They can be hard to come by, but who doesn’t love a good PlayStation 4 theme? Truant Pixel has been cranking out quality animated wallpapers since the beginning of time, but it seems the fine folks at PlayStation Europe have uncharacteristically put their collective foot down when it comes to bad ass backgrounds like the recently announced synth wave bundle.
According to the American developer, SIEE is “very strict” with themes, and will only allow ones that are representative of a game. A quick browse through the UK PlayStation Store confirms this to be the case, although it seems like some developers have found a loophole by releasing cruddy Breakout clones in order to get their equally cruddy themes up for sale.
We can somewhat understand Sony’s stance here: the PlayStation 3 became a laughing stock with its streams of terrible avatars and wallpapers, but it’s clear that Truant Pixel – who’s been releasing amazing themes for years now – is here to do quality work, and it should be allowed to sell its stuff globally. The one small positive here is that the PS4 is region free.
[source twitter.com]
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thing is we can use whatever picture we want as a background so we don't need themes anyway
Nice on the sub title
Perfect time for a brexit
@FullbringIchigo Yeah but have you seen that synth wave one for example? It's pretty impressively animated.
So they just have to put together a weak jigsaw puzzle game, release it for the price of a theme, bundle in a free theme, then tie all their other themes to that game. Problem solved!
Thanks a lot. Now I’ll have that Fall Out Boy song stuck in my head all day.
Seems like an odd stipulation, SIEE only allowing themes that are representative of games 🤯
As long as the available themes on the store don’t have inappropriate imagery, I would have thought they’d be absolutely fine 🤷🏻♂️
Man, I was looking forward to that synth theme...
@get2sammyb yeah and it does look really nice but if i'm honest i spend very little time on the menu anyway, it's normally boot up, select game, play game, turn off game then shut down for me
Some of those themes are pretty nice. I'm still using the PS2 Legacy theme lol.
Subtitle game still as strong as ever I see.
Having a background of a pic I've taken myself is a lot more personal. Got a nice space theme at the moment of my own ship flying through a nebula from Elite Dangerous.
What the f...? Restriction here, restriction there. Wake up, Sony!
Here’s a suggestion for an article: Top 10 Best PS4 Themes.
this a well known fact that the UK psn store sucks ass so no surprise here.
I bought the synthwave theme after seeing a comment on the post about it. It's utter rubbish, nothing like the YouTube video. Just one looping theme and tune.
@huyi um have you ever looked how many terrible themes get released each and every week on the US PS store?
I have a bear riding on a bike over the various seasons. I'm good.
EDIT: Seriously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q31aIYkauq8
hope this can be sorted out! because we are missing out on some really great Dynamic Themes because of this.
Id buy ‘em.
Some of the Loop hole themes arent entirely terrible, but many are.
It would be nice to get some worth while backgrounds that werent just charged advertising... you know?
So... which particular game was the PlayStation 20th Anniversary theme representative of, then? 🤔
Maybe let us see a preview in Europe for the themes.
@manu0 terrible? they have a awesome buddha theme and other animal themes that will never see the light of day on the UK psn store.
@get2sammyb do you know the name of the theme in the screenshot?
I haven't seen a single truant pixel theme I'd buy yet personally, so I'm glad Sony Europe is being strict. Shame a few crappy ones have slipped through the net though.
@get2sammyb Does the synth wave one work on different accounts? I've had the US Destiny exclusive theme that refused to work on my UK account hence I held back on buying the synth one
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