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You remember E3 2011 right? Sure you do! Well then you certainly remember the Microsoft press conference where we were forced to watch saw the slew of Kinect games, updates and features that Microsoft was going to be rolling out.
Well now the time has come. The next big dashboard update will be coming next month adding an entirely new layout, designed specifically for easier Kinect navigation, bing voice-powered search and cloud storage. Guess which one of those things people are going to freak out about the most?
As with any update for a well-used platform, I expect people to be crying foul toward the sky and rending their garments for at least a few weeks before everyone get's used to it and forgets what everything used to look like. Ultimately I just hope the updated format doesn't work best with Kinect, leaving the rest of us old controller types having a hard time finding our way around.
The cloud storage, however, is something I'm really looking forward to. Ease of saves and backups? Yes please. Microsoft has been working on Cloud development for awhile now, mostly using it in their server and business applications, and it'll be good for us gamers to be able to get a piece of that action. It'll mean you won't have to worry about your hardrive eating your saves, and it also means that retrieving your gamertag will be a much faster process.
Everything goes live December 6th. Get ready.
Comments
13 years ago
Cant wait for this update to come out so i can complain and bitch about it for a week, then get over it. :<
13 years ago
I signed up for the beta so I already have it. It's pretty good. There are some stupid things, like the option to beacon a game, or something like that. Otherwise it's pretty good. I guess I like it more than the old dashboard.
13 years ago
Shit looks like a Zune.
13 years ago
How much do I want to bet that this update will render Premium Themes useless? A lot. How much more do I want to bet that Microsoft will push out Ultra Premium Themes? Even more. Microsoft - fucking their consumers at every turn.
13 years ago
I'm usually for the dashboard updates, but this doesnt look very good, I hope they can effin get rid of that spotlight tab, or let us skip to the "I just want to play my goddamn game" screen at startup.
cloud saves however I'm really into, hopefully it wont require a gold membership like playstation requires premium.
13 years ago
I, for one, will not welcome are new overlor...hum i mean dashboard but whatever. I'll just bitch about it at first and probably get used to it.
13 years ago
Hmmm...I wonder if they will charge for more cloud storage...
13 years ago
Looks like a webpage now :/
13 years ago
AWFUL, JUST UGH, WOW.....its alright.
13 years ago
I hate this update for a week then I won't care anymore.
13 years ago
From what ive seen a heard from ppl in the beta...the update is a good overall improvement from the one now. Btw ppl this dash is suppose to look like the zune/phone layouts cuz its based on windows 8 and the zune layout. They trying to tie all thier platforms together
13 years ago
I love how I can see a bit more, but I want them to fix that crap that happens in the games lists. Where if I so much as breathe on the left or right of the D-pad or analog stick it goes to a separate list and I gotta restart my search.
13 years ago
Sure I'll take it.
13 years ago
Lookin' fine, now for updated PS3 Menus. Well I guess its fine how it is right now but I'd just like to try something new.
13 years ago
Controllers are just too damn hard to use. Sure wish Microsoft would rectify this situation.
13 years ago
I like the screenshots of the new Dashboard, looks very clean.
13 years ago
Man I really hope its not like the update when the kinect was first coming out. I just didn't like the look of that one. I'm interested in seeing this but.....don't know if want.....