feel free to vote/discuss.

Hmm My views:
Wii Channels - I do like the layout, but to get more functionality you have to download more channels which is a pain in the arse.
360 Blades - The Blades are a clear winner, although it is a little annoying on some days when you have music streaming or connecting to Live with the lag, but the customization is a clear win.
PS3 X-Media Bar- I haven't seen alot of this, but I must say after the 360's blades the Bar falls short.
Windows - I am sick of Windows, with out going into the same old Rants, All I will say is out of the 4, Windows tends to have the most trouble with loading up Menus on some days.

you take away the pretty pictures of the blades, you basically have the ps3 xmb. in the xmb, instead of the main things being seperated into different blades, they are all in a line. when you go through both, what do you do? press left and right to get to the main option, then use up and down for the sub options. not really a difference between the two besides the fact that the 360 just adds an individual background for each.

Love the 360 Dash, just cos its clean and has nice effects, never used the PS3 dash but from what i've seen, they've tried to go too subtle, and the Wii menu is kinda cool, but just doesnt do it for me. And Windows, well, i think every1 is over that.

might be a slight bias in these forums, but whats new,
my ps3's dash is shitty just because when it loads a game, it has brief static screen and static in my speakers, whats that all aboot.
360 blades all the way

Uhh...Winders.

Didn't vote cos The ps3 isnt out here yet... I do have a psp though, so if it's as similar as it seems from the screens going around, i'd pick the 360.

The 360 is a great concept and only falls down a bit in the sub levels... The psp has an advantage in that the settings area is much less painful to navigate.

I like the fact you can move the wii's channels around any way you like (except the disc channel)
But 360 has them all beat.

Some of the polls on here are pretty good and give a fairly accurate representation of what the general gaming populous thinks about something. But this one... just might be a weeeeeeeee bit biased.

Well there might be a tad bit of bias, but there is also an avoidance to bias here since most of us have gone for the Wii60 Combo, had/Got a PSP, have a friend with another Next-Next-Gen system, or even seen a video of the dash in action, and although its on an Xbox Forum your not going to be flamed for saying the Wii Channels are better than blades.

Anyone who voted for Wii channels should be disqualified. I love my Wii, but the OS is painfully outdated and was outdated the second it was released. Come on people.

I play my Wii for the games, the other experiences it provides are substandard. I use my 360 for everything because it does it all and does it well. And I laugh at people who spent $600 on a PS3.

There should be a Gnome or KDE or something option.

I chose Windows - I don't really think of the console interfaces as Os's.

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I chose blades assuming its an OS for a console.. but not sure about this poll.. I love the 360 blades, but it would suck on a pc, and windows would suck on console, so windows should not be an option..

I second that, besides if they're going to have Windows they should include Mac & Linux aswell.

360 Blades hands down winer - easy to navigate and see all of your options easily and at once
PS3 - painful navigation of features and options - cumbersome and slow
Wii - nice interface, but very basic and will not do well with future additions
Windows - well we all know how that is, but i have to say that Vista is very nice as long as you got enough RAM

and there should have been other OS choices like Linux (Knoppix, Ubuntu, Gentoox, etc) or Mac - or at least called the Windows option as "other" - not that I like using those other OS' but still to be fair...

Windows would suck on a console, however I still chose Windows because at least with Windows I can reoganize the folders how *I* want to see them.

All of my "Net" applications are in a "Net" folder. All of my image editing software is in "Imaging" and all of my Audio-Video software is in a "Audio-Video" folder.

I can move icons on and off my desktop and organize the views how I want to display them. I find the Xbox 360's media navigation abysmal.

On the other hand, I could organize the menu on Gnome, KDE, or other GUI on top of Linux just about as easily so really a Linux based desktop that allowed the user to change what was displayed or not displayed would be just as well by me.

I just want it to work. I've never had problems getting Windows menus to work... then again I turn off all that cutesy shit garbage like the fade effect and animation crap. I also disable most programs from running in the background, and make sure my computer isn't infected with spyware/junk. My 360 locks up a hell of a lot more than my PC running Windows.... I can lock up Need For Speed simply by driving too fast from one area to another before the next area finishes loading. Really pisses me off. It seems to happen four times more often when I'm streaming MP3s to the 360 at the same time... Microshaft wants to blame EA and EA wants to blame me and Microshaft. Too bad they can't release an update that actually fixes crap like this.

I definitely like the XMB on ps3 since I love it on PSP. But the reason for ps3 favorism is that I like the video ICONS they are just down right amazing option!

Wii channels suck no thought was put into them... well I returned my Wii so I dun give a sh** about it but 360 interface > wii wii




I don't bother replying to opinions but you are a bullSH***TER.. the XMB is the fastest and smootest to navigate its even faster than the 360's blades .. anyone here who ownz a ps3 and a 360 will say the same thing unless he is a blind fanboy

I have to agree with Unregistered007 on this one - the XMB is in no way cumbersome and slow. The Playstation Store may be that, but certainly not the XMB.

xbox360's blades as they work great on XBMC using the MC360 skin.

then windows.

Ah well, I liked the original green backround on the xbox, but all that changed when the modifications came out... the sky is also a pretty color

I only have the 360 console, but I do have PSP, and I just think that the XMB is really sleek and nice looking.

i say that the 360 is a very nice lay out
easy to nav through

then windows

mac os x?

my opinions

wii: Havemt got one, seen em in action tho wernt to impressed IMO
360: The blades are cool but it wudda won my vote if it had more than 4 blades
ps3: not released yet but its the same as the psp, i hated the psp menu so lost my vote
windows: ive always loved windows, back from 3.1, 95 was ok, 98 was the best millenium horrible, xp great not fantastic tho and vista reminds me of a new xp skin in all fairness

as far as consoles go, 360 dash. i own all 3. the 360 dash is just done right. the thing i like about the XMB is when you highlight a game it loads a game specific bg and plays a nice little song. other than that, it is a complete wreck. wii channels, nothing to complain about but the wii just doesn't have the options the 360 does. and windows well, i don't hate on windows like other people do but, you can't really compare it to the other 3, imo.

*cough* BIAS *cough*

I'm sorry, I just don't like the blades. They're relatively slow. At least for me. I like menus/gui to be as fast as possible. I hate it when GUI designers slow it down so the idiots don't get lost because the menu is too fast. A good example is in Marble Blast Ultra I can hit Start, Down, A so fast it is just a flash on the screen to restart the match. I love that. Compare that to Halo 2's GUI for example, to change controller settings there is a slight delay when entering a submenu, like a fade almost. It is intentional.

I hate that, and that's what I feel the 360 blades are, intentionally delayed.

And why would somebody say that the Wii GUI is messed up? Everything is right there on one screen. GUI designers are told to try and minimize the number of actions required to get somewhere. With Windows or Wii, it's point and click, done. With PS3 or 360, it's move one blade, move another blade, move another blade, just to get to a screen that gives you the options you want. Wii and Windows were there to begin with.

Xbox 360 OS is very practical and easy to use. Not to mention very customizable. However, the PS3 media bar style is much more aesthetically pleasing. It's just so neat and mesmerizing on a good TV. But, it's much harder to navigate than the xbox 360's OS. I'm a artsy d-bag so I choose the PS3 media bar overall.

360 is the winner. the ps3 interface is almost the same as the psp its not all that good. wii i havent played so i whont say anoything. windows lets not go there eyther.

I've used all three and i think Sony probably has the easiest and fastest navigation out of all three to navigate, but sometimes it's a pain finding stuff...
Xbox's blades seem a little sluggish sometimes and wii's channels just make my arm ache.
personally tho, i'm going to stick with xbox, the ps3 is way too pricey for what it is, and wii just isnt powerful enough.

Well, first of all, if you're going to have Windows in there, you should also have OSX and the various BSD/Linux flavors.

I would then probably choose KDE, then OSX.

A bit biased on a mostly Xbox website..lol

Bit stupid lol, lol, lol, LOL, LOL FRAGGIN' LOL! that you haven't read the rest of this topic.

xbox 360 blades all the way! just because the xbox rules over all other consoles or pc's! muhahahahaa

Mac OS for me sorry.

but since that isnt there, 360 closely followed by wii

I agree with the blades, accessability is fantastic

wheres linux for pc? windows is a piece of shit, i voted xbox 360 blades


windows= crappy, virus infested OS, with preset builds

linux=OS that can handle processors better, and 100% customizable

man the 360 blades with the woodgrain background it just looks smooth... And I love the customization

I have to go with PS3 XMB, I like the way it looks, it's fast and easy to navigate, and has great potential for expansion in while still remaining fast and easy to navigate.

Xbox 360 is a bit slower than ps3 in to navigate. And I think expanding to would make it even slower.

Wii doesn't really have much substance yet, and I like High Def menus which Wii doesn't have.

It makes no sense to me to compare the consoles OS with Windows though.

I gotta agree with Marrvia on this one. I like having all my options right there on one screen without having to navigate through a mess of windows to get there, which is basically what the blades are about, as nice looking as they are.

i just dont like the ps3 OS. it is just a psp interface recycled.

I believe "Windows" refers to a mouse/window based interface not Windows the operating system. OSX and Linux are style window based OS interfaces.

the question was OS _LAYOUT_ not the OS itself.

OSX tiger all the way and my 2nd choice would be Avalaunch on the xbox

I like the PS3's XMB the best. It's easy to navigate and has plenty room for expansion and still be fast and easy to use. The 360 blades are also nice, but take a bit longer to go through them.

I chose the PS3 XMB because it is simplistic. When I want to do a task, like play a game, or listen to music, it's right there on the bar. Also it's the same as PSP, and those consoles work well together. Yes I realize the PS3 dashboard is full of limitations right now.

360 Blades are good and all, but they're full of advertisements. It's like my Verizon phone.

i whould have to say the 360 blades is bar far the most creative

the 360 blades themselves work out just fine.. but the sub-menus are much less intuitive and difficult to navigate until you get the hang of it... it would be nice if M$ made a patch so that you could sort/organize however you want

I'm sick and tired of the screen tearing on the blades, that makes the console look like crap and buggy...

Don't get me wrong i love my xbox 360, but i think that it is lame that the OS still does that after all this time.

I like the blades, I'd say it's definitely the best thing I've ever seen on a console. As far as Windows, yeah it's in a category with Linux and Mac, it doesn't fit on a console, and console type interfaces don't fit on PCs.

Project Mayhem III skin on XBMC, very simple stylish and a lot faster than 360 blades. After that I guess 360 blades, although I do agree that the navigation is sort of slow at times. Ps3 interface is growing on me though, although to be fair I rarely use it, it's not that it sucks or anything but for some reason I prefer the 360.