Looks fine to me, the XMB while very nice visually and design wise at the time it first appeared was pretty terrible organisation wise for content, wasted a lot of space, and was never really built for many of the features they have tried to put in or are going to be doing now.
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PS4 XMB @ EuroGamer Expo (Off screen footage)
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Looks fine to me, the XMB while very nice visually and design wise at the time it first appeared was pretty terrible organisation wise for content, wasted a lot of space, and was never really built for many of the features they have tried to put in or are going to be doing now.
Goodacre0081
Member
with the debug/test consoles showing up in various places can we look forward to some UI videos in the next week or so, or are they under some sort of NDA?
LiquidSolid
Member
What a ridiculous comparison. The Vita was designed a) to be portable, which means it can't rely on a constant internet connection and b) to conserve battery life by turning off the wifi.
luxstellarum
Member
I hope the manual syncing is gone though, that was annoying.
I'm sorry for the bump everyone but i'd like to follow up on this. Tidux are you still among us?
Did Bish co-sign Tidux?
Tidux
Member
Yes.
He sent him a pm, and Tidux isn't banned so i guess he went through.
Hey
So, about that UI demo on IGN?
Hey
So, about that UI demo on IGN?
Tidux
Member
He sent him a pm, and Tidux isn't banned so i guess he went through.
Hey
check the prev page. but i think they got there ps4 now
Someone mentioned that debug/test consoles have a different UI than the final one. So it would not do much good.
FlyStarJay
Member
Andrew Goldfarb just tweeted this:
Isnt that for Resogun?
Do we actually know the NDA date on the UI?
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Trophies auto sync now it's already been stated. Offline/online mode probably just means do you want to scroll down all your PS3/Vita trophies or just PS4 it's no big deal
Everdred
Member
Same here, I really don't like it.
There's an NDA?
You're probably just seeing bad shots, it looks like the XMB is underneath it all to me, so it's all good.
German site which started weighing shit, opening it up and pulling down the PS4 2 weeks ago just kinda stopped and said they can't show ANY on screen footage. assuming NDA
My guess is they won't lift that till launch.
They'll probably do an internal UI walkthrough video with Eric Lempel or Sid Shuman and just post it on the PS blog later this week.
SolidSnakex
Member
That's what I thought as well, but Housemarque just made a post on their Facebook saying that the Resogun stream will begin at 1pm pacific. So i'm not sure what it is now.
Saint of Killers
Member
Apologies if already posted...
Uno Venova
Banned
10 days and still no walkthrough, damn.
Apologies if already posted...
That blue is gonna make my room look like a blue light disco.
New offscreen UI video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spEqbZmDcng
Shows Knack/multitasking/browser/remote play.
Shows Knack/multitasking/browser/remote play.
Beautiful.
Both Knack and the UI look great in this video. Shame there's so much moire in it.
but we've been asking for moire videos of the UI.
I lol'd.
GrizzleBoy
Banned
Sounds like you can "double click" the PS button to switch between the game and last used app.
that was pretty swish. I also like the option to double click the share button to take a screenshot
Yeah, that was already shown in the initial UI video months ago though (the one with Sarah Greene
).
wapplew
Member
Yup, just as snappy as vita, very smooth.
Double tap PS button for quick swap between app, wonder how many app we can open at once.
Oh, this Knack level looking good!
CosmicGroinPull
Member
WWwwwwwWWW
That looks too plain. You really can't customize the wallpaper?
That looks too plain. You really can't customize the wallpaper?
Crimson_Gold
Member
It'll come. I'd like for al of the features to be there day one, but I'd prefer for the OS to be stable.
After he opens the Web Browser, its icon then appears on the far left before Knack. This is the first confirmation I've seen that the row of icons is listed in order of most recently started.
I've always assumed that's how it worked but this is the first I've seen it for real.
I've always assumed that's how it worked but this is the first I've seen it for real.
Apologies if already posted...
Even IGN is still calling it XMB? Did they not read the PS4 FAQ?
Anyway, that screenshot is just of the system icons. That's not the main menu and it's not the Cross Media Bar. It just looks a little similar. In two weeks people will finally own this and understand.
wapplew
Member
Only different is they change that transition animation to quick fade in and out, which look smoother and much quicker.
But this is just jump between 2 app, do we have alt+tab kinda thing when we have more than 2 app?
I just want to see the game library. We haven't seen it at all, and to me that is the most important aspect of this entire UI. With how large games are we are going to be doing a whole lot of uninstalling and redownloading of games throughout this generation, and its going to be beyond fucked up if we still have to deal with that horrible download list instead of just having a Steam like library that displays all games, regardless of if they are downloaded and installed or not.
Me too. I'm wondering if the PSN backend just isn't ready for the library view, which is why they're waiting on demoing the UI until they can show it properly. Although Sony never mentioned anything about trophy rarity until Vita 3.0 firmware, so they seem to be holding off on little UI things until the absolute last minute.
Everyone who can do it is really really busy? Also, possibly not final firmware. It's stuck in a pipeline somewhere.
Pops Maellard
Member
Because the OS won't be finalized until after the day one patch. Same goes for the Xbox One.