The new Xbox 360 dashboard looks ridiculous..

[oecumenix]

.. discuss.

Personally, if I wanted to use the Wii dashboard, I'd buy a Wii. When I play serious games like Halo and COD4 I don't want the magic ruined by seeing my friends' retarded silly-putty face bobbing around like a three-year-old who just mainlined a tube of sherbert.

[if you want to see some screenshots, check here:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/15/xbox-360s-overhauled-dashboard-the-gallery/ ]

 

[Cozmo1]

I will throw my Xbox out the window if having that is mandatory!

 

[shadow skill]

Yet another case of "Me too" on the part of Microsoft, I was kind of hoping for a more direct clone of Home frankly.

 

[J'aen]

It's not mandatory. I mean, there's no way Microsoft would be that stupid, right?

 

[oecumenix]

It's not mandatory. I mean, there's no way Microsoft would be that stupid, right?

Yeah, it's not like they have a track record of ignoring public opinion and forcing people to upgrade their software...

 

[Juan Regular]

Way I understood, you can keep the old dashboard with new features.

 

[Ultrajoe]

ooohhh...

thats gotta hurt.

 

[Novajam]

I think it's mandatory. It's part of the fall update. So the first time after the update that you use Live, it'll update automatically.

However, I think they're going to intergrate the blades into the Xbox Guide

 

[J'aen]

Way I understood, you can keep the old dashboard with new features.

Thank you merciful God.

 

[JaguarWong]

Yeah!

Change and modernisation is bad!

If everyone could get a fucking grip I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks.

 

[sunami88]

I have no words to describe my disappointment.

Anybody else see the irony of one of those Miis Xiis(?) is named LuckLaster? Pretty close to LackLuster mirite?

EDIT:
@JaguarWong: It doesn't look like a "just OK" skin for XBMC to you? It's like they took Coverflow and integrated it with Miis.

At least that's the feeling I get. This is what you see every single time you either turn on your Xbox or change games, and I'm not too exited as I like the current system (although a speedup on the guide would be nice).

 

[Eagle Est1986]

So all of the gamerpics and themes that people have bought will now be useless? Nice.
Microsoft just love giving me reasons to not play my 360, this is a trump card though, bravo Microsoft, bravo.

 

[blackcherry]

i have to ask what does it matter? wow, so you have a part of your xbox360 (that you don't have to use) that looks nice, and even if it is a rip, a bit different to the usual 'lets be all tough and pretend that those playing consoles are manly men'.

Really get a scope of what matters,africa is still in poverty and the world is going downhill but in other news, oh no the skin looks different on your 360.

 

[JaguarWong]

Astetically I think it looks nice - just that - nice.

It looks more modern than the current set up and I think it's good that they're keeping it fresh.

As for the avatar thing - I don't understand why people have a problem with it - I bet if ak47's and machetes were available as accessories these kids would shut the hell up.
It's pathetic.

At best the type of gamers most represented on this (or any other) site make up about 20% of players - you're in the minority people - deal with it.

 

[fantomxr]

It's like they took Coverflow and integrated it with Miis.

My thoughts exactly on seeing this monstrosity. MiiTunes.

Generally though, the shift MS seems to have taken (UI, games and functionality) worries me. I don't really want to move to PC gaming as I don't like the idea of upgrading my PC every year. But perhaps it's going to be the only place for slightly more 'serious' gaming? Xbox Live's biggest problem was already over-population with yappy little kids...

 

[Woe Is You]

Overreacting much? I actually don't think it looks that bad. The biggest improvement I'm looking at is less ads (I admit, the current interface has way too much of those), but I don't think it looks horrible in general either. And besides, it's just a menu you use to access your games.

 

[sunami88]

Really get a scope of what matters,africa is still in poverty and the world is going downhill but in other news, oh no the skin looks different on your 360.

And you post this in a gaming discussion forum. Nice.

Astetically I think it looks nice - just that - nice.

It looks more modern than the current set up and I think it's good that they're keeping it fresh.

To each their own I guess, and I suppose fresh is better than doing nothing at all. Still don't like the look, but they might change it again, or add some modularity or something. Who knows.

 

[oecumenix]

@blackcherry: This is a gaming forum. If I wanted to complain about african poverty I would go to an african poverty forum.

@JaguarWong: Even assuming that our 'type' of gamers (which is an unqualified generalisation but from which I infer that you mean young, male and agressive) does indeed make up only 20% of XBox users (which, given the prevalence of FPS and sport games for the system, I also seriously doubt), that doesn't mean that our opinion should be ignored.
I'm fine with Billy Bluehat and his mum using these mii-type things as long as I'm not forced to, but that doesn't seem to be the case as far as I can see. I'm sick of companies removing personal choice from things like this; if I wanted to be told what to do all the time I'd join the army.

 

[spungemonkey]

So all of the gamerpics and themes that people have bought will now be useless? Nice.
Microsoft just love giving me reasons to not play my 360, this is a trump card though, bravo Microsoft, bravo.

Just because it's what he showed at the conference, doesn't mean thats the only way it'll look like.

Look at it this way... before he unveiled the new dashboard, he had the bladed dashboard didn't he? And what theme did that have... the DEFAULT theme. Thats what we were shown, the default theme to the new dashboard.


Personally I like the, IO thought the blades were very cluttered

 

[spungemonkey]

Xbox Live's biggest problem was already over-population with yappy little kids...

I'm sorry for the dou;be post, but this really annoys me. You do realise that you have the choice to mute players or turn down your microphone... it's not that hard. a simple solution to an annoying problem