6th June 2018, 9:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 6th June 2018, 9:31 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Wait, the PS4 doesn't have a downloads list like the X1, or progress indicators like the Switch? How bizarre! Or is there something for digital downloads but not disc installs? Either way, that's really weird. It is nice that it has disc icons which light up though, that's important.
To be a little more accurate about the X1, on the home screen there are a row of icons on the bottom, and one usually does show what is in the disc drive, with a disc logo. And when you put a disc in the system when it's on the games' icon will appear in the bar with the disc logo icon on it, ready for launching. However, the full list of all of your installed games does not show anything at all, as I said; there are no indicators of which games require a disc and which do not, or of which games' disc is currently in the drive. There's nothing, until you try to launch a game which needs a disc, which will give you an error. And I'd need to test it again to be sure, but I think that that disc icon on the home screen isn't permanent, and if you've had a disc in there for a while but have been playing a bunch of digital games it might get pushed off, in which case you'll have no idea what disc is in there unless you take it out, pretty much... so yeah, on this front MS definitely loses. (though the Vita is just as bad or worse, at least you're holding the system so taking the game out isn't as annoying) I edited the OP to reflect this.
MS does, however, have the best downloads list. The X1's downloads list is a good list with all the details right there, for both online downloads and disc installs, which the Switch doesn't give you (it just has progress bars with no numbers attached) and it sounds like the PS4 doesn't have either, at least for disc installs.
But yeah, it looks like some elements of the Switch UI were inspired by the PS4 -- the horizontal bar of games, the full grid you have to scroll over to the end of the bar to get to, the icons showing which games require physical media... it's all just like the PS4, just without folder support or any kind of sorting options in the full list, unlike Sony. They should have continued on with their own OS styles, instead of copying Sony!
To be a little more accurate about the X1, on the home screen there are a row of icons on the bottom, and one usually does show what is in the disc drive, with a disc logo. And when you put a disc in the system when it's on the games' icon will appear in the bar with the disc logo icon on it, ready for launching. However, the full list of all of your installed games does not show anything at all, as I said; there are no indicators of which games require a disc and which do not, or of which games' disc is currently in the drive. There's nothing, until you try to launch a game which needs a disc, which will give you an error. And I'd need to test it again to be sure, but I think that that disc icon on the home screen isn't permanent, and if you've had a disc in there for a while but have been playing a bunch of digital games it might get pushed off, in which case you'll have no idea what disc is in there unless you take it out, pretty much... so yeah, on this front MS definitely loses. (though the Vita is just as bad or worse, at least you're holding the system so taking the game out isn't as annoying) I edited the OP to reflect this.
MS does, however, have the best downloads list. The X1's downloads list is a good list with all the details right there, for both online downloads and disc installs, which the Switch doesn't give you (it just has progress bars with no numbers attached) and it sounds like the PS4 doesn't have either, at least for disc installs.
But yeah, it looks like some elements of the Switch UI were inspired by the PS4 -- the horizontal bar of games, the full grid you have to scroll over to the end of the bar to get to, the icons showing which games require physical media... it's all just like the PS4, just without folder support or any kind of sorting options in the full list, unlike Sony. They should have continued on with their own OS styles, instead of copying Sony!