in my view the dash isnt sony's strongpoint.

the xbox360 has a fluid and fast dash, buying content automatically downloads and installs itself and it knows if its already installed.

the ps3 has a very laggy psn store, its a messy process to download purchased content and then after it is downloaded it still needs to be manually installed, on power up is a choice of either going to the whats new page or to the game inserted, both of which do not show the theme which is annoying, the daylight saving is currently bugged as well, I have had to disable daylight saving on my ps3 to get the right time, they have the setting reversed. Plus its much harder to navigate files on the hdd on the ps3, the dash seems a mess by comparison.

I dont have ps4/xbox1 but I would be surprised if sony's dash beats the xbox1.

Edited by Chrysalis (Wed 01-Jan-14 13:26:22)

Playstation 4 dash is nothing like the horrible mess associated with the Playstation 3 store and downloads and installs in minutes.

I hate the playstation 3 process of downloading and installing games and waiting ages for it to do so,there is a vast improvement on the playstation 4 store with installs,downloads,interface you name it.

Don't know what Nelly is going on about as i have not encountered any lag while using the interface on the Playstation 4 store and find it really fluid and a joy.

When i eventually get around to connecting this Xbox One i will make a honest opinion at what is better regarding downloads and installs.

I know one thing and that is you don't have to wait up to 30 minutes to play initially installed games like Ryse which many are complaining about,Killzone started to install and i could start playing that in under a minute.

Xbox One V P4 Install times.

The playstation 4 is super fast and its the best thing about owning a Playstation 4 and given its a paid service now it was expected and Sony could no way revert to a mess that is the Playstation 3 store.

Thanks mate but i will get it Friday,you never know it might be tucked away in the box but i doubt it,been taking all the xmas decorations down today and we both been cleaning the house��.Boring Job

I noticed the daylight saving thing and thought it was backwards too.

The store is incredibly quick and works beautifully as Timey says. It's not really any different to the "new" PS3 store, except if automatically adds and starts downloading purchases. What you see that works horribly on the PS3 store, actually runs beautifully on the PS4 store.

My point exactly Nelly and to give a side by side comparison then you going to have to hook up both consoles and Timey will be doing that by the weekend for sure.

I will admit that the xbox 360 v Playstation 3 in the past was a no brainer and the 360 anyalates everything when it came to store,downloads,installs ,deleting content compared to the playstation 3 which like we say is one tedious boring mess of a process and i doubt now that Sony will ever put it right given there investment in the Playstation 4.

Don't know what Nelly is going on about as i have not encountered any lag while using the interface on the Playstation 4 store and find it really fluid and a joy.

No, the store has worked fine. My point was I suspect it to be the network itself, not the console. Moving between chat > messages > invitations etc. was slow with the refresh circle rotating away. Only for 5 seconds or so, but normally it is, as you say, instant.

The store and downloads etc. haven't been affected at all.

yeah network i got ya i noticed when i message you throughout he app i have on my phone and iPad it takes a lot longer than usual but thats the only issue i have and its no big deal

Yeah. I blamed my iPhone for that. Like this forum, it doesn't seem to like the software as much as it ought to.