

"Recently Played" displays the user's recently played games and online services only, whereas, the other sections can contain website links, links to play videos and access to selected sections of the PlayStation Store.

There are four kinds of content the What's New screen displays and links to, on the sections. What's New has four sections: "Our Pick", "Recently Played", latest information and new content available in PlayStation Store. The system displays the What's New screen by default instead of the menu (or menu, if a movie was inserted) when starting up. The concept was developed further into a major PlayStation Network feature, which interacts with the to display a ticker of all content, excluding recently played content (currently in North America and Japan only). The feature was to replace the existing, which displayed news from the PlayStation website associated with the user's region. What's New was announced at Gamescom 2009 and was released on September 1, 2009, with PlayStation 3 system software 3.0.
