PlayStation 5: Sony confuses with ads on the home screen

Does Sony put ads on Playstation 5 home screen? Related user reports have been circulating on social networks in the past few days, and some media have also picked up on them. Now Sony has said: This was just a technical error which has now been fixed.

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Some examples of “ads” seen by PS5 users on their home screen: American game magazine IGN collectedThese are articles that Sony classifies as “news”. These can be patch notes for games, but can also be promotional blog posts or references to other games. These news advertisements would appear as soon as players selected the game icon on the home screen.

Typically, a screenshot of the selected video game should appear in this view – a position Sony has now apparently backtracked on. It is not a far-fetched idea to show some news instead. On Steam you can also view news in standard view about related games selected by developers in the library.

Cross-reference to other games

This view may make sense – but PS5 players were troubled by the fact that the latest news story filled the entire home screen. This is especially annoying when it is a clear advertising contribution. A Screenshot of MP1ST For example, shows how a full-screen screenshot of “Lego Horizon Adventures” was displayed for the game “Horizon Zero Dawn”.

“Nothing has changed in the way gaming news is displayed on PS5,” Soni now writes in an ex postThis was a “technical error” which has been fixed. The PSN outage that prevented many PlayStation players from playing on Tuesday morning has also been resolved. PlayStation Network became normally accessible again as of Tuesday afternoon.

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