PS4 and Xbox Rumours

K1LLSW1TCH · 19 Jan 2013 at 17:50

Mr Men said:
My 360 is set to just launch the game when it boots, no need to be disconnected.

It seems like he's talking about updates and being constantly connected to everything and everyone. Which is why I said just disconnect it from the Internet and then he won't get any prompts for updates or any of the other stuff, not really the sort of thing I'd do personally but whatever.

biron_w · 19 Jan 2013 at 18:58

Mr Men said:
You again with these same nonsense comments, why do you spend so much time on the dashboard and why do you constantly sift through junk? What are you looking for that you need to sift through junk?

If I want to download an arcade game or something, there's 2 screens of adverts and stuff to sift through. If I want an app like IE(which MS made a big fuss over) then it's 4 or 5 screens of adverts I have to put up with.

Yungstar 2006 · 19 Jan 2013 at 20:33

Edz said:
May as well just buy a PC?

It's bad enough sifting through all the junk and ads on Xbox Live, let's not make it worse.....

sifting through junk ads on Xbox Live?

guess your 360 must be different to mine as I've never had to sift through ads to get to what i'm after on the dash..

biron_w said:
If I want to download an arcade game or something, there's 2 screens of adverts and stuff to sift through. If I want an app like IE(which MS made a big fuss over) then it's 4 or 5 screens of adverts I have to put up with.

just not true at all.

Mr Men · 19 Jan 2013 at 20:44

biron_w said:
If I want to download an arcade game or something, there's 2 screens of adverts and stuff to sift through. If I want an app like IE(which MS made a big fuss over) then it's 4 or 5 screens of adverts I have to put up with.

you dont need to sift through the tiles?

biron_w · 19 Jan 2013 at 23:03

Yungstar 2006 said:
just not true at all.

How is it not true? To get to games I have to press RB twice,to get to apps I have to press RB 5 times. Unless you know a shortcut to get to them.

Mr Men said:
you dont need to sift through the tiles?

But you still have to move through all the sections - home>social>games>tv&movies>music>apps. All are full of adverts for things i'm not interested in. Sure,I can just quickly skip past them but they are still there.

Mr Men · 19 Jan 2013 at 23:10

biron_w said:
But you still have to move through all the sections - home>social>games>tv&movies>music>apps. All are full of adverts for things i'm not interested in. Sure,I can just quickly skip past them but they are still there.

Still not getting your need to sift? unless you think there should be one menu with everything in it? Which wound not be ideal IMO.

There is one ad tile on each page apart from social and settings which have none, the rest of the tiles are highlighting relevant content for that section, which seems sensible enough to me.

You can pin apps to the My Pins tile on the home page negating the need to go to apps. Press x on the app you need to keep sifting to use and pin to home

wannabedamned · 20 Jan 2013 at 10:39

Mr Men said:
You can pin apps to the My Pins tile on the home page negating the need to go to apps. Press x on the app you need to keep sifting to use and pin to home

I wasnt aware of this

Im one of the usual ones to complain about how crowded the UI is, hopefully this will make it a little better.

Broken Hope · 20 Jan 2013 at 18:01

robgmun said:
For me BC will ve vital for both, and these new machines will both be powerful so there's really no excuse frankly

There's plenty of reasons why I doubt the PS4 will be backwards compatible and the main reason is Cell, there's no way they will be able to emulate that properly and since a lot of games used Cell to get around the poor GPU in the PS3 I can't see it being emulated any time soon.

Eliot · 21 Jan 2013 at 13:35

To be honest feel im more likely to go for the WIIU/PS4 combo this generation.
The 360 in my eyes has turned into a misdirected mess.
The dashboard is a bit awful and I much preferred the one with the premium themes circa 2009?

Couple that with the fact that there are no longer any 360 exclusives im all that interested in and that Playstation are finally ditching the awful controller and there you go.

TheVoice · 21 Jan 2013 at 13:38

wannabedamned said:
I wasnt aware of this Im one of the usual ones to complain about how crowded the UI is, hopefully this will make it a little better.

Just a shame it takes so long to load each time. I tend to use the Recently Used one instead, for whatever reason it loads almost instantly.

ic1male · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:03

The whole Xbox UI runs like treacle now it has to go to the net to fetch all the ads.

ThestigGT999 · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:15

I hope PS4 will allow the use of DS3, Best controller this Gen IMO

Mr Men · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:31

TheVoice said:
Just a shame it takes so long to load each time. I tend to use the Recently Used one instead, for whatever reason it loads almost instantly.

Takes about 2 seconds :confused:

Mr Men · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:34

ic1male said:
The whole Xbox UI runs like treacle now it has to go to the net to fetch all the ads.

Your internet must be very slow?

Eliot · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:34

ThestigGT999 said:
I hope PS4 will allow the use of DS3, Best controller this Gen IMO

Can't be serious surely?

Oh wait, just spotted your sig, Carry on......

I wasn't sure the PS4 needed awareness raised? Is it a dying child or disease or what?

Begbie · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:35

ThestigGT999 said:
I hope PS4 will allow the use of DS3, Best controller this Gen IMO

Really?

I can't get on with it at all! The 360 pad to me feels like it was designed to near perfection, the PS3 pad feels like they couldn't be bothered.

ic1male · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:38

Mr Men said:
Your internet must be very slow?

Not really, 14Mbps is adequate.

Mr Men · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:43

ic1male said:
Not really, 14Mbps is adequate.

So why does it not load a tiny file size quickly?

ic1male · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:44

Mr Men said:
So why does it not load a tiny file size quickly?

Dunno, it takes at least 20 seconds to log in and bring up the dashboard since the latest UI was installed.

Drunzer · 21 Jan 2013 at 14:50

ThestigGT999 said:
I hope PS4 will allow the use of DS3, Best controller this Gen IMO

I like the DS3 also, I do prefer the 360 pad though. It's hard to explain why, I think maybe it's the extra weight it just feels nicer in my hands.