PS4: 10 Crucial Features Sony Must Implement In 2016

4. Customisable Wallpapers

The PS4's much-touted support for taking screenshots and capturing videos is not only designed for the Twitch video game generation, but also lets players easily capture those great gaming moments that they want to share with others, or nostalgically look back on themselves. What better way to do this than by letting you slap a rotating gallery of images on your Dashboard background? That'd be great, except for some inexplicable reason you can't change the default blue background on the PS4 home screen. Well, that's not entirely true. You can give the background a different colour, but can't change it from the default 'Flow' theme. This is terribly restrictive compared to the tweakable backgrounds offered by the Xbox One and Sony's own PS3. A running theme throughout complaints about the PS4 is inflexibility. Even though customisation is not the most important feature of a games console, it makes people more attached to their console, making it feel more like their own device rather than something heavily branded and designed to constantly make people aware that they're the owners of a rigid Sony product. With more options to personalise the console - whether by wallpapers or ways to organise your games library - the PS4 will gain that friendly, welcoming touch that the Xbox One currently does a better job of offering.
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