Friday, October 11, 2024

Everybody settle down”: After a PS5 update dropped ads all over the home screen, dev says it’s “it’s just a (new) bug with an existing feature

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If you’ve turned on your PS5 in the past day or so, you’ve likely seen a whole lot more ads on the home screen than you’re used to, with promotions for upcoming games, various trailers, and bits of developer news taking the place of the custom game art that typically appears when you select a game on that menu. Don’t panic, though – according to PlayStation, this is a bug, not a feature.

Each PS5 game typically features a custom, hi-rez background image that appears whenever you hover over that game’s page on your home menu. Yesterday, players began to notice that this art had been replaced with what amounts to ads, seemingly pulling from a publisher news feed that’s sometimes quite thoroughly out of date. It’s annoying, but apparently it’s very much unintentional.

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