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Sony says a technical error is to blame for the PlayStation 5 showing ads on in-game tiles.
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PlayStation 5 users began noticing outdated ads taking up their game tiles, but Sony says this was unintentional.
Sony says a recent technical error is to blame for the PlayStation 5 The home screen suddenly shows ads to players, as the studio confirms that no changes have been made to the way game news is displayed to users. After many believed that the sudden announcements were a new feature, PlayStation 5 owners criticized Sony for the sudden change, but the studio says it has now rectified the mistake.
Shortly after the release of a new PlayStation firmware update, some fans began to notice that the game’s tiles now featured player-related ads instead of the game’s usual key art. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Moralesfor example, it showed a full-screen ad for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, even though the movie is already over a year old. While this didn’t appear to affect all titles available on PlayStation 5, it was widespread enough to frustrate much of the console community.
Fortunately, Sony has now confirmed that this is not a planned feature for PlayStation 5 and is related to a “technical error.” In a new statement on the official Ask PlayStation Twitter account, the studio said that the official PlayStation 5 news feature had experienced a bug, but that the issue had now been resolved. He went on to reassure the community that no changes have been made to the way news is displayed on the company’s flagship console.
Sony resolves controversial PS5 bug
The unexpected blurb came just a few weeks after PlayStation 5 launched the new welcome center feature, a new tab for the console’s home screen that allows users to customize the section with widgets, wallpapers and Vital console information at a glance. . By default, the welcome center includes some advertising widgets, but they can be removed if the user wishes. While fans loved the customization the new welcome center offered, it all fell apart when fans believed Sony had made the ads more prominent on the rest of the console. Fortunately, Sony has confirmed that it was all just a big mistake.
While fans were happy to learn that this was nothing more than a glitch, PlayStation users had other things on their minds when PSN went offline on October 1 for users around the world. Although Sony addressed the error in the announcement, it did not acknowledge that its service was experiencing a global outage, leading to frustration in the community. The sudden downtime meant that even users looking to play digitally purchased single-player games were unable to do so.