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Playstation 5 UI impressions and suggestions for improvements
- Thread starter jman1954goat
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Everything I could do on the PS4 requires about 1-3 extra steps on the PS5.
Wanna close an app? You have to tap the PS button, go to the switcher, go to the app, select the app, and then you can finally close it. On the PS4, you'd just hold the PS button and select close app.
It's a step backwards. Sure it's fast and responsive, but that's about it.
Wanna close an app? You have to tap the PS button, go to the switcher, go to the app, select the app, and then you can finally close it. On the PS4, you'd just hold the PS button and select close app.
It's a step backwards. Sure it's fast and responsive, but that's about it.
Awful. They pulled a google where everything got moved around for no real reason and added 100 extra button presses. It took so long just to figure out how to fully close a game cause its hidden within a menu, why?
Hold down the ps button on PS4, i can close the game, view trophies, and manage my music and party.
Hold down the ps button on ps5, I get the control center or whatever its called, I see a bunch of squares that tell me the news and my party and my music and there's like 40 buttons on the button, if I wanna close the game or view my trophies its either behind 5 buttons presses or located elsewhere entirely.
Hold down the ps button on PS4, i can close the game, view trophies, and manage my music and party.
Hold down the ps button on ps5, I get the control center or whatever its called, I see a bunch of squares that tell me the news and my party and my music and there's like 40 buttons on the button, if I wanna close the game or view my trophies its either behind 5 buttons presses or located elsewhere entirely.
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Is it possible to remove the recent parties list at the top of the friends hub? Mine is full of spam party invites from bots or something and I have to scroll past it to see my friends list.
I like it, but I'm super not used to it not having the same shortcuts (like holding the PS button to access the power menu) that I used a lot of PS4.
Also, RIP Skullgirls theme.
Also, RIP Skullgirls theme.
It's fast and responsive, but everything seems to require extra steps compared to PS4 for no reason. I think I prefer Xbox's OS over it, but it gets the job done.
Gotta second that they seem to have changed stuff just to change stuff. Takes longer to do a lot of things. The stuff mapped to the ps button is confusing.
Maybe a bit of having to learn something new, but I think I kind of hate it and it's the only thing (other than the looks) I don't like about the console.
There's basically 3 tiers of menus at least, depending on your touch of the PS button + the actual setting. it's not intuitive in the slightest. I much preferred the quick menu setup with the hold of the PS button on PS4, it did like 95% of the things I regularly needed to do.
Also, way too many button presses to put it into rest mode. That's my main pet peeve.
There's basically 3 tiers of menus at least, depending on your touch of the PS button + the actual setting. it's not intuitive in the slightest. I much preferred the quick menu setup with the hold of the PS button on PS4, it did like 95% of the things I regularly needed to do.
Also, way too many button presses to put it into rest mode. That's my main pet peeve.
Love the entire audiovisual presentation and ambience it gives. It feels classy and sleek.
I like that the Store is now a tab like a game and not a separate app that needs to open. It's not got my favorite kind of layout and I feel like it could use work to be more easily navigated, BUT I do love that it's at the system level and not a separate thing that needs to load or boot.
The new guide menu works well, though I wish I could arrange the exact order that things are in.
I like that the Store is now a tab like a game and not a separate app that needs to open. It's not got my favorite kind of layout and I feel like it could use work to be more easily navigated, BUT I do love that it's at the system level and not a separate thing that needs to load or boot.
The new guide menu works well, though I wish I could arrange the exact order that things are in.
Using cards to find secrets is the coolest thing ever. Did it in astrobot and it knew exactly which one I was looking for and popped up with a video instantly.
Dislike how the friends list is below the parties section. Why are old parties still there after you've "left" them?
Dislike how the friends list is below the parties section. Why are old parties still there after you've "left" them?
This is indeed a huge bummer :(
I don't think Sony understands the utility of the double tap shortcut. I frequently use it to compare gallery screenshots (of stats or whatever) with my game screen and it's going to be annoying as fuck when this is gone.
YouTube/Netflix picture-in-picture and double tap shortcut are the two features I want most for the upcoming updates.
It's a good starting point, but there's a lot to fix.
- You should be able to access your Trophies from the Quick Access bar.
- The Trophy list needs to be fixed in general. The horizontal display sucks, and comparing trophies with friends is broken for me atm.
- Bring back the option to Upload/Download cloud save data directly from the main menu like you could on the PS4.
- Bring back folders.
- Bring back themes.
Night two, and I can't help but agree with this. This UI is frustrating to navigate. Nothing makes sense.
Ui is really good, I remember disliking a lot about it when it first came out but now it's really solid. A huge upgrade from ps4.
I am getting a brain fart with holding or pressing the home button.
I wish I could hold the button for the trophy tags and second menu and press i normally to get to the main menu.
I am getting a brain fart with holding or pressing the home button.
I wish I could hold the button for the trophy tags and second menu and press i normally to get to the main menu.
I agree with every single grievance in this thread. I'm not a fan of this UI at all, in fact it's pretty damn terrible. It's fast, l give it that. But holy shit is stuff just all over the place. It's change for the change. Sure we can adjust and learn where everything is, but things taking extra button presses is really unnecessary. The icons being small, the trophies being too big, those are all really poor designs too. Honestly I really dislike this UI, it's a shame.
I'm curious. Is what's new still on the ps4? The new mobile app seems geared toward ps5 with all the social stuff outside of party and messaging removed.
Agreed. Really clunky. Feels like it's half done and they just said "time's up! Gotta ship!"
my main gripe is any menu with a horizontal list of items instead of a vertical list
it fucking sucks every time
it fucking sucks every time
It's fast but everything else is kind of whack. Especially how it handles collections like Batman: Return to Arkham (which includes Asylum and City). Only Asylum has a game icon in your library initially, unless you go into its game page, hit the (...) icon, then choose to download Arkham City. What?
what doesn't make sense? I can see the complaints about missing features but it's fairly simple to navigate
I like it overall and it feels pretty personalized, snappy, and fast. I don't like the menu on the bottom though when you press the PS button...I doubt I'll use any of those options except for the power button.
I hate the way Trophies are displayed. Instead of being in a wide vertical list like on PS4, which allowed you to view many of them in a single page and their accompanying text in full, now they're displayed in tiles that scroll horizontally. Not only can you only see 3-4 of them at once max, but the tiles are so narrow that the accompanying text/objective is truncated with "..." for every single Trophy! So you have to actually open them one by one to read what the text actually says in full! This is so stupid and such a step back from the PS4! :(
This was a problem on PS4 as well, but I wish they'd let you pin certain apps to the first position. I don't want to be scrolling to find the Media Gallery.
Yeah you can turn it off but then you have to go and turn it on again if you want to use it in games designed with it in mind.
They should just have an automatic switch, instead of forcing it on everything.
You can hold the power button and then click options on the game title to close it.
Still an extra step compared to the ps4
It's made to try to make it look "cool" at the expense of usability and practicability. So, as bad as the industrial design of the system.
There are too many bad decisions there that are almost amateurish. The achievements are a mess for instance. Everything is buried under menus over menus even for the simplest tasks like closing a game that should requiere one button press tops. More and more people will realise how much worse is compared to the PS4 UI (which wasn't good either) when novelty wears off and the usability takes front seat.
There are too many bad decisions there that are almost amateurish. The achievements are a mess for instance. Everything is buried under menus over menus even for the simplest tasks like closing a game that should requiere one button press tops. More and more people will realise how much worse is compared to the PS4 UI (which wasn't good either) when novelty wears off and the usability takes front seat.
This is objectively worse... why would they do that?!
All that stuff sounds like changes just for the sake of changes.
Listing pros and cons so clearly like this is a UX designer's dream.
I love that they added game time metrics, but they really need to add sorting options so that I can see my tops most played games.
The Trophy list is absolute hot garbage.
The way they're displayed in tiles makes it so that you see less of them on screen at once, have to scroll more, and the worst: Almost every fucking description gets truncated! You have to open them up one by one to read them, which is just such a catastrophical downgrade from the PS4 I can't even fathom how no one realized this. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!? </avgn>
The way they're displayed in tiles makes it so that you see less of them on screen at once, have to scroll more, and the worst: Almost every fucking description gets truncated! You have to open them up one by one to read them, which is just such a catastrophical downgrade from the PS4 I can't even fathom how no one realized this. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!? </avgn>