The next Xbox Live update is bringing with it Facebook and Twitter as well as Zune functionality, but according to an email we received from Microsoft regarding next week's preview, there are a few extra little goodies that it was keeping close to its chest.
First of all, music games like Lips, Guitar Hero and Rock Band will be getting their own dedicated stores on the Xbox Live Marketplace, making it even easier to buy Timbaland songs. Brilliant! A brand new channel called "News and More" is also coming. This channel will stream the latest headlines from MSNBC.com, MSN Autos, The New Yorker and Dilbert.
So, looks like all sorts of interesting things are coming with the new update. None of them actually essential or useful, but hey, somebody's going to like it somewhere, right?
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11:00 AM on 10.17.2009
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Didn't LIVE had channels before the Wii even existed?
Jesus. It's 2009, Microsoft, your console is slightly more complex than a WebTV. It can handle web browsing. Put a browser on there, WITH Flash support.
PLEASE?!
^THIS x 99
It'd be better to fix that...
No it had "Blades" no one called them channels until the Wii's main menu had them. Its not like it matters either way, but it just more "me too" coming from Microsoft. The Wii has a dedicated News Channel, so lets put that up on LIVE as well. Why not just give us a fucking internet browser like the Wii/PS3 has, and be done with it? Why do we need all these stupid separate "channels" of little things on the internet? What's next a freaking YouTube channel?
Damn that sucks, I imagine they'll have an unscrupulous reason for that.
I don't care what they throw at us, but if they don't allow us to decide what we use it will suck. I don't want to use any of that stuff on my 360, and I'll be damned if I can't hide it.
Though Dilbert comics isn't a half bad idea, they might consider showing a variety of webcomics eventually.
Besides isn't PC better in this kind of stuff anyways?
I approve even if the news outlets in question will probably be shit. MSNBC? Really?
Of course... Twitter integration is easily done - as has been proven by Uncharted 2. The PS3 (and Wii) already have channels of a sort with iPlayer and VidZone. The PS3 also has the movie store coming to the EU in November.
All good news for consumers.
Yep about bloody time