PS5's New Welcome Hub Reportedly Now Popping Up in Europe

Here it comes

by Stephen Tailby 10:15am

PS5's New Welcome Hub Reportedly Now Popping Up in Europe 1 — *Image: Push Square*

A major addition to PS5's UI was made in the last big system software update, adding a Welcome tab to your console's home menu. Initially only available in the USA, it appears that the new feature is now coming online in Europe.

Sony unlocked this neat new feature first for those in the USA, with other territories to follow in a phased release schedule over several weeks.

We've now seen several accounts on places like Reddit's PS5 page and ResetEra, stating the Welcome hub is now showing up in certain European countries.

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Anecdotally, we've yet to see it here in the UK, though it will certainly follow suit soon.

The Welcome hub is a flexible new part of PS5's home screen, with numerous informative widgets you can customise to your liking. It gives you at-a-glance info on things like downloads and uploads, Trophies, who's online, controller battery charge, and plenty more.

Hopefully it's not much longer before the feature is live worldwide. Are you seeing the Welcome hub on your PS5 yet? Tell us in the comments section below.

[source reddit.com, via resetera.com]

Stephen has been part of the Push Square team for over six years, bringing boundless enthusiasm and a deep knowledge of video games to his role as Assistant Editor. Having grown up playing every PlayStation console to date, he's developed an eclectic taste, with particular passion for indie games, arcade racers, and puzzlers. He's also our go-to guy for Sonic-related matters, much to his delight/chagrin.

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Khwarezm89
10:15am

Yes, I got it yesterday evening in Germany and it looks great.

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Nei
10:18am

Got it yesterday while in Italy: it is so convenient and it looks great.

3
yazzika
10:18am

Yo. Also reporting from the German front.

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Stickleman
10:27am

Can you turn it off?. Going from pictures an videos I've 0 interest in seeing it everytime I turn on my ps5

Next time a feature like this should really be implemented within the first year as they took so much out of the PS4

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Voltan
10:27am

I didn't see it last night in Poland, maybe it'll pop up today since other places in EU seem to be getting it.

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Jswift56
10:30am

@ProfessorNiggle this. Never understand why it takes so long especially when alot of the features are on a previous console.

Is this a feature that can be turned off? Or atleast remove everything so it's the just the background fully on show?

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Qu1n0n3z
10:48am

This is weird, my PSN account and console is and was purchased in NA but now living in EU and I can't get the update.

Not yet I'm in the United Kingdom so it could come soon perhaps

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McTwist
11:07am

Double tap PS to change between your last 2 screens. That's all I'm asking Sony, you utter incompetents

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LifeGirl
54m ago

Im sorry but this took too damn long. How long have people been complaining about the user experience of this console now? Hopefully the PS6 has this at launch.

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roe
46m ago

It does seem bizarre that this "rollout" is so slow

"certain" EU countries yet here I am wondering what the hell is going on 🤷🏾‍♀️ I'm not amused 😕

Also obligatory "Better be able to turn it off completely" I know where to go if I want to check my friends list and what they're doing, Trophies, Game specific stats are under each specific game etc. etc.

This is basically just a "Rebrand" of the Explore Tab that was NA Only? (I believe? It is actually there whenever I swap over to my NA PSN Account actually) Which is just a big ass advertisement at it's core, that's what they want it to be anyway... I really don't need another permanent Square added to my PS5 Menu... What I would like is to have more Games displayed (kinda like how you could "Unlock" the limit on PS4 so literally EVERY game installed would be displayed in a row on the Home Screen, which never slowed it down btw at least in my case, and I had HUNDREDS of games installed at a time) or even just the ability to "Lock" more than, what?, 5 games to the PS5 Home Screen too (they also need to remove the Wishlist Limit, Xbox and Switch don't have limits afaik)

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AfroMario
16m ago

Still not showing up here in Somalia

Nothing in Canada

Pretty ridiculous that it takes this long for a UI update to appear globally in the first place.

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