New Xbox Dashboard Soon - Games

Blades was my favorite. When the current one was first released, I had to squint the first time I saw it. It reminds me of apple interfaces and I cant stand any of apple's UI.

Microsoft should make you able to select your dashboard between Blades NXE Kinect and this new god damn one

[QUOTE=Espio;32266316]I don't know why anybody would even care about the dashboard, do people really use it for more than clicking "play game" and downloading the 20th CoD/Halo Mappack (I used to have a 360 back when it had the blades dashboard thing and only ever looked at it to change the tv settings then never looked at it again)[/QUOTE] the current XBL dashboard has a feature under friends that lets you see whos in a party together, that you cant see just by looking at the friends list, and it being xbox live, theres many people that I dont want to deal with on a daily basis.

Opened the link to see this: [img]http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/xbox-dashboard-580x322.jpg[/img] Reminds me of Zune/Smartphones. It looks okay...but that's it. Just okay. Also looks like they are trying to go for a XMB look and feel.

I still can't believe people actually pay to play games online. lol

[QUOTE=DiBBs27;32269853]I still can't believe people actually pay to play games online. lol[/QUOTE] You're paying your internet access don't you

[QUOTE=Jurikuer;32269701] [img]http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/xbox-dashboard-580x322.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] Works for me

[QUOTE=Jurikuer;32269701]Opened the link to see this: [img]http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/xbox-dashboard-580x322.jpg[/img] Reminds me of Zune/Smartphones. It looks okay...but that's it. Just okay. Also looks like they are trying to go for a XMB look and feel.[/QUOTE] That looks [B]nothing[/B] like the XMB. What the fuck are you lot on about? That is the Metro UI MS are pushing for WP7 and Win8. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/XMB_of_PS3.jpg[/img] XMB. [img]http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/xbox-dashboard-580x322.jpg[/img] Not the XMB in any way shape or form. The last and current Dashboards look more like the XMB than this. [editline]13th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Ganerumo;32269911]You're paying your internet access don't you[/QUOTE] And not paying extra on top of that to be able to use basic online features of a game that isn't a MMO.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32269911]You're paying your internet access don't you[/QUOTE] so are you. But on top of that, you are also paying Microsoft just to USE the internet connection you are already paying for. Anyways, sorry i brought it up, this argument is age old and neither side will ever admit defeat.

It's still a shitty argument to just say "lol u pay 4 online" while he does the exact same thing. It's only 5 dollars per month, and as far as I know, the xbox live is much more secured and reliable than the psn. Wii's online is a joke. This is not throwing money out of the window, far from that. Also silver accounts.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32270294]It's still a shitty argument to just say "lol u pay 4 online" while he does the exact same thing. It's only 5 dollars per month, and as far as I know, the xbox live is much more secured and reliable than the psn. Wii's online is a joke.[/QUOTE] Steam is more secured and reliable than XBox Live, Valve don't charge us to use that. Voiding that argument. Besides, the PSN is fairly secure, Piracy was near non-existent until last year, the 360 has had both retail and marketplace piracy, hacked games and modified profiles pretty much from launch.

Steam is a gaming platform, you pay for the games you play. They're getting a lot of money from it, thus are able to guarantee good security. XBL makes you pay for you to play any game, and they're getting a lot of money from it, also investing it in proper security. PSN got hacked notably because Sony decided to invest less money into their online security, mainly because they virtually get no profit from the PSN. We all saw what the result was. Also, steam is getting as hacked as the xbox does account and game wise. If the psn proposed more things to buy, you'd be assured hacking would be as present on it.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32270422]Steam is a gaming platform, you pay for the games you play. They're getting a lot of money from it, thus are able to guarantee good security. XBL makes you pay for you to play any game, and they're getting a lot of money from it, also investing it in proper security. PSN got hacked notably because Sony decided to invest less money into their online security, mainly because they virtually get no profit from the PSN. We all saw what the result was. Also, steam is getting as hacked as the xbox does account and game wise. If the psn proposed more things to buy, you'd be assured hacking would be as present on it.[/QUOTE] Correction, Steam is a game distributor not a platform.

Game distributors are called gaming platforms in french, I just did a bad translation, my mistake.

I have an xbox360, PS3 and a pc. I game mostly on my PC, because i refuse to pay a reidiculous subscription fee, Even 1 dollar is too much to give to microsoft on a reoccurring basis. I will never put my credit card info on PSN so i couldn't care less if they hacked my profile, i'll just make another one. With PC, it is different. I have been hacked before on steam, and i have had my account hijacked. Both times, i submitted a ticket to steam support and had my account back and secured within the next couple of days. It is even harder, now to hack an account on steam, where is you not only have to hack the account, but also the email that is tied to the account. Steam will not let you sign into your account from a different computer unless you answer the email it sends you. Even if the password they got is correct, they still cant get in without getting access to your email account. That is the essence of safety online. And it is free.

Shit, I thought that everyone was saying the blades were better for nostalgia's sake, but looking back on it, it actually was much better. Just glancing at that video, I could remember where everything was.

[QUOTE=hexpunK;32270329]Steam is more secured and reliable than XBox Live, Valve don't charge us to use that. Voiding that argument. [/QUOTE] You have to be connected to Steam's servers in order to play the games that YOU payed for. This has been quite a problem since they have had incidents where some local storm in Washington has caused people worldwide to be unable to play their paid games.

i'm down with the change. better than current theme, but it looks awkward for a controller. Current theme still confuses the shit out of me.

Half of each section is an ad, and the ads are 4x as large as anything else. great.

Why do console players stand for this bullshit!? Upgrading(?) software on an obsolete system does not make it any more advance it into the next generation.

[QUOTE=Delta616;32273943]Why do console players stand for this bullshit!? Upgrading(?) software on an obsolete system does not make it any more advance it into the next generation.[/QUOTE] If you read the previous pages you'd see people do not stand for this bullshit and actually hate it.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32274101]If you read the previous pages you'd see people do not stand for this bullshit and actually hate it.[/QUOTE] I did read the previous pages, that doesn't change the fact the millions of xbox players allow and welcome this bullshit.

I honestly don't see why MS keep changing the entire dashboard rather than just adding one or two features to the existing version. Even Nintendo can add features to the Wii OS without changing the interface.

[QUOTE=hexpunK;32270222]That looks [B]nothing[/B] like the XMB. What the fuck are you lot on about? That is the Metro UI MS are pushing for WP7 and Win8. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/XMB_of_PS3.jpg[/img] XMB. [img]http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/xbox-dashboard-580x322.jpg[/img] Not the XMB in any way shape or form. The last and current Dashboards look more like the XMB than this. [editline]13th September 2011[/editline] And not paying extra on top of that to be able to use basic online features of a game that isn't a MMO.[/QUOTE] You are joking right? The XMB is a menu that goes across the top and the options go verticle for each section. The new Dashboard does the exact same thing. Except instead of text, they are images. To me, and i'm sure many other, there are similarities. And of course it looks like the Metro UI they "are pushing for WP7 and Win8". Doesn't mean they don't look similar to something else.

[QUOTE]The upgrade is all about making the process of accessing content much faster and making content more discoverable[/QUOTE] Great! More links to monetized content. What would make this dashboard update great for me is if I set it it to always start at "my xbox." I don't wanna see the spotlight. I just wanna see the current game in my disc tray and my avatar. BTW, the new dashboard looks autistic.

I don't understand everyone's praise for the Blade UI. Aside from knowing where stuff is it was awful. It was cluttered with ads, large boxes displaying info that could be streamlined (and was) into a more confined way without making it look jammed together (like it was), it was very very old looking. I don't like the XMB, but I do like this. It shows you where you'd find everything and is nice to look at. I'm worried that Microsoft will like to categorize stuff too much and make findings things more difficult like the current Marketplace is.

It's a fucking dashboard you guys, holy shit. Everyone is screaming and crying about it for no reason. Oh no it's ugly. Oh no it's kind of awkward for controllers. What the fuck do you even do on the dashboard to where you need it to be so good looking and smooth? All you do is play games or download content from it, goddamn. People are seriously overreacting to this.

[QUOTE=Political Gamer;32261208]If anyone wants to see what it looks like they were showing it off at E3 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4stPcGPxs[/media] They probably have made a few changes since then but it will be about the same.[/QUOTE]It looks much neater. [editline]13th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Jurikuer;32276185]You are joking right? The XMB is a menu that goes across the top and the options go verticle for each section. The new Dashboard does the exact same thing. Except instead of text, they are images. To me, and i'm sure many other, there are similarities. And of course it looks like the Metro UI they "are pushing for WP7 and Win8". Doesn't mean they don't look similar to something else.[/QUOTE] The current menu is vertical for the menu, and horizontal for options, just because a menu scrolls a certain way doesn't mean its stolen, the new dashboard is going to be horizontal for the menu, and its going to be a bunch of boxes for the options.

[QUOTE=Jurikuer;32276185]You are joking right? The XMB is a menu that goes across the top and the options go verticle for each section. The new Dashboard does the exact same thing. Except instead of text, they are images. To me, and i'm sure many other, there are similarities. And of course it looks like the Metro UI they "are pushing for WP7 and Win8". Doesn't mean they don't look similar to something else.[/QUOTE] I still doesn't look remotely like the XMB as it isn't a vertical/ horizontal menu combination. The horizontal menus there are just groupings for "blocks" that make up the menu. Unless each group is explicitly navigated with just the up and down buttons, it isn't the XMB, it's Metro. The current dashboard is like a inverted XMB, this isn't.

i hope it won't blind me like it normally does when i turn on the 360 at 3 am