The PlayStation Store’s greatest games are surrounded by the worst slop you’ve ever seen

The PlayStation Store is ruined as new AAA releases are surrounded by horrendous, low-quality games with AI generated images.

[TheNamelessOne]

That's true for almost any storefront. The only one I can think of that really monitors what goes on their storefront is GoG.

[Amplitude]

Steam is really good at keeping things you're personally interested in up front and center - which is impressive considering just how much nonsense is technically buried on that storefront.
Whatever algorithm Valve uses is frankly unmatched

[thorstein]

Exactly. Now this journalist should focus on Steam junk.

[P_Bomb]

I did a double take at the homeless simulators. The simulators in general have run amok.

[OtterX]

Not gonna lie, homeless simulator peaked my interest, until I saw that it was a dumpster fire of gameplay.

I want to see someone build a homeless simulator with a AAA budget. Let me build elaborate cardboard box forts in the park and build a homeless empire. Let me go from rags to riches.

[derek]

Yes, that's a great idea

[jambola]

have you seen Skibidi Toilet wars
true classic right there

[BlindMango]

People don't truly realize how much shovelware and slop is on the store now. Some days more shovelware is published than real games, and Sony has been completely ignoring it for years. We need more articles like this pointing it out as it seems to be the only time Sony seems to listen and fix things

[jambola]

it's getting worse and worse too
the last few weeks have had an increase in what I can only call "instagram ad games"

[northpaws]

Wow... working hard to throw out random negative posts on PlayStation, trying to counter the successful Astro Bot launches I assume.

[jambola]

It's been worse the last while and should be called out
good indie games in particular are surrounded by clicking ice cube games, games that look like fake games you'd see from ads etc
it's insulting garbage and it deserves to be called out

[cammers1995]

You should see the Nintendo eShop. It's worse.

[jambola]

yup
just take a look at the plucky squire
if I didn't see that already at an event, it's a game that would just blend in with the 1.99 garbage
shame Sony doesn't care about the store quality even the tiniest bit

[Viryu]

They are hurting themselves by allowing so many shovelware created on the indie hype, it went out of control. It's there to artificially boost the number of games, since good games are released less and less often with each gen. They should just go back into making an indie category again and putting it all there.