The lack of sorting options on PS5 was already ridiculous.

With the new PS Plus tiers, it’s gotten even worse.

My PlayStation 5 is a mess, and I bet yours is too.

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At this point, there’s no putting it off anymore.

The PS5 needs folders.

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The Premium tier is even more of a hassle.

The glut just gets worse and worse, and there’s no effective way to sort them.

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Even then, this feature seems half-baked.

New downloads and playing other games still push your pinned icons down a slot.

Nintendo Switch faced a similar problem with its own classics libraries.

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Or we could organize them by genre or vibes or any number of other things.

We know that Sony knows how to make folders.

The PS4 and PS5 interfaces are just stripped-down versions of the PS3’s XrossMediaBar.

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Within those categories, though, you could create individual folders.

Even the Vita, with its bizarre bubble UI, let you create folder bubbles.

None of this was unanticipated.

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The system has needed folders from the start, for the sake of simplicity and customization.

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