In other words, you want a console for your console?
I have to admit, I would
fucking love
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PS4 UI demo at Hong Kong event
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In other words, you want a console for your console?
I have to admit, I would
Oh you typed the full word load, how quaint.
DeadlyVirus
Member
Perfect
DeadlyVirus
Member
The Xbox dash is very cohesive
The first thing selected is your most recent activity.
Your profile is one press to the left.
Right and down brings you to your collection
The 4 bottom tiles can be customized so all you have to do is press down once and your 4 most played games are right there.
1 press of the left bumper brings you to 20 tiles you can customize to have all your games and/or apps.
1 press of the right bumper brings you to the store
Everything is a few button presses away. With Kinect its even easier to navigate because all you have to do is say Xbox, Play *Name of game* and you're off to the races. So the UI is very cohesive.
Searching in 2 dimension is not user friendly, especially when almost every square is the same color.
Remeber when you were learning to type on a keyboard. Searching for the right letter when every key was almost the same was not fun
SolidusDave
Member
Hmm, the screenshot feature seems to be gimped compared to the one on PS3.
When he loaded up all those screenshots for the Playroom, they were all about 300/400 kB big. That's some jpeg file size, not sure about the resolution (is the Playroom 1080p? Maybe it's 720p because of the camera feed).
For comparison, the uncompressed 1920x1080 PNGs you can take with the PS3 screenshot tool are something like 5 MB each.
Could be that it depends on some setting of course (default to small size as it's easier to share/upload). At least it already seems to save them locally, hope we can transfer to USB sticks etc. already in 1.50
edit: around 15:00
When he loaded up all those screenshots for the Playroom, they were all about 300/400 kB big. That's some jpeg file size, not sure about the resolution (is the Playroom 1080p? Maybe it's 720p because of the camera feed).
For comparison, the uncompressed 1920x1080 PNGs you can take with the PS3 screenshot tool are something like 5 MB each.
Could be that it depends on some setting of course (default to small size as it's easier to share/upload). At least it already seems to save them locally, hope we can transfer to USB sticks etc. already in 1.50
edit: around 15:00
BlastProcessing
Member
AuthenticM
Member
I like it.
Personally I think the blue background looks cheap and tacky on PS4, dark backgrounds just makes the content pop more on screen.
Also the tiles are such a mish mash, theres no continuity in the layout and that really bugs me. The activity menu appears 2/5 on the screen (like the xmb) but them the system menu is at 4/5 (and you can still see the very top of the activity menu below which looks horrid).
Another thing I dislike is the use of tiles verses shaped icons, choose one or the other, not both. They're also vastly different in size, big XMB icons just look wrong.
ok with this u win
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Nice, simple and appears smooth. As long as it gets the job done.
The UI is underwhelming considering how impressive the console specs are. I would have thought this new console would be worthy of it's own interface, not one out of a television. I'm sure it navigates easily enough, just unoriginal. Why not put some effort into making a user experience that wows as much as what's under the hood?
Nastrodamous
Member
the ps3 ui was terrible and this one looks to be just as terrible except it probably won't take minutes to browse the store.
Sword Of Doom
Member
I could care less about how the UI looks. I like the features the PS4 has and that's all that matters
All that matters.
tbh I think both the XBO and PS4 UIs are fine, but then again I also had no problem at all with the Blade UI. 99% of my time on consoles is spent either actually playing or on the stores.
Pretty much.
Pretty much.
TheCanisDirus
Member
Headset if you don't have the camera... camera if... well you know. lol
Alx
Member
Although the lack of color information is indeed a problem, I think that searching in 2 dimensions is indeed more user friendly than a single one. We're quite used to display and access information in 2 dimensions, and our visual searching strategy is based on it, with eyes being able to scan a whole surface at multiple resolutions. There are actually very few situations where the information is displayed in only one dimension, and that was mostly for technical limitations (morse code receivers for example)
Even if 2D keyboards are hard to master, they're still the more efficient way to display a big number of letters. After all with our tactile virtual interfaces, we could display 1-dimensional keyboards, but we don't.
As a side comment, I think what the "pins" page is missing in the XO interface is the ability to change the size of some tiles. It helps structuring the whole menu, giving more focus on the most important ones, and also gives a less bland look to the whole thing.
lmao
Oppo
Member
Noob. Everyone just uses "*".
HawksWinStanley
Member
I still don't understand why this is happening. I guess I assumed that with the PS4's massive RAM advantage over the PS3 we'd be seeing more UI features, not less.
Microsoft's UI is head and shoulders above what we've seen from Sony.
You can justify it by saying 'it's fast and simple, and that's all I want', but it's not like the Xbone one isn't fast either, everything about it is better.
To be honest though as long as chat, messages, friends etc. are all easily accessible on the PS4 then it won't have a huge effect. It's so damn cumbersome at the moment the 360 feels light years ahead. I want to press the PS button and have my friends there instantly.
You can justify it by saying 'it's fast and simple, and that's all I want', but it's not like the Xbone one isn't fast either, everything about it is better.
To be honest though as long as chat, messages, friends etc. are all easily accessible on the PS4 then it won't have a huge effect. It's so damn cumbersome at the moment the 360 feels light years ahead. I want to press the PS button and have my friends there instantly.
You shouldn't even think twice about the UI, it needs to get the job done, not impose itself, or become the central attraction.
New UI video from Madrid Games Week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqlToTbNdOg
Shows some settings, trophy list, etc...
Looks like a debug/test console though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqlToTbNdOg
Shows some settings, trophy list, etc...
Looks like a debug/test console though.
RedAssedApe
Banned
I'll need hands on time but I'm not a fan of Windows 8...hence why I feel apprehensive about Xbone ui even after seeing their official ui video. Hate navigating Win 8 tiles on a PC.
Son of Cervantes
Member
Am I the only one who dislikes both the UIs (Xbone and PS4)? Xbone's looks better for a tablet device, PS4's just looks clunky, and I'm surprised it takes time to load stuff onto the UI given how much RAM the OS uses.
I want something quick and simple, I think the last UI I actually liked was the 360's NXE and the PS3's XMB when I first bought my PS3...after I'd downloaded a lot of games and apps, it slowed down to ridiculous levels.
I want something quick and simple, I think the last UI I actually liked was the 360's NXE and the PS3's XMB when I first bought my PS3...after I'd downloaded a lot of games and apps, it slowed down to ridiculous levels.
mickcenary
Member
Can the black space on the Bone UI be swapped out for white/anything else? It's just far too dark; not fresh looking at all.
Nope.
Steve McQueen
Member
Looks very clean and functional.
Marc
Member
Looks pretty naff, I am happy its fast and everything but that lack of customization is a killer when the default look is so shite. Can't understand why we can't have themes? I hope we can create folders at least to organize our stuff? I suppose it matters less without DLNA, music and probably a bunch of apps, we won't be spending much time with the OS.
Xbox One won that round, finally on a roll of 1. I kid, but even the Xbox One set up is ruined by the advert crap that you pay the privilege for.
Xbox One won that round, finally on a roll of 1. I kid, but even the Xbox One set up is ruined by the advert crap that you pay the privilege for.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Sure, it's not very "exciting", etc, but I like the philosophy of having pretty much everything available on one screen, with clever navigation within that screen to get to different stuff instead of deeply nested sub-screens. It's pretty much like the XMB in that way, just layed out a bit differently. Navigating around this UI should be really quick and simple once you're used to it.
Anyone wanna translate this pleaseeeeeeeeee ? Finally! Something solid.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Trophy list and settings look pretty snappy, there's none of the delay you get on the PS3.
Another thing I noticed in that video is that the Hohokum start screen says "Press Options". Is that gonna be the new "Press Start"? Looks pretty stupid to me, pressing a button called "Options" doesn't intuitively have anything to do with starting the game. It should just be "Press X" from now on, if the start screen even has to continue existing. Why can't we just go straight to the main menu?