Summary
A controversial side effect of yesterday’sPS5system update has been reversed. Now, players won’t bespammed with excessive adswhen they hover over a game they own, withPlayStationsaying that this wasn’t supposed to happen in the first place.
As many noted yesterday, Game Hubs had been updated to show updates from the PS5 news system. However, in practice, this just meant that loads of ads for other games would take up the screen - often ads for games that players already owned. This was met with a lot of backlash, but was quickly removed.
Sony Revereses PS5 Dashboard Ads Update
The issue with Game Hubs seemed to be especially problematic with recent games. This was noted by players online, who shared that their dashboards became overrun with ads if they hovered over games likeSpace Marine 2andFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
While PlayStation is now saying that this was a bug, many were quick to assume that this was the update working as intended. It’s easy to see why, as ads have been increasingly creeping their way into console dashboards, withXbox players previously complaining that they are being shown full-page ads. Couple this withthe PS5’s lack of dynamic themes that we got on PS4, and it’s unsurprising that many through Sony really was planning to bombard us with ads.
However, this part of the update has now been reversed. PSN is also back online, after an outage earlier in the day.
PlayStation 5
The PlayStation 5 was launched in 2020 as Sony’s next-gen console, armed with an SSD and the new DualSense controller. Disc-based and digital models are available, and it supports the new PS VR2 virtual reality headset.
