njean777
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Yes they are. Recommendations are ads Stop trying to twist it any other way.
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Xbox One: Built for the future
- Thread starter shinobi602
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Yes they are. Recommendations are ads Stop trying to twist it any other way.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Yeah, it's honestly not getting enough praise IMO.
More than the PS3, yes.
And as I stated, once you're on your library, it's much slower to scroll between titles. In the XMB, you can rapidly scroll the entire list. It's much slower / jerkier to do this on the 360.
I'd imagine that the Xbone will be significantly faster to navigate between pages and tiles, due to have RAM to spare. The annoying lag in the 360 UI is most certainly due to the limited system resources.
You made it further than me. What a moron. "We don't speak French, we're Americaiiiiin."
The main UI was boring as shizz. I hope there's more to it.
Gaikai isn't Azure. They can't do what MS is doing with Azure with Gaikai.
If that is your "reason" because they said no ads and now there are?
Really?
- Can I introduce you to Jack Tretton?
- Remember Other OS?
- The removal of the cheap EE chip to boost sales
- Claiming Little Big Planet is over 40gb when its less than 2gb
- Waiting a week to tell YOU PSN has been breached
- Losing the "keys" to PSN last october and people acting like nothing happened
And the first thing that came to mind for you is dashboard ads?
I personally don't think that is reason enough for you to say the cloud is bunk, but you are welcome to your opinion I guess
Because I think the XMB is very bland and lifeless. Nothing about it is appealing to me. I never said the XMB wasn't simple either, so not sure how I contradicted myself. I was speaking strictly and only about the Xbox One UI. The layout and presentation is much more flattering to my taste. Like I said, opinions. They do vary.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Glorified G
Member
If UI was that important I wonder why you were leaning towards a ps4 when barely anything has been shown for it until very recently while MS has made it priority since it's reveal? I figure anyone whose preference towards ps4 would see the UI as more of an means to an end as opposed to being part of a core experience.
Credit to XboxUncut on Reddit.
So good.
If it's as snappy as we're led to believe then it's gonna be pretty dope.
Credit to XboxUncut on Reddit.
Me likey! Clean and snappy!
soul creator
Member
someone should photoshop that MS Paint "Welcome Batman" Kinect interface image into one of these Xbox One bootup pics, lol
(can't find it offhand, but you know the one!)
(can't find it offhand, but you know the one!)
Wow some of these videos are great!
http://youtu.be/ktpqoJfTR3g
http://youtu.be/Ti6UwRitOZU
The friends stuff looks particularly impressive.
http://youtu.be/ktpqoJfTR3g
http://youtu.be/Ti6UwRitOZU
The friends stuff looks particularly impressive.
eddfromtheriver
Banned
Can they please utilize the cloud and bring that Forza game into the next generation? (that GIF looks... not next gen)
Great post man. Also, that post history of yours... wow.
History don't lie.
eddfromtheriver
Banned
Garrett 2U
Member
1080p, 60fps, with those graphics?
Yep. It definitely looks much better than your average next gen launch title.
This is next gen quality trolling.
eddfromtheriver
Banned
So... if i play a game from the PS2/XBOX/GC era in its remastered form (1080p,60fps)... that makes it next gen?, stupid question i know, but it sounds like that's what you're implying, the latest video released for Forza looks bad, nothing in it seems un-doable in the current crop of consoles (baked lighting, terrible water, bad aliasing issues, scarce vegetation)... but i digress...
"Clean" in design terms usually refers to "no design flourish".
The Playstation 3 and 4 XMBs have plenty of design flourish or decoration: shadows under icons to replicate life-like lighting, 3D swoosh effects in the background to "look cool", sparkles/glitter effects to "look classy", transparency to replicate glass to seem "futuristic", gradients for no reason etc.. These are flourishes that do not improve functionality and do not enhance user experience in the slightest.
Therefore the design is NOT "clean" in anybody's language...it's full of ridiculous decoration that is not attractive in my opinion and is visually distracting.
eddfromtheriver
Banned
I fail to see how, i'm making an honest question. with two possible answers... nothing illogical about it. I for one, don't think that GIF looks next gen... at all.
Oh and sorry if i don't reply back. Bedtime.
Steelyuhas
Member
Yeah it's worth mentioning that Gaikai is a streaming service Sony purchased to develop a platform for streaming PS3 games. Azure is currently a billion dollar business on its own, encompassing a range of cloud-based services.
Not that Sony can't or won't develop cloud-based services for their gaming platform, but MS already has big time cloud services today.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Lol, you have to excuse that dude he has no limits.
actually this is just bad trolling. nothing nextgen about it..
lastflowers
Banned
the ignore button has saved me many minutes of my life contemplating posting/responding to people on this site. You should definitely take advantage of it. Once the consoles are out and launched, many on my ignorelist will be taken off.
Soak it in! All of you. Soak it in.
LOL
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Sony have a service agreement with Rackspace for their OpenStack servers, the same company that CERN and NASA use for cloud computing, it won't be as ingrained as Microsofts cloud but you can bet that Sony will have something very similar.
MysticGoujon
Banned
I'm completely agree with this. I like clean and concise layouts, infact my main complaint with the current Xbox 360 layout is that its become a little bit convoluted, however looking at these gifs, it's clear that the Xbox One won't suffer from that (of course can't say for sure until the controller is in my mits). The flip side of that is that clean and concise can lead to a lack of personality, now this is very much a personal preference, as you say, but I've always felt whilst navigating my PS3 that its really lacking in that department, and the PS4 UI from the videos looks even more like that, sterile might be the right word for it. From the little we've seen from the Xbox One, and the lots we've seen from Windows 8, I don't think that's going to be a concern at all, it's looks absolute gorgeous in my eyes, but once again, to use that key phrase, it's a personal preference, as I have no doubt in my mind that both the PS4 and X1 will have very performant, feature rich UI's.
MysticGoujon
Banned
There is no way that Sony will be able to use a third party vendor to offer as good as deal or customisation as Microsoft can with Azure, simply because the service isn't theirs to run and rackspace will want a cut of the pie too. I also don't think Sony have the means or justification to set up and equally established and performant cloud platform as Azure anytime soon. So if Microsoft want to really push the advantages of Azure on the Xbox One, which they seemingly are, then they definitely have an advantage here.
Credit to XboxUncut on Reddit.
I wonder if we'll see the equivalent of "dekstop-Hoffing" on gamerpics, since they're so huge and sudden on the bootup I could see someone pranking by changing it to something scary and/or obscene.
geordiemp
Member
Is the User Interface really important to people here ?
All I want to know is how capable is the hardware and how good are the games to play and look at.
As long as the UI is clean and easy to use, does it matter ?
What percentage of your time do you spend using the interface to playing games or running apps ?
For me its like 0.05 % UI usage....
All I want to know is how capable is the hardware and how good are the games to play and look at.
As long as the UI is clean and easy to use, does it matter ?
What percentage of your time do you spend using the interface to playing games or running apps ?
For me its like 0.05 % UI usage....
It's a factor which I deem important to me. The XBOX UI and controller are one of the main reasons I'll get another XBOX next generation, together with the lineup. I don't expect we'll see much difference between the games anyway, even is the PS4 is 50% faster.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
Member
Here probably low. general public though, the spend a large percentage of time using apps and in the ui.
It is important to me. Unless you boot directly to a game everytime the UI should be important.
This UI looks clean and easy to use and looks like an improvement compared to just using the same dull life less UI. Coupled with how the UI interacts with the Kinect sensor is something unique.
Very very slick, MS have always been ahead of everyone else at delivering services and bundles of functionality. I heavily use my Xbox for its services, Xbox One ability to be the single input to all my devices is what has me super excited.
God damn i can imagine my Xbox switching on my 5.1 system, Samsung smart TV and everything else as soon as Kinect recognises me.
Damn i cant wait.
At least 40% of my time on 360 is non gaming related. So alot.
God damn i can imagine my Xbox switching on my 5.1 system, Samsung smart TV and everything else as soon as Kinect recognises me.
Damn i cant wait.
At least 40% of my time on 360 is non gaming related. So alot.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
I am 100% not about use those gamerpics though. Ill make a cool one with my avatar since I actually like them. I cannot stand knowing somewhere out there someone has the same pic as me. I guess you could call me picky lol
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Of course it is, we're going to be interacting with it for the next 8 years.
My god. It's true.
Insert any animation of people clapping hands, Antonio Banderas or whatever you want. This is just too good, and it also happens to be correct. One of the "operating systems" running in Xbox One seems to be Microsoft Office.
Kydd BlaZe
Member
Loving those UI gifs. Looks much better than what I've seen of the PS4's UI thus far; Much more stylish and slick. PS4's UI looks very bland in comparison.
This post is too salty for my tastes.
Louis Cyphre
Banned
Believe it or not people do spend a lot of time doing things outside of playing games on the consoles and even while playing games they bring up the interface to do other things as well.
Alx
Member
You must have missed all the drama about Windows8 because they changed the navigation menus.
The UI wasn't important when consoles were just meant to boot up a game and you only used the system menus to make room on your memory card, but things have changed. Now even in a pure gaming scenario, you'll browse the UI to manage your friend list and follow their activity, download demos, DLC or full games, watch videos of games to come, ...
And of course there all the non-gaming scenarios : web browser, video, music, social networks etc.
That makes the UI rather important, especially now that the console is adding multitasking.
GrizzleBoy
Banned
I plan to use my next console for much more than gaming.
To be quite frank the actual gaming side isn't even what made me pre-order a next gen console. Forza 5 comes free with my pre-order and I'm not really wanting to spend any more money yet.
One of the things that frustrates me with 360 right now is that MS are clearly trying to do something with it, but obviously can't really fully realise it because the console has only been adapted to try to fit it in.
The app market for instance, is only a big handful of apps.
Currently having to exit a game to access your Xbox Music library.
Having apps that I use like Xbox Music/Sky TV/Netflix require me to exit my current app to look at/start/use any other app or even go back to the dashboard.
Having to switch between inputs on my TV when switching from PC gaming/web browsing to console.
All of the above are actually regularly frustrating to me (especially when my TV remote runs out of batteries and I CBA to change them. Unlit capacitive buttons on the TV + dark = Rage). I like the ideas of the implementations, but the half-assed ness of their real use functionality just grates.
To me, XB1 is what my 360 and its vision is supposed to be right now. Its almost like Windows 8 vs Windows 8.1 to me. Windows 8 is the first implementation of the vision and Windows 8.1 is a better realised version that actually turns the vision into something I can actually use in a more functional manner.
Outside of my personal use case, Microsoft's end goal is that the XB1s interface is never more than a single button press/command/gesture away regardless of what any user of the television is doing so I guess they need to make it look appealing as well as functional.