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Product pages on the PS Store have been given a refresh as Sony has implemented a new five-star rating system users can engage with. It's not entirely clear when this feature went live as it's only been spotted in the past 12 hours, but you can now attach a rating to the PS5, PS4 games you own.

To do so, you can head into the PS Store and select "View Product". From there, the game's current rating should appear beneath the logo, and you can select it to gain more information. The next screen reveals exactly how many ratings the title in question has received as well as a percentage breakdown of how many people voted for each score. You're only able to leave a rating for games you have purchased, downloaded, or added to your library.

The example above focuses on Cyberpunk 2077, revealing the RPG has so far received an overall rating of 3.79 from 37,000 users. Another is Resident Evil 4, which sits on 4.7. 84 per cent of voters awarded it five stars, and just three per cent handed it a single star.

PS Store Adds a New Five-Star Rating System to Score Your PS5, PS4 Games

Must own the game to leave a rating

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[shaddam]

Remember when you could vote on youtube? Sad to see that this is a huge feature in 2023.

 

[Elios83]

It was already there a few years ago, then removed now reintroduced?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

This new rating system is slowly being rolled out so not everyone has it yet. Some more examples:

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

It was already there a few years ago, then removed now reintroduced?

IIRC there was one for the PS4, but PS5 didn't have one, at least not until today.

 

[Aenima]

Good, user feedback is always welcome. Even if it leads to some games being review bombed.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I guess it's better than the thumbs up/down Netflix uses.

 

[Borealis]

Thats good. I like to see user Feedback, especially for smaller / indie Games.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Do you need to own the game in order to review it?

 

[RagnarokIV]

I guess it's better than the thumbs up/down Netflix uses.

I'm guessing most people will only operate on the top and bottom of the scale, so it basically is just a thumbs up or down.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Do you need to own the game in order to review it?

Yes. Also, you just give a star rating, you don't actually write a review for the game like on Metacritic or Steam.

 

[aclar00]

Do you need to own the game in order to review it?

Hopefully that's the case, even if part of PS+. Be nice to rate demos as well.

 

[Fake]

 

[Gamerguy84]

That's great thinking Jim. Now review bombers will have to buy a PS5 and a game to properly bomb a game.

 

[crackajack]

Good, user feedback is always welcome. Even if it leads to some games being review bombed.

Did not even realise it was gone. Plus streams definitely showed them. I think always? At least since Plus replaced Now and I joined I saw them very much like they were in the PS3 store.

I'd want to see an option "how do my friends rate it" or better; adding some rating from a personal selection of reviewers/professional or just Jo Schmo people I can agree with to filter out the angry often insanely entitled kids giving zero stars for perfectly fine games instead of just using it for actually terrible games.
In times of youtube knowing all about me and whatnot the suggestions for recommended games the store gives is rather piss poor so far. Just because I played some mediocre games does not mean I want more of these. Or play part 4 right after playing part3 of whatever. My taste might not align with everyone else's, but in modern kinda transparent times I would expect some algorhytm should be able to know what I actually like derived from playtime and then maybe my rating. Use the god damn data collection for something.

I'd even welcome rating trophies to show which are just BS and kinda reduce my appreciation of some games. Many devs seem to be entirely clueless about trophies and what people even trophy hunters actually enjoy. Same with the size of games. Bigger is not better even if the only measure of engagement hours goes up. Some or a lot of people do it once and then say fuck that franchise.

 

[Elbow Identity Shallow]

It would be a good option to have this sortable to show only include ratings from people on your friends list.

 

[lughnasadh123]

Beyond personal satisfaction of rating things...no thanks. Review bombing is just going to make this another metric to ignore.

 

[Pelao]

Zero issues with lots of people giving bad scores if they actually own the game. I wish they also included written user reviews like on Xbox.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Finally, we can have review bombing on PSN as well.

For real though, I've been waiting for this to make a comeback. Now they just have to restore friends activity feed and it's gonna feel like home again.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Wonderful and more credible. Similar to Steam ratings. Shills can't do shit to it.

Metacritic has a very loose system that shills can penetrate easily, and bombers alike.

 

[Banjo64]

Ass of Can Whooping - time to start review bombing any pre-buyout Zenimax, Obsidian, Ninja Theory, Double Fine and ABK games we can get our hands on.

 

[Solidus_T]

Remember when you could vote on youtube? Sad to see that this is a huge feature in 2023.

The internet is healing.

Zero issues with lots of people giving bad scores if they actually own the game. I wish they also included written user reviews like on Xbox.

I agree. It's kind of like what happens with Steam reviews.

 

[Investor9872]

I'm glad the ratings system is back. I've missed it since the PS3, where I have used it quite a bit on non-high profile games to make informed buying decision.

 

[squidilix]

inb4 TLOUp2 new review bombing.

 

[ManaByte]

Zero issues with lots of people giving bad scores if they actually own the game. I wish they also included written user reviews like on Xbox.

It’s better than nothing. Been waiting for this for a long time. I use the Xbox reviews a lot.

 

[Dick Jones]

I'm in work. Will someone check the scores for Knack and Knack II. I hope the console died on whoever gave less than 5 stars.

Dave Meltzer gave Knack II 7 stars when he played it in the Tokyo Dome.

 

[Dorfdad]

Hopefully they make it so you can not vote unless you have played 4-5 hours worth of a game and have purchased it.

 

[SmokedMeat]

You can only give it a star rating?? Lame.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Ass of Can Whooping - time to start review bombing any pre-buyout Zenimax, Obsidian, Ninja Theory, Double Fine and ABK games we can get our hands on.

I'm with you bro. Hopefully they make reviewers identity visible next so we can identify the infidels and traitors on our holy platform

 

[R6Rider]

Time to start review bombing games I don't like.

First up are all the weeb games Danjin44 plays.

 

[docchicken]

It's really an old feature that they are putting back in.

 

[Dick Jones]

It's really an old feature that they are putting back in.

Remade from the ground up.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Time to start review bombing games I don't like.

First up are all the weeb games Danjin44 plays.

Need to bankrupt those pos weeb studios

 

[Optimus Lime]

So THESE were the exciting new features that increased PS Plus fees were going to give us. It all makes sense now.

 

[Fake]

That's great thinking Jim. Now review bombers will have to buy a PS5 and a game to properly bomb a game.

Err... Wasn't Steam doing this for ages?


What next move you gonna praise Jim for? Giving consumers option to give games as a gift?

 

[Danjin44]

Time to start review bombing games I don't like.

First up are all the weeb games Danjin44 plays.

 

[Gaelyon]

Sony is hacked and boom ! game rating is back ! Coincidence ? I don't think so.

Spoiler

/s

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Time to start review bombing games I don't like.

First up are all the weeb games Danjin44 plays.

 

[Fbh]

Good first step.
Would be nice to have a proper user review system like Steam someday.

I guess it's better than the thumbs up/down Netflix uses.

Those are pretty much useless, and only for Netflix to "recommend" stuff to you.
For a few years now the percentage next to Netflix content doesn't represent that percentage of people that like it, instead it's supposed to show "how much they think it fits your taste"

 

[Nemesisuuu]

Revolutionary, next gen begins now.

 

[docchicken]

Remade from the ground up.

Just like the "new!" Dark mode in YouTube for Android and iOS a couple years back?

 

[-Zelda-]

Can we just have dynamic themes back and also avatars on the PS5 psn store?

 

[Fake]

Can we just have dynamic themes back and also avatars on the PS5 psn store?

'Requires a loads of engineering.

 

[Zok310]

Might be better way to gauge a game as its only the folks that bought it can rate it, as opposed to open and meta critics

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

Remember when you could vote on youtube?

Good old days.

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[delfrickintree]

Did not even realise it was gone. Plus streams definitely showed them. I think always? At least since Plus replaced Now and I joined I saw them very much like they were in the PS3 store.

Are you maybe thinking of the 5 star rating prompt at the end of each game stream? I believe those are for rating the actual stream quality, not the game.

It's a shame they have to censor every dissenting opinions because it looks bad. Too many low ratings?Only Thumbs up or down, cant think critically only, only lightswitch brain mode. Then they hide all the thumb downs because of "brigading." We've had this discussion before but either allow people to have full ability to critique or not. Suppression of backlashes from consumers usually ends up backfiring, they find another avenue to express dissatisfaction, which can be worse than the original negative reviews.

 

[sachos]

Looks like you cant give .5 ratings? So only integer?

 

[ComputerBlue]

This was available years ago and totally useless because you could even rate games you pre-ordered, I remember the first Destiny had something like 6000 5 star ratings a month before the game even released.

 

[Saber]

I really hope that one actually works. I couldn't even rate the games I owed, only if it was digital. This is dumb as fuck.
I have some awfull games, most of them indies. I really want to flag people into not buying them.

They need to allow people to do a sumary of why giving that star, for context.

 

[skit_data]

This is great news, PS Store needs more stuff like this.
Now bring separate developer/publisher pages that you can access via the games store page. Feels like an obvious win-win for customers PS, publishers and developers alike.