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09/01/09
What I don't like is the grey background tab for the friend's list. It totally wrecks the layout for any theme you have going on. Options to change the color or make the tab transparent with unaffected text would be nice. The new info bar is annoying. It can be turned off thank goodness. The PS3 logo at startup is stupid. If the person turning on the ps3 doesn't know that it's a ps3 they're about to use, then that person qualifies as the idiot of the year. It's redundant and totally unnecessary.
What I wanted to see but is sadly missing? We still can't log in as invisible (like Live) For user that have large libraries of mp3s or videos, there's no faster way to find a specific title other than scrolling.
We can't use preview videos already on the HDD as backgrounds for dynamic themes.
No cross game chat sucks too. But, overall I like the update.
09/01/09
It's been a staple of gaming systems for at least the last two generations. While it's not entirely necessary, it's mostly unobtrusive (that time would just be a black screen or some other loading screen anyway) and doesn't detract from the experience.
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09/01/09
And this gets compared to an "Apple like design" more often than you'd apparently think.
09/01/09
@Kev50027:
protip: *these two don't own a 360
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08/18/09
Don't turn this into another adBox. Seriously, one of my favorite things about my PS3 is that I don't have to wait for ads to load while it boots. Do whatever you want in the store, I don't care, but don't make my PS3 boot into ads!
Seriously, people, it's fucking tacky..
08/18/09
08/18/09
...I know.
They should have taken the 7 minutes they used to program that in and used them to move along the progress on in-game chat, true party chat, etc.
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I don't think I've used a new feature of any of these software updates since the day I bought my system like 2 years ago.
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06/26/09
Just so you know, I own both (and use both) a PS3 and an XBox 360. I would not call myself a fanboy, but I do see consistantly better games for the PS3 than the 360. When the games are developed for both consoles, I will usually get the 360 version, but that may change, depending on the quality of each game. (I am definitely getting Ghostbusters on the 360, but getting Tales of Vesperia and FF 13 on the PS3) It all depends on how the developers approach the platform.
Bottom line is that Sony is getting serious about having better games on their system, and the number of exclusive PS3 titles is climbing. Dont dismiss the PS3 because of its (many) problems, its a growing platform and I believe the best is yet to come.
06/26/09
I can agree with you one some accounts. I myself have both systems. The PS3 doesnt what it takes to be my favorite system. Here are some of the reasons why i hate ps3,
Updates, first download the update, then to install the update is just stupid.
PS3 Games, I just purchased infamouse, I poped it in right away, installing.. WTF sony the game has to be installed first just MGS, Instally takes forever sometimes.
Demos, yes you download them and you have to install them too. Real stupid.
No Voice PArty,
No NEtflix offially although i used PLAYOn program that allows your ps3 to see NetFLix but its still stupid.
I can go on the list forever Laggy games,
Now and days i feel i payed all that money just for a Giant Blueray player and nobody is buying bluerays i still have that spiderman mine came with. ALL because it lacks the abillity to play games. Gamers are starting to love Online play and we all know the 360 has that down pack! And now Activision might drop support for both PS3 and PSP.. because their realizing nobody is buying PS3's. Im happy with both systems but I'm more for the 360 than the PS3. Most PS3 games are from PS2 anyway. It doesnt help that most of PS3 exclusives isnt even exclusive anymore, MGS, DMC4,SC4,TK6, I can go on... Sony know's their current PSP=FAil.. thats why they created the PSP GO.. and droped the UMD disk.
By the time sony catches up to 360 in features it'll be to late for them. Sales dont lie. Remember that.
06/26/09
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I'm not bashing sony, but everyone (especially MS) takes ideas from someone else.
I think it's good they are doing this, those are good features to have
06/26/09
It's just that one expects, when you apply the .0 moniker to an update, some major additions or changes.... not just catch up work.
06/26/09
I know Sony is trdiantonally a hardware company n MS a software company but when it came to the UI's it's like some quantum doo-hicky must of happened cos XMB is spot on, simple ,elegant and customizable. and they have the balls to stick it across most of her devices, that shows confidence in a UI when you know it works great with a console and a TV(heard they got XMB on Vaois too as a quick luanch)
06/26/09
06/26/09
Come on my mum picked it up in 10 minutes.
360 - view your game files, actually please tell, we are trying to back them up, can't for the life of us find them. Theres no obvious place that the 360 stores it's saves. Browsing Videos n music are kinda crammed into one, and under the MyXbox row, Media don't even get it's own row.
Heck some stuff is only possible from the in-game menu (which is still Blades base, way to have a new UI) which makes most things awkward.
What's really bad is there's no manual for NXE either, it was a whole update, no paper manual on how to do everything. Sony kept it the same, so the manaul that came with the Ps3 still applies.
Anyway why we comparing UI's? I thought it was always a mutual agreement that 360 controller feels nice to hold,and the XMB was easier to use?
06/27/09
And yeah... each type of media has it's own area under my xbox... just as it does in the xmb. I really don't see where one is any harder to get to than the other.
06/26/09
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06/26/09
Maybe you should work on your troll skills, i don't think you know what to do
06/26/09
06/26/09
(^~^)
Seriously, if you haven't tried a game that makes use of all the data on a Bluray disc, you owe it to yourself to try. You won't find a game as vast as Metal Gear Solid 4, for example, in the PSN store.
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But I'm sure there is more to this then meets the eye. Like the background updating.
06/26/09
06/26/09
Sony are hardware company, I don't think they care what number they slap on the firmware. More than likely the major revision number is 'PS3', much like FF3.5.30729, this is PS3.3.0.
2.4 brought a big update in the in-game XMB, but then 2.6 just brought a slideshow app. 2.80 ain't even out yet so 3.0 speculation is a bit too soon.
06/26/09
x.0 = Major update, a new OS if you will
0.x = Major feature update
0.0.x = Bug fix update