Many features of NXE cut from final version
November 19th, a day that has been circled on the calendar of many a gamer. No, it’s not the release date of the next great “must have” game. It’s actually the release date for the next Xbox 360 update, the one that will deliver us the revamped Xbox 360 user interface called the New Xbox Experience (NXE for short). NXE will introduce many new features to the Xbox 360 console such as the ability to group chat, to install games on the hard drive and the ever so cute avatars. As it turns out, these are just a few of the features that were originally planned for this update .
Jerry Johnson, product unit manager of Xbox LIVE, recently indicated during an interview that only about half of the proposed features planned for the NXE have made it into the final product. It has been previously announced that the Primetime game show channel will not make the scheduled November 19th launch date nor will the ability to share Netflix rentals over Live. Nevertheless given the amount of new features present in the NXE, one could not help but wonder what else was cut from the new interface.
Mr. Johnson did not provide any information towards what other applications had to be removed from the new user interface but did mention that a few of the removed features (such as the Primetime channel) will eventually find its way back to the NXE over the next few months via dynamic updates. Mr. Johnson explained that the NXE is architecturally different to the current Xbox 360 OS. This will allow Microsoft to introduce new application (features) on a more frequest basis. New applications will just appear in the NXE menu and will self-install once selected. To that end, expect the new Primetime channel to appear in the New Xbox Experience early in 2009.
Well my wife will be bummed. She was looking forward to the game show channel with the new avatars.
hey man, no need to go bring anal sex into this!!!
Now that is immature….funny :)…but so wrong lol.
Were the avatars dropped as well?
I’m really hoping to find out that at the last month, they thought “You know, this shit looks really childish and immature considering the age demographic we were aiming for in the first place. Scrap the avatars.”
Ah yes, to dream a dream.
It really does go without saying that all the features dropped will eventually come… They were features for a reason.
“…will eventually find its way back to the NXE over the next few months via dynamic updates.”
Could this be the start of PAY for dashboard add ons? Why not charge for the prime time game show add on? I’m scared somebody hold me.
Don’t worry, I’m sure Microsoft knows where to draw the line.
Plus, they don’t want people with varying dashboards… That’s confusing.
pffff, lol, yeah they know where to draw the line… thats why they charge us up the ass for a glorified instant messenger friends list (XBL Gold) in the first place
You fanboys really bring the hilarity sometimes
Even you aren’t that stupid.
You know damn well there is more than the IM that no one uses.
If that Glorified Instant Messenger is all XBL has to stand behind, and everything else is just a perk or fringe benefit, well then I think the priorities are messed up somewhere along the line.
God I hope you’re not this dense.
Why dont you tell me what else it has to stand behind– is it the “multiplayer gameplay” which, in nearly every XBL game you’ll find on the shelf, uses a strictly peer-to-peer architecture? If you’re too dense to understand, that means that the entire multiplayer infrastructure is supported by the xboxes that WE ALREADY PAID FOR, and by the broadband internet connections that WE ALREADY PAY FOR.
Please let me know if I’m not being clear, I’m not good at explaining simple concepts to fucking idiots.
60 bucks for a whole year? Wow, that must really drain your wallet. I’d rather pay for a quality service (and I’m quite happy with what I’m getting, as well as millions of others) than get it free and call it ‘home.’
I know you’re happy getting ripped-off… thats why microsoft is a billion dollar conglomerate, and you’re a retarded dipshit
Insult, irrelevant fact, insult, that’s your comeback strategy? Way to fail.
Incidentally, it’s most definitely not a peer-to-peer architecture. I’m a software developer and one of my mates works for Microsoft so I know what I’m talking about. Which is a tad more than can be said for eternal moaner, Skid Shithouse. Take away the server farms where all the session information is stored and see if you can still multiplayer. I’ll tell you, you won’t be able to unless you have some EXTREMELY long System Link cables.
I gladly pay my subscription fee even if only for the fact that it acts as a deterrent to a lot of younger gamers playing on the hardcore gaming scene that is XBox Live.
If you can bring ONE positive thing to these forums, it’ll be a first.
You still haven’t answered my question I asked a long time ago, what game(s) do you like, specifically? Because if we don’t know, we choose to not take you seriously and otherwise roll our eyes whenever you think you have an important and ’sound’ opinion.
Put up or shut up bitch.
At least party chat is still in it. It only took 3 years for them to include that. Hats off to splendid progress.
yeah, cant wait for this feature. PS3 still cant even handle cross game chatting properly let alone 8 way chatting over several games.
Anyway, PS3 bashing aside, I’m still looking forward to this update more than anything this year. Party Chat, Avatars (I love em, stuff all you haters), Streamlined interface and much more besides.
Bring It On!
Hopefully this will be smoother transition than Vista.
go sony!!!!!
FUCK SONY!!!! Sexbox ftw
“go sony!!!!!”
Where exactly would you like them to go? To Hell? To pot? To pieces? They’ve already done that.
Sony always wins, baby Sony always wins, you cant beat Sony.
Yeah i agree sony FTW i meen youve seen that new game they’re bringing out? No? Infact neither have i, tell me just what are they bringing out?