Xbox Experience coming 11/19 - requires 128mb of space

[colkilla]

Re: Xbox Experience coming 11/19 - requires 128mb of space

Free just like any other update and mandatory if you connect online.

dang bruh, thanks for the quick reply!!!

[Flawless]

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Eurogamer Hands-On

It's a fitting place to end our tour of the New Xbox Experience, because, as a whole, it demonstrates that while Microsoft did not anticipate the demand for platform-level grouping, visual social features like Avatars, nor the sheer volume of content Xbox Live Marketplace would come to host, it set in place foundations as best it could, and is now reaping the rewards. By compartmentalising common functionality, it's been able to introduce features that not only improve future Xbox games, but improve old ones too.

"Serendipitous discovery of content" rings a little hollow - right, thanks for all the new ads - but, as Parties demonstrate, there will be headroom into which to manoeuvre, and we wouldn't be surprised if one of next year's iterations introduces something like Digg spliced with Major Nelson's blog to really empower the community Microsoft professes to love and live up to the serendipity mantra. As Community Games shower from the XNA heavens (or bedrooms), it'll be interesting to see how the Marketplace functionality evolves.

For now though it's smoother and easier than ever, and concerns we had beforehand about that 90MB first-in-first-out cache and the chances of staring at screens waiting for stuff to load in prove to have been misplaced. The background downloads are quick, quiet and have no impact on performance, which is brisk throughout, and whichever of the Live team's programmers spent weeks optimising the new Guide to make the most of its slender resource deserves a pat on the back.

If the Party system is NXE's biggest chest-puff, then the Guide is its smartest flourish, replicating the old dash almost to the word, and thereby giving hardcore users with no need for a flashy UI the means to resist NXE's charms almost permanently, and giving those who find it all slightly overwhelming a stable, familiar core around which to plan their forays into the new functionality. And once they get past that initial feeling of a world turned upside down, the Guide panel resumes its periphery role.

It's a great progression, topping off a great dashboard reboot, and in light of Sony's recent struggles - endless Trophy patches with no retroaction, most notably - it reinforces the widely held view that Microsoft is winning in software and will continue to do so. All that remains, following NXE's 19th November launch, is whether the Xbox 360 hardware now holds up for as long as the guts of Kutaragi's swansong, and how much of the New Xbox Experience's progressive thinking Sony will discover it needs to incorporate in the months and years to come. By then, expect Microsoft's software engineers to be well into the next New Xbox Experience, because as this one demonstrates, they're well aware that needs change and how to prepare for them.

[Tha_Kid]

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FWIW the NXE install files are floating around the internet. You can put them on a flash drive and it will automatically update your console with one catch: can't go online until the 19th when its officially out. Normally i'd be all over this but i'm in some NBA 2k9 online leagues.

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/10/31/nxe-leaked-installation-disables-live-until-november-19/

[Altimus]

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FWIW the NXE install files are floating around the internet. You can put them on a flash drive and it will automatically update your console with one catch: can't go online until the 19th when its officially out. Normally i'd be all over this but i'm in some NBA 2k9 online leagues.

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/10...l-november-19/

Not worth the risk of getting your console or account banned later on for a couple weeks of early NXE without online.

Also here are some loading videos:

<embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:295007" width="512" height="319" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashVars="configParams=type%3Dnormal%26vid%3D2950 07%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A295007%2 6startUri=mgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A295007" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" base="."></embed><div style="margin:0;text-align:center;width:500px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">MTV Shows</a></div>

I'm definitely installing every game and deleting it once my play through is done. 10 minutes isn't a bad price to pay for faster loading and the most important thing, no DVD drive noise.

[Tha_Kid]

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You won't get banned for using it, just XBL will be disabled until its released officially. There's too much leeway for a universal ban for unregistered consoles using the NXE.

[colkilla]

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anybody know of any deals on new and/or used 120 gb hard drives???

[bkfount]

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Not worth the risk of getting your console or account banned later on for a couple weeks of early NXE without online.

I seriously doubt they ban people for getting this early. They already won't be on Live until the 19th. There's nothing about this that can be used for evil, as the NXE is already being previewed in depth by nearly every gaming site out there. This is even the bare bones of the NXE, since it's only an 8 MB file. All of the rest will have to be downloaded off Live, and the only people that have access to that are in the early program.

You can't connect to Live, you can't create an avatar, you can't use netflix, marketplace, or any of the features being hyped. Really the only main thing you can do is install games to the HDD. That's a laughable reason to ban people.

[bkfount]

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anybody know of any deals on new and/or used 120 gb hard drives???

I've seen numerous 120 gig HDD's on ebay for $75

[DueceDiggla]

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So I we can now borrow games from friends and burn them onto our 360s and store them for as long as we like? It wouldn't make much sense for me to buy games anymore.

[Pared]

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So I we can now borrow games from friends and burn them onto our 360s and store them for as long as we like? It wouldn't make much sense for me to buy games anymore.

No.

You still need the disc to use your "saved game" off the hard drive.

I seriously doubt they ban people for getting this early. They already won't be on Live until the 19th. There's nothing about this that can be used for evil, as the NXE is already being previewed in depth by nearly every gaming site out there. This is even the bare bones of the NXE, since it's only an 8 MB file. All of the rest will have to be downloaded off Live, and the only people that have access to that are in the early program.

You can't connect to Live, you can't create an avatar, you can't use netflix, marketplace, or any of the features being hyped. Really the only main thing you can do is install games to the HDD. That's a laughable reason to ban people.

So I take it you will be installing it then. Mind taking a few pic requests?

[Altimus]

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I seriously doubt they ban people for getting this early. They already won't be on Live until the 19th. There's nothing about this that can be used for evil, as the NXE is already being previewed in depth by nearly every gaming site out there. This is even the bare bones of the NXE, since it's only an 8 MB file. All of the rest will have to be downloaded off Live, and the only people that have access to that are in the early program.

You can't connect to Live, you can't create an avatar, you can't use netflix, marketplace, or any of the features being hyped. Really the only main thing you can do is install games to the HDD. That's a laughable reason to ban people.

It doesn't matter what you can do with it, the bottom line is you are using a software that they own, that you shouldn't. Online or offline, doesn't matter.

Working in software myself, we have the same tools in place. As well as do many other software developers. MS has the same thing for their own developing software.

So I don't see how it is laughable. You are downloading an OS you are not suppose to be downloading and installing it on the 360. Even though it bans you from online temporary, it is still a no no and I'm sure is covered in their TOS somewhere. Not to mention MS has a strong attitude against any kind of piracy, no matter how small so it is far from laughable.

Even 360fanboy wouldn't be surprised if bans or suspensions were handed out.

[Flawless]

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NXE Gamercard at MyGamerCard.net

[kennytomson]

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well i downloaded it. i'm on my third 360 and NBA 2k9 kept freezing tonight. i'm hoping without a spinning dvd the thing will run cooler. at this point if it wasn't for all my plastic instruments and dlc i'd be buying a ps3 this Christmas.

[CaptainZombie]

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NXE Gamercard at MyGamerCard.net

I like the new gamercard. Sweet.

[Altimus]

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I like the new gamercard. Sweet.

Yep, seems nice and clean.

What if the theme you have for your dash is the theme in your gamercard? That would be cool.