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PlayStation Store redesign next week
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a429925/playstation-store-redesign-coming-next-week.html
Long overdue. Looking good!
Long overdue. Looking good!
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I hope they don't ruin the PSN store, its actually pretty easy to find what you want these days.
They aren't downscaling it to SD for everyone. If you have an HDTV, then fine. It will still be in HD.
But if you are watching on an SD screen, then it will look better than it used to.
I just hope they keep some sort of 'list' option for the content like we have currently as I find that much easier to read/navigate than the boxart/boxes style on the 360 & the giant tabs I saw in some of the screenshots of the new PS-Store.
I actually really like the current PS-Store layout, Everything is well laid out, easy to find & super easy to navigate.
I already stopped using XBL Marketplace as much as I used to because of how much I hated the redesign, Hope I don't end up doing the same with PS-Store,
That's the one thing that I miss about my 360.
I like the XMB, its simple, easy to use and easy to navigate around. I hope they don't change it and I hope they just add more options to it for PS4.
I disagree, the XMB is clean, fast and straight to the point for me compared to the Xbox 360 Dashbored 4.
+1000
I like the simplicity of XMB, Everything's where you need it, none of the icon's are any bigger than they need to be, Its fast, smooth, clean, easy to navigate/read/scroll through & its out the way allowing you to use your own background images (Something you now cant really do on the 360).
One of the things I can't stand about some newer UI's (Including the newest xbox360 dash) is the way there all super flashy with big tabs/boxes taking up a ton more room than they need to (I like things to be clean/tidy & out the way). Not to mention Ad's, promotion & social network stuff I have zero interest in everywhere.
The Store was due an update though and I like the look of the new format.
Common complaint so far seems to be that its slow & that it takes more steps to find & then download stuff.
Someone I was talking to just was saying that your now having to spend a lot more time in the store compared to in the past because the way its designed, laid out & operates dictates that things that took a few seconds in the past now takes longer with more steps.
Stuff like downloading things like demo's is now a 5 step process rather than just clicking download & then confirming as we had untill now.
Already wasnt keen on the look of it & sounds like im not going to like using it either
Some early impressions off one forum in which around 85% of feedback is negative-
http://youtu.be/Ht2JUdoiL_c
Its slow, I can't stand the layout, I hate having to go through so many steps to download stuff, I think its ugly & Its put me off going into the store.
Like with the newer xbox360 dash's I hate all these big boxes/tabs, I just want a simple list where i can easily scroll down through content, I hate having to look all around the screen because of these big boxes & tabs been everywhere.
Before when you could have a list you could keep your eyes looking in one place & scroll down, Now its 3 boxes wide so your having to look all over the screen left to right & i find that a lot harder to read through when im scrolling through content.
Also with the new box/tab style a lot of text doesn't fit in the boxes so if something has a long title or has something like 'trial' or 'demo' at the end, Its often cut off where with the old list view it wasn't & for longer titles the text scrolled whereas now it doesn't.
Also with newly added content its no longer easy to look through all content, You can only do it by section (Demos, Games, Add-ons etc...), So your constantly going back & forth between categories where before you could just view everything which had been added.
They have also removed USB keyboard support & there is no on-screen keyboard either. You get the letters/numbers come up down the side & have to scroll through them up/down, It takes a lot more time & is in general much less user friendly than what we had before. Don't see why they changed that.
I used to spend a time in the store going through to see if there was anything I'd be interested in (Ended up buying/downloading a llot of stuff by doing that), But from now on I'll be reading whats been updated online & only going onto the store when I know there's something there I want.
Very much hoping this 'thing' is going to iron itself out. But my first impressions, to put it very mildly are not good.
with the old store we had different view options but now were stuck with this ugly & difficult to scroll through box style which i personally cannot stand & find a billion times harder to quickly scroll/read through.
if they gave us view options like we had before & if we had a nice list view option i would probably like it a lot more.
Of course that doesn't count on the actual design, I will have to make my mind up on that later when I get to have a go.
Can anyone check to see if the store on the Vita has changed. That surely couldn;t get worse than it already was!!!
The Vita store is unchanged.
Clearly they didn't learn anything from last time...
I haven't see the new store myself (well, other than a couple of screenshots here on DS). It's a shame that it is getting such negative feedback though, it could have been really good. Maybe it will be when they iron out all the problems and hopefully listen to the feedback.