PS5 UI Feature Sets Tongues Wagging Once More

I’m thinking there will be a showcase in August showing the games they’ve held back from announcing and a deeper dive into the ps5 (features, ps5 being there and being held etc.. likely also when they’ll announce price and release date imo).

Edit: September at the absolute latest

I am still waiting for the teardown that Cerny mentioned in the GDC presentation. Obviously the UI and other games showcases are coming, but I can wait for that.

On a related note, I bet the Create button just opens a universal photo mode, like Ancel for Nvidia GPUs but with a higher percentage of supported games.

Can't wait for ps5 os & feature state of play 😃

@Matroska I’m thinking it’s going to be much more than that.

Going to be a creative program made with streamers in mind because Sony knows content creators have a lot of influence in the new gaming ecosystem.

@get2sammyb it’ll be interesting to see how they go about it.

@get2sammyb fairly easily, on launch you can show any disclaimer you need to and then go straight into software. But most disclaimers are about terms of use, so once they've been seen, technically they do not need to be shown again, unless T&C's change.

Great time to bring back playstation home. What hated most was the load times. That's solved now.

Interesting times for sure!!

I'm most interested in how BC will actually work.
It's time for PlayStation to double down on the wonderful catalogs of previous generations. By any means necessary!!!
Without neglecting new experiences, obviously.

Come on PlayStation!! BRING IT ON!!!

@ankehuber Each company feels they need monickers my consoles has more whistles than yours..................if a game is good enough then it should be on every console I mean how long can Sony/Microsoft go on with exclusives the shareholders of games companys want profit not loyalty be interesting to see where this goes.

@get2sammyb game designers and lawyers don’t necessarily see eye to eye, I expect.

@ankehuber people said the same thing about share play and many other features. I remember the mocking of Xbox Achievements when they were first announced. Having the menu of games integrated directly into the system UI could be revolutionary, and change the way people not only use their console, but also play games.

Here, I'll give you a potential scenario. Say I'm playing Spiderman Miles Morales, but a friend of mine is struggling to get past the Flamelurker on Demon's Souls. Instead of quiting out of Spiderman and loading Demon's Souls I simply press the PS button, go to Demon's Souls and launch directly into a summon to help him. Once we're done I just go back to Spiderman and resume my game where I left off.

@get2sammyb Have them featured on your screen at all times.

I think I feel a community UI mock-up challenge coming...

I'm not one for integrating clutter into the UI myself. But it would be nice to jump straight into the game where you left off, without dumping memory to disk like MS is doing which rarely works well in the real world.

@TooBarFoo depends on how the UI works. Sony has been slowly employing some very, very talented IxD and UX designers over the last few years. There's ways this can be done visually that wouldn't be cluttered, nor ugly. But we'll have to wait and see.

There bound to show the UI at the state of play next month, I wouldnt be suprised if they announce the console is FULLY customizable IF the leaked images actually show the white panels ARE clip ons? New games (Rumored God Of War 2 + Jak And Daxter)................ Announce a price and pre order date too?

Wasn't all this alluded to a good while back anyway?

Its progress but in some ways similar to the join friend feature already implemented on ps4 but could be say.. Get straight back to a career mode loading the latest save etc.

Or join mp on your favourite mode on cod etc.

Looking forward to seeing the UI! It’s a little bittersweet as I’ve gotten used to the PS4’s UI...but on the other hand it’s equally exciting to be able to go through the new menu at launch and see all the different variations they have for themes.

@ankehuber I can see where I might actually, not just in the scenario I presented. I could see maybe hoping on for a few online matches in say Tekken and just jumping straight to match making. There's definitely scope for changing the way we play games, and for UI and the console itself just getting out of the way. Maybe we'll all rarely use the feature, or maybe it will start to fundamentally change games, or maybe it'll just be a neat feature that's convenient every now and then. Who knows? Until the console is in people's hands we won't really know how the industry and gamers will react to it.

@get2sammyb probably an agreement upon first booting the game

@ankehuber also as another possibility, say you have a specific trophy you want to achieve, say a specific moment that require you to shoot the cap off of someone's head, how about being able to load into that specific moment from the games trophy list? Maybe purists wouldn't like it, maybe it'd take the challenge out a little, but I can see possibilities for such features.

@ankehuber I think it depends on how it's done, but yeah, developers will need to be careful. But say if you've already completed a level a can't see a problem with a game allowing you to go straight back to it and launch in. Say like the Titanfall 2 speed challenge trophy for instance.

@get2sammyb It can be in the end, like on some movie DVDs. I fear more, that there'll be advertisements... Actually menu is necessary, because no one knows, what I'm willing to do. And have two menus (one in-game and one in system) or have one universal in system sounds like big mess to me.

There is an event on August 4th I think. Someone tweeted it out.

It’s suppose to be August 6th.

@Face76 until Sony announce it officially always take these rumours with a pinch of salt.

Honestly while I've never really enjoyed the ui for the playststion but it does work for what I need it to until I wanna share something. While I like that I have YouTube as an option, I don't always wanna upload my videos to Twitter or YouTube, I'm mostly just trying to show my friends and they don't have one so I need like Dropbox, one drive, or any cloud drive to save them to.

HURRY UP!!! AND SHOW IT SONY!!! Saying that i really hope the 'basic' features are there from day 1 because waiting a few years for Folders etc etc is getting a bit boring each new Gen now :-/ (that is if the PS5 needs Folders or whatever)

@get2sammyb
I can imagine they'll either implement a cut down series of splash screens, or it is legally sufficient that players sit through them all the first time you boot up a game.

Multi tasking would be awesome , being able to watch tv/sport/twitch/netflix while playing yorugame could be so great

TIL: I'm not a true fan.

@get2sammyb It might require for you the open the game the standard normal way the first time so that all those legal disclaimers/logos would be "seen" and displayed Infront of the user atleast once. Then allow then to not matter anymore.

@Aexurion I think this will be done largely through playstion now or similar, So technically not backwards compatible. I think only ps4 games will be truly backwards compatible.

My question is how much resource will this eat up..... I assume to will only store a couple of games or you can select which to be in the activities.

Since to me having all your games stored for this would eat away at the resources

@DAMIENUK82
Yes, I'm aware of that.
I don't care if it means subscribing to PSNow, but the current offering of PS1-PS3 games is horribly lackluster. So much gems that didn't get proper attention and loads of fan favorites haven't been dropped on Now still. Makes one wonder who's in charge of this and what the heck that person is thinking?

I really like Microsoft for handling BC with love. It's just the brand itself that I don't like.

Even if it meant putting in a PS2 disc in the PS5 just to recognize the game. Followed by a prompt asking to buy the key (for 5 or 10 bucks) to download the game on the PS5 would make me a happy gamer.
Or drop at least 75% of each PS1, PS2 & PS3 catalogs on PSNow and get it over with. I'd subscribe without thought and be a day one adopter as well.