News flash: a lot of people signed into Facebook through Xbox LIVE after Microsoft rolled out the planned summer update that also added Last.FM and Twitter.
Microsoft dude David Dennis recently told CNET that around 2 million people have signed into the social platform via the Xbox 360. He added that half a million people have signed up for Last.FM accounts within its first full day of availability.
Dennis didn’t have numbers for the amount of people who got bored with both apps and went to play Modern Warfare 2. He also didn't have a number for the amount of people using the Twitter app, but we’re guessing a lot of people signed into that as well. Not many can resist sending that, "Hey, I'm doing this over LIVE" tweet. Not many at all.
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8:40 AM on 11.24.2009
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I loaded it up for 10 seconds, decided it was shit and useless, then went back to Forza 3. Similarly with Last.fm, but if that could be an ingame soundtrack, then I'd be singing an entirely different tune.
See what I did there?
I'm quite liking the trophy updates my PSN sends to my bookface, specially as I've not have any "you turned the game on" trophies that 360 users cherish so much. - As always accessing bookface on the PS3 browser is simple as, but I rarely waste my own time on bookface. That's a work thing.
Back to the too many games I've got to play right now.
Then you will love how your ps3 also has a facebook thingie.
warhat;, threr's nthping wrnog wtih chptadas?
...okay that came out less comprehensible than I intended.
@ The Meat. LMAO I dunno why Im laughing so hard at that.
And I made a last.fm account when they announced the compatibility. And I don't use it on my 360 now I can.
http://bit.ly/1bsjDO
I am disappointed with the last.fm channel, due to the fact that I can't use it while playing games. There's so much the XBox can do in regards to voice chat/parties/multiplayer that there's no reason you shouldn't be able to stream music while playing something. The only time I'll use it is if I'm in another room doing something, and even then, I've got an iPod which I can either use headphones with or plug into the 360 and play from there.
I logged into it once, saw it, was hugely dissapointed and will prolly never open it again :p
I agree about Last.FM. I would have at least settled for picking an artist and hearing random songs from just that artist, rather than having to skip fifteen songs to get another song by the artist you wanted in the first place. It's okay, and I would probably use it if it could run in the background while I play games or do other things, but without that functionality, it's not going to get much use from me.
Facebook: good for seeing which friends on fb are also on Live, and vice versa, but otherwise it'd too separated from the dashboard to be worthwhile. Posted one msg "is trying facebook from his 360", then never returned to it. It's lacking features, it's cumbersome and things are too many screens away, and I can't play Mafia Wars from it!
last.fm: great thing to have on in the background, BUT as others have said, you end up skipping tons of tracks to get to another one from the artist you searched for; it's another separate app like facebook, so you can't use it as a soundtrack; and finally, the music varies in quality with a lot of bass missing and some large variations in volume.