We saw those shots of the "Warhawk Store" and "My Singstar Online" during
Sony's PS3 press event, but what we didn't see is a top level interface for the console. According to this video, it sure borrows a lot from the PSP, and therefore seems a bit limited for all the crazy uses Sony has planned for the console. Though we're sure Sony has put a lot more thought into this than we have. Also, the PSP interface has been generally well received, so why try to fix what isn't broken? The biggest additions are the new "Users" and "Friends" options, the former allowing you switch between different user profiles, while the latter didn't look quite fleshed out, but we guess it'll do what it sounds like. We also noticed under the settings option a mention of keyboard and mouse settings, rumored accessories which would seem quite appropriate for all of the PS3's PC leanings, so we'll keep an eye out for more news on that front.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted May 13th 2006 11:48AM
Sony dominated the market world wide before and no matter what any fanboys say, it can and will do it again. 360 is great and the Wii is innovative but just as always Sony will provide a furthering game expierence. In the end the Playstation has always been a sold system and doesn't need to change the controller because they got it right the first time.
Jon it's become painfully obvious that PS3 fanboys have nothing, and that the PS3 will not be as great as they have expected. Most of the things Sony claimed would come with the PS3 we will not see ie "Cell Storage, Dual 1080p, 120 fps gaming, games in the 4th Dimension". Microsoft never made any claims that it couldn't keep. Everything that they said would come has come. They (PS3 fanboys) are all in a state of denial just like Nintendo and it's fan boys were when they witnessed the end of their reign with the coming of the Playstation. The times are a changing. And I will support Microsoft's Xbox franchise as long as they continue to provide their vision of HD gaming, innovation and evolution, quality products and add-ons, and connectivity via Xbox Live.
Do the right thing people! Buy a 360 then get you a Wii!
The Nintendo vs. Sony fanboys thing is highly ironic remembering that the "Playstation X" was originally a Super Nintendo CD add-on and owes its existance to Nintendo.
#30 and #34 what i meant was 360 had gears of war which looks awsome and halo of courese is the shit and now 360 has gta4 coming out the same day as the ps3 instead of it coming out for the ps3 before 360 like 6 months but not know which gta is a huge seller for the ps3 cuz it would only come out for the ps3 before all the other systems
This interface is OKAY. Simple. Not overly exciting. Functional.
How disappointing to learn it'll be on the PS3.
I think it's a nice interface. It's simple, looks nice, and intuitive. The Xbox 360 dashboard is nice too, but I can't stand the banner ad screaming "BUY THIS" on a console I paid for.
So that is the interface of a half grand system huh...color me unimpressed
Under the settings near the end of the video, the woman hosting it quickly scrolls down the options. The 2nd one says hd-dvd settings. Um would this be referring to blu-ray?
ok so will i be able to connect my ipod and rip phots videos and songs from it same with the psp and will i be able to play ps2 online game sonline like socom 3 and will it be able to read the memory cards for ps2
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i stream music and pics from mac OSX. ok it doesnt support video (hopefully yet) it does the music side without having to touch winblows. cost $10! thats like 6 here
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360
What bugs me is why does this take up 25% of the PS3 total power??? While the xbox uses 4%.
"The Wii has mario, it has a few gimmicky games with that controller of theirs (motion sensing is all well and good, but optical sensing will ALWAYS be dodgy. The whole 'line of sight' problem will contue to crop up. It's a re-shaped light gun with a wider cone of control)."
good thing it's not optical then eh? or requiring line of sight. or being in any way related to a light gun.
do you make up random "facts" as a hobby? or did you get a degree somewhere? is it a 2 or 4 year program? a friend of mine was interested.
will the ps3 connect to he ipod and the psp and upload there stuff music video and photos and can i put my memory cards in the ps3 from ps2 cuz i want my save from kingdom hearts 2 to be there
@49.
Sony never said that the PlayStation 3 would have "cell storage", they said that it would have a Cell processor, which it does.
You Nintendo fanboys just dis Sony cuz Nintendo doesn't actually have anything good that you can say about it.
Anyone else realize that this video has been out since E3?