Last year, back in December I received the lovely gift of a PS3 – it was a rather epic present. I’d always wanted one, but I’ve never got one due to the ‘high’ price of the machine and the fact that I have a xbox 360 has always put me off. Now that I’ve got one, I can see why many people dislike it. I’m going to say now, that I still like my PS3 I just have a couple of issue’s that I’d like to talk about.
The user interaction between you and the console.
The PS3 for me, is a little emo. It’s a little too hard, it’s like a tight up business man. When I turn on my 360, I get a bright nice, loud welcome screen, and engages the user for playing with it. With the PS3 it feels like you have to do something If you really want to achieve anything. As soon as you turn the 360, you are attacked with a wealth of information including movie trailers, game teasers and demo downloads – information that I want to see. With the ps3, you choose to log on, and once you’ve done that, you only have the option to play the games you already have or the demo’s.
Oh, I’m so excited to play this game!
Wait, hang on. You’ve got to wait 2 hours for the updates to download. That’s how I waited to play burnout revenge, not fun eh? The updates are tediously long, especially system updates. Instead of being incremental updates like the 360, you have to download the 200mb+ OS install. Luckily, my connection is fairly decent and downloading doesn’t take to long but do I seriously need to download the operating system again?
Playing with friends..
No headset provided free? Come on, even Microsoft provide on free, and it’s actually fairly decent. Is Sony expecting me to have a bluetooth headset lying around the house, because I don’t. When you receive a friend, a notice doesn’t pop up to tell you that you’ve received or a message either. With the 360, you have the request at the top of the list, and when you receive a message, a number appears showing the amount of unread messages in your in box.
Overall, the power of the machine of excellent, the games are excellent and extremely well designed. Sounds like they need some real customer interaction with Sony to get them on track and to stop being so professional, loosen that tie a litle and relax. Just seems like Sony need’s a rehaul on the UI front.

