I only recently got an Xbox One. It was a piece of machinery I knew that I would need to get my job done and I’m very happy that is has a place in my living room. However, after over a year of living with the PS4, it felt like the UI was made out molasses. Apparently I’m not the only one who feels that way, and Xbox wants to make me (and everyone else) happy.
Over on twitter, Xbox boss Phil Spencer replied to tweets asking about the preview program and when things will start motoring along. His response shows that at least Xbox knows the UI needs some improvement.
@gabrielpina4 @thekeenpaladin Speeding up the UI is high on our list of improvements we want to make.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) April 7, 2015
I know that some of you might like the actual UI more than the PlayStation’s. Even though you’re wrong, I respect your opinion. But I think we can all agree that it needs to be more snappy and responsive, especially when pressing the Xbox button or for snapping apps. I’m actually curious if the Kinect speeds things up, or if all Xbox Ones are as slow as mine. Plus, that UI feels totally unintuitive for me – how is it that they made the experience worse that it was on the 360? Surely you’re supposed to learn from your mistakes and achievements?
Do you prefer the Xbox One UI to that of the PlayStation 4? Have you also felt like it was sluggish, or did I end up with a dud box?
Last Updated: April 8, 2015
Dawid Eduard Roestorf
April 8, 2015 at 15:14
PS4 UI is miles ahead of X1 interface. Even with a kinect it is just to slow.
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 15:21
“UI was made out of molasses” aaahh, such beautiful poetry! Is it anything like a sloth chasing a tennis ball? Or a caffeine addict before his first cup?
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 15:24
“Even though you’re wrong, I respect your opinion” So diplomatic XD
Robert van der Spuy
April 8, 2015 at 16:10
Love it hahaha
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 15:37
In all honesty though, there is nothing quite as frustrating as a sluggish UI…. I had an LG P920, yes, the stereoscopic 3d phone, ok, you can stop laughing now, seriously… Anyway, the UI was horrific! I’d swipe the phone and what would seem like a century would pass by before anything would happen on the bloody thing… To make matters worse, the phone sold so badly that LG never released a South African update to the poor little android based phone… I struggled for two years with a phone that would drop signal in the middle of a conversation, but it had a friggin awesome 3D screen!!
Klipkop1980
April 8, 2015 at 16:38
My S3 is doing the same thing. I press on apps, wait 5 seconds, then press again, nothing happens, press the back button or he home button. Before I know it I’ve opened up Facebook and it’s not even on the same page….I want to throw the damn thing, but the little voice of reason will always tell me that there will be no replacement…Bring back the Nokia 5210!
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 17:09
Yes!! I can play snake all day!
fleshtwister
April 8, 2015 at 15:50
Nintendo need to tweak their UI as well..
Ir0nseraph
April 8, 2015 at 15:53
I must admit I enjoy the PS4 interface more then the X1 interface.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 20:13
Draadsitter!
Ir0nseraph
April 9, 2015 at 08:48
XD
Tulipdame
April 8, 2015 at 15:56
I agree that the XOne responds slow. I hate it also when it resets a list in marketplace when I press back. I don’t want to start from the beginning again. Anyway, apart from that, I like the UI more than PS4’s UI. They did make it more customizable than 360, so they didn’t make it worse.
Robert van der Spuy
April 8, 2015 at 16:10
Hahaha cos microtwats suck and it’s based on a windows 8 kernel, of course it’s gonna be crap slow
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 20:13
Yeah, I dont think the whole tablet design paid off
Brady miaau
April 8, 2015 at 16:24
The UI is worse than the 360’s. On the 360, I could press the Xbox button and quickly go from place to place.
BUT with Kinect, I can say Xbox go to Youtube and it does
Klipkop1980
April 8, 2015 at 16:34
I do the same with my girlfriend, “Go make me coffee”, and she does.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 20:12
I tried that once and she beat the shit out of me.
Brady miaau
April 8, 2015 at 20:57
Your story and you stick to it!
Brady miaau
April 8, 2015 at 20:57
Can you drink it afterwards?
Klipkop1980
April 9, 2015 at 08:19
If she puts it in front of my lips and tilts the cup for me, yes.
Pieter Kruger
April 8, 2015 at 17:08
Xbox user interface is light years ahead of the PS4’s ui 80’s tech! If you say otherwise you’re a pony(cough cough, Zoe!) ????
K1FF J1MB0B (sizzle edition)
April 8, 2015 at 17:37
The Xbox One UI is a bloated piece of crapware. The fact that it’s sluggish comes as no surprise when you consider it’s running 3 stacked operating systems. On the flipside the PS4 has a truly elegant solution in the form of an OS based on Unix, the industry standard for stability and efficiency… ‘nuf said.
Pieter Kruger
April 8, 2015 at 17:58
Unixorns & Ponies are closely related…..????
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 20:12
You should see my horn…….wait what?
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 20:11
That’s not very nice. She owns both and that’s her personal opinion. How can you have any say about the PS4s interface anyway. You don’t own one do you. Call me a pony. I’ll be one of the pink ones.
Brady miaau
April 8, 2015 at 21:30
Personal preference thing. Also, what does the user need out of it defines, in part, how it is received for that person. Subjective. The article is more about speed, I think
Mathias
April 8, 2015 at 17:48
They are both ugly as shit… I liked the 360’s UI last gen, and hated PS3’s, but this gen’s, I like neither…
Graeme Willy
April 8, 2015 at 18:23
It’s because the more resources you commit to OS, the less you have for games, I reckon. Also, the PS4 doesn’t really even have a UI. I guess you can call it that, but it’s probably smart that Sony opted such a minimal approach.That way the device is purely a gamer and not something akin to a general computing device. If I had a choice between faster, more quality games and slower OS, vs, faster OS and slower/ lower quality games, I’d choose the former.
Rock789
April 9, 2015 at 07:02
XB1 UI is very sluggish. It’s continually ‘loading’. And then the cursor response even feels off sometimes – scrolling through something and it only registers your button presses well after you’ve input them. It’s improved since launch last year, no doubt. But it’s nowhere near the responsiveness of the PS4’s dashboard.
XenitXTD
April 9, 2015 at 09:17
My only problem is they dont take the internet speeds of other countries into consideration… so like they assume everyone has a 1gig line and stuff loads as fast as it does in thier videos when they demo new features… They really need to work on optimizing the content and streamline it so that even online stuff and store pages load faster… coz if it loads fast on a slow line its extra fast on a fast line… Right