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UI: Which console (PS4, XBONE, Wii U) does it best?

I love the simplicity of the Wii U user interface. It's tidy, extremely easy to use, and have that Nintendo charm. But it just feels too slow, although not nearly as bad as b4.

I haven't had hands on with the other two consoles yet, but from what I've seen, they both build upon what they had on their predecessors. That's both good and bad. Good for core users who are accustomed to the UI, but it could be nightmare for some casuals because the foundation is based on UIs that weren't very user friendly, IMO. I had personally preferred the Wii U approach over PS360(owned all 3), so I have a a felling my preference won't change. Nintendo really needs to speed that thing up some more, though.
 
Based on what I have seen, I like the Xbox One UI best. It is just more exciting looking to me and I think snap and voice commands are going to be hard to do without once I get used to them. But the good thing is that these things will surely be refined and improved even more over time.
 
PS4 needs a better why to manage the library. Maybe split it up into Downloads and Installed. Search and sorting functions.

The ability to pause downloads would be great as well.
 
I sort of hate all the useless stuff on the PS4 UI. I don't care what people on my friends list are doing, or new things in "related items". I don't like having to scroll around to get to what I want. I especially don't like all of the stuff under the video section being listed that I don't have or care to(the hell is Crackle?). Ideally, booting directly to Games Library would be what I want, and I'll exit if I want to do something else. It's still nice, and it looks classy, but I guess I just don't like the minimalist approach if there is useless stuff on the screen. Useless for me anyway.
 
I have a PS4 and Wii U. Out of those two the PS4 UI is the best, moves really fast and easy to get to everything while using the controller. Xbox One UI looks overly complicated for my tastes.
 
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