As a ps3 owner, I've got to say that Sony is doing an pathetic amateur job when it comes to "features" they add to the system. It's completely unforgivable in this day and age.

From the pointless and unreadable "info bar" in the top right corner of the XMB, to the utterly useless "Life with Playstation" app, to Home, and now this, Sony is creating software with overlapping, half-assed, and/or completely useless functionality. It's totally disjointed and mismanaged and it makes me want to bang my head on the wall.

Sony, please revamp the XMB. Drop the file navigation system altogether, it totally sucks and it's ugly. Create a nice media player, a nice photo viewer. It's not complicated. And please make it look like they belong together. Why is the new photo viewer some weird Japanese styled feature completely inconsistent with the look and feel of the rest of the system. Why does it live on top of the existing photo navigator, as a separate application?

Another pet peeve. Why should I care where my media lives? Why should I care if my media is on the PS3 hard drive or on a media server? As a user, I don't care where my media is stored, I just want to play it. After I select music for example, open up an new screen, with a user-friendly interface, and let me play my music. And don't separate my music between the stuff I have on my NAS or on the hard drive. IT'S NOT RELEVANT. Sony are thinking like engineers, not users/consumers. They just don't get it.

It's not a technology issue, it's a simple management issue. They don't have a unified vision. They have no clue. And it pisses me off.

Not totally on topic, but...I need to vent.

I was seriously disappointed when I set up my two radios using the new firmware released yesterday.

It essentially starts up the browser and takes you to a web radio set up specifically for PSP. It's takes for ever to load the graphics, and I still can't figure out how to use the stupid thing efficiently. Seriously, I was hoping for something much more useful, where I could browse station categories and pick stations from a list and save my favorites. I still can't tell what those three circles are in the middle of the screen, other than the signal is clearer when they all three a colored. The interface is not great, the functionality is mediocre, and the install process is not really smooth. I was hoping for something more more integrated to the xmb, and faster and practical.

I'm all for Sony, but they don't focus enough on implementation. It gives me the same feeling of lameness as when I go to the Playstation Store on the PS3. It's just a cheap feeling, unresponsive web page.

Implementation, SONY!! It counts!

Aren't April fool jokes actually supposed to be perpetrated on the 1st?

So wait a minute...
360 has sold 10,000,000 to retailers in 14 months
PS3 has sold 2,000,000 to retailers in 2 months, not even including Europe.

And we're supposed to believe that the PS3 is a miserable failure?

Can someone explain that one to me?

Hey, somewhat related to this topic... is there any reason why sony can't sell a similar type of controller for the PS3?

Agh....no wonder we lose wars...

Nike makes absolutely terrible runing shoes. Nike is, and has been for a while, about image, rather than substance. I don't cae what kind of gizmo they attached to Nike shoes, I'm sticking to my Asics.

huh?

PLS DLVR HR

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