Comments on: Microsoft unveils new Xbox Live 'experience'

The new system, which is centered around an intuitive graphical interface and an avatar motif, is hoped to attract core and casual users alike.

[dark_akira]

I tested some of it. Can't wait for final.

[joetesta70]

This is cool. Sony can't touch this.

[mlinder69]

Thank god, as a mature adult gamer, I think its great for kids. I dont want my PS3 looking gay!

[Prince2k3]

Looks and sounds good but Its copying Mii and Home... they can sugar coat that all they want copying is copying.

[Kwasiowusu]

Oh Puleeze!
Avatars have existed on Microsoft's MSN long before they appeared on Mii. Nintendo did not invent avatars. They have been around for over a decade.
If anyone's copying someone, it's Nintendo copying Microsoft.
Nintendo zombies are simply incapalble of thinking independently.

[lawgone]

Home? When's that coming out again?

[timber2005]

Mii copied Gaia if we go by your logic *whistle*

[cnetdude1977]

You're nuts pal. The wii is for baby's and people who $uck at gaming. PS3 is overpriced and blu-ray discs cost a small fortune. HOME? Xbox isn't copying home. If anything xbox would have come out with a "home" interface ages ago if there was a demand for it. Sony if slow fulfilling it's promises to it's fan base. So, when does home come out anyway? That has been sony's talking point for over a year now at every E3 and every interview they do. And guess what. Nothing. There will be a new Xbox before Sony gets its act together.

[mpicher]

Copying doesn't mean that it won't be good... Did Mii copy Home?

[cnetdude1977]

Home is a rumor..lol

[jandler]

PS2 and Nin Gamecube didn't have any network experience. PS3 and Wii by adding this network experience are simply copying xbox live. they can sugar coat it all they want and morph it all they want and change the name all they want but copying is copying. That's plagiarism .. so no kudos for them!

You see how stupid arguments like that are?

Sega was the true pionneer of network experience in console with the dreamcast. Unfortunately, dial up and poor execution spoiled their plans. The xbox, a couple of years later, taking advantage of broadband and internal hard drive (despite many detractors in the media) manage to build something that sega was trying to do back then and what sony and nintendo are trying to do now.

[sliver1978]

Hate to pwn your gig dude, Microsoft was responsible for the internet and other attributes of the dreamcast. Remember this was a Sega and Microsoft project. Microsoft decided to include Sega in this Venture because they had market place. When Sega decided to get out of the hardware business Xbox was born.

[mbaldwin1]

and dont forget Sega's X-band....

[sailorz3]

I cannot agree with you more, I always bring up the dream cast when it comes to arguments of copying, NO one could touch sega's innovations... except a free market that wanted cheap not innovated. At the time the dream cast was very next gen (come on your memory card could play games!!) and no one gave a flying rats ass about it, I am so sick of every one talking about how the ps3 or xbox 360 are sooo next gen... if the technology is here now, and has been for a couple of years then it is the gen of right now, even the wii is a great system for now technology.

[Penguinisto]

*shrug* nice glitz, but I'll stick to the computer when playing online (goes for all of 'em, actually...)

[Vegaman_Dan]

I'm curious, as you have proudly stated previously that neither own, nor use *any* Microsoft products, how exactly you intend to do that?

[Penguinisto]

What, play online? Funny, but both Mac and Linux boxes @ home carry all of my games (FPS games, mostly).

Please don't tell me you bought into that sophomoric 'only windows does gamez, d00d!' meme... I thought you were more mature than that.

[Vegaman_Dan]

Penguinisto wrote:

"What, play online? Funny, but both Mac and Linux boxes @ home carry all of my games (FPS games, mostly). "
"Please don't tell me you bought into that sophomoric 'only windows does gamez, d00d!' meme... I thought you were more mature than that."

No, actuallly I *work* for a living and don't have time for games typically. A computer is really just a terminal for me. I need a command line shell, web browser, and Photoshop. Beyond that, I have no use for it.

[cnetdude1977]

You're living in the 90's man! Let go. Console online gaming is now! Let go...Just let go...

[zincmann]

Looks very slick and since i own both consoles the PS3 and the Xbox 360 its nice to see they are making it a little more casual gamer friendly and changing with the times. I am sure this update will be a long download since it appears to be a large firmware (operating system) overhaul but it should be worth it. Havent seen much from Sony with their Sony community they have been developing? If they want to drive sales you have to change with the times.

[jonhoffm]

Um...PS3 Home...in closed beta for awhile now. Wiki-it.

Unfortunately for Sony, they probably were overly-ambitious with their effort - it was supposed to have launched a year ago now.

[lawgone]

I'm sorry but this is the second reference of Home. PS3's Home should never be mentioned again. As you pointed out, it was announced over a year ago and the launch date has been pushed back numerous times and now they don't even have one. I'm a PS3 owner, but Home is not in the equation when talking about gaming systems.

[Renegade Knight]

Still not paying to access the internet. I already pay for that. Twice over for what they could implement for free (By letting my play with my friends via the net without Live Service like you can on a PC) isn't working for me. If their Live service is so outstanding let gamers hook up for games, and let Live subscriptions sell on their own.

[sythara]

And here I thought I only bought my 360 to play games, now I can throw parties!

Seriously, how is this going to affect those of us who play a game or two few hours a week on xbox? It won't. Kudos for good looking interface, but avatars? What?
The last thing I want is another digital representation of my digital alter ego of what I would look like if this were a perfect world.

great...

[umbrae]

The old interface frustrated me all the time. I think this will be good. From the stuff I have seen, this should be a better interface: regardless of what you think about Avatars.

[OpeXp]

I just want easy access to Netfix! Plus I'll start my first online game with friends ... first game will be Fable2.

[XBL_Suprhero]

um no you wont Fable 2 wont lunch with inline play

[bcas400e]

maybe they'll add a special avatar for those that have gotten the RROD.

[cnetdude1977]

Maybe they'll make a special avatar for all the PS3 fanboys...oh wait home isn't out still LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[bcas400e]

maybe they'll add a special avatar for those that have gotten the RROD.

[Baclimon]

Looks great!

[sting7k]

I'm really liking the stuff Microsoft is doing to respond to Sony and Nintendo's systems. And I think they are going to surpass them both. There is a lot here for even the hard core person to love. The party system will finally make it easy for friends to jump from one game to another without having to all break up and then reassemble in the next game. Also being able to install games onto your HDD to save your disk drive and eliminate the sound of a jet taking off while you play will be very nice. It also has a date now, Microsoft announced it will be out worldwide on Nov. 19th last night at the Tokyo Game Show.

[someguy999]

It looks more to me to the first step to creating their own second life as well... start with the avatars... then build out the worlds....

Next thing you know, you have millions of people in your world without even having to acquire a single user (because you already have them).

[ace10134]

This is a step backwards for MS. Playstation Home is the future, not some 2d animated characters. Sorry, but i'm still sticking to my PS3.

[Liquidx01]

Ha, if only every damn thing about the PSN didn't feel like a half-assed afterthought. Microsoft is software first and foremost, they can easily run circles around anything Sony or Nintendo could do. Period.

[AStrangis]

Not that I really care about the avatars, but 2D? Did you even look at the pics?

But you ARE right about Playstation Home being the future. How far INTO the future who knows?

[XBL_Suprhero]

It is 3d. maybe that low Def TV just is not working out for you, good luck with that PoS3. BTW.. when is home coming out??

[lawgone]

Geeze Ace, way to identify yourself as an ignorant fanboy. Home is the future? They demoed it over a year ago (that's the past by the way) and we STILL don't have a public version. Give me a break.

[cnetdude1977]

Home is just an over-bloated promise like the "RSX 'Reality Synthesizer'" PS3 chip.

[brass2themax]

First off, to the poster who said that the Wii and the PS3 are copying Live by incorporating network access, they totally are not. The PS3 allows gamers to play online free of charge, with no hassles of having to go through some stupid intermediary network that checks to see if you've paid your subscription fee. Just pop in a game, sign into the PSN (which I just have set to do when my PS3 powers on), and you're set to go. With the Wii, I don't know how it works since I don't have one, but I imagine it's something similar.

You see how stupid arguments like that are?

Anyway, my main reason to looking forward to Home is BECAUSE it's been delayed. When a company delays a product, it's for one or a few of a handful of reasons: A) It's failing epicly and is in dire need of more work, B) A new feature has been thought up to make the experience even better, and would be worth the time in delaying the final product, or C) Budget issues and/or bugfixes.

When I saw the preview for Home over a year ago, it already looked spectacular, I can only imagine it's going to be that much better, especially with all the firmware updates the PS3 has had since then.

Just look what people said at launch about the PS3: It's too expensive, it'll die out, Sony's greatest blunder, sales are low, etc. You get the picture. How about now? Sony trumped Microsoft's plans for an HD-DVD addon because now that the format is dead it would result in epic fail, sales of the PS3 have surpassed that of the 360 in Japan (which to me counts a lot more than the United States and Canada because Japan is the king of *good* games), and it's so worth it to own a PS3 as a Bluray player because of the cost compared to that of a standard one (it's a better buy for what you get), and you get the capabilities of a gaming console, music player, voice chat/text chat device, home PC (various flavour s of Linux, and Windows under WINE), heck you get a whole frickin media center that just bleeds epic win.

But back on track, I think in this case Sony is playing it safe to delay Home for its reasons, it'll most likely beat the living crap out of both the Nintendo Mii's and this new slightly-better looking XBox Mii-thing. At least the PS3 characters look realistic. You want a Mii-style Master Chief? How about a realistic Dante-wannabe or Solid Snake? That's what I'm talking about!

[compucrazy12]

I'd like bring up your statement about the PS3 outselling the xbox 360 in japan, primarily because asia has been the weakest market for 360 sales overall. The real news is that the 360 (from microsoft, an american company) outsold the PS3 (from sony, a japanese company) on several occasions. Also, i believe what truly "counts more" are world wide sales, something of which the PS3 has had the worst overall since launch. These facts are what deteriorate every bit of credibility in your comment.

Flawed statements aside, i believe the new xbox experience is a welcome change. Especially when it is announced and released in a period of just over 4 months.

[XBL_Suprhero]

They all got it from Sega Dreamcast and even then they all got it from SEGA GENESIS..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBAND


so get off the WHO copied who bandwagon. everyone in everywhere copies everyone.

[XBL_Suprhero]

rip of sony? RIP OF SEGA DUMA** Sega genesis and SNES had online Play from back in the day

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Xbands.gif

[jandler]

LOL, you totally didn't get my point. My post was clear sarcasm aimed at saying that the avatar from xbox was a rip off from Wii. I used the network connectivity as an example of how stupid those arguments are when we apply a similar logic. See how stupid you look when you are consume by your own blindness and fanboyism.

The basic home service is indeed free. However, other content like clothes, furniture, etc etc might not be.It's basically like second life on ps3

[dhavleak]

@ brass2themax:

1. The new dashboard is not all about competing with Sony Home. That's only about 5% of it.

2. Your points about PS3 detractors (prior to it's launch) and it's subsequent successes, and plus points may or may not be valid - but this thread and article are about the 360s new dashboard. For the Xbox 360 to do well, the Sony PS3 does not have to fail. There are billions of gamers in the world -- to each, their own console.

3. From everything I've seen (videos, pics, articles) on the net about NXE (The New Xbox Experience) -- it looks really stunning. I'll happily drink the kool-aid till Nov 19th when it's launched :)

[nowimcool]

"There are billions of gamers in the world -- to each, their own console." <---slight exaggeration.