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I think that the one we have atm is quite good. Unless its radically improved i dont mind staying with the old one.



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SamuelRSmith said:
Personally, I just want changes to the way certain things are done so that I can spend as little time on the XMB as possible. The XMB is supposed to be used a quick jump between the functions of the PS3 itself, after all.

A couple of ideas:

- Remove all unnecessary icons and options from the ingame XMB. If the feature can't be used ingame, then don't include it in the XMB. This will reduce load time for the ingame XMB and will also reduce the amount of time I spend navigating through the XMB.

- (taken from 360) hitting the home button whenever a notification is displayed for either receiving a message/invite or unlocking a trophy will bring up the message or the trophy details. This will certainly reduce navigation times (to zero, really), and, if done right, could reduce load times as relatively little information would need to be displayed.

- Allow users to enable some kind of optional cache which will store friends lists, and their trophies. This way I won't have to wait for the friends list to load when I first log into the system, and comparing trophies will take a lot less time (rather than having to download my friend's entire trophy catalogue each time I compare, the system will only need to download their new trophies).

- Grid view. Have the option for a grid view for music and video, like photo. If the grid view has 4 columns, this could theoretically quarter the amount of time spent navigating through the files. Also, if the content is sorted alphabetically, scrolling fast should bring up a little letter indicating where about you are in the list.

All I can really say to this is yes... well said

 

 But anyway, only 1 month to go!