A PS5 update that screwed up game backgrounds was just a bug

An evident bug was causing crippled creation backgrounds to beryllium replaced by promotional messages and quality posts connected the PlayStation 5 dashboard for immoderate radical connected Monday. The images they saw featured promotions for long-expired discounts and ads for caller games.

People lamented the alteration successful forums and connected societal media, saying the crippled creation that antecedently showed up erstwhile they highlighted a crippled was gone. Instead, the representation that would ordinarily amusement up arsenic a quality station successful a abstracted conception of the PS5 UI was splashed crossed the surface down games like Miles Morales, Hi-Fi Rush, and Final Fantasy VII Remake.

In a since-deleted post, Daniel Hiatt, merchandise pb for Game Hub and Activity Suggestions with PlayStation, wrote Monday day that the alteration was a “(new) bug with an existing feature.” Then, by 6PM ET, those crippled pages are backmost to normal, arsenic we confirmed connected our ain PS5s. The @AskPlayStation relationship connected X confirmed the fix, saying,

One Verge staffer shared immoderate screenshots of the impermanent caller look portion it was active, similar the 1 beneath highlighting a motorboat discount for Animal Well that ended months agone (the crippled came retired successful May. We reviewed it!).

There are full threads devoted to the alteration connected some Reddit and Resetera, but present that it’s reverted, radical volition person to spell backmost to debating the PS5 Pro, reappraisal scores, and wherefore Concord failed.