PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨simple@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.ign.com/articles/ps5-homescreen-now-replaces-unique-video-game-art-with-annoying-ads-you-cant-turn-off

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…

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Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨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…

Image “But not in our dreams!”

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- the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨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.
  
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  - Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨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…
    
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  - Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I had to look up what puppymonkeybaby is, thinking “am I too young for his”
    
    Tommy horror, I am now too old for this.
    
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PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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- the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨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’ console of even worse. PC gaming gonna be the only viable one soon. Thank God steamdeck and valve Linux collab are now a thing
  
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  - kadotux@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Holy shit this is full blown verification can shit.
    
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  - lohky@lemmy.world ⁨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.
    
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- Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ugh I love Steam but when I click on a new game, sometimes it’s like WATCH THIS STREAMER STREAM and it’s in the middle of the game like I WANT GO INTO IT BLIND GIVE ME AN OPTION TO DISABLE THIS
  
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  - JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you are taking about the storefront you can disable that completely in your options.
    
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  - where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I either GoG or pirate these days. You want my money? Then respectfully sell me the product.
    
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- smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  It’s a console, not a goddamn webshop.
  
  Console makers see them as one and the same. This being Lemmy I have to advise that the only solution is to own your own machine, so best build your own hardware, install Linux, and compile all the games you want to play yourself.
  
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  - PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I have a PC, with Windows though, I can’t be bothered with the limited Linux support and hardware woes that come with it.
    
    I only played a few exclusives on the PS5 before, most recently Astro Bot, but since everything else is basically coming to PC I recently upgraded it anyway. It’s becoming less and less appealing to even bother with consoles anymore. Even Nintendo seems to barely bother to dare anything innovating.
    
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xlash123@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Artist: designs really cool visual for gamers to see before launching

Sony: “Oooo, free ad real-estate!”

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CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨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.

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- PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sony will just flash their 30th anniversary skin again and people will forget and drool all over again.
  
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  - mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Isn’t it rare that Sony designed the ps5 to have easily replaceable side panels and then for some reason only released the really cool panels as part of a new console release.
    
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- the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t know if you were part of the memers who got Morbius re-released but if so hats off because back then my in-laws were so excited to show me this movie they discovered on Netflix.
  
  Just so well done
  
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Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sony looking at the rotting corpse of Xbox and taking notes. But only the wrong ones.

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- BenReilly97@lemmy.world ⁨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.
  
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  - vanontom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Does anybody remember a decade ago when it leaked Microsoft has some concepts about restrictions on 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 (unbeatable AV quality). Sony won the fucking console and disc drive wars and it was still not enough.
    
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  - med@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, but how long until it doesn’t come with a power brick, and you have to supply your own?
    
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- slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They are doing this because a rotten corpse doesn’t force them to compete, they can do whatever they want. If MS didn’t shit the bed with the X Seeries, Sony would be trying harder to please customers, or at least not actively screwing them (see also: 800 EUR PS5 Pro without disc drive or vertical stand).
  
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lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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- Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨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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- gsfraley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Agreed. Just canceled PS Plus. Fuck Sony for the shifty bender they’ve been on.
  
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- datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same for me with my series x, MS has all the same bullshit
  
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AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Now I see why they never allowed custom backgrounds like the PS4. They wanted to do this from the beginning.

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Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
$700 gets you a pretty nice PC these days…

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- Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or *two* Steam Decks!
  
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  - celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Or one Steam Deck if you are in Canada!
    
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  - SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Or one steam deck and a fuck ton of games!
    
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- celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hmmm, I don’t know about “pretty nice”. You’d be lucky to build something with a 12th gen i5 and a 3060 for under $1000. More like you can get a serviceable PC that runs 1080p games at 60fps, but no AAA title from the past 5 years will perform reliably.
  
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  - BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m still using a 1070ti and hitting stable 60fps with newer games. Medium to low settings, usually but most slow down comes from poor optimization since I’m running a 12th Gen and regularly see medium usage on both GPU and CPU.
    
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  - GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s still worth it for the freedom and then upgrade with time
    
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  - Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    12th Gen i5 and a 3060 will outperform a PS5 pro
    
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  - wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    With a 2 min search I found a cyberpowerpc prebuilt for $700 that included a r7 5700 and rx 6700. And yes, you can absolutely get 60 fps at 1080p on some aaa titles; I don’t know where you get that idea you can’t, especially if you can tweak graphics settings (for the record, most pc gamers don’t even use ultra- high and medium presets are the most reasonable settings). I’m sure a title like Diablo 4 doesn’t require tuning at 1080p at all.
    
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  - CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That sounds like a pretty nice PC to me. Probably not going to play everything on ultra, but neither do consoles.
    
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aniki@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Build a PC

Install Linux

Fuck corporate bullshit.

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- simple@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  So are you just going to run around this community posting this same comment whenever something happens?
  
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  - aniki@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    As both a Linux professional and freedom loving enthusiast that hates corporate bullshit, you bet your black ass I am.
    
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- Vitaly@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What distro tho?
  
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  - bread@feddit.nl ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Very happy with Linux Mint
    
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  - thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Real talk: whichever one makes you happy. Do a little research with some search terms such as “play {game} on Linux” and see what other users are running. Then, assemble a few live disks and test-pilot a few distros.
    
    It’s pretty fun getting to switch out your OS so freely and once you find an interface that feels good, you just plop your ass into that seat. If you keep decent records of your configs and such, you might find yourself starting over again multiple times while you “try to get it right.” That’s not failure, that’s just advancing your skills and making yourself happy.
    
    Linux can be as simple or as advanced as you want it to be.
    
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  - sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Bazzite use the home theatre version for a console like experience. Or go with the desktop versions Gnome and KDE both work really well however the emudeck devs have programmed it to work with KDE if you wanted to use that go with KDE.
    
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  - aniki@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Anything but Ubuntu will be perfectly fine. There really isn’t that much difference between the major distributions.
    
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  - Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Pop!OS for no video card hassle
    
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- Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  But then I’d be a Linux cringelord 😬
  
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  - aniki@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    So a step up from crayon-eater?
    
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Tarogar@feddit.org ⁨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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- mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is steam deck a console? From this gen?
  
  Either way it’s pretty good. You don’t even need to run their os if you don’t want to.
  
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  - rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    At this point, the distinction between console and PC comes down to the corporate side. The PS4 and PS5 operating systems are based on a BSD (probably FreeBSD but not sure), and are capable of running a desktop OS (as long as hackers find a way to bypass Sony’s locked-down firmware). XBox uses a Windows-based OS, also locked down by Microsoft to only run the applications they want.
    
    Everything about the Steam Deck is designed with gaming in mind, but in terms of capabilities, it’s no different from a PC. You could hook it up to a USB-C dock and use it for work. I’d sooner call it a handheld PC than a console.
    
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  - Tarogar@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I would argue that it’s a handheld PC since it’s not locked down to heck and back. It would also be the one thing I would buy but I have no use case for it so I don’t.
    
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- PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I still enjoy my PS5 for a few exclusives I play on it. But damn I’m getting very much triggered to just go back to exclusively PC gaming.
  
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ads have ruined the internet. Truly.

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- itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ads have ruined everything.
  
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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
PCMasterRace. Each year, your consoles get shittier.

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- GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨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.
  
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  - scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨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, we’ll, it may be worth it now
    
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  - celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Despite how shitty Windows is getting, the UX is still leagues better than any console.
    
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  - Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is where I’m at too. I’m so fucking mad at the trajectory Microsuck is taking because I love indie games and getting into early access stuff and they often don’t work on Linux. Plus star citizen… Stupid anti cheat stuff doesn’t play nice with Linux :/
    
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- paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Microsoft master race, get it right.
  
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  - aniki@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    gross.
    
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MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Game will start after ad: 1 of 5” 😂🤣😭

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- unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A game you paid for. On a console you also paid for. And you also pay for PS Plus as well.
  
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- v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Don’t give them ideas, holy shit. Ads are already present in some sports games, though, afaik
  
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2pt_perversion@lemmy.world ⁨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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- daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Still have to deal with DRM and not owning your games
  
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The arrogance of tech giants has never been higher.

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ErinCrush@lemm.ee ⁨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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- helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  There are hardly any exclusives ~~worth playing. ~~
  
  Even if there were, that’s all the more reason not to buy it. Exclusive anything is anti-consumer bullshit that should be illegal.
  
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- v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A PC is something different and not really comparable to a console if all you’re interested in is a hassle-free, straightforward gaming experience. Economies of scale make it so that a PS5 is just plain better than any PC you could cook up for that price.
  
  Plus, exclusives are a factor for console choice, sure, but I’d argue that the performance boost relative to PS4 models is worth the price. I can only speak for myself, obviously, but I’ve been really happy with my PS4 for these last four years.
  
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- yonder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The only redeeming thing about the PS5 is the support for standard NVME SSDs. But at that point, just get a PC.
  
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- EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Most games are locked at 30 fps anyway
  
  No?
  
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celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Every single day that goes by, I am so glad I didn’t waste my money on a PS5 or Xbox Series. PS4 was my last hurrah with Sony, and the 360 was the last hurrah with Microsoft. If Nintendo pulls this same crap with the Switch 2, I’ll be PC exclusively.

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- TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You can play Nintendo games on PC, with the added bonus of not giving money to that ghoulish company.
  
  I played BotW and TotK on my PC, and let me tell you friend, with the increased frame rate, and the ability to run reshade, it looks and feels better than ever.
  
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- nul9o9@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My PS5 is really just a Demons Souls Remake machine.
  
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beebarfbadger@lemmy.world ⁨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…

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ilikecoffee@lemmy.world ⁨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…

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newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I didn’t know this was something I agreed to when I bought my console.

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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I didn’t know this was something I agreed to when I bought my console.
  
  That’s 'cause it wasn’t! Sony is “exceeding authorized access” – a felony under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – but won’t be prosecuted for $ome rea$on.
  
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Cyberflunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Torment Nexus has been supplanted by the MORONIC Nexus

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roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨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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drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Whats even the point? I get so many ads that they are almost entirely ineffective now. Its just white noise, the sound of the wind, the idle thoughts in my brain I am just hit with so many that none stick.

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JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Please drink verification can to unpause.

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Fribbtastic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You know, I was really sick and tired when they updated the nvidia shield with the new android TV version that makes most of the screen show stuff that are basically ads. It didn’t even let me show only stuff I was interested in and this constant “oh you are hovering over this item for 0.000001s so you seem to be interested in this, let me start the video for you with audio” no god damnit I was reading something else or got a text.

I had to install a different launcher so that I could only show on the screen what I actually wanted to see. I have basically removed or reduced all ads as much as I ca.

Lately, I was at my parents place and they don’t have that stuff. Even the 1.5 minutes of ads for a free service is so disruptive to me watching something.

What has this to do with PlayStation?

Well, on the shield you are still able to install a custom launcher that is more to your liking, you could disable the internet access and completely stream your own local content. But on the PS, you don’t have that option and are completely at the mercy of what they think you should watch and see on your screen that you bought with a console that you also bought with your own money.

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Illecors@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For those already owning one - try setting up pihole or an equivalent. Sony could be serving ads from a domain used by something like a cdn, but I bet they don’t.

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Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Looks like the console wasn’t expensive enough!

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Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
good i got a pc tbh

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HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is satire right?

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Juice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Whelp looks like the ps4 will be my last Sony console, too bad

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