It’s even worse on PS5. It defaults to the Explore tab and it’s one full page ad. Sometimes it has some way crazy unrelated crap
on it. Just allow me to disable it.
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Microsoft’s new Xbox Home UI is getting reworked after complaints over ‘crowded’ backgrounds
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on it. Just allow me to disable it.
TheGodfather07
Member
Seems fine to me. Though I guess the tiles themselves could be much smaller. It would make it look more neat and less cluttered. Sony have rhe right idea. Well apart from changing the home button but I got used to it
01011001
Banned
when was the last time you used a PS5? you literally boot into an ad page...
diffusionx
Gold Member
MS has had UI design experience for decades, they've spent untold amounts of time and money and experience studying this, yet they have not been able to figure out the Xbox interface for 2 gens now. It is weird. I remember when I got my PS4 and booted it up, using it was a breath of fresh air compared to One. The concept in the OP is just the PS4/5 UI with stuff moved to the bottom. Which, by the way, MS should do, even if it might be embarrassing to them and an admission of defeat.
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ZoukGalaxy
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XBOX UI is a shame mess: bring back the efficient XBOX 360 UI and put your tiles and ads deep in your a**
Microsoft and Google are really the worst: constantly changing UI for the sake of the change, like W11: let's making productivity dead and fill giant empty space.
Microsoft and Google are really the worst: constantly changing UI for the sake of the change, like W11: let's making productivity dead and fill giant empty space.
DaGwaphics
Member
Agreed. The point is to be able to navigate as quickly as possible. Why on earth do I need 80% of the screen to be a picture that I have to scroll past to get to anything.
People like to sit and look at their wallpaper I guess.
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Nydius
Member
Completely agree. All they needed to do was refine the blades for bigger displays. Every “new ui experience” they’ve pushed to Xbox has been awful.Blades and XMB. Simple and easy to use.
First the new avatars with big rounded rectangles that wasted like 70% of screen space on nothing. Then they got obsessed with Metro UI’s flat squares and and wanted to put it on everything: Windows, Phone, Xbox.
The Xbox UI now is a fucked up mashup of pull out menus and left over Metro UI squares with a ton of advertisements and other junk. They finally abandoned these big clunky Metro inspired squares with Windows 11 and it would be very nice if they’d do the same on the Xbox UI.
NeonGhost
uses 'M$' - What year is it? Not 2002.
At least it’s always PlayStation/video game related on Xbox you get ads for what ever virtue signaling month it is ad and please don’t say hurtful things while playing online message adIt’s even worse on PS5. It defaults to the Explore tab and it’s one full page ad. Sometimes it has some way crazy unrelated crap
Topher
Gold Member
Bickering over dashboard ads when based Nintendo has none
kiphalfton
Member
Well have it like 99% other UI's, and have it where it looks like it was designed with toddlers or 90 year olds in mind, and the icons are ginormous.
I'm being sarcastic.
Go back to condensed down design, where you can fit more than one icon or thumbnail on the screen at once, without retarded backgrounds
Go back to condensed down design, where you can fit more than one icon or thumbnail on the screen at once, without retarded backgrounds
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Fake
Member
I miss PS3 XMB. Probably the best UI of all imo.
Xbox ads suck. PS5 is worse. One time I turned it on and it was some product promotion. I was like, really?
They both need to allow us to disable the ads as well as the default Explore ad tab.
I gave up on the home page. I just use the guide button. Way fast, no ads, and easier access to everything.
Going the route of the PS5 would also be bad.
phant0m
Member
1000%
I don't know why the fuck this is so hard for Microsoft, other than there's some internal mandate that 40% of the screen must be Ads. Blades still the GOAT console UI. PS4/PS5 UI is basically a natural evolution of XMB, though with PS5 It started getting a liiiiiiittle too busy with the added stuff along the bottom but at least it's customizable.
Here you go, this one's on me:
- Blade 1: Games. 3 most recently played games are on a top row with larger "live" tiles with the rest of the library continuing below. Allow users to organize into folders.
- Blade 2: Media. Same as games, but all streaming media apps
- Blade 3: Store. The blade IS the store, don't open another fucking "app" that actually shows the store. Place your "you might be interested in..." ads here.
- Blade 4: Xbox Live. All the party management, friends, sharing, activity feeds, etc go here.
- Blade 5: Game Pass. Browse, stream, and install games from GP.
Bonus: Make/sell themes, including an in-house "OG Xbox" and "Xbox 360" theme/style
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Xcell Miguel
Gold Member
It got reworked and looks quite good.
There's still ads but more games are shown, background is more visible and shortcuts at the top, plus the background changes depending on the game being hovered.
news.xbox.com
There's still ads but more games are shown, background is more visible and shortcuts at the top, plus the background changes depending on the game being hovered.
Xbox Insiders – Your Feedback Shapes the New Home Experience - Xbox Wire
Starting this week, users in the Alpha Skip-Ahead and Alpha rings will be able to preview a new version of their Home experience. This updated design incorporates the feedback we’ve heard from you along with all the learnings from our earlier experiments. As we mentioned when we paused our...
news.xbox.com
I did like it more with white panels with green Xbox qand purple kinnect swishes for some panels.
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Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
I did like it more with white panels with green Xbox qand purple kinnect swishes for some panels.
Fair, but I do think it lost a bit of its personality - still better than the trash we have now. There is zero excuse why Ads are on the front page 24/7. Also I miss when Achievements/account was front page as that image shows.
Nydius
Member
God I hated that UI. We went from quick and easy to navigate blades to an utter waste of screen space with massive rectangles just so they could show off their knock-off Mii avatars.I did like it more with white panels with green Xbox qand purple kinnect swishes for some panels.
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Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
It definitely lacked a lot of usability, but it still at least had some personality. And it lacked the massive onscreen ads. There is zero excuse to ever have ads on the homescreen, especially if you pay for GP/Gold.
March Climber
Member
I did like it more with white panels with green Xbox qand purple kinnect swishes for some panels.
There's no way you guys liked this UI. This was literally the worst one and had the worst form of navigation. So much screen space wasted and then you had infinite scrolling. This has to be peak nostalgia happening right now.
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
I would rather have a bad UI that had personality than a working UI that looks sterile, bland, and utterly forgettable. Which is all MS has been doing since the Xbox One. Switch and PS5 aren't much better, but they at least don't have ads plaguing the front screen.
March Climber
Member
I agree with your point about ads, but honestly I would rather have a racecar driver amount of ads on the front page than go back to having 2 and a half big boxes on the screen and having to infinitely scroll to reach anything on the main menu. Any amount of ads isn't worth the tradeoff of how annoying that phase of the Xbox menu was. If anyone thinks that one is worth it, they must have forgotten how bad it was.
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
Not for me. I would rather go back to bare bones UI like Switch that offers little to nothing than have to deal with *any* advertisements on the front page.
I honestly don't get why folders are a thing we need to fight tooth and nail for. It should be a basic feature on all UI.
March Climber
Member
The Switch's UI is better than the one posted above. Honestly, nearly anything else is better. The best xbox console menu to me is still the one from the Xbox 360's final years. It was fast, it was snappy, it almost fully editable, and it had more shortcut keys than the blades(2nd best one). Ever since then they've been doing too much or too little.
Switch is better, but the PS5 is the worst. It defaults to a full screen ad. And the UI is horrible (as is the Xbox UI).
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
I just double checked and the only way it "defaults to a full screen ad" is from a complete shut down. Starting from rest goes back to the basic main screen for and the last game I played. Still better than the cancer that is Xbox ads that never go away.
HoldTheAir
Member
Here's the new dashboard that's rolling out to insiders.
You must have a different PS5 version maybe. For the rest of us it defaults to a full page ad. Much worse than the ad cancer that Xbox has. Even the guide on Xbox has no ads and is customizable. That’s the best way to use the Xbox really.
I just tested mine from sleep mode and it defaults to a full page ad.
digoutyoursoul
Member
It’s more or less the same dashboard with resized shortcuts to allow the themes to be seen better and different placement of games/app/store.
A new dashboard is going from blades to NXE on 360 to the Xbox One dashboard. Not having a go I’m just bemused at how many are saying it’s new.
It still lacks that next gen freshness to me, the UI team disappoint more than they please imo.
cinnamonandgravy
Member
just fire everyone involved
NeonGhost
uses 'M$' - What year is it? Not 2002.
Disagree the PlayStation is a lot cleaner and that ad at least is just for games and has info like friends online and your trophies shortcuts. The Xbox page is so cluttered with garbage as soon as you scroll down
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
Ok, yea I updated my PS5 and it defaults to the Explore tab. Shows my Account Info, A box for info on a game I own, and one spot for PlayStation news. This is still shit, but still better than the cancer that is the Xbox ads that are always there and you can never move away from. Also not a "full page ad".
Badlucktroll
Member
This was the best interface
i was like wtf when it became the nxe
i was like wtf when it became the nxe
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
This was the best interface
i was like wtf when it became the nxe
Yep. The subtle Skeumorphism with the trays. Very clean and defined sections with the info you need concisely. A focus on the player's account, games, achievements. Even the achievement panel itself in-game felt great. It was grid based so you could easily find any achievement you wanted without having to scroll through a long list.
I would *kill* to have Blades back, just for modern screens.
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The Explore tab rotates. There have been times where the entire background wallpaper turns into the ad they are promoting.
We will just have to agree to disagree.
One of my least favorites. It is a massive waste of real estate.This was the best interface
i was like wtf when it became the nxe
The PS3 XMB was the best IMO.
skyfall
Member
But did you ever wonder what the bottom of an avatar's shoe looks like?
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01011001
Banned
What on earth do you do on your Xbox if you "can never move away" from the 2 small add squares on the start page?
for me, the start page is the least used page in terms of time spent there, and this by a landslide.
I either instantly start a game from there, go down to my Pins, or go into my library.
just like on PS5 I instantly scroll either left or right.
it absolutely is when they have an ad deal going
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NeonGhost
uses 'M$' - What year is it? Not 2002.
Now you have to go through a game pass section just to get to your pins on Xbox
01011001
Banned
what are you talking about? you can fully customize your home screen... you can have your pins be the first thing you get to by pressing RT/Down