Which do you prefer?
I personally go with PS3 (of course), followed by Wii, and lastly the 360.
The XMB just seems the most intuitive, the sleekest and least cluttered, and somewhat more sophisticated than either of the other two.
The Wii's interface would be next for me. The "channel" system is okay, but adding a friend is not all that intuitive (for me, at least). After not having played for a while, I forgot that you needed to go into memo or notes or messages or whatever to add someone, and spent about 5 minutes poking around trying to find it. With the casual focus of the console, the "channel" thing with big bright "screens" works, but seems a bit simplistic.
And I really do not even want to get into the train wreck that is the 360's interface. The old one was perfectly fine. I liked the blade format. Currently, I pretty much despise the layout. I guess if I was a teenager or in my early-mid 20s and played a lot of shooters and really needed sensory overload every minute of every day (the 360's target audience, it seems), I might like it better. For me, though, it's FAR too busy, cluttered, and haphazard-looking. Even still, the layout is fairly intuitive, and it's not all that difficult to find what you are looking for. It's moreso having to wade through all of that extraneous clutter to get to it.
Being a more mature gamer, it seems as if Sony is targeting any demographic that I might fit into more than either of the other consoles. Besides the focus of a lot of their first party published software (The Last Guardian, Heavy Rain, Flower, etc) being on older gamers or those looking for something different and unique, the visualizers and the interface reflects this. The 360 has all the bright fractal/psychedelic stuff, and even though the PS3 only has 3, the Earth one and the other one that's not the wave both are more subtle, look better, and are not again geared for sensory overload.
I personally go with PS3 (of course), followed by Wii, and lastly the 360.
The XMB just seems the most intuitive, the sleekest and least cluttered, and somewhat more sophisticated than either of the other two.
The Wii's interface would be next for me. The "channel" system is okay, but adding a friend is not all that intuitive (for me, at least). After not having played for a while, I forgot that you needed to go into memo or notes or messages or whatever to add someone, and spent about 5 minutes poking around trying to find it. With the casual focus of the console, the "channel" thing with big bright "screens" works, but seems a bit simplistic.
And I really do not even want to get into the train wreck that is the 360's interface. The old one was perfectly fine. I liked the blade format. Currently, I pretty much despise the layout. I guess if I was a teenager or in my early-mid 20s and played a lot of shooters and really needed sensory overload every minute of every day (the 360's target audience, it seems), I might like it better. For me, though, it's FAR too busy, cluttered, and haphazard-looking. Even still, the layout is fairly intuitive, and it's not all that difficult to find what you are looking for. It's moreso having to wade through all of that extraneous clutter to get to it.
Being a more mature gamer, it seems as if Sony is targeting any demographic that I might fit into more than either of the other consoles. Besides the focus of a lot of their first party published software (The Last Guardian, Heavy Rain, Flower, etc) being on older gamers or those looking for something different and unique, the visualizers and the interface reflects this. The 360 has all the bright fractal/psychedelic stuff, and even though the PS3 only has 3, the Earth one and the other one that's not the wave both are more subtle, look better, and are not again geared for sensory overload.
on the controller and choose Sign Out. I believe you can also toggle whether or not to Auto Sign In every time you turn the console on.
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