The PS3's XMB was so user friendly. I always had minimal issues finding what I needed. And I absolutely loved seeing the pictures/videos/music pop up with a game. There was so much the PS3 did right.
PS3, 360 blades/NXE, and Wii menu were all fantastic minimal ui’s with their own personality. Feels like every console regressed. Too much bloat and ads or nothing at all(switch)
@@Cruxis_Angel yeah it's almost like people want to play a game instead of flicking through a bunch of menus, that being said the PS3 is great but too minimal while the ps5 has a sense of style but has annoying little hiccups here & there.
@@hailrugal2695 PlayStation is used mostly for playing games but it’s a multimedia device, used for streaming, playing movies through discs, browsing the web (at least on past consoles) storing photos, videos, etc. PS3 did it perfectly because it showed you exactly where everything was on one XMB.
Some of those sections were a little too cumbersome, the A/V, Network, printer section in particular. The other thing I wish I could do is sort games in alphabetical order
@@ArkSucksAtGames well yeah the whole point I'm making is that the look isn't great, very little style (but can kinda be fixed with wallpapers) While the ps5 isn't amazing it looks sleek & at least ads are kept to a ok amount, & yeah it's cool that it has the multimedia additions games should always be the sole focus.
One frustrating thing since the PS4 days, and still on PS5, is there is no way to 'Check for Updates' for ALL games/apps at once. You have to select each game individually and check for updates since sometimes the system doesn't do the best job of automatically grabbing the update to start the download when needed.
I have huge libraries on both PS and Xbox and this problem has always irked me. Especially when you hop on a older fighting game or party game that hasn't been updated. I hope Sony eventually inputs a update like Xbox which checks all your games for updates no matter if you haven't played them in forever.
Agreed. Also what makes the situation even worse is that there's no way to update games unless they're on the home screen. It's very unintuitive since you won't know if a game in particular needs to be updated unless you boot it up one day.
I want the community page back. I used to scam people and they gave me free shit in game or helped me. Queuing up for brawlhalla 2s with a random was better on that tab than discord.
Completely agree with the addition of the music track that accompanies when hovering over a game. Brings just another level of immersion! I wish more devs did this!
One of the worst downgrades compared to PS4 is the "Friends who play this" feature that shows up for any individual game. On PS4 you could click it to see a full list of friends who played that game, on PS5 it only shows you how many friends play it and the profile picture of one of them.
I think that they should bring back the activity hub so you can share clips and screenshots of your games. They should also make it to where you can interact on livestreams in the main menu instead of having to open up the application they’re streaming on like on PS4.
@watchmejumpstart Exactly, im coming from a xbox background and i was used to the one s where you can share your clips, browse communities and interact with people. But on the ps5, it just feels dead. Theres almost no aspect of social activity besides your friends list.
The Playstation 3 honestly felt like the last console that had a logical and easy to use UI. If feel like every console since has always had some random setting/option/feature burried in the most random place ever that's maybe 3-5 screens away from the home menu.
He's the best playstation centric channel by a country mile for sure. Everything is objective and well researched without coming off too fanboyish. A stark contrast to those "anti sjw" clowns that just bitch about everything and have a rage boner for Brie Larson.
That store needs fixing. Ive bought different versions of the same game on accident. They need to to have one listing for a game, all of its versions, and all of its content. Then when you click on that listing then it would all be there, nice and organized. They need to fix the search, im not sure whats wrong with it, but when you search for a game, it'll start to pop up, then it can suddenly disappear. One example is hyper light drifter, idk if its fixed by now, but you would search hyper and it would be there, but if you tried putting in the rest of the title, it would disappear. That brings up hidden games in general, you can search and the game isnt there, a game may be hidden in a weird category on the main store screen. I remember it was big problem for me with ps3 and ps now, could be fixed with ps extra but i doubt it since it was just a rebranding and theres real difference. They screwed up the organization of the ps plus, the tiers, and the benefits, its all a confusing mess now. Im also still mad that the ps3 store doesnt have a keyboard to search, you have to use the awful scroll bar, but thats at the end of its life so its whatever i guess. Seriously, why does playstation have the worst online store ive ever used, even the app used to be broken, its still very buggy and it sucks to use to this day.
I would love if we could search by category/genre/mood, as these are shown in product pages in small squares or rectangles, like Arcade, Action, Open World, etc. Those would be great to select and search by.
XMB is by far my favorite overall UI set up. Sony got so much right with the XMB and I love how it proliferated throughout many of Sony’s products back then. My surround sound controller (which is use to this day; it’s also a blu-ray player) uses XMB. So I do get to experience it on a frequent basis.
I still play on PS3 now and then and if it was only faster and its download system worked, it would honestly be perfect and straight to the point for me.
If they just remove the activity cards from taking over the game splash art this will be a 9/10 UI for me, everything else is super smooth and works well! Exactly as you mentioned at 06:40
Game folders on the PS4 was something I relied on a lot. Physical games, digital purchases, installed PS plus games, PSVR games etc., all in their respective folders and quick and easy to find right from the main menu. On PS5 I found I had to go through several steps just to get an overview of what I have installed vs the complete digital library, and it's getting a bit more of a chore to keep track of PS plus monthly game licenses, PS plus essential licenses and PS Extra/Premium licenses. For an overview of installed games I typically just go to the storage menu instead of the library menu, which I rarely had to do on PS4 because of the neat folder system.
My favorite feature they DID bring back to the PS4 was the Themes, just to find out they removed them again for the PS5... Way to go sony... I like certain things about the PS5 UI, for example the quick menu we used for music, trophies, friends list and stuff, it was nice. But i still think the XMB on the PS3 was the best UI design wise especially for its time.
PS3 ui will always be my favorite (not due to that being my childhood console) but because it just felt so nice and fluid never sluggish or annoying, when I tried a PS4 I could barely figure out how to even get to updates or something.
I miss the PS3 XMB so much. If they just used that consistently and made it snappy and instant, nobody would care. I fear they change the UI just to get a more tiled look (for added advertising/promotional space) which is sadly never going away.
The "What's New" feature from PS4 needs to return as currently on PS5 it feels like it's empty and just you online whereas on PS4 it felt like we were part of a local community seeing what everyone was playing etc.
As somebody who switched over from Xbox X to PlayStation I think PS5 interface is decent but lacks some features, I really loved how customizable xbox was. I wish you could do more with it. I
All they need is a section to post my screenshots and videos for my friends to see and it will be nearly perfect! I also wish I could upload files like the PS3 :( playing my custom music during twisted metal on PS3 was a fantastic experience.
As soon as I launched the ps5 I felt gutted that they removed the themes, that was genuinely one of my favorite things about the PS4. In all honesty, take the ps3’s cross media bar+ themes and it’s a PERFECT user interface imo
I hate this UI and I'm quite annoyed I paid 500$ to have less features than my PS4. No skins in 2022 is outright embarrassing, but we got the useless card system!
I think the thing I miss is the most is double tapping the ps button and going back to the last thing I was doing. Rather be it the game I was playing or some menu in the settings . Right now it takes to many button presses to go back to the game I was playing
No options for themes or wallpapers, no more organizing your games into folders (on the home page/dashboard), pressing and holding the PS key on your controller to minimize app instead of just tapping it once, I just HATE the UI on my PS5. It's just bad
The XMB was and still is, one of the sleekest, most user friendly UIs out there. It was a painfully simple concept. Left and right for category. Up and down for stuff within said category. There is such elegance in its simplicity, and I'm very confused as to why Sony abandoned it, especially since pretty much everyone loved it and hardly a negative word was ever said (I think the slowness was just from the PS3's HDD itself, not so much the UI). God, I miss that UI, and I still wish it would come back. I did NOT like the PS4 UI. I always felt it was wayyyyy too cluttered. And the PS5's isn't much better, but at least it doesn't seem slapped together, and some thought went into it. For as good as the PS4 was/is, the actual hardware and OS on it were pretty generic - so much so that the Xbox One was pretty much the same in terms of hardware. Hell, even the PS5 and Series X are practically the same (hardware wise) aside from a few minor things. I digress. The PS3's interface should have been evolved into something that is similar but better. Instead, we got something else entirely, and I'm not a huge fan. I guess I just don't like clutter.
Not really though Xbox one was 1.3 teraflops console while PS4 sits at 1.8 which is a noticeable different hence why games run at 900p with poor fps compared to 1080 on ps4 with more stable fps
I have a shit ton of good memories from the ps3 days. Xmb was part of that. I feel like the degeneration we have seen with UIs is hand in hand with gaming market degeneration that’s been going on, predatory practices and so on.
Lol listen I’m hella nostalgic for the PS3 XMB menu, but on an objective level it’s an incredibly cluttered mess. And it made finding what you were looking for a pain at times and even then you had to scroll for ages sometimes. It’s clever, and efficient, and even very cool looking imo, but user friendly it was not. I also don’t see how the new menus are more cluttered when it’s just a screen of big game icons all in a row, with all of the settings in one, quickly accessible menu somewhere else.
About the hardware wise thing, they needto he simillar, cause if they are too much different, like what happened in xbox 360 and ps3 era, the devs would be struggling AF to release their games with good quality.
Here’s a thought for how themes could be on PS5, utilize the corners of the screen and put the theme there maybe, kinda like applying a theme in the form of a frame? You could then choose to apply the theme’s music in the menu or not.
Themes like ones on the PS4 just seem completely incompatible with the PS5 UI design philosophy and the way it was built. It's like trying to shoehorn an internal combustion engine into an electric vehicle
I hate when I put in a PS4 disc in my PS5, but I've already claimed the PS5 upgrade path, my Machine keeps installing the PS4 version and moves it to the front of my game queue. Is there a way to turn this off? I just want the PS5 version already installed
It is unfathomable how there is *STILL* no option to sort out trophy lists alphabetically. Freaking unreal. PS3 had this option and then they butchered it for ps4 and ever since. One Sony tech employee could probably fix this in 20mins and it still hasn’t happened. Pathetic.
I love the PS5 UI. Last week I bought a series X new and had it for 2 days before i gave it away to my sister. I hated that systems UI That systems UI is what happen when you take W8.1 and W10 UI and make it even uglier. Then you have the controller which compare to ps5 I hated it every second of holding that outdated controller in my hands and yes it still uses double AA batteries LOL. in the end after 2 days of owning series X i gave it to my sister for her son I'll stay with the ps5 a real next gen system, I'm out 600$ bucks since i also bought forza horzion 5 which I also didn't like. But if my sister son gets to enjoy it then it wasn't a total waste.
PS3 and psp xmb I think will always be my favourite UI but do prefer the ps5 over the PS4 apart from the different way you press the home button as that still catches me out on how to turn the console off.
A way Sony could add themes to ps5 without overriding the games/media tabs, is by adding an additional “Home” tab, it could feature the wallpaper of your choosing along with quick access to Game Base, your trophies, new games releases, etc
The new UI for the most recent update is dreadful, especially if you liked having your trophies neatly displayed in the right corner, now replaced with a timer, which nobody needs or asked for.
Does anyone know if there’s an option to disable activity cards displaying on the game icon? For most of the games I’d like to have the default picture when hovering over instead of “complete eyes of odin” picture
It seems like they gave up on PS5 being a home entertainment system. That's really what the PS3 truly was. Maybe why they didn't put as much care into the UI. They just intend for PS5 to be gaming and streaming system. Sure, you still have "Apps" and such, but that's just an ease of access thing and because their competitor does. I think the reason it's more gaming focused now is likely due to the existence of Smart TV's. They essentially replaced the need for non-gaming features and entertainment. Personally, I wish they would make things easier to find. The search and filters function are straight up GARBAGE, especially when used in PS+ And then the issue with the "Dot Dot Dot Menu" you mentioned. The three dot option is so inconvenient and I genuinely find myself a bit confusing at times.
The PS3 did its UI right. No billions of button presses to get where you want and endless amounts of worthless menu's that lead to other worthless menu's that lead to where you want to go, it was just easy.
Accessibility should be priority number 1 on a dashboard i am so used to the ps 4 ui I always press the wrong buttons and directions on the ps 5 menu because it's just bad.. for real who approved this design? it's not user friendly and fast to Navigate through all that good shit like fr WHO APPROVED IT??? THIS GUY NEVER SHOULD DO A JOB FOR A UI AGAIN!!! I want my own background my own customisation the ps 5 ui feels boring to me even the system settings are less then ps 4.
What I hate the most is how I can't see anything my friends are doings and the trophies they are acquiring. The absence of the what's new section from the ps4 really alienates the user more than anything. Edit: I commented before watching the whole video and just now saw that you also pointed out the same thing at the end! at least i am not alone!
I actually really like the ps5 ui. The only complaint I have is that when I press the ps button on my controller it takes me to this weird mid menu thing and not to the Home Screen, I hate it so much because I never use the menu. I love the home music of the ps5 tho.
I always really enjoyed the 'What's New' tab on PS4. It was a great way to keep up with what my friends were playing, what the general community was in to (at the time), other games that may interest me, and general social interactions (e.g. acknowledging when someone got a really difficult trophy). With PS5, that's all gone and friends in general, feel like an afterthought to the whole experience
Boy if you think PS4 was customisable you never tried the XMB on PS3. They released programs for making your own icon pack and there are thousands of them out there. Maybe that is available for PS4 as well, I don't know, but as for folders, there is almost no option on PS4. You either have something in a folder or not. You can't group anything differently, you can only do manual sorting of your folder, and they will always kick whatever folder you used last into first position so whatever you're looking for, it's most likely somewhere else than where you left it last time. On PS3, mp3 files could be grouped by artist, album, alphabet letter, genre, year, and within folders sorted alphabetically, name of artist, name of album, etc. Same for picture and video files where applicable. Only thing missing within music folders was sorting by year (that means all albums from an artist chronologically sorted), but then you could do playlists which could also be copied as a whole onto a USB stick or imported 1:1 to a PlayStation Portable or Vita. Man, the PS3 ecosystem was great.
Best Playstation content creator out there 💪 So glad there's people who can create PS centric content without feeling the need to trash the competition
I just recently got a PS5 and gotta say maybe because I already got used to it but even tho it was a hassle compare to its predecessor, I think PS4 UI is the best to properly organized our content with the folder and all. Not to mention I like customizing my PS4 with the unique themes they provided or simply just using my own photos. The lack of theme and folders make me feel so incomplete in PS5 tho. I hope one day Sony will take note to what people like and dislike abou the UI from both PS3 and PS4 then properly put it into PS5 in future updates.
The home shortcut button is horrendous, they should have kept the ps4 version with long pressing the home button to access the sleep /turn off function. Now you have to scroll through multiple things to access it
I have such a love/hate relationship with the PS5 interface. I absolutely despise being constantly advertised to about stuff that I don't and will never care about
I remember when menu and updates used to be a lot faster. Like instant sync trophies and transfer. Then they screwed up in later updates. They did same with PS4, it runs worse than before. I remember when you could just put disc and install immediately without checking in background. Now it takes forever to do full check and loads every game menu forever on main screen. They will screw up PS5 as well, it already is affected by being bit slower.
The XMB was and still is so good, I feel like PS UIs since have been mostly on a downward trend in quality and usability, but I do appreciate the PS5 (and Switch, for that matter) putting your game collection front and center, because that's the big thing I'm here for, the games! I know that sounds obvious, but as someone who spent a lot of time with the Xbox 360 from 2011-14, the last UI update that put advertisements as the biggest and most prominent thing on the menu while the game disc in the tray was wedged into a tiny corner in the upper left (not to mention you had to click RB twice to get to your digital library) makes me grateful for the newer menus on that front xD
Honestly, the music thing seems like it might have been some strong arming from the music industry (which of course Sony has a hand in). I remember when the 360 launched there were some similar odd restrictions on music being on the console if you didn't rip it from a CD in the console itself, or stream it from a PC.
The PS3 UI was nearly perfect. The PS4's UI was OK, but was a step down in terms of logical organization. The PS5's is worse than the PS4's. Why they gotta make everything so hard?
the most annoying thing for me is on the store. On games, on the right of the screen where it displays the developer, release date, file size and friends who own the game, it only shows the icon one friend who owns it (if memory serves me well) even if you click on that menu it doesn't even tell you what friends own that game. sorry if this is hard to understand, its a bit hard to explain and idk if i got my grammar right, im really tired rn
I wish there was an option to disable cards completely. A great thing about PS4's UI is that you could instantly jump between a game and the last UI page you were on. For example, you are texting someone and playing; you can instantly jump between those two pages. Also if you are checking a trophy list and playing a game: instantly switch between those two pages no problem. With PS5's UI, those damn cards ALWAYS get in the way. And you can't jump instantly back to a game, you have to navigate the UI to go back and forth between a game and something else you are checking.
I think the PS5's UI overall is a much needed step forward from the PS4's which was getting long in the tooth especially compared to the Xbox One which (like it or not) got a couple of pretty significant UI overhauls during its lifespan. That said, I still have some major issues from a UX perspective that I'm really hoping Sony addresses at some point: - It *still* feels like far too many button presses to get into a party/interact with that party in whatever way. Even the Xbox 360 was designed with a clear understanding that getting players together should be as frictionless as possible and parties feel front and center to the experience. Two generations later and several revisions to the party system and it still feels more akin to a second-class citizen buried under sub-menus. - I really can't believe the console shipped and went so long with the disastrous user experience around selecting either the PS4 or PS5 version of a game to install. I had to, on several suggestions, tell friends with PS5s that I could see they were playing the PS4 version of a game because they mistakenly ended up with the wrong version and didn't know. Yes, this is (mostly) fixed but I will still gripe about it because it never should have happened. Microsoft's Smart Delivery still blows Sony's implementation out of the water here. - I love the music streaming integration and being able to play songs from Apple Music while I play, I use it on a regular basis. But I despise how accessing the media player from the Control Center results in an experience that often just isn't able to do what I want from it. I can start music from it but unless it comes from a playlist that's been very recently played or Apple Music decides to recommend it to me, I won't be able to find it. There's no way to see my library, there's not even a way to see a list of my playlists. If I want to change what I'm listening to mid-game I have to back out to the main screen and open Apple Music from there which...closes my game. Not ideal. Which leads me to my last point - it's not like what I want to do with Apple Music isn't possible in the app at all. The experience from the Control Center just chooses not to expose any of it. Why, Sony? Why can't I at least have some user-defined choice of what I want to listen to?
The only thing I really HATE is the fact that I can't switch the functionality of the PS-button, I want long and short press the other way around just like it was on PS3 and 4 !!!!!!!!!!!
I honestly HATE the UI. 3 years later and still no folders, no themes, it’s a mess of a UI. I switched back to Xbox for this generation because the actual console is miles better imo but now that PlayStation is coming out with all these banger games, I’m thinking about getting one solely for the games, but my god the UI is a massive turn off
I personally miss the PS4 interface. I miss customizable themes and having folders at the front of my home menu. Not a huge fan on how folders are on PS5. Sony pulled a Nintendo with folders but it’s better than having no folders at all I guess.
Did he really just quickly glaze over the whole lacking of themes problem? Thumbs down. Pointless video. The themes need to come back as an optional screen saver. That’s how it should’ve always been on ps4, instead of having to orient your screen and games all the way to the right, in order to free up screen space. Is Sony really too stupid to attempt to make themes operate as screen savers? You missed the mark on this, mystic. 👎
A master class in UI design was absolutely the PS3. It was super quick to look at all your games, movies, music, and photos at a glance to find whatever you needed. I never liked the PS4 UI but it was at least better than the Xbox. PS5 to me feels like one step forward two steps back. It shoves the things you were last playing/watching up to the front with essentially ads on a "news" page and I can easily go months forgetting I installed a specific game because I have to go digging for it. Icons are also too big, it takes me forever to scroll through my game library.
Doing nothing on the background of PS3 means you needed to customize your theme. It's not a big deal. On PS5 I don't want to use those stupid cards. Get rid of that stupid feature. Give me ability to personalize my system!
Overall I love it and it is a big improvement over PS4 UI in many ways. However I wish Sony would reverse some changes made to it since launch, like the inbuilt cards that change the home screen (I hate it) and make the trophy tabs clear again instead of colored. In addition I wish the trophy list icons for both PS4 and PS5 games were the same size for consistency sake, as well as being able to manually rearrange our trophy lists
I actually really liked the "What's New?" section on the PS4. One of thing I do like checking out on Steam on the regular, is the activity feed. It's just neat to see what your pals are up to, achievements they get and what they're wish-listing or buying. Seeing what people follow and wishlist on Steam has put me on a path of finding some games I'd have never known about too.
I've always hated the PS5 UI. I have a launch model and it has basically never changed. Don't even get me started on how confusing it can be in the site for upgrades, ps4/ps5 versions, or even trials. I'm glad you pointed out the trophy icons too. It solidifies to me that the ps5 was rushed in my opinion. Amazing they have done nothing to fix how awful it is.
I hate that they’re changed what pressing versus holding the PlayStation button does for the PS5 compared to what it did for the PS4. That’s my biggest complaint.
Dude, Ryan this video is REALLY good, there were so many times you made me laugh out loud 10:11 and the video in general is really entertaining. Keep it up man ❤🎉
Personally I think the UI should allow custom backgrounds but if you sit on a game for long enough, say 5-10 seconds, it'll switch to the games card and sound track if the developer added one so for the people who like the game card can have that and the ones that like custom backgrounds can have that. Or maybe even have the game card something that people can switch on and off in the settings so it can appear immediately if you want or not appear at all if you don't want it.
I really love the PS5 UI to be honest and the cards for trophy hunting is fantastic. The Last of Us Part 1 did an amazing job of that tbh. Also I don't why only North America has the Explore tab it looks really cool!
I just don't understand why they didn't keep the XMB since the PSP or PSX it was simple yet perfect at the same time. Also miss the original ps3 ps store with many options and categories to browse and find stuff. I definitely miss seeing the top downloads of the month etc and the Whats new section as well.
I actually miss both "What's New" and Themes and were using them on a regular basis. I even had this habit to change theme every month. And yeah, it's kinda lonely without the "What's New"
One annoying thing is that game library defaults to sort by last played instead of alphabet order. I always look for a game for a while and can't find it until I remember to change that.
The PS3's XMB was so user friendly. I always had minimal issues finding what I needed. And I absolutely loved seeing the pictures/videos/music pop up with a game. There was so much the PS3 did right.
PS3, 360 blades/NXE, and Wii menu were all fantastic minimal ui’s with their own personality. Feels like every console regressed. Too much bloat and ads or nothing at all(switch)
@@Cruxis_Angel yeah it's almost like people want to play a game instead of flicking through a bunch of menus, that being said the PS3 is great but too minimal while the ps5 has a sense of style but has annoying little hiccups here & there.
@@hailrugal2695 PlayStation is used mostly for playing games but it’s a multimedia device, used for streaming, playing movies through discs, browsing the web (at least on past consoles) storing photos, videos, etc. PS3 did it perfectly because it showed you exactly where everything was on one XMB.
Some of those sections were a little too cumbersome, the A/V, Network, printer section in particular. The other thing I wish I could do is sort games in alphabetical order
@@ArkSucksAtGames well yeah the whole point I'm making is that the look isn't great, very little style (but can kinda be fixed with wallpapers) While the ps5 isn't amazing it looks sleek & at least ads are kept to a ok amount, & yeah it's cool that it has the multimedia additions games should always be the sole focus.
One frustrating thing since the PS4 days, and still on PS5, is there is no way to 'Check for Updates' for ALL games/apps at once. You have to select each game individually and check for updates since sometimes the system doesn't do the best job of automatically grabbing the update to start the download when needed.
Ikr!? Its so weird.
I have huge libraries on both PS and Xbox and this problem has always irked me. Especially when you hop on a older fighting game or party game that hasn't been updated. I hope Sony eventually inputs a update like Xbox which checks all your games for updates no matter if you haven't played them in forever.
Also no update history on PS5
Agreed. Also what makes the situation even worse is that there's no way to update games unless they're on the home screen.
It's very unintuitive since you won't know if a game in particular needs to be updated unless you boot it up one day.
@@silhouette97 my games update themselves?
I really like the UI, but i would not complain if they added themes
I miss my shadows of evil theme
@@Dylan-kv1ee I miss the ps2 theme that they had
They're not coming back
I miss my kingdom hearts theme so much
@@Avada_ontop you and me both 😞
I wish Sony will bring back What's new activities. It's always awesome to see friends achieving the trophies and sharing screenshots just like PS4
I hate the what new they won’t let me remove it from the ps5 home menu screen
Yeah I miss that alot
Funny thing is that I never used this on my PS4, but now on the PS5 everything looks so good, I do want to use it and share screenshots!
I miss PS4 groups which they removed 2 years ago. Added a extra sense of community.
I want the community page back. I used to scam people and they gave me free shit in game or helped me. Queuing up for brawlhalla 2s with a random was better on that tab than discord.
Completely agree with the addition of the music track that accompanies when hovering over a game. Brings just another level of immersion! I wish more devs did this!
It's a really nice callback to the good old PS3 days. Especially I love that about Returnal I can sit and listen for hours without playing lmao
i do miss the ps4 themes tho. both pretty cool imo
Shadow of the colossus has the best menu theme
@@kaiuskuikka2932 I remember loving that theme, I'd leave it on in the background while I did stuff around the house
I find it annoying when afk at the menu so I turned it off immediately
One of the worst downgrades compared to PS4 is the "Friends who play this" feature that shows up for any individual game. On PS4 you could click it to see a full list of friends who played that game, on PS5 it only shows you how many friends play it and the profile picture of one of them.
I think that they should bring back the activity hub so you can share clips and screenshots of your games. They should also make it to where you can interact on livestreams in the main menu instead of having to open up the application they’re streaming on like on PS4.
Oh yeah true I miss that feature would love that to come back
I never used it on the PS4, but with how nice so many of the PS5 titles have been, I'd love to use it. Alas, it's not on PS5.
@watchmejumpstart Exactly, im coming from a xbox background and i was used to the one s where you can share your clips, browse communities and interact with people. But on the ps5, it just feels dead. Theres almost no aspect of social activity besides your friends list.
They wont, takes too much server space.
The Playstation 3 honestly felt like the last console that had a logical and easy to use UI. If feel like every console since has always had some random setting/option/feature burried in the most random place ever that's maybe 3-5 screens away from the home menu.
PS3 was a perfect console imo. Also I feel like the ps3 menu was a lot more snappy, ps4 ui was slow as FUCK a lot of the time
@@VXFluff i see you never used the ps store
@@tomohawkcloud wish I never had to, shit is broken beyond belief ever since Sony abandoned it. Didn’t used to be so bad though.
@@tomohawkcloudIt was very smooth and fast back in the days.
They just need to add the activity feed from the PS4 and the option to use themes
For some the explore tap basically the activity feed
@@TheUniversalGamer87 but i can't post my game screenshots or videos like I could on PS4 :(
Themes are not happening
@@unicorntomboy9736 you don’t know that
I dont think themes would work with the ps5 UI cause of all the game icons... maybe themes for ur profile page
I appreciate how much you care about the ecosystem and how much attention you pay to these scripts. Concise and Informative.
Ryan always gives quality content!
He's the best playstation centric channel by a country mile for sure. Everything is objective and well researched without coming off too fanboyish.
A stark contrast to those "anti sjw" clowns that just bitch about everything and have a rage boner for Brie Larson.
-updated version of “what’s new”
-comparability with themes/allow customization
-better search optimization for the store
That’s all I really want
That store needs fixing. Ive bought different versions of the same game on accident. They need to to have one listing for a game, all of its versions, and all of its content. Then when you click on that listing then it would all be there, nice and organized. They need to fix the search, im not sure whats wrong with it, but when you search for a game, it'll start to pop up, then it can suddenly disappear. One example is hyper light drifter, idk if its fixed by now, but you would search hyper and it would be there, but if you tried putting in the rest of the title, it would disappear. That brings up hidden games in general, you can search and the game isnt there, a game may be hidden in a weird category on the main store screen. I remember it was big problem for me with ps3 and ps now, could be fixed with ps extra but i doubt it since it was just a rebranding and theres real difference. They screwed up the organization of the ps plus, the tiers, and the benefits, its all a confusing mess now. Im also still mad that the ps3 store doesnt have a keyboard to search, you have to use the awful scroll bar, but thats at the end of its life so its whatever i guess. Seriously, why does playstation have the worst online store ive ever used, even the app used to be broken, its still very buggy and it sucks to use to this day.
I would love if we could search by category/genre/mood, as these are shown in product pages in small squares or rectangles, like Arcade, Action, Open World, etc. Those would be great to select and search by.
@@velocirapper8862
How did you accidentally buy the wrong version of a game?
For me it’s
- Inclusion of an Avatar shop
- Folders in the main ui
- Inclusion of themes
XMB is by far my favorite overall UI set up. Sony got so much right with the XMB and I love how it proliferated throughout many of Sony’s products back then. My surround sound controller (which is use to this day; it’s also a blu-ray player) uses XMB. So I do get to experience it on a frequent basis.
My parents Sony TV from 2008 uses it
I still play on PS3 now and then and if it was only faster and its download system worked, it would honestly be perfect and straight to the point for me.
If they just remove the activity cards from taking over the game splash art this will be a 9/10 UI for me, everything else is super smooth and works well!
Exactly as you mentioned at 06:40
Game folders on the PS4 was something I relied on a lot. Physical games, digital purchases, installed PS plus games, PSVR games etc., all in their respective folders and quick and easy to find right from the main menu. On PS5 I found I had to go through several steps just to get an overview of what I have installed vs the complete digital library, and it's getting a bit more of a chore to keep track of PS plus monthly game licenses, PS plus essential licenses and PS Extra/Premium licenses. For an overview of installed games I typically just go to the storage menu instead of the library menu, which I rarely had to do on PS4 because of the neat folder system.
My favorite feature they DID bring back to the PS4 was the Themes, just to find out they removed them again for the PS5... Way to go sony... I like certain things about the PS5 UI, for example the quick menu we used for music, trophies, friends list and stuff, it was nice. But i still think the XMB on the PS3 was the best UI design wise especially for its time.
PS3 ui will always be my favorite (not due to that being my childhood console) but because it just felt so nice and fluid never sluggish or annoying, when I tried a PS4 I could barely figure out how to even get to updates or something.
I miss the PS3 XMB so much. If they just used that consistently and made it snappy and instant, nobody would care. I fear they change the UI just to get a more tiled look (for added advertising/promotional space) which is sadly never going away.
The thing with the ps3 xmb is it was surprisingly snappy it annoys me so much to just view my friends on ps4.
The "What's New" feature from PS4 needs to return as currently on PS5 it feels like it's empty and just you online whereas on PS4 it felt like we were part of a local community seeing what everyone was playing etc.
I really don't know what was wrong with XMB from PS3. It was awesome
And it was really fast, even when compared to the ps4 ui.
@@sulista4855 ps3 and ps4 use hd
They managed to make the UI worse every generation 😂
As somebody who switched over from Xbox X to PlayStation I think PS5 interface is decent but lacks some features, I really loved how customizable xbox was. I wish you could do more with it. I
I wonder how you feel about switching to ps5.
You loving it or it's overrated?
@@f2pgintoki187 I absolutely love it
customizable? that's what everyone's complaining about
@@Broskisunitedwhat’s your favorite feature from the PS5?
All they need is a section to post my screenshots and videos for my friends to see and it will be nearly perfect! I also wish I could upload files like the PS3 :( playing my custom music during twisted metal on PS3 was a fantastic experience.
As soon as I launched the ps5 I felt gutted that they removed the themes, that was genuinely one of my favorite things about the PS4. In all honesty, take the ps3’s cross media bar+ themes and it’s a PERFECT user interface imo
I hate this UI and I'm quite annoyed I paid 500$ to have less features than my PS4. No skins in 2022 is outright embarrassing, but we got the useless card system!
I think the thing I miss is the most is double tapping the ps button and going back to the last thing I was doing. Rather be it the game I was playing or some menu in the settings . Right now it takes to many button presses to go back to the game I was playing
No options for themes or wallpapers, no more organizing your games into folders (on the home page/dashboard), pressing and holding the PS key on your controller to minimize app instead of just tapping it once, I just HATE the UI on my PS5. It's just bad
I still do not have a Ps5 but so far I still like the Ps3/PsP System UI better than any other console I own (for now).
The XMB was and still is, one of the sleekest, most user friendly UIs out there. It was a painfully simple concept. Left and right for category. Up and down for stuff within said category. There is such elegance in its simplicity, and I'm very confused as to why Sony abandoned it, especially since pretty much everyone loved it and hardly a negative word was ever said (I think the slowness was just from the PS3's HDD itself, not so much the UI).
God, I miss that UI, and I still wish it would come back.
I did NOT like the PS4 UI. I always felt it was wayyyyy too cluttered. And the PS5's isn't much better, but at least it doesn't seem slapped together, and some thought went into it. For as good as the PS4 was/is, the actual hardware and OS on it were pretty generic - so much so that the Xbox One was pretty much the same in terms of hardware. Hell, even the PS5 and Series X are practically the same (hardware wise) aside from a few minor things.
I digress. The PS3's interface should have been evolved into something that is similar but better. Instead, we got something else entirely, and I'm not a huge fan. I guess I just don't like clutter.
Not really though Xbox one was 1.3 teraflops console while PS4 sits at 1.8 which is a noticeable different hence why games run at 900p with poor fps compared to 1080 on ps4 with more stable fps
I have a shit ton of good memories from the ps3 days. Xmb was part of that. I feel like the degeneration we have seen with UIs is hand in hand with gaming market degeneration that’s been going on, predatory practices and so on.
Lol listen I’m hella nostalgic for the PS3 XMB menu, but on an objective level it’s an incredibly cluttered mess. And it made finding what you were looking for a pain at times and even then you had to scroll for ages sometimes. It’s clever, and efficient, and even very cool looking imo, but user friendly it was not.
I also don’t see how the new menus are more cluttered when it’s just a screen of big game icons all in a row, with all of the settings in one, quickly accessible menu somewhere else.
About the hardware wise thing, they needto he simillar, cause if they are too much different, like what happened in xbox 360 and ps3 era, the devs would be struggling AF to release their games with good quality.
Ong dude #bringbackxmb
Here’s a thought for how themes could be on PS5, utilize the corners of the screen and put the theme there maybe, kinda like applying a theme in the form of a frame? You could then choose to apply the theme’s music in the menu or not.
Themes like ones on the PS4 just seem completely incompatible with the PS5 UI design philosophy and the way it was built. It's like trying to shoehorn an internal combustion engine into an electric vehicle
@Women should cook And clean unprompted yes obviously you don’t with a reply like that
@@unicorntomboy9736 true, Sony won’t do anything anyways just thought I’d throw my two cents in there
Or just give the option to either have a theme or keep the game backgrounds
@@unicorntomboy9736they can just offer different UI options... it's not that complicated
I hate when I put in a PS4 disc in my PS5, but I've already claimed the PS5 upgrade path, my Machine keeps installing the PS4 version and moves it to the front of my game queue. Is there a way to turn this off? I just want the PS5 version already installed
Odins ravens card didn’t disappear until I platinumed it lol
It is unfathomable how there is *STILL* no option to sort out trophy lists alphabetically. Freaking unreal. PS3 had this option and then they butchered it for ps4 and ever since. One Sony tech employee could probably fix this in 20mins and it still hasn’t happened. Pathetic.
For me the only that's actually missing is folders on the home menu (so close yet so far) and themes. That's it, that's all want
I love the PS5 UI.
Last week I bought a series X new and had it for 2 days before i gave it away to my sister. I hated that systems UI That systems UI is what happen when you take W8.1 and W10 UI and make it even uglier. Then you have the controller which compare to ps5 I hated it every second of holding that outdated controller in my hands and yes it still uses double AA batteries LOL. in the end after 2 days of owning series X i gave it to my sister for her son I'll stay with the ps5 a real next gen system, I'm out 600$ bucks since i also bought forza horzion 5 which I also didn't like. But if my sister son gets to enjoy it then it wasn't a total waste.
Mystic's PlayStation passion is a gift to the PS community.
We love to see it. Dude is a legend.
Don’t understand why they aren’t listening to consumers ever
Sony are perpetual assholes
PS3 and psp xmb I think will always be my favourite UI but do prefer the ps5 over the PS4 apart from the different way you press the home button as that still catches me out on how to turn the console off.
psp was better solely for the sound effects
A way Sony could add themes to ps5 without overriding the games/media tabs, is by adding an additional “Home” tab, it could feature the wallpaper of your choosing along with quick access to Game Base, your trophies, new games releases, etc
Essentially making it a screen saver. Great idea.
The new UI for the most recent update is dreadful, especially if you liked having your trophies neatly displayed in the right corner, now replaced with a timer, which nobody needs or asked for.
I just got my ps5 and instead of going through the store on my console I just use the app on my phone
Does anyone know if there’s an option to disable activity cards displaying on the game icon? For most of the games I’d like to have the default picture when hovering over instead of “complete eyes of odin” picture
It seems like they gave up on PS5 being a home entertainment system. That's really what the PS3 truly was. Maybe why they didn't put as much care into the UI.
They just intend for PS5 to be gaming and streaming system. Sure, you still have "Apps" and such, but that's just an ease of access thing and because their competitor does.
I think the reason it's more gaming focused now is likely due to the existence of Smart TV's. They essentially replaced the need for non-gaming features and entertainment.
Personally, I wish they would make things easier to find. The search and filters function are straight up GARBAGE, especially when used in PS+
And then the issue with the "Dot Dot Dot Menu" you mentioned. The three dot option is so inconvenient and I genuinely find myself a bit confusing at times.
Slow news day
The PS3 did its UI right.
No billions of button presses to get where you want and endless amounts of worthless menu's that lead to other worthless menu's that lead to where you want to go, it was just easy.
Accessibility should be priority number 1 on a dashboard i am so used to the ps 4 ui I always press the wrong buttons and directions on the ps 5 menu because it's just bad.. for real who approved this design? it's not user friendly and fast to Navigate through all that good shit like fr WHO APPROVED IT??? THIS GUY NEVER SHOULD DO A JOB FOR A UI AGAIN!!! I want my own background my own customisation the ps 5 ui feels boring to me even the system settings are less then ps 4.
What I hate the most is how I can't see anything my friends are doings and the trophies they are acquiring. The absence of the what's new section from the ps4 really alienates the user more than anything.
Edit: I commented before watching the whole video and just now saw that you also pointed out the same thing at the end! at least i am not alone!
I actually really like the ps5 ui. The only complaint I have is that when I press the ps button on my controller it takes me to this weird mid menu thing and not to the Home Screen, I hate it so much because I never use the menu. I love the home music of the ps5 tho.
I always really enjoyed the 'What's New' tab on PS4. It was a great way to keep up with what my friends were playing, what the general community was in to (at the time), other games that may interest me, and general social interactions (e.g. acknowledging when someone got a really difficult trophy).
With PS5, that's all gone and friends in general, feel like an afterthought to the whole experience
YES! Trophy icons! Who came up with square ones? Omg…
I feel like the ps4 interface will always be the best because of its customisation and it’s easy to navigate interface
I liked PS3 best
It became too cluttered
Holy shit the new ps5 Ui hits different ngl 🔥
The only thing I miss from ps4 era were dynamic themes. I know ps3 had some but I liked the 4's.
Boy if you think PS4 was customisable you never tried the XMB on PS3. They released programs for making your own icon pack and there are thousands of them out there. Maybe that is available for PS4 as well, I don't know, but as for folders, there is almost no option on PS4. You either have something in a folder or not. You can't group anything differently, you can only do manual sorting of your folder, and they will always kick whatever folder you used last into first position so whatever you're looking for, it's most likely somewhere else than where you left it last time. On PS3, mp3 files could be grouped by artist, album, alphabet letter, genre, year, and within folders sorted alphabetically, name of artist, name of album, etc. Same for picture and video files where applicable. Only thing missing within music folders was sorting by year (that means all albums from an artist chronologically sorted), but then you could do playlists which could also be copied as a whole onto a USB stick or imported 1:1 to a PlayStation Portable or Vita. Man, the PS3 ecosystem was great.
Why tf is there so many hank breaking bad memes please make it stop😭😭🤣😂
Best Playstation content creator out there 💪
So glad there's people who can create PS centric content without feeling the need to trash the competition
I love how this video has a witty sense of humour sprinkled in 🤣
'Woooo, Frogger!'
The trophies should have the option to display alphabetical
Edit: I want fucking folders!
No swearing
Idk why but this is the exact video I’ve been looking for
I just recently got a PS5 and gotta say maybe because I already got used to it but even tho it was a hassle compare to its predecessor, I think PS4 UI is the best to properly organized our content with the folder and all. Not to mention I like customizing my PS4 with the unique themes they provided or simply just using my own photos.
The lack of theme and folders make me feel so incomplete in PS5 tho.
I hope one day Sony will take note to what people like and dislike abou the UI from both PS3 and PS4 then properly put it into PS5 in future updates.
The home shortcut button is horrendous, they should have kept the ps4 version with long pressing the home button to access the sleep /turn off function. Now you have to scroll through multiple things to access it
I have such a love/hate relationship with the PS5 interface. I absolutely despise being constantly advertised to about stuff that I don't and will never care about
Glad I'm not the only one here lol....
The ps3 imo was great 🤷♂️
Has more features than ps4 and 5 lol
Canada doesn’t even have the explore page lol
I remember when menu and updates used to be a lot faster. Like instant sync trophies and transfer.
Then they screwed up in later updates.
They did same with PS4, it runs worse than before. I remember when you could just put disc and install immediately without checking in background.
Now it takes forever to do full check and loads every game menu forever on main screen.
They will screw up PS5 as well, it already is affected by being bit slower.
The XMB was and still is so good, I feel like PS UIs since have been mostly on a downward trend in quality and usability, but I do appreciate the PS5 (and Switch, for that matter) putting your game collection front and center, because that's the big thing I'm here for, the games!
I know that sounds obvious, but as someone who spent a lot of time with the Xbox 360 from 2011-14, the last UI update that put advertisements as the biggest and most prominent thing on the menu while the game disc in the tray was wedged into a tiny corner in the upper left (not to mention you had to click RB twice to get to your digital library) makes me grateful for the newer menus on that front xD
Got my ps5 yesterday and I am loving it
Honestly, the music thing seems like it might have been some strong arming from the music industry (which of course Sony has a hand in). I remember when the 360 launched there were some similar odd restrictions on music being on the console if you didn't rip it from a CD in the console itself, or stream it from a PC.
The PS3 UI was nearly perfect. The PS4's UI was OK, but was a step down in terms of logical organization. The PS5's is worse than the PS4's. Why they gotta make everything so hard?
the most annoying thing for me is on the store. On games, on the right of the screen where it displays the developer, release date, file size and friends who own the game, it only shows the icon one friend who owns it (if memory serves me well) even if you click on that menu it doesn't even tell you what friends own that game. sorry if this is hard to understand, its a bit hard to explain and idk if i got my grammar right, im really tired rn
No yeah I get you, that's an annoyance for me too. I would like to know of who else owns the game, and not just 1 person that I can see.
I wish there was an option to disable cards completely. A great thing about PS4's UI is that you could instantly jump between a game and the last UI page you were on. For example, you are texting someone and playing; you can instantly jump between those two pages. Also if you are checking a trophy list and playing a game: instantly switch between those two pages no problem.
With PS5's UI, those damn cards ALWAYS get in the way. And you can't jump instantly back to a game, you have to navigate the UI to go back and forth between a game and something else you are checking.
I think the PS5's UI overall is a much needed step forward from the PS4's which was getting long in the tooth especially compared to the Xbox One which (like it or not) got a couple of pretty significant UI overhauls during its lifespan. That said, I still have some major issues from a UX perspective that I'm really hoping Sony addresses at some point:
- It *still* feels like far too many button presses to get into a party/interact with that party in whatever way. Even the Xbox 360 was designed with a clear understanding that getting players together should be as frictionless as possible and parties feel front and center to the experience. Two generations later and several revisions to the party system and it still feels more akin to a second-class citizen buried under sub-menus.
- I really can't believe the console shipped and went so long with the disastrous user experience around selecting either the PS4 or PS5 version of a game to install. I had to, on several suggestions, tell friends with PS5s that I could see they were playing the PS4 version of a game because they mistakenly ended up with the wrong version and didn't know. Yes, this is (mostly) fixed but I will still gripe about it because it never should have happened. Microsoft's Smart Delivery still blows Sony's implementation out of the water here.
- I love the music streaming integration and being able to play songs from Apple Music while I play, I use it on a regular basis. But I despise how accessing the media player from the Control Center results in an experience that often just isn't able to do what I want from it. I can start music from it but unless it comes from a playlist that's been very recently played or Apple Music decides to recommend it to me, I won't be able to find it. There's no way to see my library, there's not even a way to see a list of my playlists. If I want to change what I'm listening to mid-game I have to back out to the main screen and open Apple Music from there which...closes my game. Not ideal. Which leads me to my last point - it's not like what I want to do with Apple Music isn't possible in the app at all. The experience from the Control Center just chooses not to expose any of it. Why, Sony? Why can't I at least have some user-defined choice of what I want to listen to?
Get spotify and you will be able to choose dude
The PS3 XMB will always be the all time best imo.
The only thing I really HATE is the fact that I can't switch the functionality of the PS-button, I want long and short press the other way around just like it was on PS3 and 4 !!!!!!!!!!!
I honestly HATE the UI. 3 years later and still no folders, no themes, it’s a mess of a UI. I switched back to Xbox for this generation because the actual console is miles better imo but now that PlayStation is coming out with all these banger games, I’m thinking about getting one solely for the games, but my god the UI is a massive turn off
I personally miss the PS4 interface. I miss customizable themes and having folders at the front of my home menu. Not a huge fan on how folders are on PS5. Sony pulled a Nintendo with folders but it’s better than having no folders at all I guess.
Did he really just quickly glaze over the whole lacking of themes problem? Thumbs down. Pointless video. The themes need to come back as an optional screen saver. That’s how it should’ve always been on ps4, instead of having to orient your screen and games all the way to the right, in order to free up screen space. Is Sony really too stupid to attempt to make themes operate as screen savers? You missed the mark on this, mystic. 👎
A master class in UI design was absolutely the PS3. It was super quick to look at all your games, movies, music, and photos at a glance to find whatever you needed. I never liked the PS4 UI but it was at least better than the Xbox. PS5 to me feels like one step forward two steps back. It shoves the things you were last playing/watching up to the front with essentially ads on a "news" page and I can easily go months forgetting I installed a specific game because I have to go digging for it. Icons are also too big, it takes me forever to scroll through my game library.
Doing nothing on the background of PS3 means you needed to customize your theme. It's not a big deal. On PS5 I don't want to use those stupid cards. Get rid of that stupid feature. Give me ability to personalize my system!
Overall I love it and it is a big improvement over PS4 UI in many ways. However I wish Sony would reverse some changes made to it since launch, like the inbuilt cards that change the home screen (I hate it) and make the trophy tabs clear again instead of colored.
In addition I wish the trophy list icons for both PS4 and PS5 games were the same size for consistency sake, as well as being able to manually rearrange our trophy lists
I actually really liked the "What's New?" section on the PS4. One of thing I do like checking out on Steam on the regular, is the activity feed. It's just neat to see what your pals are up to, achievements they get and what they're wish-listing or buying.
Seeing what people follow and wishlist on Steam has put me on a path of finding some games I'd have never known about too.
4:04 this takes me back over 10+ years ago as a kid😭🙌🏼
You are not the only uncharted fan in the comments
ah yes, the good old PS3 times, I miss em.
I've always hated the PS5 UI. I have a launch model and it has basically never changed. Don't even get me started on how confusing it can be in the site for upgrades, ps4/ps5 versions, or even trials. I'm glad you pointed out the trophy icons too. It solidifies to me that the ps5 was rushed in my opinion. Amazing they have done nothing to fix how awful it is.
nah
biggest cap of the century right here
I hate that they’re changed what pressing versus holding the PlayStation button does for the PS5 compared to what it did for the PS4. That’s my biggest complaint.
Dude, Ryan this video is REALLY good, there were so many times you made me laugh out loud 10:11 and the video in general is really entertaining. Keep it up man ❤🎉
Bring back themes. Shit looks so boring
XMB will always be the king for me.
Love the PS5 UI. Looks 10 times better than the 90s looking UI of the Xbox.
Honestly, I really like the interface, but for me, the control center can become a bit clutterd at times (Especially when I open a game)
I really love PS3's XMB. I think this is the best UI made. We seem to go backwards in terms of UI design imo...
I just picked up a PS5 last week. I haven't dug into it a ton yet, but as far as I can tell I'm benefitting from things that were added more recently.
Its ok its better than the PS4 UI but thats not saying much cause the PS4 UI was garbage. PS3 UI was the best by far.
Activity cards are useless ps4 had best ui I want the browser back and custom themes
The XMB and old PS3 store were the best.
I love the (increased) humour you have on display here. More please.
Personally I think the UI should allow custom backgrounds but if you sit on a game for long enough, say 5-10 seconds, it'll switch to the games card and sound track if the developer added one so for the people who like the game card can have that and the ones that like custom backgrounds can have that. Or maybe even have the game card something that people can switch on and off in the settings so it can appear immediately if you want or not appear at all if you don't want it.
I really love the PS5 UI to be honest and the cards for trophy hunting is fantastic. The Last of Us Part 1 did an amazing job of that tbh. Also I don't why only North America has the Explore tab it looks really cool!
It's fine, I don't even think about it.
I just don't understand why they didn't keep the XMB since the PSP or PSX it was simple yet perfect at the same time. Also miss the original ps3 ps store with many options and categories to browse and find stuff. I definitely miss seeing the top downloads of the month etc and the Whats new section as well.
I actually miss both "What's New" and Themes and were using them on a regular basis.
I even had this habit to change theme every month.
And yeah, it's kinda lonely without the "What's New"
One annoying thing is that game library defaults to sort by last played instead of alphabet order. I always look for a game for a while and can't find it until I remember to change that.
Ps3’s ui was so good that they just copied and pasted it to the bluray players🤣
imagine an alternate universe where they kept the ps4 ui and only made user requested/voted changes