Ulukai on 22/5/2013 at 16:14
I'll get one.
I actually like what Microsoft have being doing recently with the Metro UI - Win 8 is a horrid amalgamation of two interfaces but when used in touchscreen mode it's great. Really great. I've owned a Mac, iPhone and Android device and for usability - Metro wins every time. I've reached this conclusion over many hundreds of hours usage across many devices.
I have a Windows 8 Phone (Lumia) and it's so much faster and easier to navigate to pretty much anything than my old iPhone or my (work) Android phone; Metro works well on the 360 too.
Depending on what inputs it has and what the TV options are in my next house I can see it replacing every box under my TV.
Only caught a small portion of the launch and was underwhelmed by Call of Duty. Safe choice - it's call of duty and it looks prettier. High Resolution Dogs don't do it for me, but you can see why they appealed to that market (it's fecking huge)
Dresden on 22/5/2013 at 16:54
"XBox, go home."
That was my favorite part from the entire presentation. It sums it up nicely.
WingedKagouti on 22/5/2013 at 17:27
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
You also forgot that there's a dog.
"Collar Duty" flew over your head?
Pyrian on 22/5/2013 at 19:01
Quote Posted by henke
I've never owned any of the Playstations so I'm not sure how viable tv/movie watching is on that one. Does/will the PS support streaming video from your PC? And do they have Netflix?
We've got an Xbox 360 and a Playstation 3 hooked up to the same TV, and we use the PS3 for Netflix and DVD/Bluray movies. Neither UI is
good per se, but the PS3 isn't as bad, and this way we don't need to pay MS a subscription fee just to get access to our Netflix subscription service.
PS4: Winning the new generation simply by dint of not doing anything monumentally dumb.
june gloom on 22/5/2013 at 21:09
I just want to say that while the PS3's UI is decent, the UI for the PSN store is atrocious.
Renault on 22/5/2013 at 21:37
Quote Posted by henke
I've never owned any of the Playstations so I'm not sure how viable tv/movie watching is on that one. Does/will the PS support streaming video from your PC? And do they have Netflix?
I do most things on my TV via my PS3 - play games, watch Netflix/Amazon/Hulu, play DVDs/Blu-ray, and stream content from my PC using (
https://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/) this.
Pyrian on 22/5/2013 at 22:46
Quote Posted by dethtoll
...the UI for the PSN store is atrocious.
I vaguely recall curse-filled struggles with that, too.
gunsmoke on 22/5/2013 at 23:00
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I just want to say that while the PS3's UI is decent, the UI for the PSN store is atrocious.
Cut the games. I'll grant you, PSN's app is shit to the point of being nearly unuseable, but the UI for dash is aces. Everything is easy as fuck to find and sorted well. It's clean, simple, and user-friendly. I had never even seen a PS3 boot up before I bought mine and was instantly navigating it like a boss, while the 360 dash took me a while to get a grasp of.
CCCToad on 23/5/2013 at 03:40
Already familiar with that.
It's going to be amusing when we have some soldier throw a fit because they didn't know about that feature, and all of a sudden the xbox they decided to pack in their bag doesn't work.
Renault on 23/5/2013 at 04:32
I don't own a Wii or the Kinnect (or whatever Sony's equivalent is) - is the motion sensor stuff that popular that MS decided to gear all of the functionality of their console around it? I always thought that part of gaming was just kind of gimmicky and reserved for a very small subset of console owners.
Btw, if we're talking current console generations for UI, I think the PS3 wins hands down. Even my wife can figure it out.
