PS5: New PS Store feature and an old problem

Shūhei Yoshida, the former president of the Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, seems to be an enthusiastic player. In this context, he stems on Twitter s advertising drums for a new feature to facilitate the use of the PlayStation Stores on the PS5 in the future.

With the latest update Sony has decided to add the Homepage of the PlayStation Stores the section New Games . The area is located under the News tab at the top left corner of the store and should ensure the much needed visibility of many games that come new to the PlayStation Store every week.

The PS Store on the PS5 now has a new games area on the home page that makes it super easy to find newly released games, said Yoshida in his tweet.

PS Store on PS5 Now Has New Game Beach on Top Page, Making It Super Easy to Find Newly Released Games ???? Ps5share pic.twitter.com/y5CHPXFG6Z

• Shuhei Yoshida (@YOSP) October 16, 2021

The visibility of new games has been considered a problem in the PlayStation Store for a period of a problem, especially under indie developers who are more likely to defend themselves in the past that newly published games disappear quite quickly in the sinking, if they are not discovered directly with the search function or to find in special Indies area.

Thanks to the new function, new games should stay in the future in the future.

An old problem is obviously back

After the launch of the PS5, many owners of the new console were hit by a bug, which led to the wrong version of a game was loaded on the quite tight SSD of the console.

The PS5 offers backward compatibility with PS4 games so that basically both versions on the latest Sony console are running. However, the bug caused the fact that on the PS5 did not automatically land the best possible version, but the PS4 version was prioritized . Players had to meet the selection manually.

Later, the bug was fixed. But it seems he s back. How to report several users according to VGC in different subreddits , their console tries after inserting a disc to install the PS4 version, even if you actually want to access the PS5 upgrade. To the affected titles, No Man s Sky , the recently published Death Stranding Director s Cut and Nioh belong.

I downloaded and installed the PS5 version, but every day my PS5 indicates that the PS4 version of Death Stranding is either installed (although I have now deleted them 3x) or that it is now installed, says one of the affected users.

The double installation does not stop the players from using the PS5 version. But it occupies storage space on the console that the players must manually delete.

Troubleshooting already in February

In February of this year, Sony emphasized on the Playstation Blog, that the bug has been resolved : In rare cases, the PS4 version of a game has been installed from the disc after updating and installing it on the PS5 version , Says Sony. If you now insert the PS4 disk, the PS4 version is no longer unexpectedly installed.

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Since players often did not even noticed that they played on the PS5 the last-gene version of a title, Sony has added a notification that indicates the attempt to start the PS4 version of a game, provided the PS5 version also is available.

Also criticized is an ad in the PlayStation Store that suggests that friends have pre-ordered certain games, even if they only participated in a corresponding beta or played a demo. At this point nothing has apparently done.

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