This is precisely what happened in the last few hours, as some users were shocked to see that the start menus of their PS5he dashboard of a life, was filled with full-screen advertisements instead of showing the work of art of the selected game. That is to say, involuntarily, Sony We received advertisements for films or games that were about to be released or had already been released. As if this space isn’t private and personal… or do the Japanese not believe that to be the case?
An error that smells like a test on your PS5
As we told you, some users, especially in the United States, have reported that what they consider to be advertising for products that do not correspond to the game they have selected has started to appear in the menus startup of their consoles, in what appears to be some sort of advertising based on the content we have installed on the machine. So, instead of showing the work of art
Another case is that of the user who saw how by putting the game selection in Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Editioninstead of seeing the usual Aloy, an advertisement for LEGO Horizon Adventureswhich will go on sale on November 14 and can already be reserved from October 3. That is to say, an advertisement in its own right as you can see in the screenshot that we leave you just below.
Although this error is online and exposes many users Sony It appears he shut it down and through a spokesperson, Daniel Hiatt –product manager of PlayStation– came to say on his social networks, in a message on X that he has already deleted, that everything related to the appearance of advertising in the start menu of the PS5 is “And bug and not a feature”, we understand that this is new to the operating system.
¿Os lo go to create?
It is obvious that such a move is not the product of a mistake, because we understand that it must have required a period of programming that had a clear approach from the Japanese on how it should work. So it smells like this, a probe balloon Let’s see how users take it and, if there are complaints, we remove it and that’s it.
What do we think it could be? Well, look: prepare the heavy weapons because the fight will begin soon and what they are now selling us as innocent bug which they were not aware of, is nothing more than the first step in a plan that will attempt to monetize our own machines with advertising. Don’t you think that Sony has it reached this point? At the same time…and thank goodness the DualSense doesn’t have a screen.
