Shack PSA: Xbox 360 dashboard update rolling out
The new Xbox 360 dashboard update is starting to roll out today, and will make its way to all users within a week.
The next time you start up your Xbox 360, a shiny new dashboard update might be waiting for you. The official roll-out of the dash update is starting today, and will move in phases over the next week. It boasts a few new features, a prettier UI, and the launch of new services.
The Major Nelson Blog outlines the features, including a new UI with more tiles, the addition of Internet Explorer, Recommendations and Ratings, and "Pins" for saving your favorite apps and games. The Search has also been revised, and Voice Search includes compatibility with several new languages.
For media lovers, the Zune Video Marketplace has been rebranded as Xbox Video, and Xbox Music is starting up too. Finally, this update lays the groundwork for SmartGlass, but that functionality itself won't come until Windows 8 launches on October 26.
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The new Xbox 360 dashboard update is starting to roll out today, and will make its way to all users within a week.-
gaaah cant talk bout it : )
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the ads only play if you go out of you way to navigate to them. they've expanded all the icons from the centre of the screen so it fills more of the blank space and there's more room for navigating to the shit you want to do. i think the games marketplace stuff is a little more organized and i wish there were more ads for stuff on XBLA so I knew what was new and hot without having to go all the way to the XBLA section.
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Yes, gamers can be pretty pathetic. They think everything has to fit into whatever definition they have provided. The ads are not intrusive. If they bother you, go vote with your money and go to Playstation. Go to the Wii. The ads are a stream of revenue that is not going to go away unless people stop paying for that space, and I don't see that happening as more and more people shift time from TV to their console for entertainment hours.
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It's not really a great point though, plenty of paid services still include ads. Cable TV, Hulu+, Gamefly, Netflix discs, public transit, sporting events, etc.
I have no idea why you would expect the ads to be gone with a gold membership. -
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are you out of your mind? they are intrusive. the main menus for the console are entirely fucking ads. why are there ads impeding doing shit or buying stuff? why am i constantly wading through ads? why is the newest dashboard worse than the last one? and more unintuitive because of ads in the way?
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I see Sportchek and Taco Bell ads right now.
Here's the Taco Bell one:
http://i.imgur.com/R3FGg.jpg
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My impressions from being in the beta:
IE is passable, you are not going to give up browsing on your computer. When smartglass is fully implemented this might change, but Xbox Companion (the old WP app) wouldn't do much integration with IE, so I don't know how much better smartglass will make it.
The dashboard squares are a bit bigger, more things on the screen.
My pins is a welcome addition to pin your favorite stuff to a few button presses away.
Recent apps include video apps now, I don't think Quick Launch did this in the past.
Recommended tiles show up on a few pages, which will pimp you other games/content based on your consumption.
Bing search is way better.
There are still some large load times, but it could be due to the size of my profile and the amount of titles I have played. I'm not sure this is a situation that everyone will encounter, however.
I don't like that by default it would display your Microsoft Account email in the rotation with your messages/gamerscore area. You can turn this off. -
They moved the game section closer to the front
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