Sony Product Manager Urges PS5 Fans to 'Settle Down' Over Ads

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In a deleted post on social media, PlayStation’s Senior Product Manager Daniel Hiatt has urged fans to “settle down” over ads which have been added to the PS5’s user interface.

As reported earlier in the day, players had been irate over the firmware “feature”, which displays promotional news posts about a game when you browse through your library. We hypothesised that Sony may be using this feature to promote in-game events, like in live service titles.

However, in a post on X (or Twitter), Hiatt explained it’s a “new bug within an existing feature”. He’s since removed the message so we can’t share it here, but we saw it before it was pulled. Presumably this means a fix will be issued in due course.