New Xbox 360 Dashboard

[MRevelle83]

... is up right now. Just so you all know.

[Zombie Mr. Peanut]

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And it is decidedly not attractive. Like a console menu version of plumpkin, basically.

[Valkysas]

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I hate it, want the old one back.

[John Mora]

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Can it really be worse than any of the options we've had so far?

[Hrafn]

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Yeah. Basically, it just keeps getting uglier.

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

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Netflix has undergone the same treatment. I think the descriptions are actually harder to read, now. Also, Netflix has a search option, finally. But it replaces the add-to-queue button. Normally when I go through movies, I'm all, oh, I want that, click, ooh another, click, and that, click. And it was easy to tell if I had a movie in the queue already, because the button wouldn't show if it was.

Now, I have to actually look into the video to add it or find out if I already did.

Thus, it's not as streamlined. Also, ugly.

[Perversion]

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Netflix is less streamlined, you say, but how is the rest of the main 360 interface? It can't possibly be more cluttery and less streamlined than it already was.

I tried to download the update yesterday morning, but it kept giving me an error message, and would not let me fully download it. I had wanted to play Rock Band 3, but chose not to, because, because the game will not recognize my downloaded songs if I'm offline. I was instead going to try Chime, which I'd not played yet, but could not do that either, because it needed an update. I didn't even try any other XBLA games, because they most likely would have reverted to trial versions.


Yeah, there's a reason I don't play my 360 that often.

[Goufunaki]

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I tried to download the update yesterday morning, but it kept giving me an error message, and would not let me fully download it. I had wanted to play Rock Band 3, but chose not to, because, because the game will not recognize my downloaded songs if I'm offline. I was instead going to try Chime, which I'd not played yet, but could not do that either, because it needed an update. I didn't even try any other XBLA games, because they most likely would have reverted to trial versions.


Yeah, there's a reason I don't play my 360 that often.

When a game asks you to update, you can choose not to do it and continue playing.

Also, to play things offline...
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Support/LicenseMigration/Home

[Kire]

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The white is burning my eyes. Any way to change this?

Not as bad as the ps3 interface though, which really makes me not want to use it.

[d2king10]

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Yeah, its pretty horrible

[Perversion]

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Not to get into a fanboy discussion/shouting match, but the PS3's interface is one of the reasons it's my main console as opposed to the 360. It's sleek, it's streamlined, and everything is easy to find. The 360 (especially online) is bloated and filled with worthless headings that I have to endure to find what I'm looking for.

Now, if the new 360 interface gave me the option to turn off 3/4 of that bloat, I might be willing to give it another look. But why would they get rid of all the ads, videos, and "special offers" for their games and online content, and risk losing money? They wouldn't.

[Jeroak Nelave]

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I honestly can't see how people can prefer the 360 interface over the PS3, but to each his own.

[Biggie]

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The white is burning my eyes. Any way to change this?

Not as bad as the ps3 interface though, which really makes me not want to use it.

Wait for it......

I honestly can't see how people can prefer the 360 interface over the PS3, but to each his own.

like fish and bait.

[Hrafn]

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Ugly as it is, I have no complaints from a functionality standpoint. Everything I need is pretty easy to access, just as it was before. Although I saw on The Escapist that the indie developers are up in arms because the section for those games has been taken out of the regular Game Marketplace and stuffed somewhere that fewer people are likely to see it.

[DK]

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I like it, frankly it looks like a joy to control with kinect, which I won't be getting.