PS5 Adds PS1 Boot Up Screen in Celebration of 30th Anniversary - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 December 2024 / 6,062 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment as part of the 30th anniversary of PlayStation has brought back the original PlayStation boot up screen and sounds on the PlayStation 5.
The home screen can also be customized with different designs and sounds including the 30th anniversary, original PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4.
"For a limited time, you can change parts of the PS5 design based on your favorite generation of PlayStation," reads the PlayStation 30th Anniversary section on the PS5. "Select a design to apply to your home screen and other areas."
a new PS5 update has brought back the original PS1 boot up screen and sounds to celebrate 30 years of PlayStation. You can also customize the home screen with sounds and designs from a variety of different PlayStation console generations
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren.co.uk) December 2, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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Why is this for a limited time? Having this as a permanent option would add a lot of life to the PS5 UI.
Because we aren't allowed to have fun things for very long in modern gaming lol
The PS1 boot-up caught me by surprise when i installed the update and restarted my PS5! I actually got emotional afterwards lol
Beautiful, I want this forever there.
love it, needs a permanent option
How is it for a limited time? Does that mean it will self delete after a week or two? That would be stupid
Give me a perm option. I will pay for it. I love the PS1 option
I hope they make it permanent after getting requests.
Beautiful to see. I got goosebumps...
Nice but I didn't even see it as I always have my PS5 in rest mode mostly. Had to restart to see.
But prehaps these recent updates to a home screen and this is sign of adding themes? Like PS3 and PS4 had? Bit late in the gen but you know. I had the 20th Anniversary PS4 one on most the time.
Neat!
Should have added PS1 backwards compatibility as well.
Nice addition!
but where's that bloodborne remaster everyone was positive was coming?
You should watch the 30th anniversary video PlayStation posted and look at the very last slide. Let's just say it's pretty on the nose!
"it's pretty on the nose!" i feel like you're reading a bit too much into this. I'm happy to eat my words, but i think Bloodbourne being the last game featured in the "Thank You!" video is nothing more than... Bloodbourne being the last game featured in the "Thank You!" video lol. idk if I'd even call it a coincidence, it was literally just the last game on a video presentation, and you're assigning meaning to it.
It's not that the game is the last part of the video. It's the message shown that happens to feature Bloodborne. In marketing, nothing is an accident and as far as I can tell, Sony has historically never been one to bait their playerbase.
Looking online, I'm far from the only one who noticed it lol
"It's about persistence" you are looking too much into this lol. It's a FromSoft game, those require "persistence" (aka patience). It's not even Sony baiting their audience, you are literally just reading too much into it.
I certainly could be! Most likely am. I just think it's an interesting marketing choice to use Bloodborne for a "persistence" slide when the Bloodborne fanbase has shown a LOT of "persistence" over the past few years that surely Sony would've heard since they won't shut up about it xD They could've just have easily used Nioh, Demon's Souls or Elden Ring for such a slide.
you make a good point lol
Very interesting... I won't get my hopes up but this seems like it is hinting at it
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