Xbox Live Primetime won't make NXE launch

by Justin McElroy { Oct 21st 2008 at 9:00AM }

Trivia junkies will have a bit longer to get their buzzer fingers in shape (at least one part of you will be!) as Microsoft has revealed that Xbox Live Primetime won't be making it in time for the New Xbox Experience launch next month. According to Forbes, Microsoft says it needs the extra time to "ensure a smooth launch of the system's new user interface." Primetime won't be happening until springtime.

Poor NXE. First Primetime gets limited to four regions at launch, then we hear movie sharing won't make the date and now Primetime will be altogether absent. By the time Nov. 19 rolls around, is the New Xbox Experience just going to be a bunch of stickmen avatars wandering around an empty gray box? We certainly hope not.

[Via MCV]

Tags: new-xbox-experience, nxe, xbox-live, xbox-live-primetime

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Xoviet chiK - Gyiyg Strikes Back @ Oct 21st 2008 9:10AM

Maybe it's for the better. We know virtually nothing about how it will work, aside from the basic idea behind it all. With that in mind, hopefully Advertisements won't make launch as well :)

tmacairjordan87 @ Oct 21st 2008 9:33AM

I know joystiq's joking around, but at this rate the NXE will just be avatars walking around. It's like Sony and Microsoft are taking their competition to the next (sad) level, to see who can release something with as few promised features as possible.

Haggard @ Oct 21st 2008 9:41AM

PlayStation Home: connect the playstation eye to your PS3 and watch your Home - live on your TV!

Anthony @ Oct 21st 2008 9:52AM

To bad they didn't just scrap it all together.

I'd much rather have 10-20 fixes/upgrades to the system then some stupid item that should be a arcade game.

My bad. MS can't give away a "arcade game" for free.

Trippy Haps @ Oct 21st 2008 10:45AM

What...Undertow didn't count?

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/18/microsoft-apologizes-for-xbox-live-issues-with-free-undertow-dow/

And doesn't the Arcade SKU come with like...five free arcade games?

tmacairjordan87 @ Oct 21st 2008 11:06AM

As bad as that game was, no it doesn't count. Something at least decent would have been nice.

Anthony @ Oct 21st 2008 5:06PM

Arcade games given away to prevent lawsuits (even frivolous ones) don't count.

Cole @ Oct 21st 2008 9:58AM

next they will take out group chats and the new dashboard.

Metal Geario 360 @ Oct 21st 2008 10:23AM

Doubt that...

Cole @ Oct 21st 2008 10:26AM

ok mr. takeeverythingyoureadontheinternetwaytoseriously

Metal Geario 360 @ Oct 21st 2008 11:03AM

@ Cole

Um yeah, where do you get me saying "doubt that" being "too serious."

[-25] for not adding "spaces" in said statement.

Home-school finished already?

Metal Geario 360 @ Oct 21st 2008 10:23AM

Oh well, It'll be out when its ready...

I think people are more interested in the games anyway. Make an avatar (if you choose to do so),futz about...then go back to "a" game.

Odog4ever @ Oct 21st 2008 12:26PM

Wow, first no Netflix sharing and now this? That's what happens when you have to rush a product to meet some holiday marketing schedule. This kinda nukes most of the purpose of having avatars for a while.
That's why I always though M$ should bundle in a "game" that let you mess around with you avatars that was separate from Primetime. Almost like the Mii parade meets Duck Amuck if that make any sense.