Don't like the New Xbox Experience? Tough. Microsoft will be making the NXE mandatory for every Xbox 360 user, even those who don't have their console connected to Xbox Live. Taking a page from the PSP handbook of annoyance, firmware updates will ship with retail discs, forcing an installation of the NXE before the game can be played.
The original blade dashboard will henceforth be wiped from the face of the planet like some vile stain, starting with the release of HAWX this Friday, along with MLB: 2K9.
While I don't think this is especially outrageous or anything, it's interesting that Microsoft wants to make sure the original dashboard is completely eradicated. Maybe they're hoping the allure of the NXE will be enough to get unconnected users saddled with Xbox Live.
Whatever, so long as Microsoft doesn't start pulling the same bullsh*t that the PSP does with its ridiculously regular firmware updates, there's no reason to worry about it.
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11:00 AM on 03.05.2009
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The install will most likely just be streamed from micro$haft and it'll just overwrite the blade dashboard code. It's not that big of an install really.
When I turn it on I just want to get to the video or games I have on my hard drive that I own! But what do I get? Endless menus to flip through that offer me tons of shit Microsoft wants me to buy. It makes me sick that they integrate all the shit they want you to buy on your dashboard. I understand it's a buisness and blah blah and all that but, it's fucking obnoxious to the extreme.
They had a 20 dollar harddrive sale for arcade owners awhile ago. While it isn't a real solution, Microsoft sure thought it was good enough.
Poor arcade owners.
i can understand why NXE is mandatory online, as i'm sure MS don't want to have to update two dashboards, but i have found no benefit to using it at all, and no game relies on its presence for any function, so forcing the update on offline players is just mean.
Sure, they're frequent, but the firware requirements on games (and most of them don't seem to have ANY) are usually SEVERAL updates behind the most recent one so you don't need to update every 5 seconds.
Also, PSP updates actually seem to add GOOD features that make me WANT to update occasionally, so I can't fault them for adding more functionality to my system.
it would have been so much better if they did without the advertisements and the avatar shit
YAARRRRR
You do realize that you are talking about Microsoft support, right? I hope you meant that as a joke because its the funniest thing I've read today!
Granted, he never used the dashboard as it is, it still sounds like a pain.
Buy a PS3 or Wii then. At least both of them had the good sense to keep advertising off of the XMB/Wii Channels
But hey, MS, I keep forgetting they are evil incarnate and everyone likes to whine and moan about them. Someone hasn't used "they've ruined gaming" line someone use it fast.
I'm kinda getting the feeling that optional Installs are about to become "encouraged" ( looks over at his 20 gb hardrive ) awwww crap.