There is this argument that the change from old to new gen isn't big enough. Just a few more pixels and particles. That the gameplay experience is the same on old gen consoles if you don't care about graphics.

This is false. I've owned a PS3 since launch and saw it developing with my own eyes. Some things got better, others didn't, some got even worse. Sure the gaming experiences got better over time but there was a constant that would ruin your experience no matter what game you were playing.

I'm talking of course about the OS and the hardware powering it. The OS of the PS3 was one of the slowest pieces of garbage software ever I had to experience. The navigating was fast but just don't dare and try actually interacting with something. Not only were the loading times appalling but every interaction with the PSN was needlessly slow(trophy sync anyone?). The PSN store got even worse with the times to a point where the PS3 hardware wasn't even able to handle its graphical interface without almost dying in the process. Updates, installations and loading times in games were bigger time sinks than the games themselves. The time I spent waiting for the PS3 to finish basic tasks over the gen could've been used to actually play more games. Multitasking wasn't even present from the start and when they implemented it, the system was barely able to handle it. I'd also like to give an honorable mention of the application that called itself a browser. Functinal, yes, but usable? No.

Jumping forward to PS4. Thanks to the new hardware and some hiring of programmers with actual brains the new OS presents itself sleek, fast, functional and usable. It's a completely new feeling and almost fun navigating through the menus and multitasking everything. I can jump out of my game, have a quick search in the browser or look at my trophies and jump back in in just under 30 seconds. In PS3 times this would've taken minutes. Of course the store is still a piece of garbage but at least you can leave it a bit earlier now.

I know companies love to talk about "experience" and that word by now is so overused that it lost all its weight as an actual attribute. But the reason why I would never step back to the PS3 is that I will have a worse experience regardless what game I am playing. PS3 could offer the same graphics as the PS4 and I would have still upgraded. Because a frustration free and less time wasting experience is a lot more worth than money.

That's maybe the PS3, but the Xbox 360's interface is fast and efficiënt.

I agree wholeheartedly. Nintendo has come a long way as well and I think their OS and browser is probably the fastest of the bunch. I can immediately jump into my game within 30 seconds of powering on my gamepad. Jumping into the web browser mid game is very seamless as well. It is miles better than when the console first launched and they continue to improve it.

There's only so much you can do to wow people. Then it becomes meh or expected. So those type of things are not really cared about, as you go along. I really didn't care about the PS4 interface. Because a lot of other functions are still missing.

Yeah powering on a PS4 for the first time and flying through the new OS was a delight. All the agonizing pain and boredom of the old PS3 OS suddenly seemed a thing of the past, a half remembered nightmare, as the cuddly warmth of the PS4 OS embraced me, I grinned, slack jawed and drooled onto the dualshock 4.

Old Gen was terrible, some games weren't native HD, they're all upscaled to 720p or 1080p. Some of them games i missed a lot, cause i was playing PC & Wii a whole time until Sony announced PS4.

I guess PS4 is a solution, i wonder why they released remastered or definitive edition stuff.

Man you bring back the horrible memories... Now that I think about it.. the PS3 was shit.

Was it really that bad on PS3? 

The interface lagged to hell whenever you used it in game. Plus everything made you shutoff the running program. Except Messaging. Check a video, photo, Throphie check, PSN store: "This will end the current program." Playing DVD/BD orphaned the system. You couldn't do anything. No messaging, backgorund download, nothing.

I'm glad im not the only one that thinks this.  The PS3 OS was why i never played my PS3 when i could play it on the XB360. I haven't bought a PS4 or XB1 yet as i haven't seen anything thats made me NEED to own.  However i recently purchased a WII U in preparation for Bayaonetta 2 and again the OS sucks big time.  I like to pick up and play for maybe twenty minutes at a time but having to use the OS on the PS3 or WII U is a big turn off.