I could be thinking of something else, but headphone output switching is in the quick menu???
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[Eurogamer] Eight months later, I barely use any of PS5's new user interface features
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I could be thinking of something else, but headphone output switching is in the quick menu???
Yep, I love how quick and easy it is to access/share your clips.
I think it's way ahead of the PS3 and PS4 OS. PS3 had a terrible store, the in game XMB was largely pointless. So many things you could click on during game but couldn't actually do during game. Way too much screen real estate for pictures, movies, video, web browsing. The vertical game list wasn't as nice as the tile approach there is now.
PS4 was also disjointed. The tap of the PS button offering features got better over time but it wasn't always like that. But the tap of the PS button never makes you feel like you're far away from your game. There's so much you can do without pulling away from a game.
The integrated store is nice, too as well as the quick share features. And the shareplay function is light years ahead.
With the new update bringing vertical trophies, I think the most important thing left is just folders and other organizational tools. It'll come.
I enjoy the visuals of the activity cards and showing my progress for certain chapters. I enjoy consume it but i technically dont click on them. I've used the feature where you can watch your friends steam but its a bit cumbersome to activate and theres a lot of restrictions to it
i used the game help feature in CONTROL and thought it was really handy. more devs should take advantage of that
I have never used them so far (PS5 owner for 3~ weeks). When I saw that for the cards stuff you need PS+, which I don't use nor care about, I felt like I was in a F2P game or something.
I really don't see the point of scrapping the old UI. Themes were really cool and it was mature and with all the features one would need.
Change for the sake of change is useless.
I really don't see the point of scrapping the old UI. Themes were really cool and it was mature and with all the features one would need.
Change for the sake of change is useless.
I'm sure it'll improve over time, but right now everyone I've talked to and most people in this thread agree that it's worse than PS4.
Hmm, I'll check once my system is back from repair.I could be thinking of something else, but headphone output switching is in the quick menu???
Personally, I do not mind new interfaces or UI. But from my prior experience stemming from IT, some of my users REALLY did not like change.
So, I can see why Microsoft went that route.
I am in the same boat - used most of the new features once or twice to see what they did, have literally never used them again. I still try to turn off the system the wrong way every.single.time - because for some reason changing the perfectly intuitive way they had it set up before to a method that required three extra button presses made a world of sense.
Incredible machine, fast UI, worse UX - some baffling decisions.
As time goes on I'm only disliking the PS5 UI more and more.
- The press/hold functionality of the PS button is unintuitive as hell and I don't know why. At first I thought I just had to get used to the change coming from PS4. But it's been 10 months and I am still doing it wrong every single time.
- For all the talk of social features, the PS5 feels really disconnected. I have no clue what my friends have been playing, what trophies they have unlocked recently, what games they have bought. Even seeing which of my friends are online takes way too many button presses.
- Speaking of button presses, lots of common actions take too many of them. Turn off your console? Look at your trophies? Leaving a party chat? It's all more cumbersome than on PS4.
- I play my PS5 a ton but I don't think I have ever clicked on an activity card. Wasted space if you ask me.
- The store is an improvement compared to PS4, it's easy-to-use and snappy. But it's a mess. They need to start grouping all the DLC, in-game currency, and Premium Edition shit under a single game icon. Browsing through the Summer Sale and scrolling past 10 icons for The Sims 4 or Warframe or whatever is just bad design.
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I don't know if any games did that already, but I can see Activity Cards being useful in a "the story so far" fashion. Just to make sure you're caught up in games you may have forgotten what is going on, either because you've been away for a bit or just side-questing for a good while.
It's a shocking UI. Skipping song on Spotify, finding messages and trophies all somehow got more complicated between consoles. Staggering failure of how a UI should innovate imo