BRocknRolla
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If it's been shown somewhere, I'd be interested to see.
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PS4 User Interface Leak (Early Test Kit Build)
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If it's been shown somewhere, I'd be interested to see.
Yea i am curious how they handle the game library. Right now i am assuming you scroll but we will see.
Scroll?
Is that PS Home all the way to the right?
pharmboy044
Member
So we still will have a store that we need to launch to purchase content? It better not be like the awful PS3 store. That thing takes forever to load and once it loads it stutters like crazy when you navigate through the store menu.
Glad to have some confirmation on that. Now I just hope it's not handled like the 2013 Bravia's XMB; a separate horizontal bar for each section.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqXur1IvMRs
BRocknRolla
Member
I'm curious to know since I don't have a Bravia, but minus the hokey flipping animation, what's bad about it?
FlyStarJay
Member
No more leaks please. Can't wait to see the UI in full. And as for ads I don't mind if Sony or f2p games does little of it to get dedicated servers
Septimus Prime
Member
Yes, but at least the tiles here are pictures, are lined up horizontally, and are not variable in size.
pharmboy044
Member
I don't think that's a real screenshot of the UI.
BRocknRolla
Member
Maybe it's unfair, but the PS3's ads in the top corner are about the largest extent I could deal with ads. If you want to animate the store icon with some game ads, or populate the store page with game ads, then that makes perfect sense, but I CANNOT tolerate a McDonalds ad running on a loop in the corner of my screen. I really hope Sony is judicious about the use of ads because the 360 has been awful about it.
Pretty sure it's a mockup.
Tripolygon
Banned
They showed it at Develope behind closed doors developers session.
TimeEffect
Member
I just can't wait to download all kinds of sexy themes! I hope that's still possible, in addition to resizing those tiles.
Pics?
Pics?
AdlaiSeven
Member
So I guess for all of the two seconds it shows the UI it's OK.
Think those scrolling adverts are only on the Jap and US accounts as I haven't seen then on my UK and New Zealand profiles.
What bothers me about it is all the wasted space on those huge tiles. If the PS4 uses a similar layout for it's library I can easily see it eventually being annoying scrolling through those tiles to access an old game in a large library. I just want an option for a grid view or at the very least a customizable folder layout to minimize needless scrolling. It's a small petty issue I know, but after 7 years with a PS3 and its annoying vertical scrolling in its different libraries I'll be very disappointed if the PS4 has a similar thing.
Visualante2
Member
The tiles on the current metro inspired Xbox dashboard can be pictures and the content tabs usually are lined up all horizontally (eg. browsing games, movies etc)
Syphon Filter
Member
where did you hear this and what did they say it's like?
childplease
Banned
Man sony really cant make a good ui.
As long as there's some effort put into organizing games, I'll be happy.
I'm still happy that Sony never put any DRM on the dynamic themes, since most of the ones on the store have been crap one way or another. There's some great user-made ones out there, and I'm occasionally tempted to make a thread showcasing them
if I was a little more confident it wouldn't breach gaf TOS
When it comes to a game console UI, boring is all I need.
maquiladora
Member
Syphon Filter
Member
what's wrong with it?
Tripolygon
Banned
Just a terrible audio recording done by Eurogamer at the closed presentation given by Neil Brown, which was cleaned up a lil and posted on YouTube. There are some bits about PS4 that are not known yet if you can listen through without getting nauseous.
travisbickle
Member
There's a multi-touch pad on the controller, scrolling will be liberating.
Pumpkin King
Member
Looks nice to me. I hate clutter.
a secret-boss
Banned
I'll take it over 360 ad.
I'm tired of that
I'm tired of that
Bu bu but but Microsoft shows ad. Surely they will do the same!
In all seriousness Sony should test an ad supported free online version too. Like once in a while you get a commercial, in between matches or load TImes. I sure as hell wouldn't use it, I'd gladly pay for the ad-free version. But for the people that would put up with it Sony would probably make more money.
That brings up another thing I've been thinking about, I want to see that multi touch pad in action with UI. I want to see some gestures in place for some quick task switching and some customizable hot corners to jump to specific sections. So many unanswered questions at this point.
If you can't tell by now, I really want an official UI video so bad. I think at this point I'm more excited about it than the actual launch games. 7 years with a slow XMB that has mostly stayed the same has me so excited about next gen UI.
childplease
Banned
Reminds me of a bootlegged version of Windows 8.
If they can't develop good uis internally why not just outsource it.
BleachAndPepsi
Banned
Child, please.
child, please....
If it's a poor ui, but reminds you of windows 8, does that mean windows 8 is a poor ui and wouldn't that mean xb1 will be a poor ui as it uses windows 8?
If you watch the cheesy ui video with sarah greene, you'll see the going from ui directly to game without seemingly using the ui, that's a double click on the touchpad.
Tha Villain
Banned
looks bland and basic but thats not always a bad thing. I don't think anyone expects Sony to have any real intense OS either.
davidbloop
Member
No. He said bootlegged for a reason.
What a post. Lol
Bloodworth
Member
There's enough design in it to be indicative of the direction that they're going for the UI, but since it's a dev unit, the retail interface could be entirely different. The Xbox 360 and Wii U dev menus are just giant lists of text.
From that clip it looks like it's about the same as the current playstation store ui on ps3.
The basic structure at least. Which is also absolutely terrible. Why did they change it? It's also extremely slow to just start up and it always lags.
A bit off topic, but still. It needs to be said.
The basic structure at least. Which is also absolutely terrible. Why did they change it? It's also extremely slow to just start up and it always lags.
A bit off topic, but still. It needs to be said.
Pre-order canceled!!! Stupid font.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
That's interesting. Hadn't heard that. I guess I'm skeptical based on the initial mock ups. I hope they show a little something of it at Gamescom, even if it's just the front end.
That image I really like, but it does pose the scrolling question. I hate the way it's done on the 360 right now, though I suppose that also has something to do with how slow the UI is. Definitely could pose problems if people are going download only.
I assume there will be some kind of "folders" like on Vita and PS3, but maybe some kind of "grid" view too? Something like on the Mac taskbar maybe?
Well during gameplay you can press the PSbutton twice to go instantly back to your game where it left off so maybe the same function could be used when the machine is idle? wish sony would show more of how the UI works
Salvor.Hardin
Banned
UGLY. But here's hoping it's more user friendly than the PS3 ui.
flyinpiranha
Member
I like it.
Oh, and MS sucks.
Oh, and MS sucks.