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Making waves: PlayStation XMB headed to new Sony Vaio laptops

Posted Jul 16, 2008 at 8:30AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3, PSP Tags: gaming accessories, Sony, VAIO, XMB

Considering that the XMB won an Emmy award (get ready for a mouthful: "The Emmy Award for Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of Personal Media Display and Presentation Technology"), you can't deny the fact that the graphical user interface of the PS3 and PSP is indeed making waves... LOL, did I just make a pun there?

Now, Sony's announced that they'll be incorporating the XrossMediaBar up, down, left, and right into their latest line of Vaio mobile laptops, the Vaio FW series. This line of notebooks will have the new Media+ software that uses the XMB interface.

To further sweeten the pot, you can hook up your PS3 or PSP to the Vaio FW, via DNLA server. Now how's that for interconnectivity? Throw in that Bravia too - its V4500 HDTV series also has the XMB, y'know.

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The 360 dashboard is the same as the XMB, except for the fact that the interface looks nicer. Instead of centering on a single option, you can see a list of options.

While I love my PSP, I just don't like the XMB. Looking at the XMB options it centers whatever you're on, and you can see part of one above and part of one below.

360 example:

Option1

Option2

Option3

Option4

Option5

PS3/PSP example

Option1(half)

Option2

Option3(half)

-andrew- -kupomogli-

# hey — 93pauott 2008-07-17 02:18

you can se 5-6 options at a time on the ps3/psp systems.

# first — emcp 2008-07-17 06:44

of all its emcp

second of all, i dont own a 360, so im not a fanboy and just ditching the xmb, if anything im a sony fanboy

also yes its good, i used to like it due to its simplicity but ive gotten to bored with it

and sony should at least give their consumer the ability to change the menu, just like CTF (CXMB)

it can still keep the simplicity but just modify it a bit, instead of just changing icons

thats my argument

and while their might not be a better interface else where it doesnt mean it should be left

second of all just because a UI gets updated doesnt mean the previous was crap

the xmb got updated with custom icons, does that make the original crap???

seriously thats something a retard would say, or a 2 yr old

# its good and all — na2rul 2008-07-17 09:32

but maybe it should walk my dog too and read my mind. oh the dissapointment

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