@JalapenoSpiceLife it's as much a waste of time as the Portal, who in hells hot water wanted that? For crying out loud, you have to be in the same house with your console switched on pmsl... Just more gimmicky garbage that people don't need and the don't get me started on the PS5 Pro... lol The PS5 is already an awesome bit of kit, the Pro really isn't needed. I miss not being able to see Cheryl Tweedy back before she had way too much surgery sprawled across my screen when I loaded up the PS5 or The King Of Fighters theme for a nice old fashioned bit of titillation, heck sometimes I used to be more sophisticated and had awesome shots of the Milky Way or a nebula and the like. That web browser was bloody handy too! ( even though you can use the exploit by putting a web link in a message and using that to get a secret browser that doesn't really work, on the PS5 ) The themes were fun and made you feel that you had control over customising something you've paid hundreds for, thousands by the time you've counted up games, peripherals, DLCs, Vbucks, and so on.. Sometimes people don't learn from history and what seems to be new isn't the direction people want to go in.
I would have bought the portal had you been able to hotspot from your phone or hotel wifi. Remote Play is already available, so another redundant piece of kit that's more limited.
I would be blown away if I could have had my own static background for my dashboard and some cool themes, maybe one from the Last Of Us would be cool!
Being able to connect to Party Chat via your phone when you're out and about was a nice touch but something Xbox users had long before PlayStation users.
Our library of games pales in comparison to Xbox's library and for way less money.
What would be bloody nice is to have the ability to have a filter that selects multiplayer games when browsing the library in the PS store! How that hasn't ever been option is beyond me...
Anyways, it's that time ( 10:38 am ) to get on RDR2 online and take revenge on those bucks that headbut me while I'm strolling The Heartlands. Hopefully Light No Fire will come out soon!!
All these widgets and nonsense for stuff you can already access, usually with one or tap of a button at any time, even during a game, seem redundant. How stupid do you have to be to keep checking or needing to know how much storage you have? Nearly all the consoles out there hold maybe 4-5 AAA games... You should know what's on your console!
The most disappointing thing about the welcome page other than it really offering you what's already available to you, is the background is only visible when you're on the hub! What the actual ****, c'mon man give me a break! I hate it with a passion, that I can't have my own background on the PS5 ( static no matter what game I'm trying to deicde to play ) or at least have a theme! It's stupid in this day and age to have a limited customisable dashboard on a console where I spend a lot of time and money. No wonder why, when I play my PC I'm happier loading up and seeing all the artwork displayed in all it's glory across 3 screens! Sony are so far behind! Every time I flick through the games I already have downloaded, when I want to choose the game to play. Other than some random stuff I never read with the background display image being the cover of the game selected, are the DLC's at the bottom. If that's Sony's only purpose, to entice us to buy more DLC's through this method of advertising, well I have news for them! I'm only ever going to buy DLC's for the games I enjoy playing, no matter how much advertising you stick in my face! I nearly always buy the hard disc ( usually limited or collectors editions ), buy all of the DLC's and anything else that takes my fancy for the game I'm playing, it has absolutely nothing to do with advertising! I know what I'm looking for and what type of games I like to play and have done so, since the 80s! This welcome hub/page is the biggest waste of time, they could have paid me to do a better job! These devs and idiots that have meetings and approve the ideas of the devs, actually get paid a shed load and for what? WHAT A JOKE!!!!
Give me static backgrounds, the ability to have themes and a proper web browser, stick your advertising and I'll find my trophies, I'll manage the space on my hard drive, I'll remember what friends are online and what games they're playing and any other stats or info the way I've be doing for years!! Deal?!?!
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Re: Poll: Are You Using the PS5's New Welcome Hub?
@JalapenoSpiceLife it's as much a waste of time as the Portal, who in hells hot water wanted that? For crying out loud, you have to be in the same house with your console switched on pmsl... Just more gimmicky garbage that people don't need and the don't get me started on the PS5 Pro... lol The PS5 is already an awesome bit of kit, the Pro really isn't needed. I miss not being able to see Cheryl Tweedy back before she had way too much surgery sprawled across my screen when I loaded up the PS5 or The King Of Fighters theme for a nice old fashioned bit of titillation, heck sometimes I used to be more sophisticated and had awesome shots of the Milky Way or a nebula and the like. That web browser was bloody handy too! ( even though you can use the exploit by putting a web link in a message and using that to get a secret browser that doesn't really work, on the PS5 ) The themes were fun and made you feel that you had control over customising something you've paid hundreds for, thousands by the time you've counted up games, peripherals, DLCs, Vbucks, and so on.. Sometimes people don't learn from history and what seems to be new isn't the direction people want to go in.
I would have bought the portal had you been able to hotspot from your phone or hotel wifi. Remote Play is already available, so another redundant piece of kit that's more limited.
I would be blown away if I could have had my own static background for my dashboard and some cool themes, maybe one from the Last Of Us would be cool!
Being able to connect to Party Chat via your phone when you're out and about was a nice touch but something Xbox users had long before PlayStation users.
Our library of games pales in comparison to Xbox's library and for way less money.
What would be bloody nice is to have the ability to have a filter that selects multiplayer games when browsing the library in the PS store! How that hasn't ever been option is beyond me...
Anyways, it's that time ( 10:38 am ) to get on RDR2 online and take revenge on those bucks that headbut me while I'm strolling The Heartlands. Hopefully Light No Fire will come out soon!!
Re: Poll: Are You Using the PS5's New Welcome Hub?
What a load of garbage!
All these widgets and nonsense for stuff you can already access, usually with one or tap of a button at any time, even during a game, seem redundant. How stupid do you have to be to keep checking or needing to know how much storage you have? Nearly all the consoles out there hold maybe 4-5 AAA games... You should know what's on your console!
The most disappointing thing about the welcome page other than it really offering you what's already available to you, is the background is only visible when you're on the hub! What the actual ****, c'mon man give me a break! I hate it with a passion, that I can't have my own background on the PS5 ( static no matter what game I'm trying to deicde to play ) or at least have a theme! It's stupid in this day and age to have a limited customisable dashboard on a console where I spend a lot of time and money. No wonder why, when I play my PC I'm happier loading up and seeing all the artwork displayed in all it's glory across 3 screens! Sony are so far behind! Every time I flick through the games I already have downloaded, when I want to choose the game to play. Other than some random stuff I never read with the background display image being the cover of the game selected, are the DLC's at the bottom. If that's Sony's only purpose, to entice us to buy more DLC's through this method of advertising, well I have news for them! I'm only ever going to buy DLC's for the games I enjoy playing, no matter how much advertising you stick in my face! I nearly always buy the hard disc ( usually limited or collectors editions ), buy all of the DLC's and anything else that takes my fancy for the game I'm playing, it has absolutely nothing to do with advertising! I know what I'm looking for and what type of games I like to play and have done so, since the 80s! This welcome hub/page is the biggest waste of time, they could have paid me to do a better job! These devs and idiots that have meetings and approve the ideas of the devs, actually get paid a shed load and for what? WHAT A JOKE!!!!
Give me static backgrounds, the ability to have themes and a proper web browser, stick your advertising and I'll find my trophies, I'll manage the space on my hard drive, I'll remember what friends are online and what games they're playing and any other stats or info the way I've be doing for years!! Deal?!?!