360 Dashboard update "imminent"
by Dan Choi 
{ Jan 30th 2006 at 12:45PM }
HardOCP has received MS
confirmation that an
update to the Xbox 360 dashboard is imminent, noting that it was supposed to "head to
production" on Friday, "but a few minor issues pushed the target date back to Monday"--which, of course,
is today.If the original Xboxic source is to be believed, this update "will contain fixes for all currently known lockups in games, missing or impossible to get achievements and a bunch of new functionality in the Dashboard" (possibly including support for a 360 camera).
If a Call of Duty 2 patch hits tomorrow as well, Xbox owners could potentially have quite a few downloads ready and waiting for them as they sit down to play this week. Getting through games without having to cheat or exploit glitches would be a nice change of pace.
[Thanks, m3mnoch & everyone else who sent this in]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jcsickz @ Jan 30th 2006 1:01PM
ummm. you guys ought to go ahead and make m3mnoch a writer. here or at least at 360fanboy...
Dan Choi @ Jan 30th 2006 1:04PM
Heh, he does give us some good tips, jcsickz. =)
m3mnoch @ Jan 30th 2006 1:13PM
awww. thanks, guys. i'm feeling all weepy and stuff now.
heh.
m3mnoch.
pennywise969 @ Jan 30th 2006 1:28PM
Whats this I hear acout a Call of Duty 2 patch today? Did I miss a post somewhere? I hope this is true. Any news on fixing any of the many Madden 360 Glitches?
SickNic @ Jan 30th 2006 2:11PM
Yeah, they must love m3mnoch, because I sent this in last week and they didn't do an article...
Dan Choi @ Jan 30th 2006 2:21PM
"Whats this I hear acout a Call of Duty 2 patch today?"
Well, that patch would be coming tomorrow if HardOCP's right, so here's hoping...
Dan Choi @ Jan 30th 2006 2:24PM
SickNic, we've been watching the story on Xboxic as long as you have, but getting (official?) Microsoft confirmation was the kicker in this case. At any rate, we'll see soon enough whether HardOCP/Xboxic got this right or not.
daniel @ Jan 30th 2006 2:26PM
the update is up now
jason G @ Jan 30th 2006 2:48PM
Can anybody give facts on the call of duty 2 Patch? what will it allow us to do besides not lag? any custom / private games? anybody know?
Paranoised @ Jan 30th 2006 3:35PM
I downloaded the dashboard update, and I didn't notice any changes. Even the rumored improvement which was that we could now download things while doing something else at the same time isn't there...
I guess that I was expecting too much, its probably only some internal tweaking...
khile @ Jan 31st 2006 6:09AM
Well if you go to your xbox guide there is now a battery indicateding how much battery life your controler has
Uk version
Curry @ Jan 31st 2006 6:38PM
PGR3/DoA4 crashes when retrieving Guide information seem to be fixed at the very least. Background dash updating was never promised just expected by a lot of people.
I've heard rumors that the CoD2 patch is postponed for max. 2 weeks, but from a source less reliable than HardOCP so I didn't do a story on it yet. I've been trying to get solid information for the last few hours but nothing so far.
My original source on the dashboard update only claimed the dashboard would be updated and it would fix common problems related to the Xbox 360 kernel, which is exactly what it did. The CoD2 patch is all up to Infinity Ward, although the current update may also have fixed certain things like the save-game bugs: I have not heard anyone complaining about lost savegames since yesterday, and Microsoft would never officially in a press release admit to having such a bug, let alone fix it. Instead they just state "various fixes to the dashboard".
Curry - www.xboxic.com
Dan Choi @ Jan 31st 2006 6:43PM
Hey, thanks for the info, Curry! It's much appreciated.
Curry @ Jan 31st 2006 6:44PM
I meant ofcourse "Background downloading was never promised just expected by a lot of people." in the second sentence above, my apologies, it's late here :)