The Lost Art of Game Console Menus
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- Опубліковано 2 гру 2023
- Video game console menus are important as they act as the first impression one will receive when they turn on their system. Over the current generation, we have seen Nintendo, Sony, & Microsoft fail to ship their game systems with menus that aren't as artistic, exciting, and compelling compared to their last generation systems. Join me as we go through the selection of lost art within game console menus, specifically beginning with GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, & Dreamcast.
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People don’t give the Wii U’s system music enough credit
In Japan, the X does not represent a letter, it's a symbol and that's why they call it "cross". Furthermore, for them the cross means a "no" or "incorrect", while the circle means "yes" or "correct", and it's the reason why Sony consoles in Japan use the circle for confirmation instead of the cross
The 3Ds was the last excellent menu on a console, with music in all submenus and beautiful colorfull desing, then the swith happend...
Wii menu is my favorite despite not owning the console.
u just dont get the vita menu, listen to the music and how magical the welcome park is👨🏽🏫
Admittedly speaking, I did forget about Welcome Park until a little while after I uploaded the video. Kinda wish I did brought it up tho, it was pretty neat 😅
Japanese PlayStation 2 & GameCube are the two best & greatest consoles to ever exist with the best designed menus ever created.....also the PS3 XMB menu was omfg crazy insane tho along with Wii U and VITA...Japanese consoles & handhelds have the greatest innovations & creativity ever
I have very fond memories of the 2nd Xbox dashboard. Even if it was objectively worse than blades, there's something about it that I've always loved.
Also, this is an amazing video for someone so small! I could've easily been convinced this was made by a UA-camr with hundreds of thousands of subs. Keep up the good work bro, you'll make it!
Even the PS4 at *least* had some beautiful choices of wallpaper, some of them change the artistic format of icons, or are actually ANIMATED and show off cool effects, some you cant get until you beat a friggin game all the way & recieve the unique wallpaper after the credits roll.
The PS5? You get a single still image that changes every time you move across game applications.
Otherwise the home menu may as well be an infinite black void with colorful slightly colorful icons to click.
I believe the X on the PS controllers is "cross" because the other face buttons are, ahem, literal fucking shapes instead of letters
those shapes are the best designs of buttons any console/controllers that ever came up with which is far more creative & unique than plain simple A,B,X,Y which every company are using. also those PlayStation shapes actually have meaning behind them & Sony is the only game company to use them on their controllers. Japanese Sony's ideas & creativity are truly amazing
Wasn’t the PSP menu created before the PS3 one?
actually the xmb originated from the PSX which was a japan exclusive media device that had a built in ps2. After the PSX they put the XMB into every other sony product with in need of a menu including tvs, the psp and the ps3
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So underrated. I don't understand how this only had 98 views. This is quality content.
Ps3 menu is peak, xbox 360 has cool pages but everything is scattered and cluttered
i love this video good job awesome cool epic
Vita menu chopped af, the psp mode from hacks is a saver
2:19 You see right, Xbox menus are the best visually. I'm not too fussed that the menu on my Xbox Series S is not all singing and dancing. If anything it's functional and the old menus now look cheesy and childish.
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Actually It is not only on games, everything on the internet has lost its personality, and everything looks too soulless...
2:38 - If you don't have anything worthwhile to say about the Dreamcast's UI, why bother bringing it up at all? You lack the motivation to do so to begin with so this could've easily been cut out of the video altogether.😑
Simply because the Dreamcast still counted as a 6th gen gaming system, so I thought it would be best to briefly bring it up, even if I didn’t have much to say about it.
Better to do that rather than to not bring it up at all and have people ask me why I didn’t talk about it. Nothing much more than that :P
The ps5 is better than Xbox