Sign up for a preview of the new Xbox 360 update? Then you’ll be able to get involved and have a mooch around the tweaked platform from today. Microsoft has already fired off an email letting you know that you can get involved. So what can you expect from this Xbox update? Read on and find out.
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Microsoft has just dropped a lengthy list of updates to the New Xbox Experience, due to land later this summer. There’s a revamped Friends channel, Movie Parties and even a tightened up Achievement Browser. You’ll have to wait for Facebook and Last.fm though. Read on to get all the details.
Microsoft Xbox 360 Arcade consoles in the UK now come with double the internal memory previously found in the hard drive-less consoles. The new consoles are shipping with 512MB of memory, as opposed to older Xbox 360 Arcade units shipping with 256MB. So, if you’re about to buy an Arcade console – check carefully to make sure you’re getting one of the new ones.
Microsoft has announced that its Xbox 360 console has sold over 30 million units worldwide. And that two thirds of owners are “active” users of Xbox Live. In total, those 20 million Xbox Live users have accessed nearly one billion items of downloadable content.
According to an article in The Sunday Times, Sony’s PS3 Home virtual world – the console’s rival to Nintendo’s Miis and Microsoft’s “New Xbox Experience” – is set to launch within nine days.
An anonymous customer service rep for Microsoft predicted that the New Xbox Experience update for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console would cause serious problems for a minority of owners – including the infamous “RRoD” Red Ring of Death, meaning a dead console. And now it looks like, for some, those predictions have come true.
Electric Pig has already posted five things you didn’t know about Microsoft’s new user-interface update for its Xbox 360 console: the “New Xbox Experience“. But now word reaches us of a sixth secret embedded in the update: crazy hair colours.
By now, most Xbox 360 owners have probably had the chance to spend time tinkering with the New Xbox Experience update. It’s a radical reimagining of the console’s interface and has added a load of new features, including the oft-debated Avatars. But if you’ve only spent time customising your new character and ripping Gears of War 2 to the hard drive, then you might have missed some of the other less well-know features. Read on for five of our faves.