PS5 UI Update Introduces Live Wallpapers & Widgets, Now Undergoing Beta Testing

The next UI update for the PS5 is currently undergoing beta testing, and it is set to introduce live wallpapers and widgets.

[MrNinosan]

Only in the Explore menu.
Sonfor people crying about custom background, please keep on crying.

[just_looken]

Well fuck

I saw the vid in that article it reminded me of my xbox one dashboard wallpaper support i mean that in a bad way. Four years still a trash dashboard.

[GamerRN]

Definitely looks more Xbox like

[Murdability]

Jesus Nino do you need a hug or something?

[MrNinosan]

Nope, I'm good thanks.
I'm not the one crying.
I use my PS5 to play games, not watch backgroundd.

Thanks for your kind offer however.

[Reibooi]

I don't feel like custom backgrounds is ever going to happen in the way people want it. I mean the background changes based on the game you have selected so what else would they do beyond having it for the explore tab.

An idea that could work would be giving the player complete control over how the explore tab is displayed and not just a few minor variants and then with that perhaps a custom background would have more meaning. Still, I am not to bothered by not having the feature although I can admit I really loved how you could make custom stuff for the PS3 back in the day.

[Profchaos]

I miss the PS4 os in a lot of ways it had a far cleaner look.

I don't really like the ps5 constant dark mode on everything and having sparks on things. Plus I think there is just to much on the screen at all times.

Sony kind of ditched their clean design language they had cultivated I felt the PS3 to PS4 transition was a appropriate modernization at the time with a focus on games and gaming content instead of alternate settings across the bar

I dislike seeing games I don't own or content I don't own outside of the store and I feel like I see more of that these days on my 5.

[just_looken]

I am 100% with you there

Just was on my ps5 huge SS add hard 2 read everything and i am using my ps4 to send/reply to messages its so much easier over there.

I also can not use my mic on my ps5 only my ps4

[crazyCoconuts]

Yeah there's more going on on the interface, for obvious reasons.
Don't know what you mean about seeing games or content you don't own, unless you're looking down in the announcements section or the store. Not like you're getting ads in your face or anything. Start your PS5 and it's still on the game tile you were on when you turned it off.

[just_looken]

When i turn my system on it shows the first tile the store deal which shows adds in my face ps4 had this but very small tile.

If i go over a game tile then yes its not there

[Master of Unlocking]

IKR. The PS5's UI with its palette of dark colors and its creepy and depressing "music", if ya wanna call it that, reminds me sometimes of some of the poorest choices sony made in the past, like with this PS3 commercial https://www.youtube.com/wat...

For a gaming console, that UI and its shortcomings sure as hell doesn't look all that fun.
Plus, I said it before and I'll say it again:
-no web browser
-no dynamic themes
-new trophy unlocking sound that's by most accounts inferior to the one on PS3 & PS4
-cr@p-looking PS store
-cr@p-looking media section
And how could I omit to mention the puzzling lack of an SPDIF digital out socket on the rear... FFS how am I supposed to do to enjoy surround sound now?!

Which is why I'm staying on my PS4 Pro. And I really don't think I'll move to this gen with the mid-gen PS refreshment this time around.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Creepy and depressing music? Y'all are some proud drama queens.

[EazyC]

Bring back the goddamn XMB from the PS3/PSP days, I swear to god that was one of the greatest UIs of all time.

[crazyCoconuts]

PS3 interface was slow and simplistic. Remember the store wasn't integrated and took forever to come up? Remember how crappy the chat functionality was and how it was stuck on some side menu?
The PS5 interface is the fastest and most fully featured interface so far. I miss a few things for sure but the UI is moving forward and getting better and more modern. I'm happy with what they've been doing

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to go back to the PS3 days, every time I booted it up, I'm reminded how slow it is.

[Profchaos]

Yeah but what if you could have the clean look of the PS3 xmb and the speed of the ps5 with a properly intergrated PS store.

I'd take that over the current ps5 os.

It would need modernization however if you remember the PS3 xmb had a lot of features nobody used sections for photos and videos come to mind but overall I loved it but I preferred the PS4 which felt like it took that concept and made the games the focal point rather than what the system could do.

I feel like the simplicity is removed I used to criticise the Xbox one interface for being cumbersome and confusing but I feel like the ps5 is heading that way the more it adds the harder it gets that simplicity was valuable.

[LotusViridis]

You say fully featured, I say bloated and confusing. PS3 XMB visual design was perfect for me.

[Armyofdarkness]

Folders!!!