So it has recently come to my attention that all the cute little armor perms for your avatar are for guys only.

Man, I'm not really into dressing my avatar yet, at least until there is enough content to be very original, but there are some very tempting pieces that they have in the avatar marketplace.

Oh and avatar props look awesome. The avatars actually interact with each prop. It's very cool.

I don't see that part where it shows how long you've been a member of Live though.

All in all much much slicker. I really like how they revamped the games marketplace and have all the top rated content...as for rating games/movies/demos it's super easy. You click on "rate" and then you then you click A for as many stars as you want to give it.

Nothing groundbreaking, that stuff is coming later in the year, but a solid update.

@Vimto:

Yikes. A few weeks back for the preview, it took about 9 minutes. Subsequent updates were around 5. Almost 50 minutes is insane.

Haven't seen it yet but then again I have been signed onto Live for awhile so maybe I have to restart. Totally forgot that the update is today.

My sped up in the end took about 15 minutes, and is a bit rubbish, and slightly disappointing, plus £19.99 for old xbox games, oh dear Microsoft.

@TheToiletDuck

I'd rather have it on disc anyway.

I had to try and play a game online to get the update to start, only took a minute. Impressions in a bit :P

All this just so I can pay for virtual clothing for my avatar? No thank you.

I like the smaller updates to the mini dashboard and what not, not so much the other stuff. A REAL RC Warthog would be pretty cool.

I buy every clothes! Spend money well invested! Clothes pretty, make me game better!
Whens the ''Next Next Xbox Experience'' coming? Please, please, PLEASE Micro$oft, include an option to DISABLE avatars!

F*ck it. M$, I'll pay you for and option to remove the avatar from my console. Just put an option in the marketplace, something like: ''Remove your Avatar today! Easy and fast, now only €19,99'' You'll make millions. You know it makes sense.

Wah wah wah "PS3 updates take so long" - compared to 50 minutes? WTF?

wah wah wah - Facebook & Twitter support will be groundbreaking! - No they're not, anyone with a PS3 takes their browser for granted, I mean come on, this is the 21st century, console + Browser is no brainer.

Avatars suck, give me an OPTIONAL avatar and a world for it to play in, even if that world is missing some REAL groundbreaking features.

I just spent around 40 minutes downloading (my bandwidth is terrible) and I can proudly say that I'm completely indifferent about this update. I'm never going to buy one of their games on demand, for not only are they cheaper in the shops (my copy of Mass Effect in the nice special edition tin cost me less than half of what the game is on here) but it would be much quicker to head down the store and pick up the game, than use the download speed I currently have to battle with.

The avatar clothes are admittedly quite nice, but they cost money so that's a no go. Maybe the next update will be more interesting..

Give me one where I can use a debit card instead of spending MS points and I'll be all over the XBLA!

I just got it.. only took like 3 mins to download and install.. it's ok, nothing amazing.. games on demand is cool, but $100AU for Mass Effect is Ridiculous.. especially when you can get it retail for like $40AU.. I wanna know what games can earn Avatar awards.. anyone know if there's a way to check? like in the achievements browser or something?

Sexualchocolate, why don't you just stay in the PS3 threads? There is no point for you to be here as you don't own an Xbox and only come in to troll. Seriously, is Sony paying you to be a retarded, obnoxious fanboy?
I liked how the update put the Welcome tab thing back up, so I had to turn it off again. Not really much here I'm too excited about since I don't use netflix...but still the little things I've noticed have been ok. I'm hoping the Facebook update comes soon.

SexualChocolate loves Home.

The update takes around a minute for decent internets. The most important inclusion is that you can now press X to eject disks from the tray!

The ratings things is going to fail hard, people are going to vote either 1 star or 5 depending on their fanboy loyalties, just like Metacritic.

C'mon, I just have one request of the avatar system.

Either made them kids, or make them look and move a little more like adults. The lack of maturity and sexuality in a grown-up looking body is really disturbing to me.

I'd pay for an option to disable the avatars before I'd ever spend even one pretend microsoft penny to purchase avatar clothes. I don't care about the facebook or internet radio, but smaller game installs sounds good to me.

The update is rather under-whelming. For people in the States it might be good for the new NetFlix stuff, but we don't get that here in Canada, so I couldn't care less about it, Everything else is just minor changes, which is fine, because it was badly needed. But Microsoft shouldn't act like its some big deal, when its clearly not. The "ratings" thing is a complete joke. I mean come on, you don't even need to own the game to rate it, so the whole system is pointless.

If Microsoft is just going to constantly take from Nintendo's lead, than they should at least try to do it better. You should have to own the game, and have played it for a certain amount of time like on the Wii. This update is just for nickle & diming the customers, nothing more. So the fall update better be better than this one was, but I don't see how it couldn't be any better than this one!

The update is "meh". I haven't tested the speed changes yet.

The avatar props are cool, but I ain't buying shit. I'm curious to see what games are gonna start the Awards.

i smell fanboys



they smell like virgins

Update was seamless. woot.

I've noticed the game library section seems to be a lot faster. It used to take me like a minute of waiting between the main dashboard and being able to play a demo I've downloaded. It only took about five minutes for me with my speedy connection. I did realize that I should probably clear up some space on my hard drive: I had only five gigs left of my 120 GB HDD. Now it's back up to twenty because I realized that I still had games installed to the hard drive that I had borrowed and returned months ago.