Possible Future For The XMB?
Written by BigPete7978 
Change Is Good
This is by no means an official announcement from Sony or anything to that nature. But it doesn’t mean that it isn’t one hell of an idea from a friend of mine that has been working on this idea for quite some time. His name is Azuske, and the idea is relatively simple. We already can fully customize how our icons look within the themes that we implement, but what about a fully customizable user interface? Give the user complete control over what they want as an interface. This would not only create more customization available to the user, but it would give PS3 owners more of a sense of ownership. The full discussion and pics follow:
Here is the discussion and main gist of the idea at hand.
Themes are good and all and some do like the XMB the way it is but many wish for the playstation 3 to be truly customizable…
To be able to go beyond the limits of the XMB and create your own interface to navigate from…Even if its not possible for the In-Game XMB to be customizable like this you can atleast give everyone the option to change the
Main XMB and make the PS3 Truly ours… Everything from Sounds, Custom Interfaces, New Visualizations for Music, and even
True 3D HD XMB’s that take advantage of some of the playstation 3’s power…
If the PSP can do it than the PS3 can do so much more right?These pictures below are from the PSP Mods but why should we need to hack and/or mod to get the features we want?
This is the difference between a Theme…. and True Customization
EDIT: I dont mean replace the current XMB what i mean is to give us the option to create custom “UI”. Like a new option under the settings for customization and two options UI Themes & XMB Themes
Here are some current representations of the custom UI on the PSP:
Now here are some concept shots of possible custom UI’s on the PS3:
Personally I think this would be a great idea and allow for the creativity to come out of every PS3 user out there. What would be even better is if they could be installed with the same simplicity as the themes we currently install. That way they could be shared and distributed over the internet like the themes are now. Remember guys this is not an announcement, just fan made ideas. What do you all think?
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November 25th, 2008 at 5:00 AM
that first concept made me feel sexy.
November 25th, 2008 at 5:15 AM
Wow. Wow. And wow. The first few were okay but once you got to the green ones and then the larger ones below that I was definitely interested.
Very nice.
November 25th, 2008 at 6:35 AM
i like the XMB icons that are angled thats pretty cool lol
November 25th, 2008 at 9:34 AM
AWESOME!! ADD ME pnutloco <—- lets play GTAIV online!!!
November 25th, 2008 at 12:57 PM
I honestly would like this but would like Sony to add Multiple PSN sign in, LittleBigPlanet has it so why doesn’t the PS3 have this ability! My family who have PSN accounts cant be arsed to do the simple trophies again and again!
This is a good read though!
November 25th, 2008 at 3:32 PM
I really think this is feasable. The PS3 runs on Linux, and Linux is probebly the most customizable OS I’ve used, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this did pop up at some time in the next few years.
November 25th, 2008 at 9:22 PM
wow THE LAST 1 is THE ONE
November 25th, 2008 at 9:27 PM
i think this is a good idea but i want sony to make the xmb we have load faster when u use ingame xmb. when in a game and u hit the ps button the xmb loads very slow, idk if it reads it off the HDD or system memory or off the psn itself what ever it is it loads slow and i want it faster like the new xbox dashboard NXE
November 25th, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Pretty cool, but some customizations are possible. Just search custom PS3 themes on google and you can download whatever custom themes you want
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November 25th, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Its a good idea and i think something Sony should def. look into. On the topic of customization, why not let me use an image from my Harddrive as my PSN avatar?
Great concepts and lets hope they take notice.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:03 PM
I think this is a amazing idea I hope Sony will look into this
November 25th, 2008 at 10:53 PM
whoa…..the last 2 are very good ideas.
November 25th, 2008 at 11:19 PM
I HAD THIS IDEA AWHILE AGO I’M DOING THIS WHEN I BECOME A SONY GAME DESIGNER. SO
November 26th, 2008 at 1:57 AM
I think that this is an amazing idea! What is so true is that it has been done on the psp, of course it can be done on the ps3.
Why would we have to hack/mod our system to be able to truely customize it to our liking? I had to hack my psp because i was so tired of seeing the same xmb style. AND I REALLY HOPE WE GET TO UPLOAD CUSTOM AVATARS! The ones sony has are really lame. So Bored of them!
I really hope sony does look into this and also i would like for them to speed up the In-game XMB as kpdc1 said, it is pretty slow in some games.
November 26th, 2008 at 6:22 AM
good read, Sony should definately look into this. we also need moving backgrounds and custom avatars!
November 26th, 2008 at 7:51 AM
Very nice, I would love sony to change the xmb, it’s a bit boring.
November 26th, 2008 at 12:28 PM
I would love to see this, I’ve been thinking about this ever since Sony released Premium Themes being that you could get a better looking theme out of a PSP hack it’s kind of sad and Sony should look into making a new theme format, maybe even one that is compatible with both the PSP and PS3 (and any future products that use the XMB).
Hmmm, maybe they should add a few other things also like 3D effects and animated backgrounds to replace the waves.
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November 26th, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Slightly interesting!! But if u wanna talk about a customisable interface u should talk about the 360 dashboard!! Talk about NOT feeling a sense of openess or ownership everything feels so rigid like I cant make modify it in any way………. so annoying!! GIVE ME FREEDOM!! Sorta like I get with the PS3 its so open and clear, and I hear u HUGHES ISAACS………. 3D and animated background would be SICK!! Imagine an animated Kratos background battling with the gods, or seeing CJ take down some dirty purple ballas!
November 26th, 2008 at 8:41 PM
i think its a great idea !!!!!
November 27th, 2008 at 2:26 PM
I want a theme that maybe plays a slideshow automatically of any photos on the HDD.
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