Okay, Sony, PS5 Really Needs Folders Now That PlayStation Plus Has Dramatically Expanded
My PlayStation 5 is a mess, and I bet yours is too. The longstanding lack of organization in the user interface has been suddenly and dramatically exacerbated by the arrival of the new PlayStation Plus tiers, which offer hundreds of games at your fingertips. This means many more icons taking up space on your home screen, with virtually nonexistent sorting options to manage them. At this point, there's no putting it off anymore. The PS5 needs folders.
The PlayStation 5 interface has never exactly been elegant, subscribing to the school of UI design that shows you the 10 Most Recent Things and then dumps everything else into a More Stuff compartment. So it was a mild annoyance for anyone fastidious enough to care about organization, but it never felt strictly necessary until now.
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Take the PlayStation Plus Extra tier, which entitles you to the Game Catalog library of hundreds of games. Even having only upgraded for the kitty cat with a backpack game, I found plenty of other games that piqued my interest, at least to download and try out. But each one pushed my other games over one slot and into the gutter, out of sight and out of mind. Those ten spots on the Home page quickly became prime real estate, precious commodities that are worth their weight in gold.
The Premium tier is even more of a hassle. That level grants you access to the PlayStation Classics catalog, a vast library of older games, including ones from the PS1 and PSP era. But
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