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”.

  • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    It’s upsetting how news outlets can now call anything an ad to generate outrage and people here just eat it up. Something about that word seems to turn people’s brains off and they start commenting misinformation.

    This is:
    A feature to show you news from the game you’re about to play.
    Badly designed since it can’t be turned off and it covers the entire screen.
    Prone to abuse for ads.

    This is not:
    An ad.
    A money making venture by sony.
    Unique to playstation.

    • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      On other news, welcome to my blog adshittification. The blog that uncovers the sinister truth about the ads being shown in your throat! This week’s highlights:

      • Youtube still hasn’t stopped ruining my week by filling up those precious few seconds between opening a video and going fullscreenwith intrusive ads that cover a quarter of your screen, and still even then you can’t stop the wall of ads that show up after the video finishes:

      • I opened up steam to play some factorio to calm my nerves, but I got greeted by an illegal ad telling me to kill myself:

      • So instead I opened library home to play something alse, only to be assaulted by more ads at the top!

      • I decided to give up trying to play. Normally I would open reddit next but I haven’t been using it since they put promotions in the post screen:

      • Thankfully lemmy is immune to such corporate bs

        No lemmy-chan not you too!

    • simple@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      I don’t know, it’s a bit hard to assume this was an accident and just a poorly implemented feature. It does cover the screen with the most recent news post, but that’s often an ad, and even on first-party titles like Horizon it just covers the screen with a giant ad for the upcoming lego horizon.

      At best it was a feature to shove game news into everyone’s face with no way to turn it off.