The Escapist Presents: Preview: Xbox Dashboard Update

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Krakyn

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I can almost promise you that that the many chans are going to muck with the ratings on XBL just like they did with google searches, pushing all the most terrible applications to the top of the list.
 

Agent Larkin

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Good but I need to point out one flaw in your reveiw. The system that allows you to see how many Gamerscore you could have gotten out of the total is already there. Now maybe it hasn't been out in America before but we have had it in Ireland since the last update.
 

black lincon

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Susan Arendt said:
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Cool, but i knew paying for avatar stuff would come eventually. on a side note can you alter the color of your clothes for free yet?
Nope.
damn. I sick of the only shirt they give you that I would actually wear being purple.

Agent Larkin said:
Good but I need to point out one flaw in your reveiw. The system that allows you to see how many Gamerscore you could have gotten out of the total is already there. Now maybe it hasn't been out in America before but we have had it in Ireland since the last update.
it's sort of there in the US. It's ascetically different, and it appears it's in a different place than before.
 

Johnn Johnston

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I really hope this is gonna be in the UK; I assume it will be, but you can't be sure.

And finally, a better way to show off how much of an Achievement Whore I am! I'm tellin's ya, them bleep-bloops just ain't cuttin' it any mores!
 

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Im glad to get the achievement progress stats BACK. (They took it out with the first big update that added avatars) I had fun knowing what my 1000th achievment was. (Ironically, it was beating Halo 3 on Legendary)
Paying for avatar items however...well
I wont be buying any.
 

Curtmiester

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Rating system is a interesting idea. But it reality, is will succeed of fail. No middle ground.
 

paragon1

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What!? Microsoft didn't deliver on all of its promises! Well isn't that new and different.
 

ActionDan

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Wow, actually buying stuff for your Avatar with real money? I find that concept quite pointless. It would be like paying the Escapist to have your Avatar on display. absolutely pointless and shows that Micro$oft are just bigger money grabbers than we knew.
 

Altorin

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didn't we already have a dashboard update this year? Or was that late last year? it wasn't long ago, I know that.
 

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Meh. I don't care about netflixs so no big deal. The avatar stuff is kinda cool, but they'd have to come out with something really cool for me to actually pay for it. Awards seem awesome. I cant wait. I like the total points thing. Its a cool thing to know
 

Colm

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Yeah Sky TV are going to have a similar thing to netflix, or so I've been led to blieve. In the UK and in Ireland aswell I think, that is, hope!
 

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Colm said:
Yeah Sky TV are going to have a similar thing to netflix, or so I've been led to blieve. In the UK and in Ireland aswell I think, that is, hope!
Yeah, but Sky is not as good, and PLUS, you need to be a Sky member as well! So, you need extra money, since I'm sure Netlfixs are free.
 

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scnj said:
So, it's not giving me a choice between NXE menu or blade system? Because I really preferred the blade system.
You might as well give up on that hope - it's not going to happen. The blades just ran out of room/flexibility, and with all the additional stuff being added there's no way they'd start providing two different interfaces.

The Shade said:
So....is Canada getting this or not?
As far as I know, everyone should be getting this update in August. The preview program that starts letting people on next week might not be available worldwide though.

Altorin said:
didn't we already have a dashboard update this year? Or was that late last year? it wasn't long ago, I know that.
Microsoft has traditionally done two updates a year. One in the Spring, one in the Fall.

Dyp100 said:
Yeah, but Sky is not as good, and PLUS, you need to be a Sky member as well! So, you need extra money, since I'm sure Netlfixs are free.
Nope, you need to be both a Netflix subscriber and have an Xbox Live Gold membership to use the Netflix streaming service on the Xbox. But it's totally worth it.
 

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Virgil said:
scnj said:
So, it's not giving me a choice between NXE menu or blade system? Because I really preferred the blade system.
You might as well give up on that hope - it's not going to happen. The blades just ran out of room/flexibility, and with all the additional stuff being added there's no way they'd start providing two different interfaces.

The Shade said:
So....is Canada getting this or not?
As far as I know, everyone should be getting this update in August. The preview program that starts letting people on next week might not be available worldwide though.

Altorin said:
didn't we already have a dashboard update this year? Or was that late last year? it wasn't long ago, I know that.
Microsoft has traditionally done two updates a year. One in the Spring, one in the Fall.

Dyp100 said:
Yeah, but Sky is not as good, and PLUS, you need to be a Sky member as well! So, you need extra money, since I'm sure Netlfixs are free.
Nope, you need to be both a Netflix subscriber and have an Xbox Live Gold membership to use the Netflix streaming service on the Xbox. But it's totally worth it.
I bet Netflixs isn't as much, and a lot LOT better, America always gives Europe the shit end in the video gaming industry...Always. -Still bitter over MASSIVE price increase and no BlazBlue-
 

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Virgil said:
scnj said:
So, it's not giving me a choice between NXE menu or blade system? Because I really preferred the blade system.
You might as well give up on that hope - it's not going to happen. The blades just ran out of room/flexibility, and with all the additional stuff being added there's no way they'd start providing two different interfaces.
Yeah, I know. But I really would give up their extra features for a menu system I actually like. I don't really care for crap like avatars anyway.