PS5's New Ads Replace Game Art On Dashboard, And Some Players Don't Like It
Gaming companies haven't exactly been shy about putting ads in games before, but Sony is now changing how they work on the PS5 dashboard. What was once the home of beautiful game art now has ads directly integrated into the user interface on the dashboard, and there doesn't seem to be any way to disable the ads short of unplugging the PS5 from the internet.
The ads appear to be linked to the official news feed for the games in question. For example, when the latest Spider-Man game was pulled up at the GameSpot office, the ad that came up was for a roundtable video featuring the creative team of Spider-Man 2 and and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. There are other examples included in the gallery below.
Some of the ads, like the one attached to Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, are also out of date. In this case, it's for a May the 4th promotion from last May.
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