The New Xbox Experience: What do you think?

Is it just me or does that intro video for the NXE look awfully similar to the ad Playstation was running last year? I would think they might be a little more original ya know.

I have a job so the verdict will have to wait till after 5pm unfortunatly.

Mike-
Yes, they also do ads for Target stores and other companies. They make a business using this sort of style of advertising.

Let it go. :D

I want a qwerty keyboard option!
Plus themes is a little hard to find it should also be in settings.

I would have an opinion but my 360 red ringed this last night!
Worst timing ever...

Nothing, installing NXE has broken my 360. It installed, rebooted, played a into movie, then nothing, rebooting just repeats the movie, tne it stops.

Avoid NXE, until the bugs are worked out..

Wow the Sony trolls are out today!! You know the viral hating is going to kick into overdrive now that the superior console isn't even a question.

You can set the QWERTY keyboard back in the console settings. I like how they added the switch between the two, but wonder if anyone out there doesn't use the QWERTY board...

Yeah, I believe that's what they call in the industry "a dick move"

Their kissing ass now. (Sony)

They say its not because of the 360. ahuh riiight

Yeah it took me forever to find out how to change themes but in the end I friggin love how NXE looks and its FAST

maybe is not special for you cause you don't have friends to socialize with.. you poor lonely thing.

one thing i like about it is: it dosen't hurt yours eyes!

just making some party with friends . it can be done on pc with more features.

You can. Guide > Achievements > Game > Press 'X'

Sweet did not know that. Thanks Dustin!

Yaris & PDZ gone!

Now if only I could remove them from my actual memory!

I too would like that option.

Yes, yes, yes. Those alerts are beyond annoying!!

There is an option to turn of system sounds, including the "X came online" one.

I believe you would no longer have the awesome Achievement Unlocked sound though. It's under My Xbox > System Settings > Audio > Sound Effects

Overall, I am not too impressed with NXE. They said the blade system was complicated, but they took the blade system, then replicated the same thing into Video and Game Marketplace, then stacked them.

The party option I have sent several emails to Microsoft since day one requesting that feature, so it is nice to have. I would also like to have a sort of clan option, so when you come online, you immediately join a chat with a preselected set of people. It is also nice that it shows the Buddy Icons of everyone in your party at the top right of the Dashboard (assuming you know their icons). Also, in game, when you pull up the Party in the Guide, you can just press Y to switch between Party Channel and Game Channel. You can also send a Party Invite to the entire Party (great for Halo or CoD).

Installing game content it great as well. It seems faster than the PS3's option, but I only did that with Uncharted and Soul Calibur 4. I installed Call of Duty: World at War and it took maybe 20-25 minutes, whereas those games took well over an hour. Load times on this game are greatly improved.

I dislike the looks of the new Guide that pops up when pressing the guide button. It looks like an awkward widget and I have yet to learn if you can choose a different color for the Guide (you could before).

Also, I know it is brand new, so this will obviously get better, but a lot of the Game Info features such as the Downloads option or the Desription or Details panes spend forever loading and show that new Xbox loading icon for a bit, and then usually time out and give an error that the feature is not available.

I too would like to remove those from my memory.

xenocidic you can shut off the notification sounds:
hit xbox button-->settings-->Notifications-->uncheck "play sound"

Yea, that's still not what I want. I do want the *bloop* for my achievements, invites, and other messages.

I just really could not care less that Dick, Mary, and Jane just came online.

Easy fix, delete all of your friends list.

I agree!!

Ditto. Hell, someone should take a screenshot of the Canadian video marketplay's tv section. Go go UFC trailer and lone Viva Pinata episode!

Yea, we need Netflix here in Canada. I'd be the first one to subscribe!

wtb Netflix in Canada. So true. :(

It is definitely faster when viewing Arcade games and various things. I don't feel that navigation is faster and in somes ways it feels like it takes more steps to see things. I am sure I will find the sortest routes to the important places with time though. NETFLIX ROCKS!!! (minus known licensing issues!!) :)

I am there with you. Sigh. Makes me wish I just had a US XBL account. But I'll have to find other alternatives to HD stuff.... grr. We have no options. Zip? Bew. I don't want to have to use my PS3 to play everything.

Anyway, the selling feature to me was the awesomeness of not having to run a game from my hard drive. That, on its own, is enough to merit my happiness.

I installed Gears 2, loaded it up and sighed happily with a great feeling of content. Ahh...

Have you tried changing your locale in the console settings to "United States"? It works for some things.

I had a few problems streaming video from my pc too... i had to readd my xbox as an extender, and download the media patch, but once i did that, everything worked fine.

I had difficulty downloading the media update to play divx as well. You do have to re-download it again. It took me 3-4 times before it downloaded w/o an error message but it works just like before. Make sure you use an XBL account that's native to the 360 you're using so that you can watch Divx while not on XBL.

Streaming works fine for me. Watching a movie right now through it.

Just redownload it. I had that problem. It was working fine in old dash but new dash couldn't play AVI's even when it's put check mark next to the media update. So I redownloaded and now it works fine.

Nooo.. really?!

What's with all the Red Rings lately? I had two guys behind me in line at Best Buy customer service with 'em (new Arcades nonetheless) and my cousin just bought the new Arcade and it, too, Red Ringed on him and he had to get it replaced...I thought the new SKUs got rid of the possibility....

Yeah well my 360 is quite old and has been having problems so I think the NXE upgrade just kinda pushed it to the breaking point.