Over the years, platform holders like PlayStation and Xbox have been getting less and less subtle about turning our dashboards into piles of advertisements. Earlier this year, Xbox users began venting their frustrations with full-screen adverts upon booting up their consoles, and while PlayStation users might have been laughing it up at their expense, the PS5 is pretty much doing the same thing now.
PlayStation recently released a new UI update for the PS5, mostly targeting Game Hubs, the screens that display whenever you hover over a particular game on your dashboard. Before the update, they would usually have a piece of game art or the title screen to clearly display which game you were hovering over, and some would set the mood a little too before you hopped in.
That now appears to have been changed with this latest UI update, as full screen advertisements are now displayed across various Game Hubs, sometimes advertising the very game that you already own. A Twitter user called Alfredobofa collected some of the worst examples from their console, as games like Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Elden Ring now display accolade screenshots, while Star Wars Battlefront 2 advertises multiple...
