NXE
polycounter lvl 18
Anyone get on the early trial setup of the New Xbox Experience? Just got it installed on my 360, and liking it so far. The new setup's gonna take a bit to get used to navigating, but I like it already. Gonna dig up a game or two and toss 'em on the hdd.. probably fallout first cause I've gotten a few dirty disk errors lately with that.
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Plus I'm really hoping the NetFlix download service works nicely.
Also it's from an older update but you can browse pics on your computer and set them as desktop images on the 360. I have some hot little piece of ass on mine. lol
But yeah nice new features. Seems much cleaner. Loving it.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/29/video-tour-new-xbox-experience-exposed/
Also, if you're planning on storing games on the hdd, be sure to have plenty of space. Fallout took up about 6.5 gigs, and so will Gears 2. I'm already considering buying a 120 gig hdd. Also, this may finally get me to sign up for Netflix...
Figured I might as well for future use.
Plus now I can pick up an arcade system for my wife and she will have a hard drive
Calling it an "experience".. this update better be friggin EPIC.
I have three.
One at home, one at my desk at work, and one that I've pretty much given to my friend to use on a permanent basis.
I just pop the hdd and any games I want to play and take them with me to work or my friend's place. Sure beats an integrated hdd or a memstick.
The first one I got was the Premium not long after it came out. About a year later I got the RRoD, but got fed up with dealing with their call-in tech support, so I bought a Basic one and just swapped the hdd over and stowed the Premium. When I started at Cryptic they gave me a Premium, so I had one at home and one at work. About that time I realized they'd added proper support to the xbox.com website, submitted my RRoD support request there, got a prompt "send it in", and gave one of the three when I got it back to my friend. All worked out.
... says the one who's buying a new computer
Well played sir!
yeah the 120gig comes with the transfer cable and cd. The 60gig doesn't. So get the 120gig.
Once transfered it wipes the old 20gig.
Easy process. Mine took about an hour or so.
I heard that the netflix service in general wasn't going to be available at launch? Is this still/true? It's one of the features I'm looking forward to the most.
Setup my Netflix account only to discover that you cannot browse the selection that is available on netflix from the comfort of the couch. Instead you have go to the "watch Instantly" section in Netflix on the computer and setup the movies that you want to watch on the xbox. Kind of a annoying since I thought the whole point of having Netflix on NXE was that we'd be able to freely browse whats available.
Movies come in a little pixelated in 1080p but its better waiting for them in the mail
Edit: After placing 12 movies into my Xbox queue 3 of them say "Not available on Xbox"
I'm pissed. I get the same thing when I play a game as well so it's not just the dashboard.
That was sony pulled off columbia pictures support for only the xbox. You're able to stream those movies off other options, just not the 360. It's really a dick move on sony's part, pulling the movies off right before nxe launches even though they knew about netflix on the 360 for awhile now.
Pretty neat. Needs a lot of getting used to. We'll see in a few days/weeks how well I like it.
So far I'm most amazed that it was up on time.
*needs more avatar parts!!!
Yeah, but you're renting it with Netflix.
It'd be like going to Blockbuster, and they wont rent you a movie because you have a Toshiba BluRay player instead of a Sony one.
My argument was MS expecting this downloadable media to be the winner, rather than offering a blu-ray add-on. I thought that was the real advantage of their setup. If HD-DVD failed (which it did), you could easily offer an external blu-ray (or whatever comes next).
Will take some getting used to, that's for sure. I really like the look of the pop-up menus, though. More steam-like, less bubbly gray shite.
seems like girl avatars get more clothes.
Nice thing with the new dashboard is the fact that the games list doesn't reload each time. Plus the new dash is made for adding updates much easier than the previous setup, so we might be able to expect more updates instead of just fall and spring updates.
Avatars are pretty neat, though. The avatar for Matabus is spot on. XD
i love it way more than the old xbox theme.
i have a few freezing issues. kinda scaring me as it happened 2/2 times
other than that:
daymn!
Oh well. The dash is awesome besides that!
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/19/new-avatar-fashions-planned-every-two-weeks-for-six-months/
Also, apparently installing Halo 3 to the hdd is a bad idea.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/19/bungie-just-say-no-to-nxe-install-of-halo-3/
EDIT: Bah. Why can't I link my avatar?
I need a more 'Hawaiian' shirt than this.... either that or black one with hot rod flames...
Odd thing I noticed. They allow for rings on the right hand but not on the left... wonder why they wouldn't allow for a marriage ring to be shown.