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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 187 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Man it is never enough with these greedy fucking assholes. I don't even own one and I'm mad about this... It's with everything lately... Soon we'll have ads in our fucking dreams like Futurama....

"But not in our dreams!"

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago

Ugh the constan dream ad reruns

trying to get back in a nightmare to avoid seeing puppymonkeybaby again

Cannabis will be sold as a way to escape the constant dreamvertising.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 19 points 2 months ago

I can't even smoke anymore... Stupid anxiety... THC triggers panic attacks and I've finally gotten to the point where even if my bowl is 90% CBD it still gets me...

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not to get all serious n shit but as a fellow sufferer i hope you're getting your anxiety treated. I didnt listen to my friends when they told me it progressively gets worse and kept gutting it out until i was non-functioning and had to get a pro to get me back on my feet.

None of my biz just hope you're taking care of yourself

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[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 115 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Holy shit, this is full blown verification can shit.

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[-] lohky@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

My piece of shit, $1800 Vizio TV does that. I can't even default it to a specific input without clicking through an ad.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] xlash123@sh.itjust.works 85 points 2 months ago

Artist: designs really cool visual for gamers to see before launching

Sony: "Oooo, free ad real-estate!"

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 77 points 2 months ago

Sweet, just in time for the pro. Fingers crossed the next revision doesn't play games at all, just $1000 to pipe Morbius trailers to my TV. It's all I ever wanted.

[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Sony will just flash their 30th anniversary skin again and people will forget and drool all over again.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Isn't it rad that Sony designed the ps5 to have easily replaceable side panels and then for some reason only releases the really cool panels as part of a full console?

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[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago

Sony looking at the rotting corpse of Xbox and taking notes. But only the wrong ones.

[-] BenReilly97@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

At least Microsoft hasn't announced a marginally improved $700 pro console that doesn't even come with the disk drive.

Yet.

[-] vanontom@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wonder if anybody remembers when it leaked Microsoft had a concept of a plan about restrictions on Xbox discs (used/shared), everyone gasped, Sony mocked them in a video about "sharing discs" on PS4 and became a turning point in the console wars...

Even a decade later: Remove discs at your peril! Half the reason I've even bought consoles is for Blu-ray movies (still unbeatable AV quality). Sony won both the console and disc drive wars FFS! Still not enough. "Line must go up more!"

I hope MS is at least mocking them back right now, for giggles. Before announcing a very similar thing next year...

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[-] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

$80/yr subscription to play online

30% cut from all sales

Ads on homescreen

Lackluster game library, busy remastering perfectly good games

Single purpose device

PS5 will be my last ever console. I don't see the value proposition in consoles anymore with the rise of PC handhelds.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Even better. The steamdeck is like the Switch. Dock it and play on your TV. You can even render on a gaming PC and stream to your TV of you want those cutting edge graphics.

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago

Now I see why they never allowed custom backgrounds like the PS4. They wanted to do this from the beginning.

[-] Tarogar@feddit.org 42 points 2 months ago

Crazy stuff... Ads everywhere. Makes my choice to not buy any console this generation seem a lot better. It saved me money and I don't get ads forced on me. I call that a win win.

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[-] Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 months ago

$700 gets you a pretty nice PC these days.....

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 36 points 2 months ago

Or two Steam Decks!

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

Or one steam deck and a fuck ton of games!

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

Ads have ruined the internet. Truly.

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 16 points 2 months ago

Ads have ruined everything.

[-] aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 2 months ago

Build a PC

Install Linux

Fuck corporate bullshit.

[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

What distro tho?

[-] bread@feddit.nl 18 points 2 months ago

If you're coming from Windows, something that runs KDE Plasma will feel very familiar.

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[-] illi@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

Very happy with Linux Mint

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[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago

"Game will start after ad: 1 of 5" 😂🤣😭

[-] unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 months ago

A game you paid for. On a console you also paid for. And you also pay for PS Plus as well.

[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago

Don't give them ideas, holy shit. Ads are already present in some sports games, though, afaik

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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 31 points 2 months ago

PCMasterRace. Each year, your consoles get shittier.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 35 points 2 months ago

To be fair, Windows is getting worse every year as well and Linux isn't officially supported by most developers so you kinda need to compromise somewhere.

I personally went with Linux because I got fed up with Windows bullshit and the games I can't play are mostly games I'm not really interested in playing in the first place.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The good thing is that Linux is officially becoming a market space that they have to pay attention to or lose money. Not because of us, but steam deck normalized it. 4% of users doesn't sound like a lot, but to a company who is desperate enough to put ads everywhere just to make a few pennies, well, it may be worth it now

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[-] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

I'm so glad I quit consoles. Now I'm just rooting for steam to get every game running perfectly in linux so we don't have to deal with Windows either.

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[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

The arrogance of tech giants has never been higher.

[-] ErinCrush@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

There is no reason to get a PS5. There are hardly any exclusives worth playing. The games it does have are either on Xbox, which is generally cheaper to invest in, (especially if it's on gamepass) with the series s. Most games are locked at 30 fps anyway. And now you HAVE to see ads?

Just get a PC or if you really want to stay with consoles, the series s or x on sale are the only options that make some bit of sense. But still, a PC is worth saving for.

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[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I didn't know this was something I agreed to when I bought my console.

Now to figure out if I can block this.

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[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Well, finally. There are still so many unused seconds in a day where the consumer cattle is not forcibly blasted with advertisements, it brings tears to the eyes...

[-] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Guess I'm staying with my PS4 then. Fuck upgrading if all I'm gonna get for it is ads and like, 2 more games..

[-] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Torment Nexus has been supplanted by the MORONIC Nexus

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

By the sounds of it, Sony isn't even getting paid for these ads. They're replacing the art with shit like a video explaining what the universe is. It's just an algorithm they put in to keep it "fresh" and it's amazingly shitty.

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