PS5 beta testers have just discovered something that may annoy more than one person. Indeed, the next major update of the console lets advertising appear in the interface. A rather discreet system, for the moment…
PS5: an interface that will divide
Clearly, PlayStation is pulling out all the stops at the moment. After announcing a PS5 Pro at €800, we learned that the next update of the console should bring a layer of advertising directly into the interface.
As you can see in the images at the end of the article, the background no longer displays a simple image of the selected game. From now on, an advertisement is coming into this space. For example, you can find a shortcut to a YouTube video, an article dedicated to the game or even a summary of press notes.
Obviously, it is strictly impossible to deactivate this functionality. No settings in menus or other pop-ups are present to ask for your consent. You just have to get used to it, that’s all!
While some will not find this inconvenient, it is a safe bet that this decision will shake up the gaming world. Moving away from an era where you had to choose between paying or dealing with advertising, it is difficult for consumers to get used to this new world in which you pay and still navigate between advertisements.
Let’s debate
The mechanism is well known. The brand is trying for the first time to go smoothly with a system that is barely visible and well integrated into the interface. If the players do not flinch, she will surely not hesitate to return to the charge in a more hostile manner. Until the day when there will be an ad each time the console is turned on…
And you, does a new PS5 interface with advertising pose a problem to you?
So it turns out that the recent PS5 UI update that let you disable all the advertisements on the dashboard was too good to be true. Now EVERY SINGLE GAME on your homescreen shows you an advertisement in the background with no way to remove them lol pic.twitter.com/29p56mYn34
— Earl Turlet (@alfredobofa) September 29, 2024