How Often Do You Use PS5’s New UI Features? – Talking Point

Remember about four months ago when all the netizens and their dogs were worried about the fact that Sony had yet to unveil the PlayStation 5 UI? It’s been a grand old time in the comments sections here at Push Square, but we finally got over that hump in October with a surprise State of Play reveal that revealed everything. Well, almost everything. Game time tracking and questionable trophy implementation are left for us to discover. A few months after the PS5 launch, we want to know if you’ve incorporated these new features into the way you play. Do you use cards to quickly jump into a game or start a multiplayer match from the home screen? Did Game Help help you solve a difficult puzzle? Are you sharing your screen with friends while playing other PS5 titles?

How often do you use PS5 cards?

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It’s hard to avoid the new PS5 Cards system, which pops up every time you press the PlayStation button in the very center of the DualSense controller. This feature allows you to switch between certain activities, such as side missions in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales or Archstones in Demon’s Souls. The idea is to allow you to play the content in question faster than ever by bypassing open world navigation or long loading screens that would traditionally increase the time it takes to achieve that goal. Cards can also detail how long it will take to complete a selected task, as well as a list of objectives needed to progress through a particular area. However, it is up to the developer whether to take advantage of this feature. Not every PS5 game uses cards right now.

You don’t have to already be playing a next-gen title to use the card system, though — they can be accessed directly from the PS5 home screen. The idea remains the same though, Sony wants studios to serve up exciting content to their players from the moment they turn on the system. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, for example, lets you select many playlists before the game even starts. Then you’re in a multiplayer game in no time, skipping loading times and commercials.

The PS5 Cards system is right under your nose almost all the time, but how often do you actually use the feature? In the few weeks the console has been part of your setup, have you been using tabs to quickly navigate through the latest titles? Do you regularly start an online battle from the PS5 home screen instead of loading into the multiplayer launcher and selecting a playlist?

How often do you use PS5 game help?

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PS5’s new Game Help service is inherently tied to the Cards system, but we think it’s an important enough feature to consider in its own right. Select games, including Astro’s Playroom and Sackboy: A Big Adventure, offer help in certain situations if you get stuck. The feature is designed to cut out the middleman where players look for instructions and strategies online, rather than providing tips and tricks in-game. Simply select the task at hand from the PS5 UI and a video will appear in-game, detailing how to find a specific collectible or defeat a specific enemy. It’s an impressively fast and seamless process that gives even our comprehensive, glitch-free guides a good run for their money. However, it takes a lot of effort on the part of the developer to get them up and running for the game. You also need an active PS Plus membership to access the feature.

So instead of doing a quick Google search to find out what to do next, have you decided to use PS5 Game Help instead? How often do you use the feature? Will you now always choose to use the help of a game instead of surfing the web for the answer you are looking for?

How often do you use PS5 Share Screen?

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The last PS5 feature we’ll touch on is Share Screen, which allows you to have a friend play a game on your TV while you continue to work or play whatever you want. It’s an evolution of what Sony tried on the PlayStation 4, now allowing you to continue playing games as well as watching what your friend is doing at the same time. This has its benefits in multiplayer matches as your teammate’s perspective can be seen along with your own. Or, if you want to sit back and relax and watch your partner play your favorite title remotely, the option is there while YouTube videos take up the big screen. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy shows how it’s done in the image above.

Then again, do you actually use the PS5 Share Screen feature regularly? Do you watch your friends play often enough to know how they will react to certain situations, or are you still in the dark? Would you use it more if a friend wanted to show you the latest PS5 game you haven’t bought yet?


Be sure to vote in each of our three polls, then expand on your thoughts on the new PS5 UI features in the comments below.

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