I'm confused. Is this what you see when you turn on the console, or what pops up when you push the home button (touch pad button?), or something else?
It will be like the Vita, this is what you will see when you turn the PS4 on, this OS is always running and is what you will see when you press the PS button.
Me too. I hope either "name request," or "edit username" is one of them. I need to change my PSN name badly, I'll even pay a $1 for it because it's that bad.
It doesn't look like it, one is requests to share your real name with friends and the other is what your real name is set as.
I hope there's a dynamic background ala PS3 XMB... Also, I hope the glitter makes a return. Am I the only one who likes that crap? I love how it looks.
The wave in the background moves around the screen, so it is dynamic, older screenshots also show different hues of purple and blue, so it seems likely that it will be at least similar to the PS3 in that the colour might change depending on time and date.
Will it let you show your real name in multiplayer games? While playing versus people, in leaderboard listings etc?
From what they have said I don't think so, it seems that your real name is for friends that you allow, I would hope that is what they will see in MP instead of your user name.
Is it just me, or do I remember hearing something from Sessler saying that the XMB is badly made compared to the 360's? I hope he looks at this or at least played with this...
He wasn't really wrong, the XMB when the PS3 was a hog and technically wasn't designed well, it used a ton of resources and was missing a lot of features. Sony reduced those so developers could keep up with the larger pool the 360 had but at the same time didn't plan ahead which is why we didn't get cross-game chat. The 360 however from the start used 32mb, has always used that and has been programmed pretty well generally to fit all the extras in they wanted to do.