Put a personal touch on your PS4 and PS Vita with Themes

By Adam Rosenberg September 2, 2014

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Getting tired of the endless sea of blue that dominates the dashboard interface on your PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita machines? Well good news then: Sony is bringing Themes to both platforms, adopting the popular PlayStation 3 feature for its more recent hardware.

The news was confirmed during Sony’s recent pre-Tokyo Game Show press conference, and was then mentioned again in a new PlayStation Blog post. The addition of Themes is meant to lend a little more life to the standard look of the PlayStation operating system’s frontend interace.

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