Domingo
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Blades was easily the best Xbox UI design and yeah it’s gotten worse over time. To be honest PlayStation has gotten bad too. I liked the simple XMB menus on it too.
Yeah, I don't love it either. I think it's head and shoulders above the Xbox's UI, though. I don't find myself wondering where normal features and functions are, but the XBM was better/easier. The shipping 360 and PS3 UI's were both functional, snappy, and intuitive. The Vita UI was pretty great, too.
There's no way both of these UI's are getting this bad by accident. There's clearly some level of motivation to bury/hide certain functions and you have to think it's monetary. Focus on the social stuff so people pay the subscription fees. Make everything work like a store link so people will go there and buy things. Confuse, inconvenience, and irritate people into spending money or doing something that makes money for you in the long term.