Users noticed how hovering over a video game icon on the homepage now forces an advert to replace the unique art — as close to a theme as the PS5 gets.

What appears to be happening is the PS5 is pulling in the latest news for each game, whether it be a YouTube video, patch notes, or even the announcement of a different game entirely.

However, some users have critisized the move for replacing main video game images on the homepage with what are in some cases outdated adverts.

IGN’s testing shows the latest promotional Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 video released by publisher Focus Entertainment has replaced the art of protagonist Titus in the background of the homescreen.

Black Myth: Wukong, meanwhile, now forces an image signaling the latest patch notes.

And Call of Duty promotes The Haunting update for Season 6.

Other users have reported particularly confusing ads. MP1st showed how an ad for the upcoming Lego Horizon Adventures takes up the background when selecting Horizon Zero Dawn, making it look like you're about to play a game that's not out yet.

Perhaps most annoying of all, some of the latest news the PS5 is pulling from is significantly out of date, which will perhaps confuse some less clued up users. For example, Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales brite-forces an advertisement for the movie theatre release of Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, which came out in June 2023.

Bizarrely, some games do not use the new advert system (perhaps there's no latest news to pull from). The recently released Astro Bot, for example, is spared for now, as is Yakuza Kiwami 2.

The PlayStation dashboard has featured ads for years now, but mostly those were relegated to the PlayStation Store itself. This new homescreen feature is new, though. Similarly, Microsoft’s Xbox dashboard is littered with ads, but at least its console supports themes

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