aside from dyslexia, the arrival of the NXE and netflix paints a promising future for xbox 360 owners. in a recent article on Gizmodo, Shane Kim makes mention of wanting to bring Hulu to Xbox Live. Makes sense to me, Hulu gets more revenue through advertising, and Xbox Live has one spiffy free media player. I'm hooked on Hulu since losing my DVR, it's a great way to catch up on shows you've missed with minimal advertisements, for free. Kim goes on about how the XNE experience is about bringing fleshed out services to the console's OS, not not simply 'dropping in a browser' and seeing what works.
here's what would make me a happy 360 owner.
Pandora for live.
Pandora changed the way i listen to music. No longer do i listen to albums. I just plug in a band i wanna listen to, and they provide me with hours of epic new music, some of which i never heard before. i loves it. i'd love it on my 360. i'd really love to be able to stream my pandora playlists as the soundtrack to games that allow for custom soundtracks. make it happen.
YouTube
not simply because i want more videos, but b/c it makes sense. if you could record and upload videos directly to youtube from your 360, i'm sure Vision Cam sales would go up substantially. As would terrible videos of people cursing out newbs for t-bagging them relentlessly on Halo. but this isn't from a quality standpoint as much as practicality.
Twitter
ever since XNE was launched, gamertag motto's appear to be changing more frequently. maybe its the cute text bubbles over the avatar. who knows? but give the users the ability to link twitter to their avatar. b/c nothing is more important than the last time you pooped, or how you cut your sandwiches.
Facebook
I enjoy kongregate's facebook app, it shows my friends what i'm playing right on my wall. why not up the ante and have xbox live and facebook interact? Better yet, recommend people i may know directly from live and let me friend them.
What would you like to see added to the NXE?
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I wish they could somehow take the time, money, and energy spent creating 1,000 shitty XBLA titles and funnel them into 10 great ones. But that'll never happen.
Nonblurry Netflix
Exclusive games besides Halo/Fable/Gears
:P
Nuts and Bolts is teh PS3 killer.
Seriously though, do you know how horrible twitter and facebook will look on a large TV which shitty 1080i resolution? While I applaud your desire to see Youtube and Hulu added to NXE, lets keep the other internet apps on the PC and Mac where they belong.
I played the demo and couldn't stand it.
imagine linking your facebook account to your gamertag, loading up live, and it suggesting people you may know, showing thier email and gamertag, and one button friend intives.
i'm not looking to replace the PC, rather enrich the features available from my xbox.
Honestly, I don't like the NXE. I was a much bigger fan of the blades. I like how much better the system runs now, but it's just a PS3 and a Wii slapped together that doesn't do the features as well as the other two separately. But it's all preference.
2.) A living room where you can invite friends to sit down and watch any video you have in your library. (if I can buy a DVD and invite friends to my IRL living room to watch it, I should be able to invite friends to my VR living room to watch a movie with no copyright infringement.)
3.) Be able to invite friends to watch the games I am playing.
nope.
i can use my eye toy to upload videos to youtube straight from the ps3?
nope.
ps3 will locate which of my facebook friends have psn accounts and suggest i add them?
nope.
this isn't an I WANT INNERNETS ON MY CONSOLE post. this is a i want a richer online gaming experience post.
Yeah, I know it wouldn't be feasable if you just inserted a dvd in the tray. But you could upload movies from your Xbox HD to some kind of streaming server, wait for them to buffer and watch it at the same time as your friends.
I would also like some kind of "dry erase board" for your party to plan out strategies for games that you are playing or about to play.
they did have video sharing in the cards at one point. It was for all videos, both XBL and self sourced on an external drive. I suspect it'll never reappear again much like how it's not in Home now either.
Frankly, I wouldn't want any of these features. I already get a decent streaming music selection from my mac. I can load up any audio stream into my playlists and go from there. The only difference is that this is preset by me, as opposed to Pandora.
The big reason why you won't see a Pandora is due to licensing costs burdened by Pandora. YouTube, I see no need for. I only ever use it for music videos on my iPhone, and frankly if there were a dedicated application that did JUST that on my phone, I would've only needed YouTube on 2-3 occasions outside of those circumstances.
There's also the fact that all these would rely on non-MS services. MS isn't the biggest fan of paying for someone else's content on their service. Rather than adopt standards from other companies, MS would rather foist their own on you.
Hence: Zune, PlaysForSure, Silverlight, Live Search Maps, Live Search, MS-DOS, et al .