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PS3 GUI Takes Page From PSP Book

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-you'll-be-using-for-the-next-ten-years dept.

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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  1. Re:Videogames as Multimedia device by earbenT · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nintendo is not large or diverse enough to compete on the same level as Sony or Microsoft, which is why they've bowed out of the technology race and faded into the background as a niche company for short, simplistic, arcade-style games and quaint non-games targeted at children, women and old people (plus the predictable and increasingly trite Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Pokemon/Smash Bros fare).

  2. Why Do We Care? by Rydia · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure, a nice GUI is geeky and nice, but really, what's the point? The online service will have its own interface for each game, most likely. DVDs and BRDs have fixed resolutions, and I can't think of anyone that would be messing with that stuff, anyway. Most everyone has an ipod+dock or computer with their MP3s.

    To paraphrase a rather successful political campaign, "It's the games, stupid."