Wow, this is awful. Some people reported that these ads are also very petty and not necessarily related to the game, like apparently Elden Ring shows an ad for a licensed mousepad when you hover over the game now...

Edit: Playstation Product Manager says this is actually a new bug. I really doubt it but they do seem to be "fixing it".

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[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It kind of dampens and cheapens the experience of using the console. The PS+ tab and the PS Store tab are, essentially, full of ads already but at least they're contained to the two left-most tabs on the home menu. Sure, you usually don't stick around too long after selecting a game to play or a streaming service to watch something off, but I'd rather not see more ads than needed when the current system already works well as is.

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe -2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. I get that. It makes sense, but I just don’t see it as some thing that really bothers me that much. I spent decades watching TV ads though, so, maybe I’m just more patient?

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, could be. I used to not be able to watch movies because I'd be used to TV ads forcing a break every now and then. Took me a while but I couldn't go back to ad-less YouTube, for example

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 2 points 18 hours ago

Oh I can’t either. Totally with ya there.