Since this redesign, trailers and images haven’t been available in the listing of games on the web version of the PlayStation Store. Previously, during the PS4 era, if you loaded up a game’s PlayStation Store web listing, you could watch a trailer and view screenshots of the game to get an idea of what the game actually was. With the aforementioned redesign, this was removed. A recent update reverted these changes, though, or at least some of them.
Unfortunately, those who enjoyed watching trailers when using the web browser for PlayStation Store are still going to be left yearning after this update because this feature is not back. What is back are images. To this end, you can get a much better idea of what a game is about, but you will still need to open YouTube in another tab and watch trailers for the complete taste of the game.
Why Sony would remove a feature from the PlayStation Store just to add it back five to six years later, we do not know. But as noted, this is the cycle. Redesign the PlayStation Store, strip it of all previous functionality, and then slowly add back what you removed. Happens about every generation.
At the moment of publishing, Sony has not communicated anything on any of this, including what future updates to the PlayStation Store and its design are. If this changes, we will update the story accordingly, but typically, Sony doesn’t share its plans for its digital storefront. And updates to it are a very slow drip.
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