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nightsurge on 24 May 2010
Lightning_24 said:
nightsurge said:
Lightning_24 said:
nightsurge said:
Ajescent said:
Don't hold your breath, but if they did it would be a stupid idea... if it ain't broke...

But it is rather broke.  Super slow, confusing for noobs, content could be organized better.  I'd love to see a vastly refined and faster loading XMB!

What are you talking about XMB is easy to use. Everything is organized well, I was new to it all and found everything fast. It also doesn't seem slow to me. Plus didnt it win an award and thats why sony is using it in more of their stuff.

I have no clue about any reward.  All I know is that there is no reason for it to take 5 seconds or so to load all my information after I choose a column.  It is especially slow when pulling it up while in a game.  As for content being organized better, things like being able to customize your status message and your profile need to be easier to find, and the settings for audio, video, etc. need to have some more noob friendly options.  I know my settings just fine and can change from optical to HDMI audio and all those other settings, but from people who don't know better they can end up without sound or with incorrect video settings.

The 360 dashboard, for example is instant when choosing rows/columns and even when pulling it up during a game.

I always found the 360 dashboard confusing, but whatever. I guess I don't play a lot so I don't notice how slow it is because it doesn't make me mad or anything. Before there wasn't any info under things before for what things did but now there is. I think everything is easy to follow. People have all sorts of different opinions and this is one of them.

Yeah its cool.  I don't get frustrated or anything over it either.  It can't hurt to load a bit faster, though.    Things like synching your trophy card should be automatic and not require user action, and comparing trophies with your friends could load a lot faster, too.  Just a few very very minor things they could work on.

If its a completely new XMB then I have no clue what they might change.  Guess we'll see soon!



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Lightning_24 on 24 May 2010
nightsurge said:
 

Yeah its cool.  I don't get frustrated or anything over it either.  It can't hurt to load a bit faster, though.    Things like synching your trophy card should be automatic and not require user action, and comparing trophies with your friends could load a lot faster, too.  Just a few very very minor things they could work on.

If its a completely new XMB then I have no clue what they might change.  Guess we'll see soon!

Well, I understand the synching thing but I was never bothered by it. There are times when I do the trophy thing and it would just stop for a second when I was trying to exit out. So if they revamp is just keeping the same interface but faster and more fluid then that would be good. But I like the XMB. I just want more cool themes with music.



Dgc1808 on 24 May 2010
nightsurge said:
Lightning_24 said:
nightsurge said:
Ajescent said:
Don't hold your breath, but if they did it would be a stupid idea... if it ain't broke...

But it is rather broke.  Super slow, confusing for noobs, content could be organized better.  I'd love to see a vastly refined and faster loading XMB!

What are you talking about XMB is easy to use. Everything is organized well, I was new to it all and found everything fast. It also doesn't seem slow to me. Plus didnt it win an award and thats why sony is using it in more of their stuff.

I have no clue about any award.  All I know is that there is no reason for it to take 5 seconds or so to load all my information after I choose a column.  It is especially slow when pulling it up while in a game.  As for content being organized better, things like being able to customize your status message and your profile need to be easier to find, and the settings for audio, video, etc. need to have some more noob friendly options.  I know my settings just fine and can change from optical to HDMI audio and all those other settings, but from people who don't know better they can end up without sound or with incorrect video settings.

The 360 dashboard, for example is instant when choosing rows/columns and even when pulling it up during a game.

The friend's menu is slow when trying to load up profiles and Trophies. That's about it. Unless I'm using it in-game or just booted up the XMB [takes like 10 seconds or something] it's never slow for me on any other menu - I don't see anything taking more than 2 seconds to load up. Changing your status message coun't be easier in my opinion. Go to where you see it, you either hit triangle and then it all becomes obvious since you see the word "Comment" on the menu. When you go to your profile itself, you can select the comment bar so I don't see how that could be made any more simple.

Setting are all under one menu [settings]. In that column there's a picture for each type of setting and the fonts pretty huge and clear. As for setting up stuff like Optical, HDMI, RCA, etc; there's clear instructions and they show you pictures of the wire ends AND the ports they go into. I don't see how anyone can mess that up. 



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Lightning_24 on 24 May 2010

The XMB won an Emmy. http://playstation.joystiq.com/2007/01/10/sony-wins-an-emmy-for-the-xmb/



Xbbjf9s on 24 May 2010

Leave it be



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Tuganuno on 24 May 2010

If it's better, I wouldn't mind.



Skeeuk on 24 May 2010
nightsurge said:
Ajescent said:
Don't hold your breath, but if they did it would be a stupid idea... if it ain't broke...

But it is rather broke.  Super slow, confusing for noobs, content could be organized better.  I'd love to see a vastly refined and faster loading XMB!


its actually super fast. getting hold of any content you have on your ps3 is a breeze



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vr6GOLFr32 on 24 May 2010

I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of a re-design, there's some good videos on youtube of people's creations of what they want.



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A Bad Clown on 24 May 2010

Please make a new XMB. I can't believe how difficult it is to find things like how much memory I have left and where accesory setting are. I hope they have setting split up better.



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dirkd2323 on 24 May 2010

I like the old on just fine, but what ever happens , happens