‘I Could Make “Fart Fart Boobie Fart: The Game” and Maybe It Would Eventually Get Taken Down’ – Devs Reveal Why the Consoles Are Drowning in ‘Eslop’ – IGN (2025)

TITLE
‘I Could Make “Fart Fart Boobie Fart: The Game” and Maybe It Would Eventually Get Taken Down’ – Devs Reveal Why the Consoles Are Drowning in ‘Eslop’

AUTHOR
Rebekah Valentine

PUBLICATION
IGN

YEAR
2025

ARTICLE TYPE
Article

FROM THE ARTICLE
There’s something goofy going on over on the PlayStation Store and the Nintendo eshop. Over the last few months, the two storefronts have been slowly filling up with what some users are referring to as “slop.”

Kotaku and Aftermath have both detailed this problem, highlighting how the eshop specifically seems to be advertising more and more and more games that are using a combination of generative AI and misleading store pages to trick users into purchasing cheap, low-quality games that aren’t what they claim to be. This problem has recently spread to the PlayStation Store as well, filling the “Games to wishlist” section in particular with a lot of weird-looking stuff.

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In an effort to get some answers on what’s happening and what can be done about it, I looked into how these games are ending up on these storefronts en masse in the first place, why PlayStation and Nintendo’s storefronts are especially egregious right now, why Steam is seen as inoffensive from a user perspective, and why Xbox’s store is (relatively) unaffected.

COMPANIES MENTIONED
Microsoft
Nintendo
Sony
Valve

TOPICS MENTIONED
Advertising