Once selected you still need to say I want to play it rather than delete it or recommend it to someone .

When you’ve got lots of stuff on the PS3 you can categorize them yourself. Then group by Album. So I current sort the games into Demos, Full Games, Eyetoy and PSOne – but it’s flexible how you want to group.

I’m not claiming it’s difficult to use, just badly designed.

If you’ve got 100 demos, and 100 games on your hard drive, how do you find the on that you want that begins with ‘M’?

It’s not just about how many buttons you press, but how long it takes and how organised/simple it is to use.

And not to nit-pick, but scrolling involves presses too you know.

Anyway, the comparison is silly tbh, because they’re both so easy to use, that even a 3 year old can use them to play the games that they want.

both work just fine, and I prefer the look of PSN, but I’ve never found myself complaining about the blade system since they updated it ages ago.

/runs

The majority of time here was between waiting for the 360 intro animation and deciding which game to choose.

It’s the 360 on my desk at work, so there are only a few demo’s and trials on it (20 in all). But I have a 120gb hard drive at home which has loads of stuff on it and runs just as fast as this one.

It’s really not all that complicated. Certainly no more complicated than turning on your PC, loading up a browser and going to a website.

In any case, I’m sure that most people play DVD based games, which you can make start up as soon as you boot up if you so choose.

Anyway the point is that the blades system isn’t perfect by any means, but it is very functional, and it has been designed by a software company who have been developing GUI’s for a good long while.

It does manage to do the job of making itself look simple, even though it’s actually very, very complicated.

Just run me through the steps you needed to do to play Sensible Soccer then? How many games do you have on your list?

Not quite.

I just loaded up a trial version of Sensible Soccer in about 10 seconds. Thats from boot up.

It’s not really all that difficult, now is it…?

I agree. It’s hilarious GUI-design. Someone out there should really be ashamed …

Also chalk another one up for liking XMB – particularly in comparison to the clunky blades on the 360. It’s clean, crisp and most of all usable. I love the themes being able to change icons and sounds too.

The Blades on 360 are a nice enough idea but brash and poorly implemented. Consider what you need to do to play a game you’ve downloaded on the 360. Boot-up, Switch to Games Blade, Select My Games Library, Switch to right sub-category, Wait an obscene amount of time for the 360 to list a directories contents, Select your game, Then say yes I’d like to play this please. 7 steps. To play a game! Who the feck designed that?

This may have been covered in the link… but I didn’t read it because at this stage it’s all rumour and speculation.

Sony can’t even rip off achievements without messing it up!

When are they going to realise that they’d sell a lot more consoles if they focused on an actual next-gen gaming experience rather than redundant next-gen hardware??

This looks like something I’d have expected to see on the PS1!

But to be honest: I think either system destroys somewhat the pleasure to play a game. I’m not interested in competition in games and I also never play online.

Gaming for me is all about playing trough a good story-driven single-player campaign.

Actually, you’re grand, thanks anyway.

In fact, its the wrost fake i’ve ever seen, thats how bad it is.

Nope, I love my 360 but the XMB is lovely. Its not some large brash american system shouting in ya face!

Its very slick.

I hear it’s getting POKEs too.

Oh.