At the risk of being the old man yelling at clouds:
I have played several spidey games, but when Sony opted to use all my PlayStations as an advertising platform to plaster ads on my homescreen, they guaranteed I will never give them a single cent for it.
Where do you see ads on your ps5? I can only find them when I go to the PS store.
What I think of as the “homescreen” (no idea what Sony calls it) is the place where my active games show up. The first place I see when I log in. If I put a new game disk in, it shows up there. Whatever that is called. They added a first-class object there that showed “Spider-Man 2”, so it looked as if I had installed a new game. My kids got excited because they thought I had installed a Spider-Man game on their PS4. No idea whether it was a demo or a trailer or what, because I don’t click on ads if I can avoid it.
You may have missed it, or you may be in a demographic where you didn’t get it. I have had the other Spider-Man titles installed on both devices, now that I think about it. So perhaps they only advertised it to previous purchasers of Spider-Man titles. It was present on a PS4 as recently as this morning and a PS5 earlier in the week. I’m not sure when it went away, but it’s not on either PS5 now.
You can disable that by going to settings > system > automatic downloads and unchecking “Featured Content”.
Thanks! I’ll go do that. “Featured Content” sure tries hard to pretend it’s not an advertisement. I shouldn’t have to opt out to avoid homescreen ads on a platform I paid for and pay to subscribe to as well. It’s way too intrusive.
That’s so sneaky. I don’t see that stuff since I opted out of most marketing and ads but I’m pretty annoyed to hear they’d do something like that.
This must be a setting they added in an update, since I’d never opt-in. I hate ads with a passion.
