The good news is the upcoming firmware will let you rearrange and hide options. Pressing the options button also allows you to customise your control centre, although it's currently quite limited. The switcher should either have a more comprehensive list or make my PS button take me to the home screen. What a let down the realisation was when my game closed to open another. When I first discovered the switcher, I thought it functioned like Xbox's Quick Resume, letting me have multiple games open simultaneously. One tap to the control centre where the best I have is the app switcher, which shows two of your recent games and media apps respectively. On PS4, it was a simple tap away to the home screen where I can see my entire game library. Nine out of 10 times the reason I am interacting with the UI is to change from one game to another. The decision to remap the home screen to holding down the PS button infuriates me. As the control centre is accessible with a tap of the PS button, it's impossible to avoid.
The control centre replaced the quick menu from the PS4, which was accessed by holding down the PlayStation button. Sony did not not respond at the time of publication. The BBC responded saying it had nothing to add at the moment. It can't be a matter of developing native PS5 apps, since both All 4 and Disney+ are PS4 apps running under backwards compatibility like any PS4 game.Įurogamer asked both the BBC and Sony for comment. Eight months later, BBC iPlayer and My 5 are still unavailable. All the key UK media apps - BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4 and My 5 - were unavailable. Sure, themes are a little tacky, but they are one of the few ways users can personalise an otherwise generic console.Īs someone who uses their games console as a media hub, the number of missing streaming apps at PS5's launch was extremely frustrating. Currently we are all stuck with the same bland grey interface and menu music. They were an integral part of both the PS3 and PS4 user interface, and it's a shame it hasn't been brought forward to the current generation. This also works for PS4 games, where audio would only play when you scrolled down to the game's details. Where developers have embedded an audio clip, usually the theme tune, into the game's files, it plays as you scroll through the game menu. Game artwork takes a bigger share of screen space, which I think is a nice touch.
Icons are smaller to scale better with high resolution 4K displays and give off a minimalist and premium aesthetic. The UI design has been flattened with rounded corners, as is the current trend. Everything loads in a snap, even when a game is running in the background. With its super-fast SSD, PS5 has no such problem. The PlayStation 4's interface was already quite fast, but slowed down when a game was running, likely because the mechanical hard-drive was fully utilised. So, I think it's also the perfect time to assess just how useful the advertised features have been. It's been over eight months since the release of the PS5, which has been enough time for Sony to iron out the creases in the operating system, and for players to get adjusted to the new experience. That only leaves the PS5 with a completely new interface for this generation. Microsoft took the unusual step of not developing a bespoke user interface for its new generation of consoles, instead opting to develop a cross-generation interface that builds on the Xbox One interface.
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