It feels like we’ve been waiting for it forever, but as of today, the PS5 Welcome Hub has arrived on Australian consoles.
This adds a totally new tab for the PS5 home screen that has a quick way to access trophies, battery level, storage summary, news, PlayStation Plus additions, media, online friends, friend activity in one neat place.
It also brings the return of wallpapers to the console as well, with a number of PlayStation themed ones available as well as an animated Astro Bot one. Hopefully these get added to quite frequently as it’s one of the most-missed feature from PS3/PS4 days.
Whilst I knew this was coming, after a quick play with it, I’m very surprised at how robust it is, with you able to totally customise how big or small everything is, what information is shown and even customise what you see from each widget. It’s a big improvement to what was shown on the home screen before.
I had to restart my console to get it to show up, so if you wake from rest mode and don’t see it (and are on the latest version), I recommend giving it a reset.