New Xbox Experience coming Nov. 19

by Justin McElroy { Oct 8th 2008 at 11:39PM }

Finally on Nov. 19, you can kiss that old Xbox experience goodbye as you welcome the shiny New Xbox Experience, and all the Avatars, group chatting and other new features it brings in tow. That's worldwide, by the way.

We're hearing this and a lot more in our TGS 2008 Microsoft press briefing liveblog. Come join us.

Gallery: New Xbox Experience

Tags: breakingnews, new-xbox-experience, nxe, tgs-2008

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Sora @ Oct 8th 2008 11:41PM

Woot! Can't wait!

Tiptup300 @ Oct 9th 2008 12:01AM

Why didn't you take any pictures of the finished dash? I wanted to see it to make sure they didn't use the horrible green colorscheme. I loved the mockups. I hope it looks like them.

Si @ Oct 9th 2008 3:09AM

Anyone really unexcited about this? From what I have seen, it makes navigating slower, and does not really offer anything new (aside from the game installs).

On my 20GB Premium, it will allow me to install 1 game, big whoop. From what I see, it gives a very marginal increase in speed (10 secs GTA IV bootup time), but takes an hour to install.

Sure there is lots of hype, But I can't see why, they are just copying Sony/Apple/Nintendo..

DudeRed @ Oct 9th 2008 9:37AM

uh...Netflix...HELLO!!

Moorio - XBL: peacebyanymeans @ Oct 8th 2008 11:42PM

Finally, a date...

Phillip @ Oct 9th 2008 11:13AM

I went on one of those once.

...oh, wait. No I didn't.

draggingalake @ Oct 8th 2008 11:43PM

yeah! powerpoint on the xbox!

Sora @ Oct 8th 2008 11:45PM

I honestly haven't heard that one before, I lol'd.

Tiptup300 @ Oct 9th 2008 12:02AM

I don't get it. :X

Minimalist360 @ Oct 8th 2008 11:46PM

will all features be present on launch day? Specifically netflix streaming?

Looking foreward to a new experience.

Badboy1979 @ Oct 8th 2008 11:56PM

Hope so... they said it was the "complete and final" build they were showing at TGS.

Minimalist360 @ Oct 9th 2008 10:08AM

Wow, my first post on joystiq and I misspell forward. holy beans.

ice~ @ Oct 8th 2008 11:54PM

EEEEEEEEEEEEEP it's sexy :D

Ranus Studios @ Oct 8th 2008 11:59PM

Yes.

"Finally."

Parsnipzilla @ Oct 8th 2008 11:59PM

Awesome, being in New Zealand has it's advantages, mainly getting the NXE FIRST IN THE WORLD

NeoK-182 @ Oct 9th 2008 12:24AM

Does anyone find this date a bit late. Scene it 2 which uses avatars comes out on the 28th and originally MS said that gears 2 would come with it and thats on the 7th.

blah. at least it's actually fall this time

SecretAgentHam @ Oct 9th 2008 12:34AM

it is a shame it doesnt come out before/same time with gears but hey, its a FREE update. cant complain i guess.

Sirmikael @ Oct 9th 2008 1:00AM

Wow, talk about a really late "Fall" date. I know Winter doesn't technically start until around December 20th, but there is already snow on the ground up in the North by late November.

Linkario @ Oct 9th 2008 1:33AM

I guess I'm the only one that isn't impressed? This new dash looks pretty pre-teen-esque. I guess you guys can download the new dashboard after you are done watching High School Musical...

QUICKLY, VOTE ME DOWN!

Deeznuts420 @ Oct 9th 2008 12:03PM

done anddddddddddddddd done. :D

In A World (XBL) @ Oct 9th 2008 2:56AM

Just 41 precious days with my sweet sweet blades.

Ron @ Oct 9th 2008 4:07AM

I'm really looking forward to this. Its not something I expected honestly, and it's good that the UI is being updated. It's basically going to provide a deeper level of ease of
use, Netflix streaming, and my favorite feature, HDD installs, this will be great for playing Elder Scrolls 4. Now I just have to get a bigger hard drive, something I never thought I'd need.