The PlayStation Store on PS5 still needs some work to make it one of the best online marketplaces around, but did you know the wishlisting feature notifies you of discounts for the games you mark as desirable? Sony sent out a tweet today documenting the feature, and we here at Push Square Towers couldn't quite work out if the functionality is actually new or not. Some of us have seen the notification before while others haven't. Take this article then as a PSA if you didn't already know: the PS Store wishlist will now tell you when PS5, PS4 titles go on sale. You just need to enable the option in your system settings.
To do so, click on Settings in the top-right corner of the PS5 home screen and then scroll down to Notifications. Scroll down again to Wishlist Updates. Click on the tab and you'll be able to determine when the notification appears. You're able to choose whether they pop up during game sessions, while watching videos, or in the middle of a broadcast.
[source twitter.com]
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Yes its probably the stores best feature
Mines never notified me, not even my PS App.
Problem is, unless you're actually online when you get the notification, you'll probably never see it on PS5 since they're hidden away.
Pretty much every time I start up my PS4 or Vita, I finally see the notification that there's a weeks old chat message I never saw while using PS5 every day.
Tell me when NieR Replicant gets PSPro Support so it issnt locked to 1080p on PS5 anymore...
Doesn't work for me. It usually will let me know if a game has launched that I wishlisted before it came out. But I never get informed of any of my wishlist games that are currently discounted.
The store is still pretty useless on PS5, even the newly added New Releases section misses off new games regularly. I have to use PSPrices each day just in case games get released that the PS5 store forgets to show.
And there is still no DLC section at all! I saw a banner for DLC once in the past year which took me to them, but never again. Madness that they can get the store so wrong for so long.
@bimboliquido I can't at this point, it's been too long. Need a sale!
@LiamCroft Ha yes, I've had it a few times I've given and and paid full price for older games digitally, only for them to go on sale a few days after.
I’m guessing the notification will pop up on my phone app like all other notifications? If so I must not have it selected as I’ve never had this before. A good feature in theory. Just wish there were actually PS sales more frequently, rather than the alternating “two prices to get around rules on what can be termed a sale”
Sweet. Didn't know this at all as I've just started using the wishlist feature, specifically, to quickly look at if any of them go on sale.
It's insane the PS4 doesn't have this feature. It gifting games to other users.
I didn’t; cheers
So... Is it a new feature or not? I have never gotten notifications when the games on my wishlist got on sale but got notifications when they got pre-orderable. It's really weird, if some people got notifications for both and others only for one situation.
Apparently it’s on for me but I’ve never had a notification..
My PS App settings have all kinds of notifications on apparently. Never had any though.
Sometimes it works and sometimes it don't :-/ Erm it would be a good feature if it worked then
I actually managed to add a game to Favourites, not Wishlist...does any body know about that? Also wishlist has been getting a lot of attention for great Indies thanks to this relatively quiet period till it all kicks off on Feb 🙈
Sure would have been nice if they would have restored our old wishlists they deleted for seemingly absolutely zero reason just to bring wishlists back months later.
The new store is generally total guff - makes the PS4's Store app/launcher look like a fast & responsive work of art!
As a side note, doesn't the the PS4 have a flag you could set to NOT get extra game sale icons added to the dashboard? Mine still seems to be set (assume I'm looking at the right place) but I keep getting extra store link crap added on it from time to time?!
The Nintendo Switch e-store emails me when a game on my wishlist goes on sale. I wonder if there's an option to get email notifications?
I pretty much stopped using the PS store when they deleted the watchlist entirely with the downgraded PS5 website
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