3mo ago

PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off

www.ign.com PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off - IGN

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".

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What an absolutely terrible fucking idea.
Can't wait for major story spoilers to show up full-screen on the background of the homescreen because clickbaiters on YouTube are fucking assholes.
Also really don't need product placement on the home, I am on my PS5 to play games, not to fucking buy stuff. It's a console, not a goddamn webshop.
This really needs an option to get disabled.
Edit: Reading again it just seems to get worse. Looking at the alternative game ads, offers and promotions when selecting a game seems borderline against consumer laws, at least in EU. Especially kids could be easily targeted and triggered by this. Also most of these examples make it look like you're starting up an entirely different game, it's just such a awful update all together. No self-respecting interface designer would come up with this, it's 100% corporate predatory marketing cunts that came up with this kind of stuff.
- I heard from another lemmy user that his new Xbox required him to click an ad to finish booting up. So with a grain of salt MS' consoles are even worse. If this continues and i don't see why it won't, PC gaming gonna be the only viable one soon. Thank God steamdeck and valve Linux collab are now a thing
  
  Holy shit, this is full blown verification can shit.
  
  They saw the cans as a challenge and are inching closer and closer to see where the cutoff for bullshit is.
  
  My piece of shit, $1800 Vizio TV does that. I can't even default it to a specific input without clicking through an ad.
  
  God, that's awful. Is it connected to the Internet or are they internal ads? I suppose you've already looked into a piratefix firmware update or something? I have a big roku tv that i keep away from my wifi lest ads sneak into my experience too
  
  I'd kill Internet to it if my wife didn't leave on random free streaming shit like Pluto to play for the dogs when we leave. The steps it takes for me to get to streamio are nuts. Boot on TV -> close ad and navigation to Fire stick -> listen to auto play ad while piece of shit fire stick loads UI -> finally get to watch what I want.
  
  That's dystopian nightmare shit. Never buying a smart tv. Fuck having the nicest thing if that's what it takes to deal with
  
  Sounds like a job for a rasberry pi with pihole installed: https://pi-hole.net/
  
  I've really wanted to start tinkering with rasberry pi, so maybe that'll be a fun first project!
- Ugh I love Steam but when I click on a new game, sometimes it’s like WATCH THIS STREAMER STREAM and it’s in the middle of the game like I WANT GO INTO IT BLIND GIVE ME AN OPTION TO DISABLE THIS
  
  I either GoG or pirate these days. You want my money? Then respectfully sell me the product.
  
  If you are taking about the storefront you can disable that completely in your options.
  
  I couldn’t find one when it first came out, and haven’t looked since. Thank you so much!
  
  Sure thing, if I were in front of my pc I'd have given you more precise instructions but yeah I was elated when I found that setting as I don't enjoy livestreams even if it's not a spoiler.
- It's a console, not a goddamn webshop.
  Console makers see them as one and the same. This being Lemmy I have to advise that the only solution is to own your own machine, so best build your own hardware, install Linux, and compile all the games you want to play yourself.
  
  I have a PC, with Windows though, I can't be bothered with the limited Linux support and hardware woes that come with it.
  I only played a few exclusives on the PS5 before, most recently Astro Bot, but since everything else is basically coming to PC I recently upgraded it anyway. It's becoming less and less appealing to even bother with consoles anymore. Even Nintendo seems to barely bother to dare anything innovating.
  
  My Linux gaming machine is a Steam Deck, it's been a pretty positive experience and you only really need to tinker if you're straying off the golden path.
  I imagine we'll see some new Nintendo innovation with the Switch 2, they are at least good for throwing in a load of wacky ideas with new consoles.
  
  To be fair the Steam Deck is similar to consoles, it is only one piece of hardware that people can't alter (or aren't meant to) that natively runs on a Linux system and is entirely designed to work as such. I think the Steam Deck is an interesting concept, but I don't believe it can be compared to custom built computers, as well as the idea of supported games on any choice of Linux distribution. Support is significantly better than it used to be, but it's still such a long way off.
  
  While it defaults to a console-like experience it is meant to be altered, they give you a full desktop environment as standard and even provide instructions to install Windows if you really want.

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