Lol @ the screenshots. Who is playing Kinectimals? I was once on an Uno crush, but even small children lose interest in that game quick.
This arbitrary dashboard nonsense needs to stop. Let us design our own templates. Give us options to play with. I liked it better when it was the blades that swoosh-swooshed. And the rainbow of colors. It was first-draft perfect in a way that ran smooth and only 'locked up' during the first 1.5 seconds of signing online. This minor hiccup occurs on my current 1year/9month old system more often than it did versus its first generation (the xbox's with the metal enclosure around the power plug). This could all be brought back without sacrificing our precious Mii people that some of us might have spent money on because they wanted their Avatar to wear a Bioshock BURN! shirt.
Meanwhileis looking at grey/white windows with slightly shaded borders, with boxes that fill the whole screen intrusively rather than sliding out all meek from the screen's corners is strange, combine with the main screen, which is (thankfully) your choice of background, with backdrops for your avatar. And from your point of view it looks as though they are standing on a strange tilted horizon, flipping through TV channel windows that whiz by your avatar.
What happened to little ads in boxed in under information, blinking or bubbling pleasantly like chemicals in a lab set? And the metallic panels that shifted? It was like turning a bauble over in your hands, pressing different buttons--it felt like it should have: an interface, a device, organic and complex, a widgit, a doodad. Nowadays it feels as though it only exists to visually compliment Netflix.
