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[Shake Your Rump]

The Uncharted anniversary theme on PS4 is still the best to me. I also went a long period of time with the Nioh bloody grave theme.

On PS3, I think I still have the Tales of Symphonia collector's edition theme enabled.

I imagine they are hesitant to introduce themes since they are just another security risk.

 

[semiconscious]

my choice:



just booted up my ps4 after not having used it for almost 2 years. why does the home screen look so much more elegant/clean than the ps5's?.

 

[Power Pro]

One constant in the universe...if there's a feature that people like, companies will always take it away.

 

[Fbh]

They were cool though to be honest I don't really miss them that much as I don't spend a lot of time on the main console dashboard anyway.
I think the last one I had before selling my ps4Pro was the Ghost of Tsushima one

One constant in the universe...if there's a feature that people like, companies will always take it away.

I don't really get why though.
It can't be that hard to implement, right? And many of them were paid which is just extra revenue for Sony. Plus they can use them as an added pre order bonus and things like that

 

[Bry0]

Yeah I miss themes. Ps5 has basically no customization, I really dislike that.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

These themes were also a great incentive in investing for the digital editions. I loved pre-ordering and knowing that most games either offered a theme or some avatars.

 

[Chronicle]

Absolutely!

 

[The Pleasure]

This dynamic PS4 theme from 'Indivisible' was also great.

The works of Mike Z are cursed. Genuinely feel bad for the guy.

 

[Fake]

I use this theme from time to time.



Kinda bizarre PS5 not having theme. WTF.

 

[drotahorror]

PS3 Heavy Rain theme is the goat.


My favorite on ps4 that I owned was the Transistor theme

 

[NanaMiku]

Still rocking this theme for my PS4

 

[Faust]

my choice:



just booted up my ps4 after not having used it for almost 2 years. why does the home screen look so much more elegant/clean than the ps5's?.

Because it was. More utility, cleaner, faster, and had everything you needed at a quick glance. The PS5 design really sucks.

 

[nial]

Fuck, I miss them. I loved the Doko Demo Issyo themes on PS4.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I bet Heimdall_Xtreme favorite PS4 theme was this one with Kat.



Or maybe this one (though it was Japan exclusive )?

Awww.

I have tears in my eyes

 

[LavitzSlambert]

I miss them too, wish Nintendo and Sony didn't abandon any kind of customization of the interface. Is it really that difficult/resource intensive thing? We seem to go backwards in console functionality.

 

[Platinumstorm]

I had custom themes on my ps3. They were great.

 

[TYRiAX]

Themes are something I think are cool (if you can find one that appeals to your taste) but really I'm in the dashboard so little these days I wouldn't bother setting one should Sony ever enable them for PS5

 

[Platinumstorm]

I miss them as well. I have no idea why PS5 dropped support for them. The PS5 UI is quite visually pleasing and would work well off themes.

Because it maximizes advertising space. The entire PS5 OS is a giant advertisement.

 

[gaming_again]

Because it maximizes advertising space. The entire PS5 OS is a giant advertisement.

Xbox is worse. I had a fucking car finance ad in my dashboard the other day.

 

[SABRE220]

The ps3 custom themes were the benchmark. Still don't know how we ended from that to the current sad state in the ps5.

 

[CamHostage]

Mmmmmm, PlayStation Themes...

 

[Player Respawn]

Can’t wait for the ps5 version of this theme lol

 

[Physiognomonics]

I loved the themes on my PS4, particularly the real-time 3D ones. Some of them were really clever.

EDIT: ^ Yep those by Truant Pixel were really good

 

[EverydayBeast]

 

[Audiophile]

Still got a HDD somewhere with loads of custom PS3 themes I built. Will have to have a gander later..

This really seems like a case of Sony leaving money on the table. There's so many cool possibilities.

Not just Full Themes but individual icon packs, dynamic backgrounds, background sounds, menu/interaction sfx, even startup sounds and animations. I'd pay $2.99 for a PS1/PS2 startup remastered animation and sound, or the PS2 dynamic background with the sound of those waves.

It's not exactly a high cost endeavour and they could have a whole storefront of this stuff.

I appreciate having a degree of uniformity to a UI/UX and maintaining some rigidity in how you present your brand but the PS5 UI/UX is completely bland and uninspiring to begin with, it really couldn't hurt much. There's already a load of wasted space and when it is used it's for visual clutter that practically no one actually uses. Might as well fill it up with something nice.