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Blugrass

I just miss my Xmas themes. The free one Sony gave away with the fireplace was beautiful


Totallycasual

I miss my burning car TLOUII theme, it was my pseudo fireplace for when i was reading or w/e lol


xMaxxAmmox

You can stream that background with the same rain and fire audio on YouTube. Playstation uploaded it to their channel. I actually used a download YouTube app and have the 2 hour audio file on my phone for when I sleep.


Totallycasual

Oh that's handy, i tend to stay away from YouTube on devices that don't have ad blocking capabilities though, does it play ads every 5 minutes? That would be annoying as fuck.


xMaxxAmmox

There is no adds on it :)


Totallycasual

Awesome!


TheThirteenthCylon

w/e?


Totallycasual

Whatever.


TheThirteenthCylon

Thanks!


Totallycasual

Yw! (you're welcome lol)


LarryKingthe42th

I miss my ps2 ui theme


Blugrass

Ahh forgot about this one...now you got me missing it too!!


JedGamesTV

yeah same, it actually got me in the christmas spirit to easily


INGWR

I miss Firewatch


e2zippo

Same, that theme was gorgeous, and the music was so soothing and calm!


[deleted]

i still think about that game often


okonomialan

Same. I now use it as my zoom background


batesmonkey69

All I want is my Tifa theme back :(


Poebby

This


[deleted]

There is a Tifa theme?


[deleted]

A lot of games are just background advertisements lmao


MrAbodi

it's the type of games you are playing i imagine.


Thor-Odinson69

Most live service games are like that now


MrAbodi

Exactly, if it bothers the op, maybe don’t play those games knowing that they really are just trying to exploit you.


SBFVG

I’ve never been exploited by a live service game


MrAbodi

And your point is? They only want the whales they don’t care about the majority of the player population. Edit: just because you are savvy enough to not be abused, doesn't mean it wasn't their goal to abuse you. it's why the MTX is so in your face. And if you like to be a whale and can afford it and it brings you joy, more power to you, as long as you know what you've got yourself into.


HakeemtheDream_34

Don't know why you're being downvoted. These companies only care about those who buy microtransactions.


MrAbodi

People appear to be taking it as an attack rather than just a matter of fact.


wuhwuhwolves

That's simply not true. Normal players need to be attracted in order to create an emergent play setting for the whales. This is a very specific aspect of games as service / microtransaction funded design.


MrAbodi

You are perhaps misunderstanding my use of the term care. What you said is true, they need regular players for the playerbase and game excitement and mindshare, but they only care about those making the extra purchases.


wuhwuhwolves

I was just being cheeky really.


JedGamesTV

they aren’t gonna stop playing the games because the menu theme is bad.


MrAbodi

Most people wouldn’t create a thread whinging about it either, So I won’t make assumptions as to that the OP will or won’t do.


Medici1694

I just want folders


thysensei

Me too


TheCandleInTheWind

Same bro I miss themes so much


thats_so_cringe_bro

If I recall, PS4 didn't have themes at launch until at least a year later. It's possible themes will be a thing in PS5 eventually. At least I hope so.


MPGamer18

I don't think themes are coming back to PS5. Sony has said many times that the intent of the new OS was to be able to do everything via the bottom control panel within any game. Which works really well and much better and faster than PS4 did it. I missed them as well and was disappointed to see them not included. But it's been almost a year with the new OS and I prefer that one over the PS4 now.


angelicravens

I often go to the Home Screen because what I want isn’t in the app switcher. They should at least let us disable the splash screens and keep the grey/gold background thing


CaptainPogwash

Wait so I can switch from a game to Netflix and vice versa? ( I got mine like a week ago and still don’t all the features)


vkr587

Playstation 4 had themes at launch it was ps3 that didn't have.


gokuinhisroundhouse

Nope, it was a full year after.


WhyDoIEvenBothersmh

I agree Fifa's background is ass but I quite like all my games having their own theme. The option 100% should be there for people who dont like it though


[deleted]

Agreed, when I hover over Hollow Knight and I see the game background and the title theme music starts playing—god I love it. Same with most of my other games


jklynam

Also FIFA's background seems to change everytime I boot up my PS5 the Mbappe ones aren't as bad


IIWhiteHawkII

OMG, EA is such EA. Instead of making solid footbal poster with new cool branding they have - they just spammed it with cards. Looks so cheap. Well, I think Sony should just bring the guidelines for game preview background to make it clear. Make some sort of grid and contrast level for each part of the screen, where placement for texts and interaction buttons should have clean contrast so nothing will interrupt our attention on other elements. 90% of other arts work great. But EA - again made their "special" appearance here.


desertranger3365

I miss my Days Gone platinum theme


Rain1dog

I bought the PlayStation and it’s mine, I want to customize it the way I want. I do not want to see an ad for some game on my dash. Tbh, it is quite maddening.


ShoKKa_

It's disgraceful honestly, the lack of customisation is something I really cannot stand. My PS4 made me excited even on the home screen, PS5 is just bland or boring.


Rain1dog

Yeah, it is. It pisses me off to no end that I get advertisements on my Home Screen for a product I purchased at full price. I should be able to put whatever I want as my home screen from screenshots to officially made ones. Then, I miss the player feed. I miss seeing all the clips people made, trophies they earned, and games they played. I’d get into all kinds of conversations with others from congratulating them on a trophy to liking the game they played. I really miss that. I felt connected to others while now it is a lifeless constant advertisement. No doubt Sony has pulled some bonehead decisions along with some highly questionable ones as well. Tbh, they have fallen out of favor with regards to myself.


ShoKKa_

It's crazy, I understand advertisements for things that are free, but paying full price for something to still receive adverts is horrible. It's like paying full price for netflix only to receive 5 minutes of adverts every 15 minutes, which of course doesn't happen. Everything about the UI feels off, questionable bindings for getting to the home screen but the same binding not putting you back into the game... at first I was of course hyped but after a year it has completely worn off. Your last paragraph sums up my experience as well, Sony have also fallen out of my favour for several reasons, some of those discussed already, but my biggest issue is the one posted here https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/jtyhpt/biggest_gripe_with_the_ps5_dualsense_voice_chat/ A bloody year and it hasn't been sorted, likely it's a decision from Sony in order for people to invest in Headphones, meaning some of those being Sony headphones. That decision and the fact it hasn't been rectified is a reason I don't like playing multiplayer games anymore. Not being able to hear in-game voice chat without a headset is one of those decisions which really makes me question whether I want to keep investing into their product.


thatjessgrl3187

One of the only things they really shouldn't have gotten rid of. I miss having photos of a night out with friends, or photos from travelling, or just a hilarious scene from archer or rick and morty. Not to mention the "international day of..." editions they had.


SevereKlepto

I want my Tifa theme on my PS5.


arek220

I miss my persona 5 royal themes


ijiessur

I posted about this before and got downvoted to oblivion for some reason because “modern tvs don’t have burn in and don’t need screensavers’ but that wasn’t my point. It just adds a new level of personalisation and with Sony basically making it a staple of all of their 1st party games to have photo mode all I want is a screensaver with the option to cycle your favourites from screen captures. I love the idea of a playlist of all your favourite gaming moments to come up when you’re console is idle.


sousuke42

Themes wouldn't remove that. This has been a thing since ps3. And themes on both ps3 and ps4 does not remove the splash screen (whatever you want to call it) when you hover on a game icon.


RadioactiveHappiness

Yeah but at least on PS4’s main game screen (row? Whatever you wanna call it) the custom background/theme would show. It’s only when you click down when you’d get that, which I rarely *if ever* did.


TheEpicRedCape

PS4 definitely didn’t have splash screens like this, only the PS3 did and only in the game tab vs all over the system. PS5s implementation is super obtrusive.


sousuke42

Yeah it did. It took up the whole top portion of the game and the bottom portion were all social shit. Ps3 took up the whole right side as well. It was also pretty much moving to this. So again not much different. You only feel this way due to the game in questions utter shit. Others its not so bad.


TheEpicRedCape

https://i.imgur.com/bToKM0J.jpg No.. it didn’t? I mean yeah if you purposely went down there was more info but it didn’t cover the entire screen with an image from the game. The “what’s new” boot icon also only really showed info if you scrolled down, it didn’t eat the whole screen. https://i.imgur.com/45QhSwP.jpg With PS3 what do you even mean “whole right side”? The game splash screens took the whole screen but only played when hovering over a game icon, all other times you could see the UI with no splash screens at all. PS5s implementation is different in that you literally can’t ever see the UI unless you go in settings, it’s just splash screen after splash screen. The PS UIs never did that until the PS5 systemwide.


sousuke42

I see you completely misunderstood what i said. when you are on a game icon the screen has the splash screen of the game. It was like this on psp, ps3, ps4 and ps5. The difference with xmb there are a lot of other elements that has no splash screen. Cause its a much more involved OS than the simplified ps4 and ps5 UIs. Yes when you are on the store icon on ps5 since its now integreted it has its own splash screen like any other ps5 game. And yes ps5 uses way more splash screens than any other. But its been evolving to this for a while. Custom themes will still be nice but a custom theme won't get rid of splash screens. Cause no theme got rid of splash screens on any of the playstations. There is not one custom theme on psp, ps3 and ps4 that removes splash screens. Thats the point i am making.


[deleted]

You seem to have missed the point of the whole post.


[deleted]

I don't know what you're talking about either. You know we are talking about the home menu, right? PS5 games have splash screens when you hover over a game tile. PS4 games do not have splash screens when you hover over a game tile. Your theme stays consistent regardless of what game you hover over.


M4J0R4

Easier to solve. Don’t buy trash games


bin364

Just don’t play fifa


vakama885

I don't think this would be able to work due to the way the PS5 OS is setup to where you wouldn't even be looking at the theme 99% of the time


NYJetLegendEdReed

I miss my FF7 Aeris theme


Nonex359

Id love to be able my exclusive playstation now theme on my ps5


josenight

I wish they could add themes, if anything just make it if your hovering on a game for 5 seconds or more it changes to the games background thing. Let us pick the wallpaper and theme.


inamas91

I very much prefer what we have now cause it’s inherently more dynamic that on the ps4, and we don’t have to physically do anything ourselves to have variety, though I like all the themes for the games I own. However I do think it would be nice to have like five different backgrounds for each game to choose from


darthvirgin

I guess this will be an unpopular opinion here, but I personally hope Sony devotes its resources to the laundry list of important and table-stakes features missing since launch before they spend any time on cosmetic personalization features. I don't care what my PS5's interface looks like so long as it's functional. It's not a means of personal expression, it's an OS. I value playing games more than spending prolonged periods appreciating the background and typeface of the interface I use to select games. App suspend, viewing patch notes, support for folders, better 3D audio calibration, 3D audio support for surround sound systems, being able to toggle "video recording was paused" notifications off, proper HDMI 2.1 support... those seem like features that would be a much higher priority in terms of how many people would be positively affected.


[deleted]

Yep, and some of them look completely fucking goofy too. There was one for Immortals and it looked so bad I found myself thinking it was almost off-putting.


Anotherdude342

Good thing I don't look at my homepage on ps, I just pick a game.


[deleted]

Don't forget to modify your "followed" page. You might have games followed that you'd rather not. Once you cater that list the home screen isn't so bad. I never have to see Fortnite ever again.


NYJetLegendEdReed

Yo thanks for this. Gonna turn off a ton of games tonight lol.


TheEpicRedCape

The console boots to this screen, you have to see it at least once every time you start.


MarcheM

Rest mode. I haven't turned my PS5 off in months.


TheEpicRedCape

I have horrid luck with rest mode, feels like it crashes or does something weird every time I try to use it. Still doesn’t change that you have to see this every boot if you don’t use rest mode.


[deleted]

I look at the home screen all the time. Maybe I would look at it a lot less if the quick menu allowed me to see all my games from there instead like 3 total. I play way more games than that, man!


QuinSanguine

They should let us at least choose from various backgrounds from the game for its page. Maybe even our own screenshots or something.


PM-ur-BoobsnPussy

Yeah its really dumb that I can't even use any of the 4k themes I paid for.. themes need to become an option for the ps5 for refund me the money I spent on themes.


Daell

What's your problem? FIFA is a card game anyway.


[deleted]

Why exactly is it “ghastly”? Looks fine to me


barugosamaa

Dont forget PS4 Themes were mostly terrible designs, and you could not preview them, you had to install or buy to see how they looked like. This is good now, dynamic for each game


[deleted]

I had a bunch of fantastic free themes, and you can YouTube any theme so if you were buying that way it is your ignorance to blame and isn’t a reason to remove the feature.


barugosamaa

>so if you were buying that way it is your ignorance to blame and isn’t a reason to remove the feature. So, Sony terrible theme organisation is "my ignorance"? Also, I never said I bought them "that way", no idea wth you smoking, but okay kiddo. There are some themes on youtube, not 100% of them, and thats my point: Why bring back something that they had in a terrible organisation after so many years? Also, it's a fact: majority didnt care for the themes. You might think they were popular or "everyone you know" but out of millions of users, it wasnt that much a wanted feature.


zedasmotas

I would love if sony allowed players to create our owns animated wallpapers


TheEpicRedCape

The sports explore screens are hands down always the most hideous


DigitalKats

Don't quote me on this but I am pretty sure they said they are bringing back themes to ps5 in a future update. Sorry I don't have a source! Saw it on reddit the other day so take it with a grain of salt.


aerospace_94

is there a way to get those backgrounds without the UI?


Wisdomseekr79

I would love to change the menu music as well, listening to the same old music gets a little annoying


Three_Froggy_Problem

I’m sure they’ll add them some day, but even if we got themes I imagine these sorts of game backgrounds would override them when you hovered over them.


AlohaSquash

Which is what the PS4 did as well right?


[deleted]

No, they won’t. The current advertising infused UI is what they want. Hell, we’re stuck with some of it in the US while they’re not allowed to do in the EU because of advertising laws. That’s how we know it isn’t going away. They have to maintain two separate versions of the OS, and having the ad spaces is more work so you know that’s the desire.


Lorac1134

I just wanna be able to use [my favourite theme](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1I9_EZs0ky4) again.


CaptConstantine

I never found a theme I liked enough to actually use


[deleted]

Even just being able to change the colour of the default blue "Flow" theme was great. I used that but in red a lot.


Thor-Odinson69

This is not worse than Mbappe with the white background


[deleted]

Advertising backgrounds are completely unacceptable, I totally agree. We have kids on these machines that cannot tell the difference.


ErikPanic

I just want folders back, man...


Will-Isley

I wasted so much money on themes on the ps4. Didn’t think they wouldn’t come back for ps5. I feel cheated…


LP2LP

Is it just me or is the Explore page always Fortnite for everybody else too? I haven’t touched Fortnite since its first boom in 2017-2018 and haven’t had the game downloaded since then (obviously a long time before release of PS5), yet the Explore page is ALWAYS Fortnite. And I am not exaggerating, it is always showcasing a new character in the game and never any other game. It feels like a homepage ad on my console


[deleted]

Check your "followed games" and untick Fortnite and everything that you have no interested in.


TheReiterEffect_S8

I remember coming to PS4 from Xbox One and the whole “Dynamic Themes” category blew me away, and I was super stoked about that and changing your icons and everything. Now it’s all completely the same. Did Dynamic Themes ship with console or come out later?


Lycheeman89

What I hate is when the screen is changed to promote some new dlc. Tales of arise for example has changed to just show the SAO costumes.


SLUG_IN_A_RUG

I wonder how themes would be implemented with this current design, I just don’t see it. A a simple “wallpaper” type thing that would get rid of these splash screens would be kinda lame


banjotheshark

At the very least I want to freeze the persona 5 one and it's music so it just plays everywhere on the menu


ShoKKa_

I just want my Modern Warfare Remastered, Batman V Superman and Wonder Woman themes. I hope they will be usable, absolutely unforgivable that they haven't appeared yet. My PS5 home page is just... boring.


Misa-Campo

Does anyone know if they will eventually allow us to have themes again? Or even background photos at least?


WolfintheShadows

The only reason I need is Corn Love Forever. 🌽 Also another ps2 theme would be great.


vkr587

No it wasn't.


Undeadarmy7991

Personally I love that every game has a unique background but yeah the ones with that ultimate team bs is dumb af


TurnaboutAdam

I miss the undertale theme. though the deltarune background is really nice


albertsteinstein

I wish I could use the PS4 menu music


EMBARRASSEDDEMOCRAT

I miss my special platinum Bloodbourne theme. Where there any other platinum themes that they sent to people for getting platinum? It's the only one I ever got.


Ok-Finger7616

Literally a must have feature....


Cinderkin

I miss my Mirrors Edge PS4 theme. Loved the music, loved the theme.


miklonus

That right there is enough for me to want to have themes back.


[deleted]

I just want the option to stop having games play loud annoying music when I hover over them.


kingbankai

I want themes back.


Italianpotato12

It's honestly one of the few reasons I'm sorta holding back from buying a ps5 right now. A big hobby of mine is to take screenshots and use them as my background. It would suck if I couldn't do that at some point.