THE big Xbox LIVE System Update is dropping on November 17th according to Web site Fast Company, who reportedly received launch confirmation from LIVE general manager Marc Whitten.
This is the update that adds Twitter, Facebook, and Last.FM support to the service -- its not one of those prep patches that keeps you from playing Dragon Age: Origins or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for a precious fifteen minutes.
As you’ve seen in our video preview of the update (or yourself if you’re one of the lucky ones in the beta) the update doesn’t allow Tweets or FB messages on the fly; rather, users have to jump into an application which makes this the second most pointless thing ever. The first most pointless thing, by the way, is my autographed portrait of Dennis Rodman.*
* Just joking, Dennis. Keep being as bad as you want to be. Just, you know, stop with the drunken antics please.
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2:20 PM on 11.12.2009
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Yes, you'll have to access the Last.FM application in order to listen. No cross-functionality with games.
That really kills the point. Not that I ever cared much in the first place.
It feels like an xbox 360 when you set it to boot to disc, and then never quit to dashboard.
Occams electric toothbrush has the right idea, and an amusing handle. I can honestly say that the Facebook functionality sucks. This is only good if you want to treat the xbox 360 like the kind of family media hub thing like in their crappy Natal adverts.
If you want a console to be a family media hub, a simple one to use, get a PS3 or set up a computer to do it, because the xbox 360 is best at playing games.