PS5 Testing Slideshow Wallpapers for Popular Welcome Hub Feature

Just let the PS4 way come back.

I love the Welcome Hub.
I already have the feature. I didnt know I was in the Beta. I also have the feature of my lastest games on the Welcome Hub. Is it also part of the Beta?

So close to being a great feature. Make the rectangles optional (at present we're forced to have three minimum) and allow the theme to be displayed on any tile, not just the welcome hub, and then we're laughing

Still hoping for the classic wave theme, to make a return 😁

Sony‘s UI designers have some spare time for this stuff. If PS6 would release in two years, I would expect that they are actively working on its UI plus an adaptation for PS Portal.

What to make of this?

Welcome hub... that parasite that keeps me one more click away from gaming. I took me over week to automate click right right after selecting profile.

It's like they will try anything except what we want; the ability to pick a nice colour theme and proper folders for installed games like we had on the PS4. They can keep the game lists for a player's collection, it shouldn't interfere with having real folders for installed games...

Bring back Themes properly already! I have a wallpaper screenshot but it's hidden behind so much crap you can barely see it another of this gen's many failings.

Just let us put these on the background all of the time. I dont know why modern UI designers insist on making them worse and less customisable than what we used to have

@Jammer Not a perfect solution, but you're only forced to have t̶w̶o̶ three widgets on the home screen. Set t̶w̶o̶ three of your choice to the smallest size and you can still see the majority of your background.

@Almost_Ghostly Cheers I'll give that a try.

Wish there were some screens that kept my wallpaper up the whole time. Some things I don’t even care to see.

@Almost_Ghostly after reading this, I turned on my ps knowing you could minimize the widget count, but I thought it was much more then 2. Turns out you are forced to have 3 widgets. Regardless this whole way of having themes, or screenshots is terrible this gen. as you guys already expressed, your chosen theme gets covered by way too much bs and on top when you hover over a game tile, it takes away your background all together. i guess it is what it is at this point, current gen is 5yrs old now

@StitchJones Yes, you are correct. it is three, not two as I previously stated. Still, those three made to be their smallest still allows a person to see most all of their theme. I do agree on not liking that it changes when you hover over a game. There should be a toggle like Xbox has that lets you keep your theme or show game art when moving over tiles.

@Almost_Ghostly yes 100% agree with you. Well i guess the bright side is not too long ago we had zero custom themes on the ps5, now we do. So i guess something is better then nothing. And at the end of the day there's so many amazing games to play on the thing right now and moving forward and thats the machines main function, so.

I just can't understand Sony sometimes. They have to know how us gamers feel about the custom themes thing and know it means alot to us. You would think they would patch the UI to accommodate what the mass majority want. I file this is the same boat as no news on what exactly they are doing with Bloodborne. Everybody in creation wants that game resurrected in some form. Its 10yrs old now and was critically acclaimed. Yet they treat it like it was the order 1886, or just a cult hit and not worth the production time and dev cost. idk man?

I just use the standard Pro one - its pleasant enough.

They better cut my boy Ryan a check

@carlos82 You mean like the PS4.

THEMES AND FOLDERS, SONY!

That's all, thanks.

Meanwhile, it's almost time to activate the Christmas theme on the PS4 Pro...

Charge your controller!

@Vermines Ohhhh, I agree with you 100%. Everything you said there. They totally nailed the atmosphere in that game. TBH, when you look at the visuals, atmosphere created, the characters, how historical figures were represented with the weapons, the weapons themselves, to me it was on the level of a ND or def Insomniac game. But as you said, man that gameplay was so bad.

I too think they really had something there. The world was too unique and great to be a one and done game. One of the problems with this industry is if you rub everyone the wrong way with game #1, you never get the budget to try again. I can understand this, since game dev. is costly as hell.

But if you look at it, what would be worse, taking the chance on a game like concord that cost 100's of millions that got canned 2 weeks after launch, or give a studio another crack at a Order sequel? or a Days gone sequel? right?

@Vermines Yes it was def a stellar game. I think there's plenty more like us. So again, its ashame that funds were given to a game like concord so easy, but they just can tthe order and days gone like tuna. After our talk here, i was thinking back on The order, cause its def been a minute since that game came out. Like you said the steampunk nature looked great but i remember those tall buildings, they were so freaking goth looking too. 2 themes i'm a sucker for is cyberpunk and goth. Thats why cyberpunk 2077 and bloodborne will be in my top 5 of all time prob till i die. lol

@Vermines yeah, i know it can turn folks feral. but by no means is Sony done with bloodborne. it was too big for it to be buried and considered a one and done. it will not go the way of the order 1886. I just think that Fromsoft are being very protective of it and they don't want it in the hands of anybody else, even though Sony owns the IP.

They have had a lot on their plates the last 2 gens. Elden ring took up so many resources, since it was much bigger in scope then previous soulsborne's. Then they did the Erdtree DLC and nightreign. Now they're working on the duskbloods online game for switch. I think bloodborne got put on the back burner, cause its impossible to have too many irons in the fire with game development.

My guess is since they kinda hinted that they wouldn't want to go the Elden ring 2 route just yet with their next big single player offering, that once duskbloods is content complete, they will start working on a sequel and will be for ps6. one can only hope. but it would be just crazy if they label bloodborne a one and done. Elden ring opened the doors to some casuals to fromsoft soulsbornes too. so a sequel would be a huge event and sell like hot cakes. Sony could use a huge win too after the games as a service debacle and paying bungie all that $$$$. Sony is will be fine, I know it, but a huge win like that would be nice and it would be just stupid to bury bloodborne for Sony and Fromsoft as well. sorry for the wall of text. I love talking about video games lol

@Vermines agree 100%. Elden ring took over my life too. That game was sublime. The DLC was amazing too, if you even want to call it DLC. That was big enough to be its own game. Erdtree and Phantom liberty are prob 2 of hte best DLC's ive ever played.

Duskbloods atmosphere looks good, but the whole fromsoft online push is not for me. Soulsbornes done by the masters themselves would be all single player affairs if it were up to me. But I hope it turns out great for you and anyone else who is digging their venture into multiplayer. I'll just hold off for whatever their next single P soulsborne is gonna be.

My backlog is freaking huge now anyways. I may still have games to complete by the time ps6 and bloodborne 2 arrive. haha

@Vermines hahaha you're preaching to the choir. I'll be turning 51 next month. never marrried, no kids, no GF in 15yrs. And TBH i love that lifestyle. If i have my mind made up that I want to binge gaming for 2 weeks straight because a banger of an RPG comes out, then I want to be able to do that without someone talking in my ear that we need to be doing other crap. Same for hockey. I'm a huge NHL and hockey addict. I watch all 82games of my fave team, each and every hockey season. I can't have nobody chatting in my ear that we got an event to attend and I gotta miss the game. I need 100% freedom in life.

At the same time, I don't scoff at people who have happy families, marriages, etc. If that works for them, then I'm happy for them. Its just not my thing and never will be. haha

@VicerExciser In the store where it should be. Im not buying games i see in my UI.

We need the PS4 version of friends activity back pronto! The current one is terrible.

@djlard So the welcome page annoys you but you don't just automatically sign in to your profile when booting up your PS5?

@James_42 Unfortunately cannot have auto-sign because of wife's profile.