PS3 GUI Takes Page From PSP Book

sdmonroe writes "As the PS3 launch approaches, the first glimpses of the console's new interface have started to hit the web. The interface borrows many features from the PSP GUI which got such broad acclaim, and includes simple drop down menus for accessing important settings like video resolution, audio output, and management of your virtual friends. Customizability and configurability are also some of the features gamers can expect."

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Me being cynical

[UbuntuDupe]

"The interface borrows many features from the PSP GUI which got such broad acclaim, and includes simple drop down menus for accessing important settings like video resolution, audio output, and management of your virtual friends. Customizability and configurability are also some of the features gamers can expect."

Can I guess with confidence that at least some of these (imho obvious) gui features are patented, if not by Sony, someone about to hit the motherlode by suing them?

Re:Me being cynical

[ifrag]

This is groundbreaking new interface stuff here. Drop down menus with settings? Massive innovation going on here!

As far as that patent, I'd think it would be hard to establish original and non-obvious invention at this point?

Re:Seems to confirm 1080p over component

[SuperKendall]

Ah, yes, Captain Sony has to come out and pretend people care about the PS3 still.

I see we meet again, Captian Stick Up The Arse! I fear this time will be as unpleasant as the last for you.

If no one cares about the PS3 - how come you took the time to post? Isn't that some kind of paradox? In fact since you posted anon that represents several thousand potential posters, increasing the level of caring probability to a tremendous degree.

No one is saying that the PS3 isn't capable of 1080p. What people are saying, and which remains as true as it ever was, is that you'll need to buy the $600 version (and NOT the "cheap" $500 version) to get this support. Otherwise at some point in the future you'll discover your PS3 is downconverting 1080p to effectively 480i.

Ahh, CUSA! That would only, in theory, be true for Blu-Ray movies - IF in fact they ever turn on the ICT flag (unlikley because of the market penetration of HDMI devices thus far). The whole point of my post is that it appears you can do games at 1080p over component - 1080i games over component was never in question as I have had devices for years that do that already. So, gamers and movie watchers alike need only buy the $500 model. The $600 model is filled with fluff you do not really need, like media card readers to load your family photos in.

Once again, I have foiled your dastardly disinformation plot!

That and the PS3 interface is amazingly boring. I've seen similar "amazing interfaces" on computer monitors. Wow, how exciting.

Interfaces are better usable than "exciting". To paraphrase an ancient Chinese curse, "May you use an exciting interface".

Your attempts at Mild Sarcasm are no match for my Reality Ray!

If that's the best "good PS3 news" you can muster, the PS3 is just as doomed as it ever was.

Ironically, here you have touched on a truth - nothing you or I have said really chnages the success that the PS3 will see. You just seee things using your Arse Stick (TM) Power, whereas I can see both benefits and drawbacks of all consoles - my true name you see is Captian Clarity.

Until the next round CUSA!