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So, the new 360 dashboard is out. It updated the way one navigates through the features of the Xbox as well as adding some new ones. It uses Twist UI, which is the same UI used for Windows Media Center and the Zune. Some of the main feature updates are the ability to install games on your hard-drive, allowing for faster load times and reduced strain on your disk reader. The game is still required to be in the Xbox to run its content.
They have also added digital avatars, akin to Mii's (on the Wii). These are essentially your online persona and you can use them to share photos as well as play in some games among other things. You can also download Netflix movies directly to your Xbox, provided you have an account. Is it awesome? Well, personally I can't say because my Xbox is not with me at the moment. I will update this later when I test it out (hopefully I don't forget that I started this thread again).
They have also added digital avatars, akin to Mii's (on the Wii). These are essentially your online persona and you can use them to share photos as well as play in some games among other things. You can also download Netflix movies directly to your Xbox, provided you have an account. Is it awesome? Well, personally I can't say because my Xbox is not with me at the moment. I will update this later when I test it out (hopefully I don't forget that I started this thread again).
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Reposting just because. Maybe someone should start a new thread since the OP looks uh non-existant.
OP should contain:
-Premiere Theme pics
-How to netflix (foreign and domestic, cockblock by sony, why are the movies old, etc?)
-How to delete 0 achievements (guide, achievements, find 0 and hit x)
-How to save game to HDD (game tab, highlight game {left most option}, hit Y)
e- just noticed watch instantly is one movie on at a time, so you can't have a movie playing at the same time on your Roku, PC, 360, PS3, your friend's 360 all at once.
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the people at the e3 press conference aren't the people that stuff like avatars is for
In fact forget the dashboard and the blackjack.
I just want more games really, and I wasn't dissapointed: FFXIII, new Prince of Persia, Mirror's Edge, a psuedo new Halo announcement, and RE5 all pleased me greatly.
I do like how blades live on through the guide button. For everyone else, I think maybe they should include a classic option to appease those who were infuriated by the new dashboard unveiling. I guess.
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I think it's great, myself
I'll have to use it for a while to really know if I hate it though. And either way, I don't care that much.
And, regardless of any of that, the new guide is awesome. And I'll accept the new interface in return for it. If they improve the music player interface too, I'll be super-happy.
Netflix and the new party system alone are pretty fucking huge and probably required considerable changes to the dashboard as it is. If you're going to go for it, go for it.
Software updates are precisely the kind of updates you can and SHOULD be doing. I've been using my xbox as a media device just as much as I use it for games, if not more so. It's been invaluable in that area, and will continue to be.
The avatars are "eh," but I understand why. Nintendo and sony both will now have persistent online personas. If you're running the only network that people are paying for, you always have to be giving the same things as everyone else and then some.
Now that you can transfer games to the hard drive I wonder if games are going to be allowed to start requiring the hard drive.
Who are the people that "stuff like avatars" are for?
I mean, other than Wii owners
I don't know, but apparently Microsoft believes they can make a lot of money marketing to them.
hell no - there will be NEW ad space all over that thing - so in the future, you will see ads surrounded by ads - what fun
I personally had a secret pride in the 360 being the system of absolute choice and dominating so righteously in every important way. I feel the sting of Mii/PS3 layouts... and it feels desperate where desperation is not needed.
That being said... to take advantage of any of the cooler new features you have to buy a bigger hard drive and after two 360 replacements and then a trade in to a new system with the new cd-rom drive I simply can't imagine spending any more money on hardware.
For 179 bucks for the 120 gig hard drive, I figure I'm about half-way to a PS3 and 5 blu-rays so I don't see being able to take advantage myself.
It's for all the 360 owners who don't even know that their console has the Live Arcade or can download Movies/TV shows, which (although probably a suprise to people on these boards) is a majority of the user base.
The great majority of Walmart consumers have their 360 and just use it the same as they would their old playstation. They turn it on and put in a game and the game boots up, nothing more. The present dashboard doesn't do anything to help resolve that situation as it's a confusing cluster fuck of redundancies and content hidden behind multiple menus.
Avatars inherently create a "game" on the dashboard and encourage people to play with it more. In addition by creating a more streamlined, user-friendly, method for accessing and viewing content in the new dashboard all these people that don't use it now will be more likely to find all this "NEW" stuff their console can do.
There is a covert irony to it all in that it may seem like they are copying the Wii interface, but the Wii copied their interface off of Apple. But there is a reason that so many people copy Apple. Despite all the areas that company is lacking they create simple, efficient, user-friendly interfaces.
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People who like games like The Sims & Animal Crossing. Seriously, I've purposely avoided letting my 7-year old daughter know about the 360 avatars, because I know that once she finds out, she'll be begging to play the 360 all the time just to mess around with avatar creation and customization.
Personally, I see nothing particularly wrong with one company taking a good idea that another company has and expanding upon it like Microsoft is doing here (from the videos shown, it looks like avatars will be much more customizable than Miis). I mean, lots of companies have taken the idea of achievements from Microsoft and included it in their own games and I'm okay with that 'cause I like achievements.
As for the dashboard, I'll wait until I actually use it before passing judgment. I know I am way hyped for the other stuff that is coming with the update like copying games to the hard drive, 16:10 support, and Netflix.
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Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly considering the situation), my friend didn't know that Xbox Live Arcade existed until he was up at my place one time and saw me dicking around with Arcade titles.
Granted, this was, like, practically two years ago, but I see where you're coming from.
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Amen. Though I really hope they have this on display at PAX... I'd like to get a chance to see it firsthand.
Tycho's comments on the matter seem pretty apt. To me, it screams 'identity crisis.'
I love when people say "cluster-fuck"
also; i agree that it is like a game, the creation of miis.
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After this announcement, I was reading a New York Times article from that morning about Microsoft's upcoming keynote at E3. What it discussed was, chiefly, the way the Xbox has been pigeonholed as the system for hardcore gamers. How there was little appeal to casual gamers, etc. I've also seen people talk about how inaccessible the current blades system is. I loved the blades myself, but I can see them as being a bit hard to acclimate to. But the main consensus of the article was that the Xbox needed a way to appeal to the casual gamer.
Here it is.
The blades system has been relegated to the guide button now, a development I like. And the future dashboard is cleaner, with modern minimalist white space and large graphics. Very much like Apple's Coverflow. And there is a more human aspect to friends now, as they can be represented by a humanoid shape rather than a picture.
So overall, it is tuned more to casual gamers.
However the new functionality is aimed at people like us. Eight person party system cross-game, with the ability to watch movies together and have 8 person chat? Fuck yea, I've been waiting for this for a long time. Netflix integration? Great too. Don't like the avatars? Keep the gamerpic, it's been confirmed that you can choose to keep it.
But yeah I can't wait personally.
That alone is enough for me to not care what else it does.
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I think with the avatars they are aiming to target people who like to feel unique, without buying gamerpics.
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This deadens the blow a bit.
EDIT: The one thing I really want on the new dashboard is some sort of alphabetizing for the movies/demo's etc. I mean, I know they're already in alphabetical order, but I want to be able to skip to, say, "S" without having to scroll through the first 200 items on the list. It's just terrible design.
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I just hope the avatars can be made to resemble spartans, special forces commandos, stormtroopers, that kind of thing. And not just the generic, pacifist Lego-people look of the Nintendo's Miis.
And will the option to set your own background go away? I kind of liked that idea. So, yes, burning questions. But not that burning. I was looking at my dashboard for about five minutes of the several hours spent on my 360 today.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to redesign it completely this far into the 360's lifespan. I'd rather see them improve on and work with the UI that's already there, instead of aping the Wii, which in turn does it's best to ape Apple.
Or just bite the fucking bullet and ask Apple to design a new UI for them.
That might be nice feature to use while playing Bad Company, where you can only chat with your squad of four people, and often times people get tossed into opposite teams or into the wrong squads, etc.
All in all, I am looking forward to this redesign. I like the new look of it, and I like that I can install games onto my HDD, if only for seeing those sweet as icons. I'm glad to hear that I can keep my avatars instead of completely reverting to this Mii-like system, because I like my little happy crab avatar.
Really? An atrocity? You sure that's not a bit of an overstatement?
Nope. The only UI I can think of that was worse was my old Motorola phone. I've found instruction manuals written entirely in Mandarin easier to decipher.
However, all the nice new -features- (8 person private chat, AWESOME) are great.
I just hoped they added the godforsaken ability to scroll the description text ourselves instead of waiting for it to scroll.
edit: weird thought. I wonder what this means for the music player.