@Anaralia: You're right. They need to be more original. Like how Sony introduced motion controllers.

Oh wait...no. I meant Trophies.

Wait, crap. I meant avatars.

Wait...awww forget it.

TRT-X

@LittleBigPlaneteer:

For people in areas where on demand or some other cable service is lacking this is huge. The numbers for movie rentals via XBL show this. Im in NY and Im still excited by this. Sure its not alot of new content but its free and it provides more options. The ability to watch movies with friends online is also going to be great fun. Mystery Science theater fun. And while its only 10,000 titles now it will grow soon. Thats the whole thinking behind this partnership and the others Netflix has going, like the LG deal they have.

Modus_Operandi

as you are flipping the menu to the right, options disappear to the left. having all options viewable is much better.

this is like stacking your cards vs. laying them all out to see.(this goes for viewing netflicks movies and other downloadables too)

i'm looking forward to installing games, but i'm hoping there is a way to keep the current look of the dashboard.

ruba-dub-dub

@Modus_Operandi:

The Netflix addition is mildly overrated. I love Netflix (only been a member for like 4 months now) and I personally like their instant collection, but I wouldn't say the overall selection is great for your typical viewer. I love classics, westerns, and documentaries so it's great for me. There just is hardly any "new" movies other than Indie ones.

I think a lot of people don't realize that. They just see the headline "Netflix coming to the 360" and think it's huge.

LittleBigPlaneteer

@spacecoffin2: I wouldn't mind if it bricked my system... my system already has enough problems, because microsoft canada send out crappy refurbished units... if it red rings, I'll be happy

kathartik

I'm really keen on getting my hands on this update, but not so much for the visual overhaul-- I'm take it or leave it on that, though if they really have improved the responsiveness of the UI I'll be grateful. I just want to finally be able to have proper 16:10 support for computer monitors-- although Microsoft haven't confirmed support for 1920x1200, just 1440x900 and 1680x1050... I'm hoping they simply forgot to mention the 1920x1200, or a lot of 24" monitor owners are going to be displeased. Bring it on, Microsoft!

wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!

I'm just glad they're not going to wait until christmas and let everyone, including new folks try and get it all at the same time.
Heck, with a little luck they'll even release the update per region one day after the other to keep the servers going, seeing how well they've handled stress in the past.

Rakkoon

I just hope the Update runs well without any issues, I'd probably like to play online with some of those fancy new games that are coming out over the holidays...

Ak3k

I love how its just the XMB flipped sideways. Does M$ even have an imagination or are they content stealing everyone elses ideas?

Anaralia

nintendo copies forum avatars they are so original with everything they have done

elsteveo

Looks pretty derivative.

Bernard McGraw

It is about the Netflix. Huge feature that. Also the playing games off the HDD is an underlooked point. That sets things up for more games to be delivered via DL, like PSN does now. And anything that makes my 360 quieter can only be good.

Hopefully these smoothes out navigating LIve. Its ok, but I still prefer the PS3's UI.

Modus_Operandi

Much nicer than blades to me, but still not sexy enough for my tastes. Nothing particularly wrong with it, but I kind of like my interfaces to look "cutting edge". I think XMB has that sort of sexy futuristic look. But when it boils down to it, as long as navigation is fine and it works, the aesthetics will take a backseat

LittleBigPlaneteer

I'm really excited about this update. As an upset Wii owner, I'm wondering if Microsoft can fill the void that once was Nintendo. The Avatars look like what Mii's should have been, and as long as the clothes are priced 20-100points, I have no problem with spending a few leftover.

Ryumeka

I would post some insult here cause I'm so negitive but I think the dash picture is more then enough...maybe put a " Welcome to two years ago " or " Welcome to Nintendo...yeah yeah this is Nintendo " or " Welcome to hell " in the avatars chat bubble.

Anyhow...anyone want to make bets on how many Kotaku readers get bricked systems from the update?

spacecoffin2

I like the new look but I still can't get my head around how blatantly MS is trying to ride on Nintendo's waves. Bring on the "Newton" controller and people will be buying Xboxes because of brand confusion. They are certainly entitled to do it, but don't think I've seen anything like that from such a large corporation.

ara

@Ryfael: What's your point? Winter doesn't start until mid-December.

DaFron

I want the new dashboard and i hope it has no lag, but i don´t dig the avatars too much, i want to stay with gamerpics...

November isn´t coming too soon, but if i´m assured to have a good navigation a la XMB, i´m on...

Daisuash

Do not want avatars, do want gamer pics.

Ashkihyena

Major Nelson came over for dinner last night and told me that the update would go live on my birthday (Nov 26th). He told me not tell anyone, but I don't think he liked my potatoes so screw him!

mentok1982

New dash, Avatars, who cares... It's all about Netflix.

agies

@VladMalice: Yeah, ditto. I know a lot of folks balked at the new design, but as far as I'm concerned, it's like getting a new console. . . . Sort of.

DocRimbo

@The Magnificen7: I signed in just to say that. If we're only getting one update this year, it better damn well be on time.

CaptainConfuzion

I am SOOOO much more looking forward to the new 360 Front End and being able to play entire games off my Elite's 120 gig HD.

Sugaray

Sweet, can't wait for XMB and Miis in my 360...

Altersparck

@Bandicoot: Not mandatory. Still your favorite part?

The Magnificen7

can't polish a turd ;)

Lorrr

I like the new dashboard look especially if we'll be able to have a background theme to cover up that ugly gray. I really just want to get my hands on the ability to put my games onto my HDD. Long will be the days of hearing that optical drive moaning while I play Soul Calibur.

Killer_WaLrUs

Well it better be in November, we missed out on a Spring update. Jerks.

@3inst3in: Two minutes? Jesus, if I don't have a bag in my hand by the time I've paid, I burn that motherfucker down! I take my Big Bacon Classics VERY seriously.

The Magnificen7

Is this a fall or winter update.

They can release what they have completed next month and patch the rest of the functionality in.

Ryfael

yeah i'm not looking forward to the update at all. the new dashboard looks horrible IMO. the current one is fine. good thing i never play my xbox anymore.

uppitycracker

My favorite part about the sexy new dashboard are the big, sexy, mandatory avatars.

Bandicoot

Awesome. I am not sure why everybody freaked out because of the new dashboard at first, I think it looks cool.

And the avatars look WAY more customizable than the Mii's.

Waiting for this update, I am:
-VM

VladMalice

I don't care what people say about this, I am looking forward to the new dashboard. It looks slick, easy, and the ability for you and your friends to view the same movie all on different consoles is brilliant. Can't wait.

Lazlo

I'm still a little nervous about this update, I'm happy with the way the dashboard is now and the new layout doesn't really appeal to me...but I always have been a sucker for new features.

DrowningInMercy

@3inst3in: /sarcasm btw. but, srsly, looks so cool. I want it now.

3inst3in

But Lego Batman tells me that it will be out in September!

theuglyteradon

cool

Arminies

why must i wait for everything. I'm an american. I expect speedy service. I want my hamburgers in 2 minutes flat or else I'm talking to your manager.

3inst3in

I'm pleased to see the "copy off of XMB!" still hasn't gone away although it's been disproved time and time again here.

I was hoping for this sooner than later. November is too far away. I really wanted this refresh in September.

jonathan.

@exion: You mean Home beta, right?

theuglyteradon

I have an ambivalent wait and see attitude about the new dash. However I am VERY excited about the new party system that will allow you to share your personal picture, audio and video files in a party with up to 8 friends. I wonder if there will be some kind of size limit to the video files? If not, there will be nothing to keep people from watching their pirated movies with friends.

robinandtami

@wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!:

1440 x 900 will be supported? Thats pretty awesome for me. I'm gonna pick up some VGA cables from amazon. The offical Microsoft ones are $40 but I found a set for $3.50. Lol. I wonder how bad they are...Eh cant go wrong for $3.

CCCombobreaker

hmm, that places the release of the avatar system at about the same time as Home on the PS3...

interesting.

exion

Wow, this might be released before Home does.

MysteriousStranger

Cannot wait, I wodner how the marketplace will look.

PAULINK

i wonder if they've got their backs covered on the whole "disc in tray" menu. it's a picky thing really, but if someone were to put in a game that came out before this update, would it still fill it with a full screen image? maybe it'll cache it via internet?

phrequency

@wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!: Same here! I do rather like being able to use my 360 on my 24 inch monitor, but I'm really starting to get sick of the fact that I have to have the picture mildly vertically stretched. This is a feature I also rather hope Sony follow suit with, since my monitor also has an HDMI port... Copying is GOOD!!

Yalecsa

Unlike some of you, I don't really see this as them ripping of XMB at all. It looks closer to their Media Center interface more than anything. I mean you have the tabs on the left, which lead to different options in the center. That's just like Media Center.

The thumbs in the middle do have a Cover Flow sort of look to them though.

LittleBigPlaneteer

I'm gonna let everyone in on a little secret....Its called money, currency, dollars, duckets, green backs, clams etc. Say what you will about people copying this and copying that. They do it all because they can make money on it. If nintendo is making mad cash with a motion controller and you want to make that same money...you make a motion controller. This is BUSINESS! This is not your fanboy loving hatred for all things not your system, these companies DO NOT CARE IF YOU SAY THEY ARE COPYING THE OTHER GUY, THEY CARE IF THEY CAN COPY THE REVENUE THE OTHER GUY MADE. Electronics have been about "copying" since its birth. Get used to it.

Dolgo

@TRT-X: I'm sorry, you seem to have a problem your reading ability as I never said sony were original. I would suggest taking an eye exam first and if your eyes are fine then maybe enroll in night school or something.

Anaralia

Doesn't everyone in the "theatre" need to have a Netflix account to view the movie? That's what I heard anyway.

tictoctom

Still not a fan of this new UI...feels a lot like a "me too" approach to the Cross Media Bar, and Avatars are just...lame.

I really wish there was a way to opt out.

Archaotic

@kathartik: Enough problems? lmao I don't even want to think what " enough problems " could possibaly be. Only I do have a picture of a clown car in my head. Man I feel bad for anyone that has to send any system in to get fixed...I feel double bad that some people get back broken system after the wait. And yes Canada gets the short end of the gaming stick more often then not...BAH.

spacecoffin2

November? I'd generally consider that more winter than autumn.

@mr30gZune:
Why? People have stopped actually expecting a DS redesign for ages now. Even if there is one it'll likely be akin to the GBA micro and not be much of an improvement on the current model. The Lite isn't going to get much better than it already is so you may as well just get one.

Odin

@mr30gZune: does anyone when the fall season is anymore?

Jmontilla2786

@Lorrr: Can it, troll.

Amsterdaam

@theuglyteradon: he means he doesnt know cuz sony hasn't announced a release date yet...

Jmontilla2786

Fall my MJOLNIR Ass! thats damn near next year.
Oh well, I'll wait.
Just like how I'm waiting on the new DS

mr30gZune

I do like that you can put games on your HDD if you want too but its in no way mandatory. But personally I don't like the overhaul. I am a fan of simple over style any day. Even the XMB is simpler than this and seems to be much flashier as well aka bringing up a full screen of the game you have in with music and options before even starting the game if you want!

wickedcobra03

@Ashkihyena: I heard that gamer pics are still used with the new update.

theuglyteradon

Count me as apathetic. I know there are many a hater for the new look, but as long as my Xbox continues to play my games, I'm a happy man.
Any added functionality is all gravy in my book.

Numerous

i know this is my 2nd comment but do you think this is when the rumored xbox with the motion controller comes out i mean its near thanksgiving and microsofts just making prettier versions of miis

rob61920

i still need to get my xbox fixed but by that time i may have a new one. i bet those without live this update will first come with gears of war 2

rob61920

@shaunomacx: you do know that the winking smiley indicates sarcasm or playfulness? :)

I rather enjoy the new Dashboard, heaps better than what it is now.

Lorrr

@Dolgo: Yeah but this is console land where we point and laugh at borrowed ideas and when some people were waiting for how Microsoft would chump on Wii its funny as hell when it happens. Only yes " This is BUSINESS " so explain to me how this update is going to generate money for Microsoft and how its not to little to late selling the wrong thing to the wrong people? Face it Microsoft is doing a surface 180 that will change nothing beyond the dash having a different borrowed style where things are called channels and suckers buy outfits for the avatars...HEY thats how Microsoft is gonna make money from suckers buying outfits MY BAD.

spacecoffin2

@Lorrr: exactly, so MS/Sony/Nintendo (delete as necessary fanboys) should all quit now.

shaunomacx

@doubtful:
Obviously no one informed Britain about this, November gets bloody cold. I mean it's supposed to be summer right now but we've had weeks of rain. Accursed British weather.

Odin

I just hope XBL can handle all of the people downloading the bigger XBL update. I remember when COD4 released the new maps and the service was so slow that it took me 4 hours to download the maps. Also it is right before the holidays and we all remember what happened last year with XBL.

JustJake

You know every time i look at that promo pic. It just fails to rouse any excitement or interest in me. It does look better and it looks to be a huge improvement over the blades. But i soon realized that its the Avatars. Leave Microsoft to cheese it up with a useless gimmick that will slowly fade but never die.

spectralpulse

I'm pretty sure this is wrong and that is is out mid-late october. for one thing, scene it uses the avatars in late oct. for another thing the ms rep told me it was out mid-late oct, when i demoed the thing last week at x08.

Rajio

@Odin:

In the Northern hemisphere, Winter begins on the Winter solstice, December 21st or 22nd.

November, in it's entirety is in the Fall.

doubtful

OK. Remind me to disconnect my network adapter come November.

justhesh

@excaliburps: Oops I meant avatars are only for the E-rated games... =D

excaliburps

@DrowningInMercy:
@wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!:
They did say you had the option to revert to the original layout if you wish.

@theuglyteradon: Yep. And Avatars are not for the E-friendly games for now if I'm not mistaken.

@rob61920: Well if indeed they are releasing one, November's a good time with the holiday shopping madness right around the corner. Couple that with the new dashboard,NetFlix, etc...That would be the perfect time to act if any.

While the new dashboard looks ok and all. I'm more concerned with the DVD-caching that's going to be implemented with some games. Is it going to be mandatory? Will older games be able to use this? (Mass Effect comes to mind).

excaliburps

@PapaBear434: But Sony doesn't have an 'avatar system'. Sony has avatars as part of a much more immersive whole.

Sorry, I'm system agnostic for the most part, but that's some really biased language/way of looking at it. Who am I kidding... we're on Kotaku.

Omnimon

@Rajio: Both of your sources of information are sketchy at best.

MS seems to be putting more into the Holiday season. I wonder if this will pressure Sony into finally doing some work on Home and Nintendo to put skins on its money printers.

Omnimon

@Altersparck:
I see what you mean by the Miis, but XMB? How so?

Littlefields

Does anyone really care all that much about how the dashboard of a console looks. I mean, does a waiting room's decor really dissuade anyone from visiting the doctor? I have a ps3 , but i could care less about the xmb as long as it plays my games and i would imagine i would feel the same way about it if i had a 360.

reddkidd

Well, I predicted that. Microsoft WILL get their avatar system out before Sony does, despite Sony's rather substantial head start.

PapaBear434

I'm excited for this change, but wish it was coming sooner (same as most people, I imagine). I'd like my Netflix support primarily, but the new interface looks interesting to play with.

nobull6

@justhesh: Good call cause I just thought...wait...that would be systems getting bricked during the holiday game rush lol wait all year for some kick games then BAM have fun next year with your dash update.

KOTAKU...it is your duty to make sure this fate does not happen to your readers hahaha so remind everyone to unplug their xbox360s in November LMFAO. But if you don't ill make sure to stay up late and talk to all the nice people that have nothing to play...I need a drink...

spacecoffin2

@Omnimon: Microsoft reps are sketchy? ....ok. i can't really rebut that. My other source is the fact that scene it and a couple other games use the new dash's features (avatars) and are out before november. thats pretty factual too.

Rajio

@kagebutsu:You will have that chance. You don't have to use the new Dash from what i've heard.

Foxstar Sixtail

edit: -'is different'

Omnimon

@doubtful: I never said what the bias was, because that information wasn't available in his statement. I actually debated in my head that he might be a disappointed Sony owner.

My statement that the avatars play different roles in the two 'dash' systems, as described to this point, is different, making the comparison irrelevant.

Omnimon

As long as the avatars are optional, I am happy. I don't really use the dashboard that often anyway.

jello44

I'd rather keep the dashboard I have right now.

kagebutsu

@Omnimon:

I think that might be the first time PapaBear434 has been accused of being a Microsoft fanboy.

I think you're looking for bias, and concerning PapaBear, looking for it in the wrong place.

doubtful

@Ashkihyena:Microsoft's Xbox Police have enough to do without giving even more people the chance to put sexual organs in their gamer pictures.

@PapaBear434:Even locked down "You don't customize shit unless we sell you that pixelated clothing" Sony Home avatars takes time.

@LittleBigPlaneteer:No one bought Windows XP Media Center, so of course gamers at large would scream "XMB RIP! XMB RIP!"

@reddkidd:I do and I don't. With as old as Live is and the sheer amount of content on there, the blade system can be slow and clogged up for folks who don't know how to dig for stuff. And with all the money that's gone into both Live and PSN, you need a system as seamless as possible to avoid frustrating the folks who do want to pay for DLC, or DLM.

Foxstar Sixtail

@PapaBear434:

That might just be a perceived head start, though, since SONY started advertising HOME dangerously early.

Microsoft likely had this interface in development long before they told us about it.

doubtful

@Omnimon: aaaah yes, fair enough. (though my money is still on late october!)

Rajio

@Archaotic: *face palm* Holy... crap...

From now on, anyone making a statement about how the new 360 interface looks like XBM I will presume to be Cooper Lawrence digging up "dirt" for her next "breaking" story.

You idiots really need to check out the videos of the new interface and compare them to XBL (Assuming you own a PS3. By the looks of your statement, you don't.) before shooting your mouth off like a certain ex-Sony PR bobble-head.

Que SDF in 3... 2... ---

TheRealLameDuck

@Omnimon:

I never said what the bias was, because that information wasn't available in his statement. -Omnimon

So, despite the lack of information, you are nevertheless unrestrained from making the accusation that someone is bias?

And given that your comment read like a defense of HOME, you can understand my assumption that you were accusing him of having a pro-Microsoft bias.

Regardless, your follow-up was mind boggling. I think it best to withhold you claims of bias without supporting evidence. You can make your case that someone is wrong without accusing them of harboring bias and maligning the entire community as if it were a given.

doubtful

Looks like even after you download this update, you can keep the original dashboard.

So all of you bitching can STOP BITCHING.

I like what I see, not revolutionary but it gets the job done. If so many of you have such a problem with it, how about just creating one yourself? I'm sure MS could use a few new ideas. Maybe even convince them to do a contest for designing new looks for the dashboard?

Batousi

@Rajio: Reps... yes, full of absolute poopoo. The only reason execs don't lie as badly as 'reps' is because the media actually listens to what they say.

I could have described my rebuttal to the game use better, so I'll take myself to task on that. The fact that a game uses, or better stated, has the potential to use a system's functionality, does not require that it do-so at launch of the title. Remember, this is software we're talking about.

Omnimon

@Archaotic:

XMB? More like XP media center: [www.gamepc.com]

CCCombobreaker

At first I hated the new dashboard but it has slowly grown on me.

y2julio

I love the new look, I'm getting sick of the blades now. It's time for a change and Microsoft realizes that.

NYKnicker

Personally, I'm just hoping they eliminate any lag at all. Playing on both PS3 and 360's *dashboards*, I feel like the 360 feels laggy and slow, PS3 nails the speed. If this new interface makes it feel more speedy and quicker to navigate I say it's full of potential win.

Katajero

While I am excited about burning my games to my HDD for faster loading etc., I've been really wondering about one thing. How will this update effect all of my fancy schmancy dashboard THEMES? I mean, I can't really see how they'll be implemented to this new dashboard. And, I enjoy switching them somewhat frequently. Even if they are used somehow, it doesn't seem like they'll be nearly as effective at changing the look of my dashboard. Anyone have any info/ideas/thoughts on this?

Zer0-SquaLL

@spacecoffin2: Sorry to get back to you so late, this update will make money because it will make people fire up their Xbox 360's, it will make news on sites such as this, and it will make people get Netflix accounts or renew a possible expired xbox live account. All of that will make people interact with the marketplace increasing downloads and profit. And btw Microsoft said they would be doing stuff with "outfits" as you call them since the launch of Xbox 360, its old news way before the launch of the Wii. People need to understand that if something sells some place it might sell on the 360, or Ps3 or Wii or whatever. If you make word of mouth, put it in front of faces, YOU might not make a purchase here or there, but someone else will. That's business.

Dolgo

@MitchCumstein-III: Agreed. I like my gamerpic, but I LOVE my Chuck Norris Mii. I would love them more if they were more customizable, and that is where MS' avatars come in. Also, I don't like any of the current gamerpics available on XBL. Why can't we just make our own? :/

As for the dashboard, I'm personally sick of the blades. All the text covers up my spiffy backgrounds and they don't do anything fancy... just slide from one side of the screen to the other. Excuse me while I go take a nap.

TheRealLameDuck

I will probably get kicked out of the club for saying this, but this is going to be a phenomenal update. Everyone seems to love the Miis, and now Microsoft is adding Miis. Does that make them awful? NO. It might make the unoriginal, but unoriginal DOES NOT mean it will be bad.

I got my Wii the day it launched, but it wasn't until 5 or 6 months later that I started messing with the Miis. I ended up loving them, but soon was wondering when is Nintendo going to update their Miis. You know giving us more customization, more clothes, hair etc. etc. etc.? When are they going to actually incorporate them into an online community?

Here we are almost two years later and nothing has been updated with the Miis, except that awful Check Mii Out crap. The Miis were a great idea, but avatars weren't created by Nintendo. Nintendo did a great job intergrating them into their platform in an innovative way, but they haven't evolved at all from when they were implemented. In this day and age with technology like it is, complacency is just begging the competition to take your ideas and expand them. Microsoft is doing just that, and I have a feeling it is going to be great...Copied or not.

MitchCumstein-III

@Omnimon:

What he said. I'm pretty neutral in the console wars, only having any measure of bile for the Wii. Even then, there are more than enough games I have enjoyed on it and wish I hadn't sold mine for.

That said, I do tend to prefer Sony's offerings in games, something that has been well established among those on this site who know me. I have yet to give out my Gamertag while readily giving out my PSN ID, and I am also on my sixth (count 'em! SIX) 360. And I have made it know the only reason it sticks around my house and I have put up with constant hardware failures is for Dead Rising, my very favorite game of this generation.

I said what I said in reference to my previous pessimism involved with Sony's continued promises this generation, especially regarding Home. Constant delays, and overzealous and premature advertising has worn me down to a state where I am considering Home vaporware until I am actively downloading it onto my hard drive.

And yes, I did predict MS getting their system out before Sony as soon as it was announced. And I lamented on the fact that should that happen, MS loyalist would have further ammo in their "SONY SUX LOL" salvo's they love to send the PS3's way.

PapaBear434

I don't get Microsoft - why do they announce this stuff BETWEEN two big events where they could actually use some buzz announcements.

El-Suave

@Littlefields: I should take a step back and say that it's go elements of Coverflow or Frontrow along with XMB.

But going by the videos I've found, it's pretty much a conglomeration of those things.

Altersparck

I hate change. If I could have it my way, I'd have Mega Man 26 for my trusty Super Nintendo.

...

Every time that there is some change announced, people become afraid. Relax people, the new XBL will be JUST FINE. You'll all be JUST FINE.

(...Waittaminute, this is coming from the people who brought us Vista. Crap.)

Spoony Bard

@Anaralia: Except for the XMB is IDENTICAL to the Windows Media Center UI; which of course came BEFORE XMB. Well except the XMB goes left to right and THEN up and down, and the Media Center goes up and down and THEN left to right. So, if you want to say that the new dash is a rip-off of the XMB, you'd first have to say the XMB is a rip-off of Windows Media Center.

robinandtami

@Lorrr: MY BAD!! i read that early lol.

forgive my shortsightedness!!

shaunomacx

@PapaBear434: See, the perfect explanation. Your original post was written with bias to the pessimism you had previously expressed. Thanks.

Six 360s!? You're a stronger man than I. I'm only on number 2 here.

What's funny to me is that I really do not like being involved in 'fanboyism' (I believe all three current gen consoles have a purpose in my entertainment cabinet), and when I simply said you wrote a post with a bias, it automatically turned into me saying you were a console fanboy.

Omnimon

@doubtful: Because it is self-evident that avatars themselves are not an entire 'system', I claimed that the post was written with some sort of bias. Which it was.

I don't see what's wrong with my post; you assumed I was calling him an MS fanboy, when in fact all I was saying is that the MS and Sony avatars and the systems in which they are used are very different, and that the post was written by someone with a biased opinion.

I stand by my posts still.

Omnimon

@mentok1982: Maybe I'm just dirty minded, but that made me laugh. "potatoes" :)

When the update comes out, I'll wait a couple of days and see if there are any 360 killing bugs in it they haven't been able to find. Would be ironic on the 2nd anniversary of my 360 running with no problems if it was instead knackered by an update.

Pudgey

The last proper update was at the start of last December, why can't they just do incremental changes like Sony? Then again, it is nice to have loads of new stuff all at once.

gdf

Please let me still use the old dashboard, please let me use the old dashboard...if not, I won't bother downloading this.

kylo4

@shaunomacx: it's cool, dude.

If this is snappier than the current Dashboard, I think MS has a real winner. Just like I think the XMB is really cool in it's own right.

for those who miss the old UI, when you press the Xbox Guide button, you'll still have the blades.

Lorrr

Isnt fall=autumn? Why call it the fall update if its being released in winter. Just be honest and call it a winter update.

VinLieger

I am interested in seeing what this new update has to offer but I would personally like to see a more user customizable menu interface. I want to put my own backgrounds on my xbox like I do with my PC, It would kick ass to be able to have custom menu buttons as well.

I know Microsoft is all about keeping things locked down but come on, every background that they do sell is practically a billboard, why do we have to pay for this crap? I guess I have just been spoiled by my PSP.

Not to mention most of our Themes are covered up by Huge advertisements, so whats the point? I can't even shuffle the images around, the Force Unleashed Theme's best image is on the settings screen!

We need more options dealing with theme customizations and menu alignment dammit! :D

static

@spacecoffin2: I just don't like it.

justhesh

@VinLieger: November is Winter now?

relic1980

"an update of this size could have theoretically been pushed back to later in the year."

Nah. That's why MS didn't do the usual Spring update this year. They have to have been working on this one at least since the last Fall/Winter update. Probably longer.

Mentuss

I'm glad I'm not the only one looking forward to this. Well, actually, I really wouldn't care if I was since I like it and that's all that matters to me.

Anyway, sucks we have to wait for November. I wonder if this will come out before or after GH: World Tour.

Dalren

@Ashkihyena: Good, cause losing Gamerpics for avatars would suck.

Ashkihyena

wile I don't really think we needed this I will have fun playing with the new features. the one feature I'm excited about is Netflix integration though that is a brilliant idea.

about it looking like the XMB i have a ps3 and yes it is close but not the same and I welcome the attempt to make my gaming easier. It reminds me more of the Media Center on windows medea center edition, but white instead of blue.

Assassin_Kensei

*has sex with LittleBigPlaneteer*

I'm happy this is coming from you <3 maybe your kinfolks with listen because everyone else up to now even in the face of insurmountable evidence have dismissed that this is technology and styling MS has been working on for almost 5 years now :(

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

Yes! They took my tip! No mention of me though... :(

Tycoonalex1337

@static: You can use any picture you like from your PC, off a disk, or any USB device, for the background.

You cant have a different pic for each blade mind, the same pic will be shown on every blade - but its better than nothing!

Shod

@agies: NO ITS NOT THIS DASHBOARD UPDATE IS GOING TO BE AMAZING AND UR JUST HATING ON IT

Unbreakable669

@3inst3in: agreed

sandviches_please

The new dashboard looks awesome. With all the new features, theres gonna be a ton to do, in the dashboard alone. I really wanna be able to install my games, but the Netflix streaming and the Avatars are uber cool as well.

Moar_pr0nz