and PS5 is by far the worst one. So generic with no customization at all for any esthetic changes.
So they pretty much removed a feature in Resume Activity (that a lot of people i know used) and now you have to manually bypass menus and loading screens… cool
One of the more stupid ones is roblox where it displays news advertising a now unplayable elf themed game from last Christmas because it's the only news for roblox
Still no welcome tab in the UK but apparently it was a two week rollout. Sony PS can't do anything right.
This is gonna be rolled back really soon, they clearly didn't test this thoroughly
I don’t think this is some sinister plan to ruin our PS5’s. I think they’ll fix this soon enough.
PS3 still has the best console UI it was also 1080p 60fps.
UI in general is getting more and stupid. It started with mofo designer mimicking Instagram and phone apps
Ads are one thing, but ads when you paid for the hardware and the software is just bad practice.
I had a 360 back in the day, so I'm used to a UI littered with ads. I've heard One and Series are the same too.
It’s genuinely disgusting at first I thought it was cool on some games but the more I played the worse it gets it’s not fun seeing a game promotion in my 70$ game