New Xbox 360 experience: the user's own games
Despite apparently having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360 a glance. The Xbox Live underlying basis will remain the same, but Microsoft wants to make life even better for existing users by features easier to find and use, removing clutter of the market, and improving the social experience of Live.
The first major change to the base system for navigation. The high-level channels now composed of six items that closely resemble the structure of the menu of Windows Media Center: Spotlight Games, My Xbox, Primetime, community and Videos. Each option contains additional functions to sub-menu of options and contains major innovations that we'll detail below. Users who are familiar with the traditional five blades menu structures will be relieved to note that the old system remains intact - they appear whenever you press the Guide button on the joystick. By pressing the button is a miniature version of the original system blade. The new miniblades will be accessible everywhere, even in a game. Microsoft is banking heavily on his new position Primetime, a whole new area which offers users a whole new way to play games together. Virtual gameshows are the name of the game here. Microsoft has already demonstrated 1 c. 100, a set of mental king of the hill, a hundred against other opponents. Microsoft will introduce other game-related games to Primetime. Some events also feature live guests and offer prices to keep the game charm. Primetime you will either participate in the action as a competitor or play along as a silent spectator. Adding Netflix Microsoft has a partnership with a number of content providers to provide thousands of hours of additional content in the Xbox Live video section. Microsoft announced at E3 2008 that the contents of Netflix will be available via Xbox Live for Xbox Live Gold membership. The agreement, which allows users to subscribe to Netflix and watching movies and television programs recorded on their instant Netflix queue on their Xbox 360. You should visit the website Netflix to add or remove titles from your Instant queue. A queue Instant adjustments made by the Web browser is automatically updated on the Xbox 360 in a few seconds. Netflix currently offers more than 10000 films and television shows available for instant viewing. The video playback flow near DVD quality, and users will also be able to evaluate the films they watched on Xbox Live. Content by companies like NBC Universal, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sci Fi Channel, USA Network, Constantin, and MGM will also populate the video market. The videos will be available for purchase either in standard definition and high definition. The user interface revision will also improve navigation video. The timing of video vignettes / box, you make finding content much easier. Microsoft has added a community channel to make it easier socialization. The new channel allows you to quickly find your friends, see what they do, and then it's easy to join the action. New community features you will bring in the parties and find new things to do together. LiveParty allows up to eight users to come together with voice and text chat. Everyone in the group shared the same channels of communication while playing games, watching movies, or participate in other events. While some users to switch to a game than others in the party are not unique, the group will still remain in communication with one another in the LiveParty. The MyXbox section will give you a central location for modifying personal items. From there, you'll be able to add images, edit your profile, and a list of your achievements. Microsoft will also introduce a new medal system so that you can highlight your most recent accomplishments. Medals are essentially graphic representations of results, type of graphics as trophies or badges. Microsoft has also decided to engage in the fray customization avatars with the user. Like how you can create Mii on the Nintendo Wii and user avatars in Sony PlayStation Home, 360 users will be able to create virtual representations of themselves in Xbox Live. The MyXbox channel will allow you to customize your avatar's body, hair and clothing style. Currently, all avatar graphics are designed by Microsoft's Rare Ltd. studio. Microsoft said that many aspects of avatars remain free, but content to come could include premium content for options such as clothing. In addition to simply beautiful and provide an avenue for user expression, avatars will also be used in future games. Microsoft said that many third-party developers are excited at the idea and impatience with the adoption of this new feature. Future achievements Thursday May also release upgrades, such as new costumes for your avatar. Microsoft also announced it will shift towards users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and expand the types of games offered on its console, taking a page from the strategy books Facebook and YouTube. The Games channel enable users to easily find games to buy and explore. You'll be able to find demos, downloads, previews and game. The chain featured serves as a simple way to access what is essentially the most popular or important functions on Xbox Live. The chain has links to the hottest games, events, videos, and anything that Microsoft wants to put in front of you. The system will be updated frequently to help users discover new and interesting. A not-so-cosmetic changes in the fall update will be the ability to allow you to play your games directly from the hard drive. The new feature lets you install all users of the game contents directly onto the hard drive to improve load times of games. Microsoft said it saw an improvement of 30 per cent in the loading time of internal tests. As an interesting data point, Microsoft is out of his way of telling a group of reporters that full Devil May Cry 4 hard disk installation took about 10 minutes on the Xbox 360. The installation took twice as long when we conducted our own tests installation on the PlayStation 3. Another advantage of having games installed on the hard drive is a reduction of noise from the optical disk no longer needs to run. However, you will always need to have the game disc in your optical drive while you play, probably as a piracy check. The new Xbox experience is certainly turning to be a colossal achievement. Updating could easily be considered as a new software product with the number of features and improvements it brings to the Xbox 360. We look forward to test all the new updates when Microsoft deploys the updated this fall. |
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