spring update
Xbox 360 Spring Update - An In-Depth Video
April 20, 2007
Following up on my previous post about the Spring update to Xbox 360, there is now a video segment that you can view that covers a lot of the main features (apprantly there are hundreds of new things in this update) in detail and shows some real improvements to many areas of the console and your user experience whether it’s playing games, watching video or simply chatting with friends.
The video stretches to nearly 24 minutes long, but is very informative (thankfully in a relaxed manner) and worth sitting through - when the update goes live on 7th May, you’ll be familiar with and be able to use the major features pretty much straight away!
Continue reading »Features of the Spring Xbox 360 Dashboard Update
April 8, 2007
The Xbox 360 ‘dashboard’ interface normally gets updated with new features and fixes every 6 months, the next one is scheduled for 7th May 2007 and is rumoured to include the following:
- Instead of just showing ‘Play Game’ at the bottom of the screeen, it will show which disc you currently have in the drive - the number of times I’ve opened the drive or loaded up a disc just to see what’s in the drive - now that’s progress!
- Windows Live (MSN) Messenger functionality can be added to your Xbox Live account allowing you to communicate with your friends while on your Xbox - although it takes me forever to type out messages with my Xbox controller as it is, so you’d hope voice chat was an option!
- Improved Achievements functionality.
- Xbox Live Marketplace to get it’s own ‘blade’, presumably to make it easier for us to spend our cash on stuff!
- Option to put your Xbox in low power mode for downloading which then shuts down when complete - again another good idea given I often leave it on over night.
