View Full Version : Purported PS3 interface
Coded-Dude
10-31-2005, 06:14 PM
Real or Fake, you decide...
a new picture has arisen that purports to be the user interface for Sony's new console. It shows the Awesome Power of the Cell Processor™ being used to render about a million things at once as a backdrop, including HDTV, pictures, a game and a web page. On top of that there are a bunch of PSP-style icons, which appear to represent menus for settings, pictures, music and the like. That screenshot is here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/13284367@N00/57517281/).
http://static.flickr.com/24/57517281_4d5d619d1b_o.jpg
Follow the link in the quote, they have cut the image up and added comments to each section.
SOURCE (http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/10/31/new_pictures_ps3_xbox360/)
That looks incredible !!
But are you going to play, watch 5 TV channels and surf the web in the same time ??
O.D.S
10-31-2005, 06:24 PM
This was already posted by xbdestroya.
But it probably warants its own thread.
I myself wouldnt mind that interface since it resembles the PSP but is also very customizable with all the things going about in the background.
Since the 360 gets released in like 22 days im expecting more news to start trickling before the major flood next year
Crossbar
10-31-2005, 06:26 PM
Add the e-toy to the user interface and I see my self as Tom Cruise in Minority Report. God, I really look forward to this. Better start saving for a 400 inch 2k x 4k display.
xbdestroya
10-31-2005, 06:30 PM
Indeed, I put it here:
Link (http://forums.e-mpire.com/showthread.php?t=46811&page=6&pp=20)
But I agree that it warrants it's own thread.
Viper
10-31-2005, 06:43 PM
As one somewhat familiar with user interface designs, that's just a little too cluttered of a background to be somethig they are even thinking of using.
Looks to me like some form of system demo. I could be wrong.
O.D.S
10-31-2005, 06:47 PM
Looks to me like some form of system demo. I could be wrong.
Yeah thats what i first thought, but the little icons and the relative little amount of information from sony makes us all think too much!
speed stick
10-31-2005, 06:51 PM
This is pretty amazing if this is true but they would make it look a lot nicer then the way it looks here. But if it can do this, it just shows how powerful the cell processor really is.
Domination
10-31-2005, 06:53 PM
You're kinda late, Dude. But I guess it wouldn't hurt to have it's own topic.
It's definitely not the PSP, though, sinse a PSP cannot display or decode in THAT particular way. Most of the icons I see there don't match the ones on the unit neither.
I noticed something about the background, too. The windows can be customized in viewing size and shape simultaneously to better suit whatever material you are viewing at the time, or in other words, your own preference. I think this is going to allow for great flexiblility.
On the PSP, you are able to add your own customized background. I'm not sure if this will be the GUI or if it is even finished, but if the PSP is any indication, we may be able to do the same on this interface.
D3adcell
10-31-2005, 07:11 PM
I doubt thats real. If it is i dont like it. There is just too much activity going on. If I have my ps3 on i'm not going to want to be watching tv then anyways. Why have a webbrowser on there aswell while you play a game or watch tv? It all seems 'cluttered'. If they do something like the ps2 with more options etc I wouldn't mind it at all.
Domination
10-31-2005, 07:13 PM
As one somewhat familiar with user interface designs, that's just a little too cluttered of a background to be somethig they are even thinking of using.
Looks to me like some form of system demo. I could be wrong.
Viper, many people hadn't seen this nor do they know it, but Sony showed off and explained in a demonstration at E3 how Cell will work exactly. What you are looking at are only the thing that YOU choose to view at one time. It isn't something that is forced upon you, and believe it or not, that is only the begining based on what I saw at their E3 conference. It seems you can select either one of those windows in the background as one of your main viewing windows, and it will become larger and act as your foreground. It has also been shown that Cell can decode 1000 thumbnails at a time. Phile said something about these could be IMs from friends, movies, and something else.
On the HDTV side, like I said, it is what YOU choose to view. But it was shown that Cell could display at max twelve of these windows running completely different movies at one time. It acts similiar to an OS on a PC but much more advance.
Viper
10-31-2005, 07:22 PM
Now that makes more sense and would be a more viable interface option.
I kinda like more the interface in the MGS4 trailer, where otacon shows the killzone footage to snake. Much more organized looking
Domination
10-31-2005, 07:28 PM
I doubt thats real. If it is i dont like it. There is just too much activity going on. If I have my ps3 on i'm not going to want to be watching tv then anyways. Why have a webbrowser on there aswell while you play a game or watch tv? It all seems 'cluttered'. If they do something like the ps2 with more options etc I wouldn't mind it at all.
The best way I could probably explain it is think of a FPS on one television set ranging from a single player all the way up to four players. Notice how the size of the window changes. The same effect seems to apply here. But the only difference is you are now able to select a main viewing window if you'd like. Minority Report is the closest example to this right now, and I believe that was their targetted intention, to be honest.
CrumCon
10-31-2005, 08:48 PM
Wow i can see where Sony is going with this Cell chip.. i could see a bright future in Sony's elektronics devices like TVs , blu-ray player or many other devices.
Could you imagine PSP2 powered with cell? all they have to do is fix the battery power
Lekko
11-01-2005, 02:31 AM
maybe it has to do with the Linux GUI possibly? I mean, that could be one possible demo of what you could do on the system in theory..
Killing Moon
11-01-2005, 06:18 PM
Well so long as they keep and advance the PSP current interface, it's all good. I'm sure that this is simply a demo of what the interface COULD look like if all of these functions were active simultaneously. Obviously you don't HAVE to do it this way for personal functionality.
Some common sense people, c'mon now.
Gegenki
11-01-2005, 10:02 PM
The first thing people would do when they get the ps3 is run as many things as possible and start posting on the net how their ps3 slowed down. Can you run HD video's (PS3 doesnt have TV input) and play a game without the risk of slow down?
Or maybe games will run in thier own space and cancel everything else, this seems likely, but I would want to play a game and have IM service.
Coded-Dude
11-01-2005, 10:12 PM
I would want to be able to remotely connect to my PS3(with my psp) even while someone is at my house playing a PS3 game on it. I HIGHLY doubt it will be a single action machine(one process at a time), as that is not the innovation Sony has been hyping.
Gegenki
11-01-2005, 10:22 PM
But how can they ensure that the game won't start to slow because of other things going on. That means games can never use full power because of fears of other processes interfearing
Killing Moon
11-01-2005, 11:35 PM
But how can they ensure that the game won't start to slow because of other things going on. That means games can never use full power because of fears of other processes interfearing
Hmmn, that is a good point. If the interface design is regulated to a certain portion of the console, then how can developers max out the system power in the future?
Hopefully it won't be at a cost the way the 360 is (40MB RAM).
archash
11-02-2005, 01:57 AM
After being a lurker here for quite a while...I just had to speak out after seing the purported PS3 'user interface'(even if it is just a tech demo). I cannot wait to get my hands on PS3!
KnightRiderX
11-02-2005, 03:04 AM
But how can they ensure that the game won't start to slow because of other things going on. That means games can never use full power because of fears of other processes interfearing
hmm.... did u notice that the game they showed on the screen was not a PS3 game but rather a PS2 game. I'm not even complete convinced that it was a PS2 game. What if it was a PSP game being streamed on to the PS3.
Umm isn't that Hots Shots golf for PSP. Maybe its streaming the gameplay from the PSP to the tv.
raVen
11-02-2005, 04:47 AM
yea i noticed that too
Domination
11-02-2005, 09:17 AM
The first thing people would do when they get the ps3 is run as many things as possible and start posting on the net how their ps3 slowed down. Can you run HD video's (PS3 doesnt have TV input) and play a game without the risk of slow down?
Or maybe games will run in thier own space and cancel everything else, this seems likely, but I would want to play a game and have IM service.
Maybe you're thinking too much about a PC. I'm sure before a set amount of features were added, a test was ran to see what could and couldn't be ran simultaneously. But if you want your question answered the best thing I could probably compare this to is the demonstration at E3 with the twelve HD pictures running on the prototype Cell. Unless they had a few super computers hidden in the back, I really don't think that could have been possible.
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