The October system software update for Microsoft’s frequently-evolving Xbox One console will add a Gamerscore leaderboard that will rank Xbox One owners and their friends by the amount of Gamerscore they have attained in the last 30 days.
Microsoft showed the new Gamerscore ranking system last night in a video highlighting several October firmware system software changes and upgrades. The changes are bullet-pointed at Xbox hype man Major Nelson’s blog.
There are a bunch of neat tweaks in the update. The introduction of a better controller-based option for video capture might excite some system owners: double-tap the Xbox button and then press X to grab the last 30 seconds of gameplay. The expansion of media-playing/streaming capabilities will cheer others.
There’s even more, but, if you’re an Xbox One owner, don’t disregard the Gamerscore ranking system. Finally, there’s a way to compete with people whose Gamerscore is way higher than yours, since you can at least out-score them for the past 30 days. Then again, this just might make you more anxious about what your friends are doing.
Gamescore, as most of you probably know, is a scored tally of Achievements that Xbox One and Xbox 360 users have earned by accomplishing various tasks in the games they play.
You can see the Xbox team’s tour of all the October updates in the video below:
The October system software update will be available for consoles, well, next month.
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6 responses to “October Xbox One Update Will Make Gamerscore A Bigger Deal”
Can’t wait until they let us show “only favourites” for Gamerscore, like notifications. Don’t really care about the general friends I just play with but don’t really know in real life.
As someone who likes increasing his gamerscore and comparing it to the random people on my friends list, it was never a big deal.
good news indeed, i only snap acheivo’s at the moment as i dont like the current system.
Am enjoying the regular updates from them but it is getting really annoying that custom soundtrack or music still playing on unsnap hasn’t been implemented.
Always nice to listen to some tunes while playing BF4.
Proper DLNA! now I can retire the 360
Is it any good though? I tried the player for USB media it was clunky and a bit “meh”