Xbox Live Primetime won't make NXE launch
by Justin McElroy 
{ Oct 21st 2008 at 9:00AM }
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]
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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.