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New PS4 OS Images Surface
- Thread starter TabletopTictacs
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JStein0222
Member
*starts slow clap*
You can darken the ps3 ones and brighten them so i would guess that function is in ps4. Looks nice, i dont get the moaning about colours, anyone thats used ps3 or vita will know you can change pretty much everything so i wouldnt worry. Looks clean and crisp as long as its snappy i dont care what a ui looks like.
You know you can do this on ps3 right? you can make custom wallpapers also change the look of the xmb menu options and fonts. Id say its a pretty safe bet you can do this on ps4.
Hydrargyrus
Member
Looks very clean.
I love it
I love it
Darko
Member
why wouldnt it be.
I'm pretty sure it will be customizable. At least the background color and wallpapers. I bet it will be similar to PS3 where you can buy wallpapers and dynamic designs in the PS store. And I'm sure as well there will be free stuff. (Especially with PS+)
I don't know. It looks very busy and not fluid. The section titles being right aligned and everything else being left aligned really makes it hard to the eye. It doesn't follow a normal eye reading pattern imo.
And why do I need my avatar picture so damn big...
Just shove that in a corner somewhere cause once I set it up I don't need to look at it again.
And why do I need my avatar picture so damn big...
Just shove that in a corner somewhere cause once I set it up I don't need to look at it again.
I'm sure this was brought up, but as a person who grew up with comic books, I found their use of "thought" bubbles instead of "speech" quite jarring. It feels very awkward to me, to have the conversation pop up like that.
This one:
http://abload.de/img/playstation-4_2013_07o2uz9.png
This one:
http://abload.de/img/playstation-4_2013_07o2uz9.png
It's not like people are actually saying the message out loud either.
MrCookiepants
Member
Seriously. "It looks ugly". Ugly how? Compared to what? It's a menu, it's not meant to be fap material. As long as it's fast and functional there's no reason to complain.
This one is a bit more accurate.
Hahaha, wonderful!
Agree. I mean, it is not the best UI out there, but it doesn't look ugly or bad.
It has to be functional, that is the main point of an UI. And then aesthetics will never please everyone. If it is icons people will ask for tiles, if it is tiles people will ask for icons, or some will even ask for XMB or Blades or whatever. The only thing that i would ask, and probably won't be a problem considering previous OS/UI, is being able to change background/colour
VanquishUK
Member
Sure it's a mock up, but is this fodder for the 7 min vs 15 min recording stuff?
Note the position of the marker indicating 2 min. Based on that measurement extrapolate the rest which seems to match up with 7.
Again, probably a mock up, it could be an early target time and source for the 7 min thing?
There is no 7mins thing. Sony said
IonicSnake
Banned
Sure it's a mock up, but is this fodder for the 7 min vs 15 min recording stuff?
Note the position of the marker indicating 2 min. Based on that measurement extrapolate the rest which seems to match up with 7.
Again, probably a mock up, it could be an early target time and source for the 7 min thing?
Uhm, it says right there that the video is 15 minutes long.
lol... Dat image analysis.
Future PhaZe
Member
Looks fucking awful
yes, it's not Sarah Greene
seventynine
Member
Yeah I like it too, I don't mind the Xbox One OS design either, save for the placement of the games tab.
NavyPharaoh
Member
some more shops of different backgrounds. imo that looks sexy as fuck. i honestly cannot see the big bad thing gaf is making this out to be
Now this is better
Monty Mole
Member
Naughty God
Banned
What he means is that the position of the marker on the video indicates that it isn't 15 minutes long.
It's a bullshot. It's not 7 minutes but it's a lot closer to that than 15 minutes.
Not digging the flat coloured rubbish which Google has been doing - one tablet looking page instead of detail.
XMB continues to be the best around, "zoomed out" - see what's 'left, right, above and below' of your menu item with ease, allowing you to predict how many clicks required to get from X to Y and so on. Very very very fast to us UI, which is all I care about.
XMB continues to be the best around, "zoomed out" - see what's 'left, right, above and below' of your menu item with ease, allowing you to predict how many clicks required to get from X to Y and so on. Very very very fast to us UI, which is all I care about.
Sure it's a mock up, but is this fodder for the 7 min vs 15 min recording stuff?
Note the position of the marker indicating 2 min. Based on that measurement extrapolate the rest which seems to match up with 7.
Again, probably a mock up, it could be an early target time and source for the 7 min thing?
Fuck me the lengths some people go. It says 15mims in the damn time line.
Naughty God
Banned
I know it's going to be 15 minutes. I'm just pointing out that particular image is a bullshot and they should have taken the extra minute to make sure it adds up.
Edit: oh wait, I thought you quote me. nvm
IonicSnake
Banned
It's a mockup from Sony indeed but the number 15 indicating it's 15 minutes is a bit more telling than where the designer decided to put the dot on the bar.
some more shops of different backgrounds. imo that looks sexy as fuck. i honestly cannot see the big bad thing gaf is making this out to be
It's a slick UI. Blue is a bit much, but others the layout and such is well organised. Both the XO and the PS4 seem to have similar'ish and decent looking UI's imo.
Meus Renaissance
Member
Not sure what to think of it yet. It definitely looks like it needs a lot more work on it. Some of those are very busy looking with no focus.
I agree. The grey boxes look awful
Captain Tuttle
Member
Meus Renaissance
Member
Im sure we can change the background but I hope it changes the background for the video watching and streaming background areas too. That blue wavy shit is soo 2006 and ugly. Some argue its classy, heh.
Aside from the blue BG, this UI looks great. Especially with "live tiles" where devs can put stuff into each game tile. Itradesting
Aside from the blue BG, this UI looks great. Especially with "live tiles" where devs can put stuff into each game tile. Itradesting
Goldrusher
Member
That's likely the What's New section, which you have on PS3 as well.
You can find that orange icon under PlayStation Network, go check it out. It will give you a similar view:
Captain Tuttle
Member
You would think that would be the default tab, but hey.
Good point but I bet those are the users pins, I'm sure they're customizable, they are now.
gutter_trash
Banned
oh XMB, how I will miss thee
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
This one is a bit more accurate.
Well Bailey is pretty attractive there at least but I imagine she is somewhat professionally photographed.
petethepanda
Member
Looks slick, though a couple of the screens approach clusterfuck.
There's no UI that's going to enable the ability to sift through hundreds or thousands of entities/assets that's going to come across as utterly simple, or particularly elegant. The only way you're going to get that is by managing your data streams - limit the number of games you have downloaded, limit the number of friends you have online, limit the amount of media streaming/playback you use the system for, etc.
Future PhaZe
Member
And them pushing this real life, anti-anonymous bullshit after getting their security cracked wide open in the past is pretty ridiculous as well.
flyinpiranha
Member
XMB was my favorite UI mainly for folders. I hope this has the ability for folders. (I felt like I was saying that in the voice of Donkey from Shrek.) Folders are nice.
As for the UI itself, XMB is still my favorite out of all the UI's, followed by the 3DS/Wii for their simplicity. I think the new PS4/XB1 are a step away from simplicity but I have yet to really use it or see it in action so I'll wait for functionality assessment, otherwise looks fine, the social shit looks absolutely terrible.
Do we have 13-19 year-olds much on GAF? Is that something that people do a lot of? "Share" their gaming accomplishments or even with Netflix and shit? I'm 37 and my view is obviously skewed so I don't really know about the younger crowd. It seems that sharing is all over for gaming with FB and shit, but I don't ever see anybody that uses it or screenshots, anything on gaming sites, etc ...
Videos and screenshots, sure, to gaming sites. But the whole FB/Twitter social connection to my gaming hobby doesn't make sense. It's like having my Snowboard pass post a FB status every time I hit the mountain or any time I turn on my RC car it shares it on Twitter ... I don't know, maybe I'm just old.
As for the UI itself, XMB is still my favorite out of all the UI's, followed by the 3DS/Wii for their simplicity. I think the new PS4/XB1 are a step away from simplicity but I have yet to really use it or see it in action so I'll wait for functionality assessment, otherwise looks fine, the social shit looks absolutely terrible.
Do we have 13-19 year-olds much on GAF? Is that something that people do a lot of? "Share" their gaming accomplishments or even with Netflix and shit? I'm 37 and my view is obviously skewed so I don't really know about the younger crowd. It seems that sharing is all over for gaming with FB and shit, but I don't ever see anybody that uses it or screenshots, anything on gaming sites, etc ...
Videos and screenshots, sure, to gaming sites. But the whole FB/Twitter social connection to my gaming hobby doesn't make sense. It's like having my Snowboard pass post a FB status every time I hit the mountain or any time I turn on my RC car it shares it on Twitter ... I don't know, maybe I'm just old.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Because half the screens look like some awful Facebook clone?