PLAYSTATION has been having a weird day made worse by the fact that the PlayStation Network was down for hours.
People woke up to find that they couldn’t play their favourite games online, but at least another problem with PlayStation’s online functions was fixed.
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The outage lasted several hours for reasons PlayStation is yet to reveal to players, but the confusion over PS5’s online activity doesn’t end there.
Hours before the whole network went down, preventing players from purchasing and downloading games or playing them online, PS5 users noticed something strange on their home screens.
Usually when you hover over a game you want to play on your PS5, you are greeted by the game’s name and some of the artwork.
This lets you easily tell which game you are about to boot up, without trying to look at the small icons.
However, players were instead greeted by a number of confusing messages that were unrelated to the game and often out of date.
People were posting screenshots of a number of different pages they were faced with including YouTube videos or Patch Notes about the game selected.
Others reported seeing adverts for different upcoming games and even out of date movies like Into the SpiderVerse.
Initially, players thought that PlayStation was trialling showing adverts on the home screen, something that Xbox has been doing for a while.
Players have widely criticised Xbox showing full-screen adverts when you boot up your console, and a similar change by PlayStation would be just as unpopular.
Luckily, it appears that spamming players with seemingly random ads wasn’t what PlayStation intended.
In fact, PlayStation has said that it has no intention of changing how the home screen usually displays.
The PS5 home screen has now returned to its usual self, showing players full screen art of the game they’re about to play.
PlayStation tweeted to fans that the change to the game screens was a technical error and completely unintended.
The tweet reads: “A tech error with the Official News feature on the PS5 console has since been resolved.
“There have been no changes to the way game news is displayed on PS5.”
Between the network outage and the messed up home screen it’s been a weird day for PlayStation fans.
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