How Firmware 3.0 should have looked (LOOK SONY!!!)

[Words Of Wisdom]

iBlah said:

KylieDog said:

nordlead said:

KylieDog said:
Has anyone pointed out that getting all that information to display by default would take forever to load, even if you just wanted to send a message you'd need wait for even more loading too.


This isn't practical at all. If it went ahead and actually got released as an update you'd all be complaining how slow everythign is.

Actually, you would only need a tiny bit of data. for the friend list you would need an extra 20 bytes for each person over the internet, which isn't much at all. Displaying it also shouldn't be much of a problem either. Also, for trophy information you could just poll the data once every few hours and store it on the HDD, so you wouldn't need to download the extra 2KB for a large friend list on startup.

 

Have you seen how long it takes just to load up one persons profile currently?  Imagine doing an entire friends list at once.  Defeats the point if the info is not up to date also.

 

I have no idea how valid those numbers you posting are, all I know is the length of time it takes which isn't good at all.

Agree. It took almost 5 seconds to load up trophy info and avatar for one friend on my PS3, and XMB is unavialble while doing so. Now to load up all friends' trophy info and avatars at once and still be able to move XMB icons around at the same time is just not practical. I'd be quite suprised if they can actually make it happen any time soon.

And on top of that, imagine doing it within a game where you already have limited resources.