| Conina said: The new UI has of course similarities to the old XMB (brand recognition), but can you offer a source where a sony employee confirms that it's still the XMB instead of a new user interface which plugs in some ideas and design choices of its predecessor? http://gamingbolt.com/ps4-user-interface-is-a-quantum-leap-above-that-of-ps3-says-gara "My personal view is that the Cross Media Bar has well outlived its… it doesn’t look new, fresh, contemporary any more. It’s not really up to the demands of, particularly, the vision of the PS4, and therefore showing we have absolutely made a quantum leap in terms of our user interface and those design principles of PS4, and demonstrating them live on stage last night, for me, that was a really, really exciting way to start the show."
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But the thing is it's not the XMB but definitely is an evolved version of the old XMB. Your being a little picky since an whole section of the PS4 OS is essentially XMB. In fact, only the game and media content isn't handled by the XMB. Settings, store, profiles users, messages, trophies etc are hamdled by XMB. They might not call it XMB anymore but it's basically XMB 2.0 or XMB hybrid.
Some of your sources are a little misleading and outdated because this statement is completely false,"Sony has just announced a complete overhaul of the user interface for the PlayStation 4. The XrossMediaBar is totally gone from this iteration..."
Overhaul yes. A vast improvement yes. But the XMB is still there. The sourse was from a article dating back to reveal when the OS was partly revealed.
