The XMB on the PS3 is a very different animal than the Xbox 360 Tabs or Avatar interface. The XMB is an entity of pure function. It's easy to grasp and easy to navigate. At launch it was rather plain and feature lacking, but over the years Sony has steadily improved on it. They added themes, picture galleries, information bar, support for flash, the list goes on. There are a couple of minor features that are so obvious they just make you wonder why the hell Sony didn't include them. Here they are in no particular order.
Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
now adding these would be nice, but the fact that non of them is important to a gamer and it enhance 0% of the over all experience in gaming makes it totally unimportant.
I would rather see Sony Playstation work on a way to have a party system, and/or a tournament/Ladder application for the PS3 games. Than see them waist time and resources in this list.
You know while I agree I think any tweaks to the XMB are always welcomed.
These are the sort of things that come in the minor updates.. it would be erroneous of Sony not to make their OS more user friendly and more fully fledged (not that it needs much improvement).
Besides, Sony focusing on one area at a time is not viable... imagine just an update that improved the music section. That could prove a waste of an update for many ppl. The more rounded updates they do usually give are better, so this list could easily be made into an update with many other things added.
More avatars! For the love of everything that's awesome... MOOOAAAR AVATARS! Last time we got a new handful was around when Haze launched. If they won't allow customs, they could at least give us a few new ones with the weekly store update. Hell, even a monthly avatar update would be great. Anything's better than nothing at all.
I'm also feeling the background selector on multi-screen themes. I bought an abstract one from the store, and while the whole thing looks good, I really like the blue/black background far more than the other two.
1. Launch straight into Home
No.
List of tweaks I ever think I will see. Only thing I could say they could add is a auto launch home option. It would definetly make more people go into home. All those theme shyts should be not even in Sony minds because all are theme preferences that can be made/edited with the theme editor.